Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rouss Monthly Auction Trade
journal for May.

Everything In life seems to be preparing
with agrcsiv energy aud intens carncstnes and
enthusiasm for the coming century which, in
its scientific revolutions. vii eclips the mag
nifcent and the marvellous marches of the piO-
neers of progres of this century to far
greater extent than this oyer the King George
and George Washington century. Electricity
vii drive trains along 200 miles an hour, will
skim the ocean grey-hounds across the deep
blu in thre days, and the very air will be- thick
with mrial navigation. The great gate city of
tho Western Continent will be the metropolis
of the world with Brooklyn and Jersey and
Staten Isle-six millions, passing London in
the fite of eternal time. Wires of million
horse power will whirl the wheels of the
skolars of invention. advancement and per-
fcction-the six. eight aud ten stories will
tumble and crumble before the iron, glas and
granite bllders of stupendous towers piercing
the very azure above. Natures hidden and un-
nown forces vii have been harnesd and the in
satiate spirit of tho advanced skirmish line of
the intellectual champions of that eventtul ago
viii peer into the coming future and ask what
next ?
Beneath the unfathomnble depths of the old
blu ocean numatic tubes vii cary mail and
matter swifter than the winds can Ay-faster
than time itNelf eau speed. There will be more
English aud Irish and Germans and Italians
here than in their own natiy lands, and Amer
lea, stretching from the Arctic to the Anarctic.
with nearly a thousand million people, viii
Americanize every square foot of the earth-
Ironclads, torpedos aud artillery viii be melted
into bullion, and not a soldier ON the continent
NOT even a solitary pensioner. Political
science vii eradicate and trausmogrify the
Ethiop, the Mormon, the Striker and Anarchist
and the Indian, and all the Cars, Emperors
and Kings, including King Credit and Barley.
corn, viii be pusht beyond the ded line, and
comcrce viii float her flag with Net Spot Casl
upon its stainles silllen folds.
From the lost path we have reclaimed thous-
ands-a large number, but still a small per
centage. There ar one million merchants. in
the country, the vast majority In the tiger's
tolls. Thousands go down every year, and
others I'LL their places and follow the ilfated
fantom. Tha who viii stop to read as tina run
vii stop and turn. for even the thickest skull
will lern from practical Illustration of success
and it is tru that our successful representative
have won more heroes from the rank of the
defeated than the author of net spot cash. In
every State we have planted these magnificent
25 centers, and no man who's aims ar hi could
look for an hour and revert balk to credit bar.
barism, NOR dus it require genius or expert
! ence. I TOOK the Robinson boys from the plowi
tina had never stood behind the counter; this
had $500, and started in the old wild cat town
cald Macon. Mo. Twenty-Five per cent. spot
cash drove 'em to larger cities until tha had
five stores, with headquarters at Minneapolis
aud thcr modest little capital had swcId to :
quarter of million
JEFF Purcell was clerking in historic Lura,
at dollar day-his two stores, one in Pc
tersburg, Va, the other in Lexington, KY, al
magnificent advertisements of the Rouss sys
tenn. he is modest yung fellow of "a
worth thirty thousand clcar-3 years worl
with $1,000. It's useless to mention Davis
in five years he'll be the richest man in tn,
South He has led the old North State from
the marshy fats and the poisonous shadows o.
credit up to the lofty plateau of solid cash.
IrecaI with plesur thatis deep and SINGER,
thes splendid champions, for the reason tha
tina began with the most neagrc capital anC
walked strait over everything and everybod,
to the top, and these fellows hav don no NOR,
than any other man can do who believes in th,
da brake start, the stedy iting all day and tn,
last to close the store at night. At i've year
OF age rode the farm horses to the shop, ant
the old blacksmith CPickeringJ after toGsin,
ue up on the slow, SLEEPY auimal wud Away
say as lie straitened my long gfngham apron
Now watch the shoes, my little man, @,
they'll cum of befor get home" What
world of truth in tines plain and simple words
The big yalus and the 25 per cent. and tn,
cash before delivery win avail nothing to hin
who dus not guard with sleepless eye every de
tail the threads and skeins. the woof an,
warp of bisnes from starlite to starlite again
and this rule holds good the world over in al
the walks and ways Of life, in all avocationa
from penny to million.
How the Topping boys, and Fenners, AM
Montants, and Williams wud 1af If an old
timer shud ofer as he used to in the good oil
times his twelve months negotiable, rank Will
the smell of snuff and must, damp with swe
and tears And how the successors OF the sue
cessors of Charles Broadway Rouss, with tn
chosen children" closing round them wul
snort and sneeze at the regular terms Of fou
and six months Of the giants of this age-sucl
mercantile marvels as Cabin, and Jaffray, an,
Durham, Snd Teft and Blissl
The audacify of the fve percenter here, anC
his Twenty-Five percenters al over the land
is to the old regular just what the iron hors
was to the Allegheny nnle team, and in afte
days vii bear the same comparison as th
heycn born moter to this same iron traveller
We hay shaken the old metropolis from, II
lethargy by system of buying and selling fc
the net spot. stuff. and our great harted repr,
sentatives hay set the country on FIRE by the
marvellous successes and the ritcr is as prom
of their unparaleld achievements As of his oyv
unaProachable record upon the great battll
field We DO not stand here beging you
buy of us, nor that we are the only hard Atel
who buy cheap, because ther ar others VII
buy clos and occasionally sol clos too, tho Il
n1os4 nj fhes faI1vye t,,t., t,, , ~, ,,l