Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-04-22

Igantic marble palaces from who's doorway to-
morrow VIII hang the red flag of the sheriff.
is thes sledg hamers, thes corn and cob crush-
ers that have fled our pages with the names OF
the most thoroughly posted men this country
l-keeu, clos, shrewd, carful byers, who under
stand the difference between bying cheap and
lpaing full, regular prices. Byers who know
| what havoc it makes in the trade If tina eau sol
at what ther competitor pays and who know
well enut how people vii crowd that store,
who's prices are known to be always beIo the
lmarket, and it is to thos unanswerable quota
tiOns that tbs ritter calls Yur attention, In tho
honest belief that yur interests and Sor duties
lie in that direction ''wher can GET the best
valu for the mony."
Many of onr patrons enclos samples and cir
cular of a concern that wants pay in advance,
Be very carful and remember the story of the
two bad pamasters-one in ddvanc the other
never. Pins cents! The mil wud by milon
dollars, but not in advance. so wud We. Always
look at the stuff befor you plank down the cold
cash. -,
Theirs many merchant as good Tor his con-
tracts as We ar-just as good as tho Bank Of
England, who can't scrape up unuf cash to or
der even smal bill. His asets are in the shap
of book accounts, hardly worth the IVORY aud
bother of collecting. "A good idea for thes poof
unfortuuates is to stayt cash counter in ther
stOr at q per cent. for cash befor delivry and
Sc how things viii whiri under this modern and
successful sistem-gather mp ESQ or 500 and
smallest OF our ideas will obliterate your ledger
under the tyrauic strain of one hundred per
cent
Within thes pages the reder viii find our de-
partments-flOsofy values-byers- salesmen-
terms conditions and our references, to
which the ritter invites yur most carful atten-
ton, and motestly suggests thnt comparison
of thes quotations with yor thirty-day invoices
vud strongly tempt you TO test the prctentionb
and promises of this paper. 1t contains facts
and hgurs that evry merchant shud kuo, and
it treats of the real practical Lessons of busines
upon basis that dus not admit of argument,
and shud comend itself to evry man, whose
longing, ernest and anxious gaze is fastened
upon that splendid dream, SUGGEST Gu the big
battles of glory, it is the curagc tho canister
and generalship that win-in the mercantile
struggle it is the big values, the brains, the bak-
bone and the bullion, and this is tho story bold
down in oil.
After the champion had climbed the giddy
lofty heights, tho rif-rat cald it LUX; forgetting
the days CA Bours) of terrific mental strain,
when the good Lord wasn't tanywher-whentit the
sleples mites wer but passing moments-w6en
duble duty faced savagely thepoo devil chuR-
full of enthusiasm, painting for fame-louging
for that new mercantile glory that comes to
but very few. All, my conscience, how tho
unsuccessful faut and longed for It, Bates,
Peek, Lathrop Emery, Harrison, wardlaw,
and how unconsciously it glided into the inter
ests of others who never saut 1t aud never
dreamed of It. What did Stewart care for Il
or Clafin or Uncle Aaron--what dus the NOR
oantilc Lcder OF $40 Broadway care for it,
Many fellow who has felt the Ledger's gall
ing tyrany al thru his mercantile struggles has
made up his mind to cut loose aud try it on
the rnsll hnfnr fnily,- lEiItad -sI,fulZ
bnck TO his old paths the moment he facedhis
first credit customer Ihes unfortunate iPes-
olutes simply food for lawyers and auc-
tioncers; then after the humiliation and degra-
dntion ofGrindstones OF the final plays in thes
deplOrable evry da tragedies, then the candI-
date is redy to talk to his old Customers after
the sharp, cold steel language OF the Raqueter
Then as he lays down the cold cash he won't
let go unless he surapes in the self same ON
nipOtcnt bullion. At last after the Inortidca-
ton and disgrace of surrender, compronis, aud
final awakening he feels that the almity dollar
is the short, sure, swift path to commercial
triumfs and that under the old wa 1t is simply
throing ava the life time in agony and In dea-
pair for the privilege of favor. friendship and
the sherif's final comedy
Mo- it is not alone bulion but brains and unr
daunted resolution backt by the cold hard
stuf that not alone matches but masters al the
so cald impossiblllties of life. Glancing at tho
Church street rattraP with fu piles of plnn-
der from under the hGuer of Hoyt & Bradley
acros the wa, ticketed at the Irresistible 8 per
cent profit. the nntediluyiau who nu It allIud
swear by all the gods of cristcndon it wudent
do. and If auducious pluk has whispered the
giant realities of $40 to 6j3 tlIro his 'clencht
teeth wud hav hisscd ncdiocritys favorit ulti-
! matum-itnposible. He's down. God Aimfty
cant reSurect him. Nor did he; but facing the
stOrn of SANDER and calnmuy the iron band of
peniles desperntes prest on under the Rouss
system, and we are here. Nor was IT, a one
bakbone and values and coin, but meritreach4
ing in a thousand directions and evry man felt
that we had but one life and that was alredy
half gon. ~
The Net Spot Cash champion handles the
repeter loded thirty times whilst the antediIu-
Wan of unlimited time, dodges behind the bull
! warks Of WORTHLESS ledgers with his flint lock-
The question for your decision wears with in
creasing agravation, with relentles and mer-
Giles scverityiiand is simply this: Do you mean
to be one of the successful six out Of a hundred
or of the other ninety-four who perish before
reching the fortieth mile post of life7 Credit
is the ruuatism that paraIYzes the finest effort
Of financial genius and eomercial enterprise
and bullion the only remedy that viii Eave the
unfortunate from annihilation. Year after
year aud generation after generation these
fritefHl teltales have burned themselves into
the brain of the present age until success de-
mands a revolution upseting the ded ideas of o
ded race and printing over the face of the fu-
ture Leviathans-that Inastodon of the English
language Cash. When the stock ls exhausted
the ledger ful. the bank account overdrawn,
and unpaid bills overdue. the pulse OF ofinsatlate
ambition beats no more and the red flag Of
Topping tells of the final scene.
Visitors to the Metropolis looking for tho
nearer. shorter path to the top. need no invita-
tion to walk thru our vast warerooms.
CHAs. BROADWAY RoUss,
New York City.
a Woman's Discovery.