Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-11-04


Just after the war two Chaplains, one
Federal and the other a Confederate,
occupied adjoining seats in railroad car.
Naturally they talked Of the war.
The Confederate Chaplain mentioned
Stonewall Jackson as the great Christian
warrior, safe now in Heaven. But the
Federal Chaplain doubted, as he said, if
a man who fought to destroy the best
government the world ever saw, and who
fought for slavery, could not 90 to Heav
en-.
Just then a private in the Federal
army, who overheard the conversation,
leaned forward and said
81 amt in this conversation, but l am
coming in. know Gen. Jackson went
TO Heaven"
"What do you know about it? 2"
"Lots. fit against him. He started
for Heaven and ! know mighty well that
when he started for place he got there"
After all isn't that the secret of success {?
To choose goal. To start right for
it. To turn neither to the right nor
the left. To keep on, straight on, right
on until you get there.
Obstacles become helps.
Difficulties steps.
Failures lead to success.
The Stonewall jackson of Broadway,
New York, has his picture to-day right
at the head of this column. The story of
his life reads like fairy tale. 1t has in
it all the elements Of romance.
If Charles Dickens had known Charles
Rouss he would have put him in a book.
But he didn't.
So much the worse for Dickens.
Say, a million dollars is n heap Of
money. One dollar is heap of money
sometimes But take q dollar bill, stretch
it out before YOU it covers a small space,
but just put one million Of them end to
end, and they will reach way out of sight.
Pile up million silver dollars one above
the other and you can't see the top of the
pile.
Somebody says: 'It takes money to
make money" Just put one more word
in there and we will have the Rouss YER
sion.
at takes a money-maker to make mon
ey."
Charles Broadway Rouss was born in
Woodsboro, Nd, in 1886 without cent
in his pocket.
When very young he moved to Virgin
ia, taking his father and mother with him.
From his very babyhood he has been re-
markable for his pluck, perseverance and
push.
In Winchester, Va, down in the very
heart Of Gods country, the boy grew up
to be man. A worker from Workers
vile, Work Township, Work county, and
in continual state of work. Like the
true man that he was, and is, he answer
ed his country's call and helped
TO make the story
or the glory,
OF those who wore the gray
As boy | stood in front of the Taylor
Hotel in Winchester, and saw Mr.. Rouss
giving a piece of tobacco to every hero
in gray as regiment by regiment went by.
He could have sold that tobacco for big
money. But that tobacco was not for
sale.
Deep down in the heart Of this money
maker is love for his home land, for
his home people, greater than love of self
or pelf
The cruel war was over, and sin the
land where we were dreaming" the young
man woke the morning after Appomat-
tox, and found himself fiat Oh his back
with lots of good company.
He had a quarter Of million four per
cent. bonds, Confederate, to start life on.
With this capital he naturally went 10
farming down in Jefferson county, W.
Va, his farther's farm Shannon Hill.
But the fence around the farm couldn't
hold him in; it takes stone wall to hold
him.
In March, 1866, he went to New York.
His capital was nothing, minus s11, 900
back debts. He went to work, worked
IA hours day, getting up two hours be-
fore day to do so. OF course he succeed
ed.
Then in 1876 the panic came along
and swept away his hard earned fortune
and left him 81, 900 in debt. How