Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-07-19
ROuss Auction Trade journal.

Experience is an Expensive lesson IN time
and money-but evry one who starts III
bushes ideas must go thru the gauntlet
and not one of hundred escape unscathea'
Most are CRIPPLED for life-hav no PluK 10
try it over agen and then the bread ana
meet salery is good enuf for the kings that
have no bition. Tha eat and sleep like the
tramp and bother little with the wear ana
tear. the SWEET and swear of the employer
Tha get as much out of the hard, short life
As the Boss, aud that's al tina care for. Inc
cold world look at him suspicious and pltiles
As tho he had cum from State Prison, and
he wants to get out of range OF the abuse
and SANDER of the scavenger. But to the
unhappy unfortionate into who's vitals am-
bitiou has fastened its fangs-to the ruf but
genuin diamond of genius who's hopes never
DIV. and the bundle of pluck and nerv and
sand who faces fate unaincbingly, looking
backward or up in the blue dome, never
to such as thes, Experience simply sharpens
the aspiration for great records and solid
triumf. Thes costly lessons always oblite-
rate irresolution and plant in the brain that
heroic stuff that was the lever that lifted the
Liliputians from the ruins of Church street
to the Babel of Broadway fools call 1t luck,
piety the Lord al the same, it was simply
the four titanic letters of the English tung
I will. The fellow loded to the brim
with this metal finds it plesur to say TO
his old time friends who always 60 trust,
TOO busy with cash trade, no time to talk,
Pye buried the Ledger" aud when the ne
gotiable note fiend butonholes him for his
autograf he answers in that other leyiathan
of the English language of two leters-No.
| always want the first chance at the
young beginner just starting out into the
mysteries and masteries of mercantile life,
to show him how esy ,quik and solid the rite
road under the modern methods" of which
this author is the original advocate. vii
start the comercial conscript upon system
that 90 out of 100 means substantial sue
cess from the very jump. The first days
work viii inspire the impatient aspiran'
with that self confidence that conquers al
things and coins into reality that which the
old regular had always blievd impossible
At the end of his first days magnificent
work, instead of being tired to deth, he was
unable to sleep, and la in xtacy OF thaut Of
the brilliant future that had so suddenly
opened up befor him. bout, fear and an
xiety had given wa to the thrill and thror
of ambition. Where he had hesitated
about riskiug al he had in the world, where
Their was so much competition, "hard times
and "tite tootin," now he felt like Royal
Bengal Tiger, master Of the situaton-in
fact, felt as if sum real competition wudnt
be a hard thing to keep him up to his per-
feet filing pitch. The truth is he realized
the Importance of the oldtimer as jaw
smashing advertisement to properly place
his merits befor the peple as an uncompro'
missing, uncondition Raqueter of the TWEEN
ty-fiye per cent. creed. He was nobody ds
before yesterday, toda everyone is telling o.
the cyclone that had swept almost al he hac
from the shelves into the money drawer
with such a days start U ma safely bet vol
dear life that the nu beginner wud rather
handle ded polka than that destroyer o
ability aud ambition-The Internal Ledger
I am speking now of the 80. He thau'
he had captured the cuntry land so he had
and determined to make NOR money ant
get rich faster by piling on little MOI
profit; instead of dropping to 20 he jumped
to 80 per cent. In his selfish greed OF ste
per percentage he lost site of thes two vita
salients, great agregations and big adver
tisements. The first fatal step. The tenn
tation of big round profit often induced
him to scratch it down in a memorandum
book, which finally got full and he wa
obliged to have Ledger. Then the drum
er with his trunk, pluhras and cigars, will
his regular goods mo auction trash or sto
| leu piuuuttI Ou Oiu tAuiO bSA HS "AN S'~'N'
ing expenses with 10 per cent. commission
put in his titan strokes; befor he knu it h'
was an old-timer of the tufest creed. Th'
peple had forgotten him. His stock wa
lockt up in that book that never gives bak
In the meanwhile real representative of The
Rouss System had swept him along will
other ded lumbr and chat clear off the fac
of the erth. One in a while he lookt bal
with unayailing regrets only to think wha
he mite hav ben" had he followed III
strait lines of the tru system. Insted OF {
genuin diamond he was simply counterht
In thes monthlies are the plain, simple
aud Onest rules that U may BEGUN pros
perus and popular merchant erly in lif
and not broken down failure at thirty
hatened out at forty las the ritter was il
Church street,, and in the seer and yellow
leaf Of autumn turned ont to root hog o
die"
Walk down Broadway any da and L wi
meet thes genial high-minded and great
harted mercantile wrecks who had at on,
time of life ben up in the lofty attitudes
had staked their life, had bet and lost thei
fortune on the dream book of King Credi
agenst that other card that will buy The