Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
The 18th Year OF Unparalleled
Financial Success.
IFrom the Rouss Auction Trado Jourpal

| $50 ANSHSS <AGSAOu SOuIuai.l
There's a tucLirg apeal, anockdowr
argument and telling advertisement
in every pulvcrizer that passes ovel
yor counter. On the old hard lines
q scratsh down on the dream book.
the customer paid five cents for her
needles-the level hedct hustler gave
her five papers for the same money
and she never got dun talking of the
difference between the twenty-five
per center and tie oltimcr who
charged four hundred per cent NOR.
Nor is this clever representative of a
false system to blame, for under the
Ledgers trecherus laws, he gets al
last but one out of the five, and that
after weary waiting, fusiug and
cusine, sweting and swaring. In the
meanwhile the needle story has
travelled al over the cuntry, and al
who herd it determined tia wud cal
on the felo who,had stolen his stuf
and was going to leav, The alarm
had been sounded about the cuthroat
and his "Auction Trash but some
how they had little curiosity 10 Sc
the butcher who was choping old
fashioned competition into mince-
meat. Susptciously tha crept up
upon the "cheap stor man. and
found his little ratrap crowded and
choked. In one windo 'I've cum to
sta. "-Strange-tha had herd he
was going to clear out; maybe after
all it was the old plaintiy cry OF envy.
In the other windo among the sledg.
hamers was "Box of fine envelopes,
10 packs, 10 cts, and in tha waded.
When thes peple got home tha had
ther wild stories of the audacious
daredevil of Cash Down. aud
'tstolen plunder.' The old cry ''no
money had died ava and tie hard
cash seemed to cum rite up out of
the ground at the command OF this
bundle of commercial chivaIry who
had swept the town after the fashion
of the cyclone. This then is the
difference between the Ledger and
its imperativ laws of one two, three
and four hundred per cent and the
Modern Methods" with its unal-
terable low, '.Undersel." The nerve
to folio this iron rule for net spot
cash means success, whilst the "Ofs
Bible,' rank with perfldy, damp
with wweat and tears, crowded with
names OF people who "cud pa but
would't and other .'Who wud but
cudn't"-this DEVILS book of fate
means anihilation ninety-four out
of every hundred.
And yet intelligent merchants who's
business ability is unchalenged look
upon the aufuI lessons of evry da
life-upon thes tragic plays, upon
thes panorama of life and lern not.
Not until the bolt falls and The
flag hangs out aud the
Raqueter has baut his stock, rented
his great stor, hired him aud his
men-then he think of what might
hay hen"
Many of thes magnificent oltimers
out wa the Hustler in mental calihre
but the nerv to stik frithfuIIy to the
correct business principles of the
Rouss system masters al things
commands aud demands succcs.
Thousands of merchants standing
wei of. but who's am.
bition is shorn of its fore. by the.
merciles wear of the swetbox-canot
avail themselvs of the opportunities
of tile Reddagmen and Headquarters
of the metropolis. Ther asets are in
such shape as to preclude the posi-
hility of thes Cash befor delivery
concerns. Tha can't make change
at present (if every and tina get ther
stuff from the old Regular who makes
-hem swet for long indulgence; in
turn his patrons must pa for the
Ledger privilege. What game is
this for the agresiv, progresiv fling
daredevil who's sIedghamers destroy
competition wharever tha strike.
What an advertisement thes old
timers-rich iu the unavailable and
lnconvertibIe for the twenty per CEN
ter who's railing hard hiters ar simple
uaanserablc. Ender the great Red
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