Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-08-22

values of a stuk and not the size.
If our Church street hen coop had
posted in the winelo such insuferahl.
nonsense As cheap as the chepest,
and Not to be undersold, 549 never
wd haY adorned old Broadway, and.
our magnificent Representative wd
still be in tho corniield huming the
famus Mother Coos melodies, Hard
Times and ssThe World Ows Nc
livin." Envy sed it was ''mystery,'
genius csld it .'masterly, ignolenee
named it ''luk, Z" merit ritely claimed
it as pluil. Had this same system of
success hen followed by the great mas
ter minds ther wd have ben many
parallels to the metearie records OF
Clafin and Stewart, But thes two fa-
mus record smashers had it in hand.
and the others-cal them legion, who
faut perhaps harder, aud won, too.
found it lokt up in the damp and
musty pages of the Ledger.
The rapid turning of stok takes the
place of capital, and the daily arrivals
spice up things and bear ths marks of
aggression and progression, which sim
| ply mean popularity.
Thes thauts and hopes of success
crowd the brain of eSry man in al the
hours of life and dream; resolution
viii drift backward, self-coniidence will
mesur blades with fate. When
racket pretender grumbles about
scarcity of money" Uma safely put
him down rs an imitator that if get
ting al he can-scaring off the trade
with hi prices, tnsted OF crowaing his
counterslswith matchles hardhiters
that always tickle and capture the
public pockethook withinVisibletuch.
Mol the old did system ofopresion
and destruction has had its centuries
of rong and ruin, and the age of mer-
camille progression and aggression mar
ches abrest with science in her on
ward speed. The talo candle, the
mule team, the flint lok aud tho offs
bible ar barbaric reliX of an age gon
by. Cash before delivery, electricity,
fire trade aud tariff reform ar the adj
vauced pioneers OF to-da. Tha who
embrace the living issues ar the sue
cesful,a and others who dream over the
ded ideas of the long ago ar simply
Spot Cash who pres on in the titen
struggles for supremacy. Yes we've
led from obscurity many who never
dreamt of success and who never felt
the xtacY of ambition, bnt who had
saved little cash and had big res
olution, which is simply another name
| for plulI, started them after our wa,
a Wheelharo of comercial story. We've
dragged from the marshes of fate
many an oldtimer who swor that life
wasn't worth living, and planted him
on the steel traX of the "corrcct bus
mess principles" who knos vel enuf
now tlIe vast, vital difcrens between
the 1--we cash and the lost fortune on
the Ledger. And we've snatchcel
from the very clutches of the credit
monster Who'll regiments of liig fellows
who thaut tina knu it al, and so tho
did, of the barbarie and prehistoric,
but wcr in utter ignorance of the
short, sure, qik path rite before them
strong in the 'inconvertible, lite
in the "omnipothent, so tito up and
; pincht tha c'dn't eat or sleep and
hilt them over agen on the Rouss
System, and now tina eat sleep like
tramps and beerkegers and plank the
solid stuf and demand in turn the
selfsame eloquent cash fer thor match
les hard-hiters and advertisers. Thes
magnificent Raqueters (boys agen9
viii tel in tler own words the great
diferens between the rite and the rong
wa. And it is duble triumf and
qualification to the ritter to hav inter-
woven with his own success the great
army of comercial giants whose me-
terOric records hav matcht, rivalcd
and beten his own-from the very
jump hav faithfully foloed the iron
rules-hav baut hargins and sold
bargains-real values, and with fresh
arrivals evry da from Hedquorters
/, : crowding ther busy ware-rooms, tha
laf to ridicule and derfsion tie simpl
chat of compete or compare. What
, game for the comercial gladiator, the
old Regular buying of the Drummer
with ten percent for the firm. $40 q
da for himself aud $40 expenses for
travIing, hotels, cigars, forty rod aud
faro Holy Mother of Sioses-W What
camel
CHAs. BRoADwAY RoUss.
New York, City.
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