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

Onr midsummer sledghamers ar
here presented, inviting u to ems
brace the chances that never ly in the
ruf. tut, beten paths of credit. The
temtations that appeal iresistibly to
yor interest ar of 8 character calcu.
lated to make vast changes in yor
ideas as 10 the shortest cut to the
greatest results. Big aggregates al
ways tell the story, and the giant le-
yer that commands the public pocket
book is riten in one word-undersel
and when q scrape in the omnipo.
tent cash U can vel aford to deliver
ut the very loest minimum OF percen-
tage. q may then truthfully sa, not
that tl're getting yor share of the
trade or even the lions, but AL the
cash business of tho place and that
u ar content to let the genial old
HUNDRED percenters hav al the Ledger
sales; the more he has of the time
custOm the Utter and porer he gets,
whilst yors is of the snowfall csrscter
that grows with eYry turn.
The handsome percentage q can
save in huying at xtreme bottom
prices at Headquarters or under the
Red Flag vii make magnificent adj
yertisement in yor daily battles for
great record smashing. When U be-
gin to save yor patrons one-quarter
ON many items and one-half on others
it begins to crond yor counters u
then feel the force of the Rouss Sys-
tenn, and tho first want is for a bigger
store-until q have the BEST in the
place.
1t viii make vast difference in yor
career if U hav the renl bargins, baut
rite and stript of tue miileman's per.
centage or the inevitabl expenses of
the drumer. U wil hav little truble
in saving the community thousands
of dollars, and the great aggregates
viii count larglY in the inventory of a
year. 1t was precisely this system
that created the vast welth and fame
of Stewart, the quotations that cudn't
be matcht, and it was really the first
move toward short time from the old
barbarism of the long ago-siX, eight
and twelv months time In that
hapy, old semi. civilization the Gus
tom house wnd accept four months
note for duty now, C. B. ID. III our
IL years warfare We hav endeVored to
change even this short time into Spot
Cash with closer margins. The met
roplis' bristles with lots of these sharp
shooters who hav sobered up and sci
real cheap for the cold cash. Many
of thes bushwhackers look wise when
discussing our uaparaleld march from
cultivation TO fame, and quote old
thredbare nonsense Luky devil
evrything he tucht turned into gold,
chance, accident, fortune 1t was
devotion to that sistem that vii mas
ter al others, that shortens the road
and litens the load, and 90 out of al
even hundred demand aud command
success. Their Wer thousands who
had struggled as hard, perhaps harder
than we-who had not felt the sting
of defeat and who's ambition had moi
/: been palsied by ruin, utter and alb
solute-neXto anihilation as this ritel
had, but it Was history repeting itself
The correct system led one up to the
, top even as the merciles and pitiles
J Ledger drove the vast majorities
down into Oblivion, often disgrace
but al the same into inevitabl aud I'M
pitYing poverty. The poverty OF
words opres me when speaking of the
/ Ledger. / hay ben ther, and from
: that ded volum not one peny in tht
dollar ever came to life agen. In
!. deed kno of but one thing in tn,
, comercial world wors-Partnership
How true the legend of the gifted
J and talented authores of our South
. land, Mary Gordon Duffee, Mhos pro
fctic and pathetic words are printed
on the last page of this paper-sH
, WHO HAS a PARTNER HAS a MASTER. ,
Not that the bravest have no trial
that search to the very marrow. Alas
? too many! AL of US; but the rea
q heroes ar tina who stand up in thl
morning facing fate untliucbingly.
We won because our system wa
almost perfect and real values adornt
tile Who'll volume of our business
e Our representative got ther, bscau!
e tha underbaut and undersold-th;
baut bargains and sold bargains
Tha captured the people by the mag
ic tuchstone of the purse. Many o
these hustlers began as We did, Will
: nothing, but cut so clos that the mas.
ses in selt-defence choked up thei
busy little behives while the fifty per
: center slept.
Som of thes fellows with little money
) fear to enter the field becaus the
stok wud lock so Insignificant in com
parison with the big stox of old reg
, ulars. Wei, which look best, the ole
timer, snoring on his counters, or th,
d Raqueter, crowded beyond his capac
ity? And there's another Lesson t.
Iern. Most al thes successful mer
chants began with little means. 1t il
merit, and not the big stoIl that caryei
! out fame it is the modern methods
: and not the overlooked hundred per
center. Not a solitary name tina
adorns the comerciallexicon began il
afuence, but nearly al in povcry( thi;
E ritter belo the dead line), many aftc
s disheartniBg defeats that nothing bu
pure pluls cud meet and master-th,
Southron cald it backbone, tile North
: ron brains-all the same, it was thl
two titants of The language-I WILL
e Many of these yonng mercantile
conscripts with little cash and goo,
backing conclude tina viii risk the
little pile in the hope of making g
living" anywa, and vii make a fai