Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-06-14
". ". B. GALLAHER, Editor.
The f7th Year of Unparalleled Fnan-
cidt Success.
,m Ml Raus. lllclion T1ade Jounal.

From the R9,tss luciio. Trade Journal
There's tuching apeal, a nockdown
argument aud telling advertisement in
every pulverizer that passes over yor
counter On the old hard lines scratch
down on the dream book, the customer
paid five cents for her needles-the level
heded hustler gave her five papers for
the sa me money and she never got dun
talking of the difference between the
twenty-five per center and the oltlmer
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 at last
but one out of the five, and that after
weary waiting, fusing and cusing, SWEET
ing and swaring. In the meanwhile the
needle story has travled al over the cum
try, and al who herd it determined tina
wnd cal on the felo who had stolen his
stuff and was going to leav. The alarm
had been sounded about the cuthroat
and his "Auction Trash" but somehow
they had little curiosity to Sc the butch
er who was choping old fashioned compe-
tition into mince-meat. Suspiciously tha
crept up upon the "cheap stor man and
found his little ratrap crowded and chok-
ed. In one windo "Ive cum to sta. -
Strange-tha had herd he was going to
clear out maybe after all it was the old
plaintiv 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 tina
had ther wild stories of the audaclous
daredevil of cash Down" and "stolen
plunder." The old cry "no money" had
died ava and the hard cash seemed to
cum rite up out of the ground at the
command of this bundls of commercial
chivalry 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 unalterable law, "Un'
dersel." The nerve to folio this iron rule
for net spot cash means success, whilst
the "OHs Bible" rank with perhdy
damp with sweat and tears, crowded with
names Of peple who "cud pa but wuldt
and others "who wud but cudn'r'-thi'
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 auful lessons of evry da life-upon
thes tragic plays, upon thes panorama Of
life and lern not. Not until the bolt fal;
and the Sheriff S flag hangs out and the
Raqueter has baut his stok, rented hi;
great stor, hired him and his men-then
he think of "what might hav ben."
Many of thes magnificent oltimers out
wa the Hustler in mental calibre, but
the nerv to stik faithfully to the correct
bushes principles of the Rouss system
masters al thiDgs-comands and demand:
success.
Thousands of merchants standing hi
APPARENTLY vel off, but whose ambition
is shorn of its fore by the merciles wear
of the swetbox-canot avail themselvs of
the opportunities of the RedAagmen and
Headquarters of the metropolis. Their
asets are in such shape as to preclude the
possibility of thes "Cash befor delivery
concerns. Tha can't make change at
present (if ever and tha get ther stuf
from the old Regular who makes them
swet for long indulgence in turn, his
patrons must pa for the Ledger privilege.
What game is this for the agresiv, pro-
gresiv filing daredevil who's sledghamers
destroy competition wherever tina strike
What an advertisement thes old-t mers
rich in the unavailable and inconverti-
bic for the twenty per center who's rafting
hard hiters ar simply uDanserable- Un-
der the great Red Flag of the MetrOPol-
itan Slawterpens, arose and fiurisht the
greatest mercantile master' of modern
fines. Thru thes vast nues went