Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-11-28

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stronger and better do not feel like the Same
person at all" ANNIE ARNrR, Augusta, Ky.
Hood's pills act easily, yot promptly and
eniclently, on the liver and bowels. 25c.
Dec. 10. !s92-Iy:
ROusS Auction Trade Journal.
The man who has the curagc and
nerv to sci for the Spot Cash at ten
percent margin viii sweep to the top.
whilst the oldtimer, scratching it down
at one hundred on the dream book of
eternal time, settles surely and silently
into oblivion. Tru enuf the dix,
sharp Cash Champion don't make it
in big Jumps, hut in the increasing
rapidity of his nuinherIess sales.
For evry dollar the antediluvian makes
and buries on his Ledger the RAJ
qeter makes two, and has it in hand
redY TO invest agen and turn over,
duhling up da after da. This the
Ledger victim cauot do-six months
or n year, if ever, and in al this time
the hustler is turning over his capital
like n snobal, increasing evry da,
and Mt the end of the year he can't
recognize himself, tho the cuntry
around for miles and miles into ada
cent counties kno him rs the peoples
Liberator from Credit thraIdom. The
credit concern has no advertisers or
pulveriZers his ar time purchases
and can't be sold for cash; the only
inducement that lie has to ofer is the
favor of spa when q pleas" and
this is the siren song that enchants
the legions of land pirates who infest
evry locality and ultimately eat up
the good hearted two-hundred per-
center. / askt the yung enthusiast
if ne faithfully followed the ironclad
rules of twenty-five percent? He sed
he undersold everybody, and that was
his idea of getting up and on. The
OPPOSITION sold at 20; he quoted 60. l
told him that was not DIX, swift wa
that he must sci at 40 if he cud. and
not go beyond the xact limit of the
'ROuss System" Another idea had
struk him and struk him hard
another cogwheel among the millions
in brainIand. He swore lie wud,
AND HE DID. Turning over the fresh
Leaf, he began sending his chex in EvRY
DA insted of EvRY WEEK. LIKE WALL
of PuebIa. $500 insted of 500, and
in n moment caut a glance of the
vast possibilities that SUDDENLY, like
dreamland panorama, opend out be-
for him The undersel wud eventually
c-oud out his mpetitor-that was a
tXt fact; but / hadn't time TO wait
and wanted the job finisht at ono.
and the twenty percent qartz mil was
the sure, swift wa to grind COMPETE
ton down into bone dust. Acros the
wa was an imitator who had given
him much truble-he sold weldown
brands ut and beIo cost, but Dubbed
up on goods the pepIe knu nothing
about. 1t was an old game, hut the
genuine twenty perccnter getting
down to his level best, swept him
along with the other chat from the
very face of the earth. 1t was not
smartnes or cutenes it was al in nerv
and grim resolution to folio with un-
swerving fidelity the system that viii
master al others and DO IT Ok. Its
the difference between the old SAW
mil and the steam circular-betwen
steam, which has wraut such marvels
of wonder, but which has reacht its
meridian, and the incomprehensibl
Possibilities of ELECTRICITY, now in
the cradle of infancy. And why
wei up in al the arts and
trix of trade will still tramp the tired
mil of the hard lines of credit, when
the short, sure wa Ia rite befor them,
is 4 mystery that bailes the brain of
The best of us. But the pada fiend
must liv and thes old prchistoricali-
lies ar Their only remaining harvest
fields.
The counterfit was sailing under the
eolors of the Rag at
twenty-five percent, but had dozen
prices al the wa up to two hundred.
His cheX wcr smaller, and l askt for
his advertisement and saw his quota
lions of such staples as pins and soxs
and ncdles and tax, ava up two and
-hre hundred percent, that he was
Dying in the local markets-of second |
Asli tulIu uiUuS Cau5 lie got EN- |
lill." We found that he was an in
corigihI pece of ded lumber, and he
,udent and lie wudent-then the old |
cry of '.hard times Financial
strain and potao bug" We planted |
4 genuinReprescntatiy in his town
1 felo FIJI of that iron mctlc, Il WILL"
and lie swep the country as n Uirl-
wind, and not until then did the imi-
.ator kno the diferenc between the
'eal aud the bogus. with other
mercantile chat and ded lumber he
vas driven into oblivion. He won
Tered why he had mistaken the bvten
pathway of the oIdtimer for the strait
teel rails of aggression and progression.
Of such mold and material are the
Mississippi daredevils of the Net
spot Cash-the Barbour boys, cutting
md siashing as tho Their wer no bottom
md no attitudes beyond Their reach.
When mercantile aspirants Sc thes
CLOVIS, scarcely out of ther teens |