Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-03-13

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If Their was a difference of so percent
between ours and the auction rooms.
how much wud it be when he haut in
st. Joe and other crossroads, second
hand, long-winded old Regulars /?
ST had paid 81 50many times for this
very thing and thaut If got it at 81 20
was saving a nice percentage. 4"
''Now . can sci it for one dollar at
home and make % percent"
Coiled up in that sentence is al the
filosofy of success. The wHER TO buy
in order to undersel. He mud sci at
one dollar, even tho his competition
demanded 50 for the same thing.
He agreed with us that it wd be a
nifty hanson card when his constitu-
ency saw diferenc of one hundred
percent in his favor. Human nature
cant and wont stand this wholesale
plundering for the sake of scratching
it down on the SWEET book I'll pa daI
On other lots ther was a diferenc of
20, 80 and 40 percent between our
quotations and the red flag of yester.
This nokdown logic simply tore from
him the ejaculation, 81 Goodby. cum
try HedqaTterS - Passing thru the
notion dept. wer many items of 10
and 20 percent against his nearby
markets. Among others, standard
sewing silk (John D. Gutter. nener-
ally qoted in this market at 65c.: our
price, 3Sc doz. Thes enormus differ
ences aggregate big pile of money in
a years traffic and the little extra time
between the local jober and the great
Metropolitan Market of America is
clear ont of the calculation when a
merchant has fastened his fixed gaze
on that glorious dream of ambition,
SUCCESS. Rok-botom in hying and
selling is the short cut to popularity.
Another old friend, living clos by,
who used to deal with the concern
when we wer both struggling for 1ist-
enc, in passing our huge windos was
startled and stupefied with the null
tiplicy of our hardhiting advertise
ments of endles variety with n plain
ticket that wud stop any man who's
hopes and dreams of life wer centred
on triumf. Among other corn and
cob crushers he saw this card, tTHE
SEASIDE LIBRARY. Their 10c hooks
we sci at &c, ther 15c at PIC, Their zoe
at &c and ther % and soc at 4c." It
was stagerer. In fact, it was i'm
posing upon creduIity. He wud go
up and see his old friend and tel him
of his success in life and casually lern
about this landslide. g Yes, I oot
up pretty much as U did hung
around the slnaoter pens and foyO,od
the Red Flag. I s0ld cheap and act
mp. U sold cAeper-do,cn to the very
qik, left me and Sa0ept to tie top like n
meteor! By the ara, cum1 in to act
a bite at the big bait an yor qCindo-
the novels. Hon. nany acl Usel mae?''
He was anserd, Q can buy one hun
dred thousand at the ticket price.
He was taken around to our great
warerooms in TOMPsoN street to Sc
what pile one million made. The
twenty-five percenter cant keep his
face strait when passing thes world
renowned stories-thes twenty-five
cent book at FIVE CENTS and the ino-
cent customer wonders how an onest
bookseller had the hart to charge 80
cents for the identical book.
The commercial traveller, cald
drumers, stopt at Mccormick, S. C.
and lit in upon CREIGHTON, who put
a qietus upon his speech by "Im
deciple of the RoUss SYSTEM. I an
derby and under$el. 1t has been such
a success in short year that 1 am
about to open up at Richfield and
leav my brother here. The drumer
thaut if this ruff Diamond had made
such great success in such a short
time, he cud do it. and sent his trunk
and samples bak to his house. He
let ZOOS his triphamers in the quiet
little town of GraniteviIIe, S. C. In
six months he has rivaled the records
of his friend and declared that he has
made and saved NOR money than III
the five years rs travling salesman.
His records at $40 only Illustrate the
marvelus possibilities of the RoUss
SYSTEM. His name ZACHARY.
CHARLES BROADWAY RoUss,
$40, 551 & 55S Broadway,
New York City,