Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-01-18
Rouss Auction Trade Journal.

history as one of the tufost and hard.
est of al the panic years for King
| Credit. Concerns who baut and sold
on credit have felt the force Of the
Mercantile Maelstrom and vii never
forget it. Many of thes Landmark
hav ben obliterated and very fu viii
ever agen risk the trecherus and per
fidus Ledger. With our Represen-
tativs it has ben years of glory rolled
out into one-it has proven the wis
dom Of slashing down to the very qik
when the public pocket book was hid
wa ia dred suspicion. The real bar
gin stors hav dubbed ther busint s.
the multitudinus por, with scant
purses, wanted ther little money 70 by
tco for ONE if it cud be dun, and tina
knu that the master of the Modern
Methods wud cum nerer to that hi
water mark than Regulars who delt
on the pa-da plan. Thes solid Twen-
ty-percenters felt the force OF ther
pulverizer placed befor the public In
plain fgurs and made no mistake III
the impression thes nock-down argu-
ments wud make upon the vast mass
es haunted by the hideous fautom Of
Want.
1t was u great leson in The gratest
of al the panic years OF the past-to
hear the very wall of the hundred
percent hardtimer, when just across
the street the little BEEHIVE OF the Ra-
deter was crowded to the sidewalk
al da long. And this is the moral
if a man is onest in his pretensions
and silks sacredly to one price Of
twenty or twenty-five percent, the
panix may cum and go, but the great
masses, who ar always trying TO get
the most and the best for ther little
money, viii find him out in da, and
the closes he cuts the firmsr his hold
upon the public pocket book. One
single trial of his intoxication OF en-
thusiasm on the chesbord OF bisnes
and not one in a million wud ever
step back ward into the barbaric horrors
of the internal Ledger
AL the RoUss SYSTEM requires is a
little horS-sens and integrity to folo to
the very Letter the simple rules and
the iron laws. and He make a land
mark of him. And on the other
hand, it makes little ods what the
caracter, capital and ability, under
the Ledger laws the grindstones Of
credit will grind into fine powder tif-
teen out OF evry sixteen This Is
cold bluded statistiy. and not the re-
vengful words of former victim of
the autocrat of time-in the ashes OF
degradation, humiliation and-but
only for da.
Here is our system, so plain and
simple that the merest tyro ma jump
into it and win-in da il he is ira
10 the system.
Look around U, evrywher in evry-
da life, aud Sc the devastationS Of the
credit monster. 1t ant not to take
long to settle this momentus isu that
means to L the victor or the victim.
With this ritter il is not alone the in
satiate desire to get even with the
Barbarsc Brothers of Time and Part
uership-that wud be natural enuf.
even in a savage-but to place
sound system befor American mer-
chants in magnificent contrast to the
pernicious, overtowering evil which
rnriches no one and inpoverishes al
but scaut haf dozen out OF evrv
hundred. want to plant monuments
of fame in the wild wastes OF comon-
place. In the footsteps OF thes de-
feted champions 1 want u 70 Sc a
genuine representative Of the most
modern methods, with the cuntry for
miles aud miles drd in low with him
and his sledghamers Were yester-
da hung the red flag toda | want I
to look at a savage twenty-percsnter
with his clutch upon the public pock
ct book, purely upon the basis OF
merit alone. A week ago the sign
ITO Let" on prominent corner in q
town who's peple had ''gon to seed"
chanting the thredbare sign song
hard times" now the agreaiv and
progresiy record-smasher, hebind his
tnronged counters, was Illustrating
the perfect solidity OF cash down in
smaziug contrast to the wear and tear
aud swear OF the swetbook system.
want to show U. in the trax of
generation after generation OF first
elias mercantile timber that had ben
split and splinterrd aud shivered by
the Ledger Leprosy, ther now stood
another race of master minds, who's
offs furniture was a simple mony-
drawer and who's religion was CASH
BEFoR DELIVERY.
Ah mel the hard life of mental
agony, dodging yor creditors, doging
yor detors under that perfdius sys-
TEN that givs back but six out Of one
hundred-and that other life OF sun
shine, wher the specialties for Net
Spot Cash gladen both byer apd seller.
At TWENTY-FIVE percent yOr values