Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-04-03
Rouss Auction Trade Journal

The oltiner had herd the rumbling of
the far-distant thunder forboding
a. hard times often befor, and had
BEGUN used to its sad sing-song year
after year-he seemed to I5no its pc
riodical appearance even in the plenti-
tude of prosperity, but he had ben
traind to mourn with the morners and
vail with the alarmists, aud was per-
fectly familiar with the weird fsntom
of panic as in fancy it cast its huge
blaI5 shade acros the mistaken vision
of commonplace as it gropes in the
darkness of the upas of CREDIT and
PARTNERSHIP. But the aparitiou, n
real rebel, Raqueter, cutting and
slashing as tho he had indeed stolen
his stuf-the daredevil of the twenty
five percenters, carving down to the
very DIX and marc, he makes up his
mind at one that the days of irresolu-
ton ar gon, and the hour of decision
faces him firmly but impatiently.
The bent of his life's inclination was
that tomoro wud do just as wei, but
the Lesson of the gladiator of the cash
befor-delivery was that by tomorro he
wud be torn into carpet rags. Then
looking things square in the teeth
with comonsens vision strait az ray
of lite, he scans the vast commercial
horizon of the itimitabl opportunities
of the nifty future. In one single dd
he has Termed the Lesson of life from the
Representative of the correct Modern
Methods the hustler with his
sledge and trip hamers-had Termed
it never TO forget. that the short, sure
road to Welth and fame la in the tire
mastodons of the mercantile lexicon
-UNDERBY, UNDERsEL CASH. And
what simple Lesson that had bafed
his Who'll life!
In the meanwhile Their are others Of
the aristocratic stifneckers who kno
it al-lUho hdU at dl-even tho it be
in the inconvertible that never gives
bak-.he land, the ledger and the
ded lumber-yes, bigbugs who at
first with sinister snarl whisper " stn-
len goods" and - auction trash, &"
and others howl and Xix, and tina Xix
like hcl too, BUT--- it always
reminded me of the big OK at the
abatoir, one end of the chain around
his leg, the other on the steam coil !;
that bull xix too, but the engineer
lazily pufs his corn cob pipe. (big
job, 95c. gross BidwelD presses the
valv, and the next da his name is
beefsteak. The sbarpshootcr of the
clos, sharp spot cash has no time to
eat, but lafs to derision the idiotic
yelp of the Two-hundred percenter
who's name will be NOBODY.
One in while the old Regular lays
down his flint lock and pix up the
thirty shooter. My old friend HIP-
PARD, of Marshall, Ills, red arite the
living Lessons of our agresiv month
lies, and has swept from want to welth
and is about to start q branch in
charge of his boys, among strangers,
and he sees tina will not be bothered
with friends asking loan or the pa
da pirates who with the cheek of flint
demand thirty or sixty days time on
bills of five cents Goo envelopes,
pax for five cents.) We one had n
telegram from an enthusiast who's
brain was wild on the Raqet, asking
if we wud Civ him the town of MAR
sHAL that he had thousand in cold
cash and his bank TO baL him. We
answered: Our friend II has the
place for life and we can't sci o if U
had five thousand, with the Lord be-
hind you That settled it. He
jumped into Princeton, Ky. On the
bak page of this isu is the record for
an ordinary years work crowded up
in four weeX-the dull, ded month of
February. Look out for this meteo-
ric sky-scraper, who, like the Fort
Smith record-smasher, (HAaIMoND,
declares that he hasn't fairly started.
His name is CHAMBERS, and his mar
velus figures auto awaken from obi
Won the unumberd victims of the
twin Barbaric Brothers-CREDIT and
PARTNERS.
When North Carolina Davis had
won his splendid victories in Raleigh
and had sold out, lie was about to
open up in Charlotte, when he was
told that we sold evryone there and
cudn't Civ him the xclusiv control of
our values, but that we wud sci him
there. "Thars al want. II take
care of yor trade Their and II repre-
sent U as yor methods deserv. He
won the place and the cuntry around
for miles in a SINGLE da by a single
sentence of his opening adres: ST
1 can sci at 8 I hdU ne rite to ask
tent" That simple paraeraf, the
prelude to the Rouss SYSTEM, made
the broad-minded merchant famous
and won for him ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY THOUSAND IN s YEARS. In the
thrill of his gratitude lie presented
the author of thes monthlies the fin
est horse in the old North State. AT
one time of life we had both lODIit up
from the aslres of utter ruin into the
azure depths wondering if the brite
sun would ever shine again.
Take glance bals over the eigh-
teen years of our crusade agenst the
Caesar of Credit and his trecherus
brother, Partnership. To our sys-
tenn it has ben scope and stretch of
comerciaI history hard to parallel.
The " MODERN METHODS" of clos,
DIX, sharp margins for the LIVE CASH
hav braut to the front vast armies of
successful merchants who in the old
tolls and under the hard lines of the
Ledger System wud have lived in the
cornfeId or as counter jumper in the
shade of obscurity. The RoUss
system has reVolutionized the Who'll