Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-05-01


with mere lnony making ha ar as
eyer and keen for popularity and the
esteem of the community as tina ar for
dollars; and the UNDEEsEL is the in
visibI touch that always commands the
plaudits as wel as the pocket book of
eVryone who is ever on the serch for
real valu. The small boy points Mt
him as the Racket man, who sold
him twenty polisht marbles for a
cent-even the wash woman givs him
a pleasant smile in passing he
had taken her purse. lie had given
her duble valu; and the precher ah-
sorbd in the incomprehensibility of
the future. as he solemly walked to
worship cud hardly keep his face
strait as he past the Cash Befnr De-
livery champion evidently thinking
of the paper at one cent a oire and
the envelopes at cent paI<-Thes
little things count in the make UP of
Mercantile Successes.
Their Wer two carrier boys in our
employ at two and a half week.
bTite fellows, erly on the lockout for
advance aud promotion: in short
time one became Chief Cashier, the
other Manager of our Jap. Depart
ment-we had bounced them from
so 10 SIG week-but tina got rest
les and wanted to go, tho the salary
was large for mere boys not yet IS.
II was Hseles TO talk salary TO thes
two enthusiasts. Tina had BEGUN
delirius over the records that came
porting in from evry garter of the
mercantile horizon, and cud neither
cat nor sleep. ST thes cOrniield
boys and counter jumpers and bro
ken down old failures can pile up
such marvelgs figure, VIC can duble
and treble them, aud age aCR AND TIA
HAv,
Tina had saved about $500 and re-
solved to risk it al in the unering
certinties of the Rouss SYSTEM. We
put thousand along with their mod.
est capital, and the second week
another, the third, still another thous-
and-finaly scd tina cud use S., 900.
With firm faith in ther ability and
integrity, | rote them if tina wanted
ten thousand tina cud havit. Their met
eoric records make lie feel small and
wish l ser Yung agen-hak to II to
sc what l cud do with the SYSTEM
that has created great Armies of
Successful Merchants out of medi-
ocrity andl comercia shiprex. Thes
magnificent yung fellows went to
Pine Bluff, Ark.-went ther 10 sta
to mock down, drag out and chaw
up in the slang of the do, and when
competition hangs out tue white flag.
tina ar in the market 10 buy ut forty
in the s. Their record for month
on the last page of this isu look like
Il chapter from the story of Jack the
Giant Killer.
In placing bcfor the slioIars and as
pirants of commercial fame the illus
tratinns and records of successful
men. we always select thos who hav
had little Xperience. hut big in reso-
luton, who's capital was insignificant
in cash, but prodigius in ~ CAN AND
I WILL" Many of thes wonderful
prodigies hay been under 81. store
boys at $500 week SUDDENLY trans
formed into mercantile aer0lites of
magnificent briliancy-rich men at
%, like O'Neill of McKesport. who
| began in his teens, now the imperial
master in that big city. As an KAN
pie we occasionally bring before L the
oIdtimcr, whose life was sourd in
ledger harues, who had won his 100
per cent. and lost it in the same his
toric swetbook that has swamped the
finest business ability and integrity
that ever batled and struggled for sue
ces. Tina hav stagerd into our place
tiatend out by the milstones of eter-
nal time, and xpect to undergo the
torture of n da er two on the mys-
teries and masteries of the dream
and hope of his life, SUCCESS. Nat
uraly enuf, lie wants to Sc the FATHER
OF THE RAQETER, Expecting to Sc n
magnificent looking gentleman, s
feet, and $50 pounds, encounters
hisncs man who takes but moment
of his time, then TO the rite hand
man. Peter Winchester, and his as
sistant, who boil down the story in
tire words, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SCI
CASH; point out hundreds of pages
of record smashcrs, and in ten min
utes that man is himself a mercantile
master of the cash down creed of the
RoUss religion,
CHARLES BROADWAY Rouss.
549, SOL & j53 Broadway.
New York City.