Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-05-01
R6ass Auction Trade journal.

The majority of the mercantile
ronarx of the metropolis wer not
New Workers. Many came from
abrosd-.the most wcr nativ horn
Tia represented elias of men of in
satiahI ambition who had oulgrown
the boundaries of possibilities of thcr
nativ place and naturally fixt Their
screening gaze upon the city who's
vast opportunities wer absolutely
ilimitabl. In Their little cuntrY town
tina mite sci ten thousand, here tina
had fair even chance for ten mil
ions. For years tina had visited this
mark ct and had matcIit tier pIuk and
brains with al the great masters of
this great city. II is true that the
merchants of the South wer impover-
isht by the war and wer obliged 10
take 10 the farm for Existence, whilst
our brother traders of the North had
grown rich in that aufpl struggle.
The money of the North was par,
that Of the South about two cents Il
pound. Many who's aspirations wcr
big for greater results than farm life
Afforded came here. Large numbers
wer dishartened, gave up the une-
quail and desperate struggle and went
bak TO ther natiY hills and valleys
The ritter left his home, unable TO
endure the unromantic and unprofit-
ALL life in the harvest fields. the sun
burning down at 102 in :he shade,
aud in the corn field sno ne deep
belo zero. But behind thes was n
consciousness that in city of such
Yast magnificent changes fortune
wud favor ernest cndcvor and tire
less energy, aided by the experience
aud ability that had commanded
sclid success in the crly battles of life
but which had ben ohliternted by the
war. The uIcompromiSing pangs
of ambition had robd me of rest and
sleep but abuY al ] was firm in the
faith that what others had dun I Gud
do, or possibly OUT DO, Absolute
destitushun of mony aud large old
diets made the fife iierccr and more
de>perate-th the blak clouds drifted
ava, the old antebelum diets wer
paid and the life dream realized
SUCCESS. Ics, there's many ruf
diamond in the loly walk and ways
of mercantile life who feels his SUI
periority over many of even our sue
cessful men. and, who, if lie cared to
venture mite make q historic mark
upon the pages of thes cveutfuI
lines, but his lille old town is good
enuf for him, and besides he is a
king the=-here he wud he II fether
in whirIwimd: specially if lie had Il
pard or ledger. If he bilt founda-
tions upon tile solid rok of the ''mod-
ern methods" it wud lie just such n
succes as he cared or dpred 10 make
it.
What thes Yung commercial con-
scripts, not yet out of Their teens. hav
acomplisht with so little capital, in
such meredith shortimc and little or
no xperienc, dny man can do If HE
VIII, but ii must he upon the ''corect
system" or the sherif's flag vii he
the final pla on his chcsbord of life !;
and il Ties reconstructed mercantile
mistake make up in brief stretch
of time ther awful loses of the Who'll
past and forget the life lessons of
| lHlSlO NAliiG III Dt CSGllJ lliublSs WHY
not the hundred percenter who
huries it in the ledger? A bushes
mans reputation, along with his
chances of sHcces, is at stake aUith
erery sale. He can make n bowling
profit and lose it on the trecherous
pages along with his reputation or lie
can coin popularity by the bansom
advertisement with the cash in hand.
He had ben unsuccessful, had put
in good mony, but the swetbools wud
not Civ it bak. He rote us, asking
in his plain, blunt wa, what is this
"RACKEr BIsNEs" that is busting MP
al the tut old timers out here? Tina
tel me u are the father of them al,
and l want TO get my mony back and
my time too. We wrote that we cud,
and enclosed the record of the irwin
chile gladiator of Fort Smith, with
the remark ''What this splendid felo
has dun L can do if U acH." His
anser had the force of Il Royal Ben
gal Tiger. ''What HANMoNs has
dun can do and acH. AND lie
has. That's the kind of timher for
the RAQETs of the ROUss SYSTEM
not 81 7cu try" hut Il WILL"
His name is Conley, of Bath, n.
Y, whose record we print on the
last page of this paper. 1t simply
goes 10 sho what a man can do, and
what the possibilities ar under The
''RoUss REIiGIoN. What this SPLEEN
did merchant has dun, any man can
DO, II HE VIII SILK TO OUR SIRE.
SHORT, STRAIT SIMPLE RULES. OF
cours great merchants hav ben ground
into fine powder by the miIstoncs Of
credit and pards; that is the falt of
the system, and of the man In cling
ing TO that which his experience shows
to he radically rOng and fatal. Had
thes master minds adopted and fol-
owed as faithfully the tru husines
methods that ar fast driving the bar
barrie laws out of xistencc Their wud
haV ben marble palaces uher now
floats the red flag.
At hest the little life is short and
hard, aud it seems strange that intel
igent hisnes men viii croWd so much
IVORY aud wear and tear into the
story of evry da, when the safe, sure
path avoids nj Ties mental fortunes.
Strip the article of unfair profit. shoot