Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-10-30
Rouss Auction Trade journal.

The Rouss System is civilizer in
MODERN MERCANTILE WARFARE. The
merchant throws the stra jurnaI into
the waste-basket. The CLERK get hold
of it at mite and make up their minds
that folding the filosofy of the first
page, tha can match the mercantile
masters who's unrivald records ar
printed on the last page. Tha hav
lernd al that tina can of the old, bar
baric system and NOR than tina vii
ever folio. Our paper has converted
them into other usages in the mer-
camille battles.
AT best, tina wer only working to
lern the arts and aqire the polish of
waiting on customers, raping up
goods and afterwards scratching it
down on the swet-book. Tha got
Two or Thre Dollars week. In a
years time these smooth-faced yung
fellows, IS years of age. had becum
masters of al the mysteries of the
Modern Methods. Tha surprised
themselves NOR than tha did US.
The town was too small. Tha sold
out, making a handsum profit, that
is, insted of selling out at Fifty in the
dollar as the old oldtimers do. tha
got One Hundred and twenty-five.
One moved to Hopkinsville, Ky,
and the other to Columbia, Tenn.
Tha ar royal bengal tigers of the
finest type, modest, unasuming,
boyish looking fellows. One wud
think, tha, as we'll as the Proprietor
of $40, wer fellows who got about a
dollar per da. Magnificent mcrcan-
tile Masters of Masters both of
them-KUGLER and SwANsBURG..
What stronger endorsement of the
Modern Methods cud be imagind,
than that while this terrific Tariff has
torn and twisted and buried in OBJ
livion the oldtimer of one and two
and thre hundred percent, it has
multiplied and magnified the heroic
TWENTY PERCENTER, who with his
little box of stuff amounting to one
Hundred Dollars or two, has sold NOR
goods for the CASH, than thes Hi
Tarifers with their stox of Twenty
and Thirty and Forty Thousand.
1t simply shows this: That peple
who's wants ar many aud who's cash
is lite, will go to that store wher prices
ar BELo Rock Boron and not to that
of the xpensivly drest windows of
large concerns. What the consumer
wants, is real values-what the
MAsEs WANT, Is REAL VALUES BELo
THE MARKET, and in the busy, bust
ling beehive of thes tireless bred
winers vii be found just that which
no other concern on the continent
can match. 1t was this idea that
made Stewart and al the great world
renownd cash concerns of New York
and other cities-seling thing belo
its yalue-seling at Fifty that which
other concerns demanded S1.25 for
that has made for US the army of
successful men to which we point
with pardonable pride, worth NOR to
the author of thes Monthlies than al
the money he has, as being the orig
inGtor-as being the man who re-
claimed from the ashes of oblivion
and ruin, great merchants, big in
brains, lofty in integrity, unsulied in
Reputation, and made them masters
of their own Hills and Valleys.
| In The lexicon OF the worlds COM
cree, there is no city that will COM
pare with New York. In the comer-
cial calendar of this great centre,
there has ben no parallel to the rec
ords of A. T. Stewart. The great
merchant prince made many mis-
takes. 1t was he, who first inaugur-
ated the cut-throat system of selling
Domestic at PRIME CosT, thinking
the people wer Internal fools
becaus he sold his Muslins cheap,
feverything els was cheap in propor-
: ton.
4 The intelligent merchants of that
age found, that whilst he UNDERsoLD
on DoMEsTIx, when tina got in to the
general departments, tina wer lost,
and here was wher he made his
mony. Their was no one to compett
with him in Domestix-he had the