Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-11-07
November :, 1894.
Rouss Amettom Trade Journal.

The Rouss System is q civilizer in
MODERN MERCANTILE WARFARE. The
merchant throws the stra jurnal into
the waste-ba 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
iernd al that tha can of the old, bar
baric system and NOR than tha vii
ever folo. Our paper has converted
them into other usages in the mer-
camille battles.
At best, tha wer only working to
lern the arts and aqire the polish OF
waiting on customers, raping up
goods and afterwards scratching 1t
down on the swet-book. Tha got
Two or Thre Dollars a week. In
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 handsum profit, that
is, ins.ed 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 well as the Proprietor
of $40, wer fellows who got about a
dollar per da. Magnificent mercan-
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 and who's cash
is lite, vii 90 to that store wher prices
ar BELo Rock Boron and not to that
of the xpensivly drest windows of
large concerns. Wharf.-The consumer
wants, is real values-what the
Masses WANT, Is REAL VALUES BELo
THE MARKET, and in the busy, bust
ling BEEHIVE of thes tjreless bred
winers viii 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 selling at Fifty that which
other concerns demanded sl.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 org
inator-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 His and Valleys.
In the lexicon of the worlds com
cree, there is no city that vii COM
pare with New York. In the conner
cial calendar of this great centre,
there has ben no parallel to the rec
ords Of A. +. Stewart. The great
merchant prince made many mis-
takes. Itwas he, who first inaugur-
ated the cut throat system Of selling
Domestix at PRIME CosT, thinking
the people wer Internal fools
becaus be sold his Muslins cheap,
everything els was cheap in proper
ton,
The intelligent merchants of thai
age found, that whilst he UNDERsoLp
on DoMEsTIx, when tha got in to the
general departments, tha wer lost
and here was wher he made hi;
mony. Their was no one to compete
with him in Domestix-he had the