Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1895-11-12

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stupefied to sc the same thing at our
price-let me Sc, that is sumthing
like ONE HuNDREE PER CENT, on an
article as staple as Silk YeIvet-ther
will be held to pay. Five per cent,
is always worth saving, and eyry
keen, shrwd buyer that Gums to this
market vii always save it, but when
/ it Gums to ONE HUNDRED PER CENT.
on an article as staple as Silk Vel
vet-ther vii be hell to pay. Five
per cent. is always worth saving ,and
evry been, shrwd buyer that Gums TO
this market vii always save il, but
whenit Gums to ONE HUNDRED PER CT.
Wei, i hav stood on the opposite side of
the street and.- t linking over sum of
thes terrific jobs, i concluded it was
not so hard n march after al, tho it
wasn't any easy walkover. We had
| giants of colossal size to fite, and in
al thes years, we took good care of
our customers and never felt we cud
afford to lose solitary one.
i intended thes velvets as an ad-
vertisment for our customers, but
placed one pece in the windo to coax
in city trade. In the ordinary way
of merchandising according to the
old methods, that is the regular
goods at the regular price, on the
regular terms, this lot of stuff wud
hav lasted ten years; at ~ cents the
pece disappeared in les than five min
uts-it was imediately replaced agen
and agen, and at the end of second
da THEIR WAS NOT ONE SOLITARY PEoE
LEFT IN THE HoUs. / Civ this as an
illustration to our distinguish and
conspicuous representative, that
THEIR wlNDo IS THE BIGGEST SALESMAN
THA CAN HAv-it drinks no whisky,
eats no meat and draws no salary.
In our windo was box of cigars
markt $50 per thousand, worth $50.
A welthy nabor of ours, two blox
belo, saw the ticket and aslkt the
salesman if he wud sci him one single
box as a sample he said that if tha
wer according to representation he
wud buy one thousand. He cum
back in an hour and ordered a thous-
and-the next da four thousand. He
stated tha wer as good as any cigar
he cud buy in the city retail at 10
cents; lie had, however, seen the
same cigar markt in window, one
square abuv us, at Sd per one hum
dred-he thaut this 100 per cent.
was worth saving, even in luxuries.
He bought the od four thousand for
his friends, but remarkt he was GO
ing to charge them $50 per thousand.
Our conspicuous representative can
sci FOUR of thes cigars for TEN CENTS,
the idential mony demanded from
our cigar stors for oNE-three hum
dred per cent. difference, and thes
amazing percentages sho themselves
at evry turn in evry depart. of our
bisnes, from five per cent. to five
hundred, Illustrating the sing that we
place in our windo: 'sHaf an hour
spent wandering thru thes imense
warerooms may save U years of
priceless time and thousands in
mony."
Theirs stuff enuf in the hart and
brain of many g master to forge away
beyond the million line, had he cour-
age, not alone to try, but to dare and
do-to leav the narrow confines and
jump into larger commercial areas
and hier mercantile attitudes, and
match his skill and nerv and enter
prise with the pluk and ambition and
capital of the leding masters. 1t
will not do to plead want of mony or
chance or circumstance, for this
writer, with pard enable pride, viii
rehears agen the story of his march
thro fire and storm and starvation
from old, sleepy, patriotic Winches-
ter, thro Appomattox, to the metrop-
oils of America, sleeping on the floor
near the stove in the Oak street sta
ton, and wandering thro the FIRE
lunches, not alone pennies, But
ELEVEN THOUSAND WORSE. The
author of thes lines wud point to ever
a bleaker and blaker day, walking up
and down thes busy cherries streets
WITHOUT HIS NAME or a solitary dime,
and fifty-one thousand below zero,
nearly twenty years ago, crnsht be-
yond recognition by that hideous,.
helish monster of monsters-cRHDIT.
1t al Ia in little pulverizer of i'm
possibilities, cald PLuK. AL men
poses this vital, magik, tremendous
fore, and the very few who Civ it full,
fre, fair play, and adorn it with am
bition and integrity, viii cary ther
mortal names away up among the
worlds undying heroes, and tina
who's aspirations never reach abov
commonplace vii be swept from times
calendars, unonerd and unknown and
unsung-
WHEN? How? WHERE?
Thes thre expresiv questions hav
been askt a thousand times by en-
thusiasts of seventeen, befor xper-
ience had branded upon his heart
and brain its terifik lessons, by the
careworn cripple of thirty, who's am
bition has been puIyerized in the
dedly crucibIe of credit, by the grey
haired desperate of forty, who's spirit
of pluk, tho ground into powder,
still survives disastrous defeat-by
the veteran of fifty, shivered and
/ smasht into atoms, still scorns the
whisper of Hgiv up" and lastly, the
unterified, unconquered, unyieIding
bundle of heroic bones at sixty, still
hoping agenst hope that the sun viii
shine agen, and that the stedy, con-
sfo1f lido ~ dafaaf rndar tho oroas-