Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-05-11
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXI, No. 10.

agent of this celebrated firm cald on
us to kno if we wud take thes clocks at
a discount of 33 1-S per cent. he
sed he Termed that our trade was
scattered al over the univers and wud
not interfere with his regular trade.
We offered him 80 per cent. for the
whole thing. CASH DOWN, and spose
Seth Thomas thaut we wer absolutely
safe or as good as the Bank of Eng
land. We now ofer q thes clocks,
loer than any onest merchant on the
continent ever had them; of cors,
we don't claim in our estimate the
periodical bunco felo who snashes up
evry year or so, but in our Hardware
Department and in our JewelrY De-
partment U will find prices atacbt to
thes world-renowned clocks never
befor herd of in this cuntry or any
other. 1t is wei worth yor while to
order case or two, and in al proba-
bility when yor second order Gums
on, as assuredly it will, that will al
hav ben swept away. Seth Thomas
price, at the factory. per case of 6,
was s14 les > per cent.--oUR PRICE
is s9.65.
1t is in no spirit of egotism or bonn
bast that this ritter places before the
readers of this jurnal thes imperish-
abl truths and thes self-evident AK
ioms-thes practical theories, demon
strated by that criterion that con-
vinces scepticlsm itself, but the live
pioneer of q system as solid as an
ocean rock, and which is surely and
rapidly driving into Oblivion that
barbaric savage which has destroyed
the finest effort of industry and en-
ergy ever witnest in any age, rearing
monuments of greatnes that viii stand
when the Pyramids ar recorded as
as prehistoric, in an age when
science and genius will hav unfolded
mysteries and reveald the nineteenth
century.
The opportunities that made Stew
art the mercantile autocrat of Amer
lea still lie around in every mans
way-and what chances for him who's
experience has ben gatherd in the
storms of the last fifty years of mer-
camille historyl what chances for
that man who knows the potent pow
er of coin, and who knows too, the
meaning of the other word, CREDIT
Thes ar the arguments, thes the facts
and figurs, presented to the reader,
whether a bankrupt or milionair
whether sweeping on to fame and for
tune with the giant strides of genius,
or driven to the wal and naild ther;
whether on the hiest pinacl of human
greatnes or basking upon the cellar
dor lured into the delirium of dream
land by the qintescence of Indian
Corn, that demoniac monster that de-
stroys the master-mind of genius and
takes the dimpled hands of his little
ones in hand and leads them into
eternityl
Nor does it reqire a hi order of
mercantile skill or genius. or even
xperience-nun of thes ar necessary
in the Rouss System. AL the felo
needs to achiev SUCCESS Is to UNDERBY
al that he needs at the other end
of the line is UNDERsEL. In my
experience 1 hav found the cornfield
chap as potent a gladiator as the felo
who had ben ground up into indis-
tinguishabl powder. 1 hav pointed
out the near, short way to thes fell
ows aud hav promist if tha wud adj
here sacredly to the maxims laid
down, SUCCESS wUD CUM swift and sure
and in overwhelming mesur.
EvRY ONE HAS HIS PRIcE-Never
was axiom truer. Sum that monv
will not buy, kind word will fetch.
Others who are unaproachabI, yet
tuch them upon the tender cords of
sympathetic nature and U hav life
long trends, and tho the masses may
not he deluded by the old wolf cry of
t selling off at cost" yet when the
genuine sledg-hamer Gums tina
will wade in. Tuch them on that
tenderest corn, that sensitiv nerv
cald the pocket-book, and yor strugI
is over and the victory complete
The mother viii drop her babe, the
tailor his shears, the seamstres her
needl, tue doctor his pills, piety its
Bible, the tipler his throat-scratcher
and Tobacco juice, the lawyer his
briefs, the farmer his plow, the COM
erciaI traveller his cheek, and stam-
pede en- masse for ROCK BoToM.
CHARLES BROADWAY Rorss.
To page of systematic business
rules and requirements tue following
pointed paragraph is appended:I
To the aspirant for mercantile
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