Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-03-08
A TALE WITH A MORAL.


STUDIES Of trade nowadays. Not only
are the members Of our commercial
community, great and small, troubled
''to make strap and buckle meet" but
the system of botheration includes in.
in its operation all the little fry. Street
pedIars-those queer chaps whose
business it is TO d. sose Of dry-goods
and fnery carri lin box strapped
to their necks7 EVen they find it diff
cult to make money enough 10 meet
their heavy e ag+ments. Shakespear
says,
THE DOR beetle that we tread upon,
In corpore sufferance, feels pang a great
| As when giant dies;
And the pedlar - cannot pay the a
mount due upon stock in trade,
suffers as keenly merchant who
fails for tens of tF utwe did
not start for the tlrOralizing,
or phiIosophizing, is but poor bu-
siness, at best. One Of those itinerant
vendors of trifes, to whome we have
made allusion, found, few days ago
that after traxeE-W until night, and
using his Fly 10 ''crying" his
wares Id enough to pur-
chas orrdge." lie was
ipe. / store, near the
4 upper extfo he city, The owner
of which-oT he gender feminine
was in the 3 line with himself
| She stood in door, on the lookout
perhaps for komers. The Pedlar
took offbis hat There was something
in her appeara Fe that Indicated to the
observing eve bf our travelling retailer
that trade b. keen dull IN her quarter
also, and ccurred TO him that he
$ might p strike bargain with he
that We bne for the losses Of th'
3 dav. therefore, he asked if h
: could s any thing, and she invites
: him to in, he felt pretty sure tina
:. he was ia flair way to realize som
If profit. he lady examined his stock
l. and finally told him there were som
l. articles she would be glad to exchang
IS with him. He seemed TO labor undt
e. the impression that he could discov'
II" 'e something "verdant in her optic" an
% as there was bot little probability tn
4 he could effect cash sale, and as
st wished particularly to getrid of certa
is. things : nat had troubled him for loT
in time he concluded to assent to Il
nd proposition. The lady exhibited
Nv very fine gilt box, containing one
~; two bottles of hair oil, some boxes
~; i tooth powders, cake ofsoap, and OF
m er trumpery. The goods he wish
lev to dispose of were not better. AS be
zen were conscious of cheating the barg;
}. was soon agreed TO. The pedlar TO
led up his box and started towards hon
MS chuckIing over his good trade, wi
i"u the lady entered behind her coun
=. and, as Dan Marble would say claus
ans I'd right OUT On examining the
ing ticles she had obtained, however,
A soon saw they were not what Il
joy were cracked up to be, and fin
HIM threw them among other rubbish,
VINO totally vaIueless and unsaleable.
,meS reaching his hut the pedlar ventu
U.S. U.s. into an examination OF the wares
was had seured. His curses if not
d in were deep. when he discovered thai
prise hair oil was nothing but coloured
guns ter, his too.h-powder clean white a
n TO, and his cake Of soap COMPOUND
had saw-dust and paste, neatly envel'
mus O. in gaudy wrapper. Weary, mis-
r re- BILE and disguised, tired Of the "
i in and all that it inherits, he threw hi
The on his bed and endeavored 10 i
scue; his cares in
lndl- Innocent sleep:
under Sleep that knits up the ravel'd sleeve Q
blown The death of each days life sore labor
n the Balm of hurt mnd5great natures second
DUN Chief nourieher in LIES least!
of the The great moral of this ouI
indians stands out in bold and startling
bullets From the highest to the humble
} their have our Affections and adver
'9mllt, The poor pedlar who when l.
q ,I nn.u tempted to cheat, and In the U
u nb Wa found himself cheated undouI
Sed !, fancied he was the most mlserab
lie soil, prosecuted object upon the lace
, Indi. earth. The past was blank Q
'caped, temptation the future made
entire. shudder. Pecuniary uin state
in the face, and din visions
TO re, bankrupt law hoated before his
'n;oCeS nation;-and yet thousand sci
~ '1'O was Gent and presumtive fools in tn
IS selec. world imagine themselves TO D
behind desola.e and unfortunate tina
pursued moor pedlar! They need not vi
had not sarily flatter themselves. A tn
Ong and investigation Of the things OF
adIans IN ~iIl:show them that one man
're eo UG about as miserable as another
long run.''
y u, :; From the Boston Courier.
- Indi Ifthemerchant and Speculation
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