Nebraska advertiser., 1858-03-18
Miscellaneous.

A Parable fOr Business Men.


A Parable Tor Business Men.
% There was once on time man who
kept a store and sold goods at wholesale
and retail. III lsob
And he became melancholy, because
customers were shy and the times were
very hard.
And he said: Lo! / am ruined and the
sensation is disagreeable. d
And my ruin is The more painful to
bear, because it is slow in progress, even
as water doth gradually become hotter IN
the pot in which the lobster boileth, until
the crustaceous creature shrIeketh his
soul in anguish.
Lo 1t is better TO be ruined quickly
than to endure this slow torture.
will give my money away to the poor
man-even to the poorest, which is he
who printeth newspapers, and l viii shut
up my shop and wrap myself in the sack
cloth of desolation, and pass my days in
the purlieus of broken banks, cursing the
hardness of the times and rending my
garments @ a- a- 3'aa
And the howlings of Rome shall be as
the dullest sound Of dulcimers, and they
who blow the flutes and instruments of fmu-
sic, compared to the din will make in the
ears of the bank directors.
And even as he said, so did he; for he
was not like other mems sons who are
foolish and know it not, and they say they
viii do so and so, and then proceed to
perform that which is contrary.
For the sons of men are fickel, and he
that is born of woman doth spite his face
by diminishing of the nose thereof.
And 10! the printer-even he who did
publish newspapers--was made glad by
the bounty of him who sold wholesale and
retail; and he did sound his praises and
print them moreover, and did blow the
trumpet of fame respecting that mans
dealings from the rising of the sun to the
going down of the same.
| And he-even the printer Of papers
did magnify and enlarge upon the stock of
goods which the trader had in his store,
and did publish the variety and excel
lence, and the newness, and the beauty,
and the cheapness thereof, till the people
, yea all Of them far and near, were
amazed. ea4 .hlHal
And they said 10 this man hath gath.
! cred from the. east and the west costly
merchandise and wares of wonderous val,
= ue-even the workmanship of cunning ar.
tificers-and we knew it not
) Go to, then! We will lay out our sill
yer and our gold in those things which the
/ printer printeth of, and that. which ht
! doth publish shall be ours. For this mans
, merchandise is better than the bank notes
/ of those who promise to pay, and therein
E lie, even banks of deposit, which beguil'
. US of our money and swindle us.
But that trader was still sad, and ht
z said; the money that these people bring
me for the goods in my store viii still
O give to the printer, and thus will | ruiz
? myself; / will do that which no man hatl
yet dene in my time or before me. / vii
, make the printer, whom all men scorn fo
4 his poverty, rich and he shall be clad il
r fine linen, and shall rejoice. ed i
: And the sons of men shall meet him i
the market place, and the sheriff shaI
!. shun him and the scofers shall be rebuk
g ed, and shall take off their hats.
. And he shall fash the dollars in tn
. eyes Of the foolish, and shall eat bank
r. notes and sandwiches. .ad % II,
Yea, even he shall light his pipe wit
% railroad scrip, and cast his spittle on th
y boards Of other men.
For will ruin myself, and he who aC
vertises me shall surely enjoy all my sui
> stance. ~
But 10! the trading man-even he WI
sold the MISUNDERSTANDING rich, ar
Is even as the unclean beast lieth in the mil
le so stirreth he not by reason of so muc
f. gold and silver.
g And the people focked to his store fro
a' the north, eAi -l'.
re And from the south,
Ut And from the east,
Ir And from the west. r.
IN And the printer rejoiced, and his phi
+ did abound.
es But the trader could not become poo
nj and his melancholy ceased, and he becan
50 happy
1t And his children did become mighty
le' the land by reason of the dollars whi
Is many of the people who read his adve
tisements had poured into the trader
u large money bags.
a And it came to pass that many 9th
traders, behOlding the exceeding prospe
% ity of the good trader, and divining t
re cause thereof, also gave 1.-THE Of The
lal l possessions to the printer.
Iln AID the fame of those also went thr,
g; out the country; and they all wax
nu ~ mighty by reason of the printers art.