The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-10-11

spair, when there ought to be struggle |
among all the best men of the profession |
as to who should have the honor Of trying |
to help the unfortunate. How much |
would such an attorney have received as
his fee for such an advocacys Nothing |
In dollars, but much every way In happy |
consciousness that would make his own |
life brighter and his own dying pillow
sweeter and his own heaven happier
the consciousness that he had saved q |
mani
So there are commercial exigencies. A |
very late spring obliterates the demand |
for spring overcoats and spring hats and |
spring apparel Of all sorts. Hundreds of |
thousands Of people say: ''It seems we |
are going to have no spring and we shall |
go straight out Of winter into warm
weather, and we can get along without |
the usual spring attire" Or there is no |
autumn weather, the heat plunging into |
the cold, and the usual clothing which |
Is compromise between summer and |
winter Is not required. It makes a diff |
ference in the sale Of millions and mil |
lions of dollars of goods, and some over |
sanguine young merchant is caught with q |
vast amount Of unstable goods that |
never will be salable again except at |
prices ruinously reduced. That young
merchant with . somewhat limited cap4-
tai Is In predicament. What shah the |
old merchants do as they see that young |
man In this awful cxidis2 Dfb thn4 |
hands and laugh and say. f4Ef6od k0g |
him.. He might have known better.
When he has been In business as long as |
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that way. Hal Hal he will burst up |
before long. He had no business to open |
his store 90 near to ours anyhow
Sheriffs salei Red flag In the win-
dowi "How much Is bid for these
out of the fashion spring overcoats
and spring hats or fall clothing out of
datep What do hear in the way Of
bid?" -Four dollars" Absurd, can
not take that bid Of four dollars apiece.
Why, these coats when first put upon
the market were offered at fifteen dol
lars each, and now Iam offered only four
dollars. Is that all2 Five dollars do l
hear2 Going at that! Gone at five dol
lars" and he takes the whole lot. The
young merchant goes home that night
and says to his wife: "Well, Mary, we
will have to move out of this house and
sell our piano. That old merchant that
has had an evil eye on me ever since
started has bought out all that
clothing, and he will have it re-
juvenated, and next year put it on
the market as now, while we will do well
if we keep out Of the poorhouse. The
young man, broken spirited, goes to hard
drinking. The young wife with her
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only is his store wiped out but his home,
his morals, and his prospects for two
worlds, this and the next. And devils
make banquet of fire and fill their cups
Of gall and drink deep to the health of
the old merchant who swallowed up the
young merchant who got stuck on spring
goods and went down. This is one way,
and some Of you have tried it.
But there Is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had mis-
calculated In laying in too many goods
of one kind and been flung of the un-
usual season, is standing behind the
counter feeling very blue and biting his
finger nails or looking over his account
books, which read darker and worse
every time he looks ut them and thinks
how his young wife will have to be put
in palmer house than she ever expected
to live il, or 60 to third rate boarding
house where they have tough liver and
sour bread five mornings out of the
seven. An old merchant comes in and
says: "Well, Joe, this has been hard
season for young merchants, and this
prolonged cool weather has put many
in the doldrums, and / have
been thinking of you a good
deal of late, for just after ] started
in business once got into the same
scrape. Now if there is anything can
do to help you out will gladly do it.
Better just put those goods out of sight
| for the present, and next season we will
plan something about them. will help
you to some goods that you can sell for
me on commission, and I will go down
| to one of the wholesale houses and tell
them that know you and will back you
up, and IL you want few dollars to
bridge over the present can let you
have them. Be as economical as YOU
can, keep a stiff upper lip and remember
that you have two friends, God and my
self. Good morning.' The old merchant
goes away and the young man goes behind
his desk and the tears roll down his
cheeks 1t is the first time he has cried.
Disaster made him mad at everything,
and mad at man and mad at God. But
this kindness melts him, and the tears
seem to relieve his brain, and his spirits
rise from ten below zero to eighty in the
shade, and he comes out of the crisis.
And about three years after, this young
merchant goes into the old merchant S
store and says: "Well, my old friend, l
was this morning thinking over what
you did fo- me three years ago. You
helped me out Of an awful crisis in NJ
commercial history. I learned wisdom
and prosperity has come, and the pallor
has gone out of my wife's cheeks, and
the roses that were there when courted
her in her fathers house have bloomed
again, and my business is splendid, and
thought I ought to let you know that
you saved a MANI In short time
after, the old merchant who had been a
good while shaky in his limbs and had
poor spells, is called to leave the world,
and one morning after he had read the
twenty-third Psalm, about ''The Lord is
my shepherd" he closes his eyes on this
world, and an angel who had been for
many years appointed to watch the old
mans dwelling cries upward the news
that the patriarch's spirit is about ascend
ing. And the twelve angels who keep
the twelve gates Of heaven unite in cry
ing down to this approaching spirit of
the old man: ssCome in at any of the
twelve gates you choose! Come in and
welcome, for 1t has been told all over
these celestial neighborhoods that you
saved man."
There sometimes come exigencies in
the life of a woman. One morning
about two years ago saw in the news
paper that there was young woman In
New York whose pocketbook containing
thirty seven dollars and thirty three
cents had been stolen and she had been
left without farthing at the beginning
Of winter In a strange city, and no work.
And although she was a stranger, did
not allow the 0 o'clock mail to leave the
lamp post ON our corner without carry.
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