Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-08

! to help that unfortunate. How much
would such an attorney hsva received Is
his fee for such an advocacy? n 3thlpg in
dollarf, but much every way in happy
consciousness that would make his own
life brighter AID his own dying pillow
sweeter aud Ills own hesven hsppier-ths
consciousness that be had saved man!
So there ere commercial exigencies. A
very late spring CELEBRATES the demand
for spring oveTcosts snd spring hats and
spring apparel CT all sorts. Hundreds Of
thousands Of people say: SIT seems We
are going TO have no spring and we shsll
60 straight out OF winter into warm
weather, and We can get sioLg 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
aud winter, is not required. 1t makes a
difference in the sale Of millions and mil
lions Of dollars OF goods, and some over
eanguiIe young merchant is caught with
O vast amount Of unssleable goods that
never will be saleable again except 6.
prices ruinously reduced. That young
merchant with somewhat limited capt.
tai Is
| IN PREDlCAMENT.
| What ahall the old merchants do as
they see that young man in this awful
crisis? Ruo theirhan and laugh and
say: GOOD fer him. He migh. have
known better. When he mas been IL bust
ness IS long as we have, he will not load
his shelves IN that wsy. Ha! Ha! He
will burst up before long. He had no
business to open his store 80 nekr to ours
anyhow" Saerit's sale, Red fisg in
the window: Glow much is bid for these
out-of-the fashion spring overcosts and
spring hats or fall clothing out CT dste !?
Whist 60 hesf in the way Of e bid?"
"Four dollars" "Aosurd, canrot take
that bid Of 81 apiece. Why,
these coats when first pu. upon the mar
ket were ofered at Sl5 each.
aud now 1 sn offered only 81
Is that all? Five dollaIs do heal? &C.
Ing at that! Gene 81 So" and
he takes the whole los. The young mer-
chant goes home that night Gid says to
his wife: "Well. Mary, We will have to
move or. Of his house and sell our piano.
That old merchant that mas had an evil
eye on me ever since | started has bought
out all toas clothing, and he will have it
re1nvensted, and mex! year put il on the
We keep out Of the poor-house." TIE
young map, hroken.spirited, goes to hard
drinking. Cne young wife with her baby
goes to her fasher'5 house, and not only is
MS store wlpec out but his home, his
morals, AID his prospects for two
worlds, this and the nexG. And devils
make banquet OF fire end fill their cups
Of gall and drink deep to the health of
mar ro1 JNn Ifry CAa
young merchant who go. stuck On spring
goods and went down. That Is one way
and some CT you have tried it.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who FUND that he had mlscal-
culsted in laying in too many goods CT
one kind aud been flung Of the unueual
ssssop, is standing behind the counter
FEELING VERY BLUE
and biting MS tinger-nalls or looking
over his account books, which read darker
and worse every time he locks at them,
end thinks how his young wife will haye
to be put in a palmer house than she ever
expected to live in or TO go to third
rate boarding house where they have
tough llvec and sour bread five mornings
out of the seven. An old merchant comes
in and says: "Well, Joe, this hiss been
hard season for young merchants, a1d
this prolonged cool weather has pu.
many in the doldrums, and | have been
thinking CT you 8 good deal of late, for
just after started in business once got
into the same scIape. Now if there is
anything can do TO help you GU. will
gladly do 1t. Better Just pu. those goods
out Of sight for the present .snd next ses.
son we will plan something about them.
l will help you to some goods that you
can sell for me on commi sion, and will
go down to one Of the wholesale houses
and tell them that l know you and viii
back you up, and If you wsnt q few dol
lars to bridge over the present 1 can let
you have them. Be Is economical as you
can, keep stiff upper lip and remember
that you have two friends, God and my
self. G BOD morning." The old merchant
goes away and the young man goes behind
his desk and the rexrs roll down his
cheeks. It is the first time he has cried,
disaster msde him mad at everything,
and mad at man and mad at God. Bu.
this kindness melts him, and the tears
seem to relieve MS brain, and his spirits
rise from len below sro TO eighty IL the
shade, and he comes out CT the crisis. And
about three years after, this young
merchant goes injo the old merchants
store and Gays: "WelI, my old friend, l
was this morning thinking over what you
did for me three years ego. You helped
me out Of
AN AWFUL CRISIS
in ny commercial history. 1 learned
wisdom and pros 2erity has come,
and the pallor has gene cut Of my wile's
cheeks, eud the roses that were there
when courted her in her fsthel's house
have bloomed agsin, snd my business is
splendid, and l thought l ought TO let
you know that you saved D msn!" In q
short time sitter, the old merchant who
had been good while shaky in his lin %
and hsd poor spells is called to leave the
world, and one morning after he had
read the tWeaty-third Psalm about "The
Lord is my Sheperd," be closes his eyes
on this worlc, and an spgel who had been
Ter many years appointed to watch the
old mans dwelling cries upward the
news that the patrlarch,s spirit is about
ascending. AID the twelve angels who
keep the twelve gates of heaven unite in
crying down to this approaching spirit of
the old man: "Come 10 at any CT the
twelve gates you choose! Come IN and
welcome, for 1t hiss been told oil ever
these Celestial neightorhoods thst you
have saved man."
There sometimes come eXigepcies in |
the life OF woman. One morning about |
two years SGD saw in the newspaper
thst /. there WAS young wo-
msn in New York whose pocket
book tontsinlng S37 SO had been
q nj cho 4 sakk