The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-18

cups OF gail ana drink deep 10 tne neoitn OF
the old merchant who swallowed no the
young merchant who got stuck on spring
goods and went down. That IL one way and
some Of you have tried IL.
But there IL another wav. That young
merchant who found that he had miscalcu-
lated in laying in too many goods OF one
kind and been flung OF the unusual 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 ct
will have to be put in palmer house
than she ever, eN,a"ted In live in.
on 20 To n .niri rate boarding house where
they have tough liver and sour bread five
mornings out OF the seven An old merchant
q hard season for young merchants, and this
prolonged cool weather has put many in the
doldrums. and / have been thinking of Won
good deal ~ late, for just after | started
in business 1 once got into the
anything 1 can do to help you out l
VIII 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 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 20 bridge over the present
can let you have them BE as economical as
you can. keep stiff upper lin, and remember
that you have two friends, God and myself.
Good morning!' The old merchant goes
away and the young man goes behind his
desk and the tears rol down his cheeks. IL
is the first time he has cried. Disaster made
him mad at everything. anl mad at man
and mad &c God But this Kindness mel,s
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 tho crisis. And about three years
after. this young merchant goes into the old
merchants store and says: "Wel. my old
fricud. | was this morning thinking over
what You did for me three years ago. You
helped mo out Of an awful crisis in my COM
mercal history learned wisdom and pros.
perity has come, and the palior has
gone out OF my wife's checks, and
the roses that were there when
courted her in her fatheris house have
bloomed again. and my business is splendid,
md thought | ought to lot You know that
you saved n inanm In short time after,
the old merchant who had been II good while
shaky in his limbs and hal poor spells
il callel tn leave the world and one
morning after he hal read the twenty.
third Psalm about "The Lord is NV
Shepherd" he closes his eyes on this
world, and an angel who had neen
for many years appointed TO watch She old
mans dwelling, cries upward th, news that
the patriarchs spirit is about ascending
And the twelve angels who keep the twelve
gates of heaven unite in crying down To this
approaching spirit of tho old man; Come in
ut any of the twelve gates you choose!
Come in and welcome for 10 has been told all
over these Celestial neighborhoods that you
saved n man.
There sometimes como exgences in the
life of woman. One morning about two
years ago saw in the newspaper that there
was n young woman IN New York whose
pocketbook containing thirty seven dollars
stolen and she had been left with
out farthing at the beginning of
winter in n strange city, aud no work.
And although she was stranger / did
not allow the ninc o'clock mail 10 leave the
lampoSt on our corner without carrying tho
thirty-sevcn dollars and thrty-three cents:
and the case was proved genuine. Now
have read all ShaEespeare's tragedies and all
Victor Hugo's tragedies, aud all Alex
ander Smiths tragedies but ] never read
tragedy more thrilling than that case,
and similar cases 10y tho hundreds ana
thousands in all our large cities; young wo-
men without money and without home AMI
without work in these great maelStroms of
metropolitan life. Whom such case comes
under your observation, how do you treat III
Get out of my way We have no room in our
establishment for any more hands. | don't loo.
lievc IN women anyway, they arc lazy, idle
worthless set. John, please show this person ont
of the door Or do you compliment her per.
sonal appearance and say th ngs to her which
II any man said TO your sister or daughter
you ould kill him on the spot? That is one
way, and 1t is tried every day in these large
clte',, and many of those who advertise for
female hands ~ factories and for governeSses
in families havn proved themselves unfit to
-.is. s..4S su~s.dc Oi he'll.
But there is another way. and saw it the
other day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where n young woman applied
for work, and the gentleman in tone and
manner said in substances My daughter, we
employ women here. but | do not know of
any vacant place in our department
You had better inquire at such and
such place, and l hope YOU will be
successfu in getting something to do.n The
embarrassed and Inundated woman seemed
TO give way to Christian confidence She
started out with hopeful look that | think
must have won for her "a place I'm which to
earn her bread. | rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentlemen saved
woman. New York and Brooklyn ground
up last year about thirty thousand
young women, and would like to grind
up about as many this year. Out OF all
that long procession of women who march
on with no hope for this world or the next
battered. bruised, sco.ied at and flung Off
the precipice, not one but might have been
saved for home and God and heaven, But
! good men and good women are not in that
kind of business. Alas for that poor thing
nothing but the thread Of that evening girl =
! needle held her, and the thread broke. / have
heard men tell in public discourse what "A
man l., but what is woman: Until some
one shall give n hetter definition | will tell
! you what a woman is Direct from God, a
sacred and delicate gift with affections 50
| great that no measuring line short of that of
| the infinite God can tell their bound. Fash
| ioned to refine and soothe and lift and
| irradiate home and society and the
world. or such value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
| lived lone enough Ia let him understand it.
| on VINO IN s....s great crisis of life when All
else failed him. had n wife 10 reinforce INN
/ with faith IN God that nothing could dis
! t1rb. Speak out, yo cradles, and tell of the
feet that rocked you and the anxious faces
that lowered over you! Speak out, We
nurseries Of all Christendom. and We homes
whether desolate or still IN full bloom with
the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and
! help mo 10 define what woman Is. If "a man
! during all his lite accomplish nothing else
except TO win the love and confidence aud
| help and companionship Of a good woman,
| he Is IA garlanded victor and ought to have
| the hands of all the people between here and
tho grave stretched out to him in con
| graduation.
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