The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-18

that bid of four dollars apiece. Why,
these coats when first put upon the mar
ket were offered at fifteen dollars
each. and now I am offered only
four dollars. Is that all? Five
dollars do I heari Going at thatl
Gone at five dollars l"and takes the whole
lot. The young merchant goes home that
night and says &c his wife: "Well, Mary.
we will have to move out of this house and
cell our piano. That~eh merchant that
has had an evil eye. On fde ever since l
started has bought out all that clothing,
and he will have II rejuvenated and next
year put II on the market as new, while
we will do well TO keep out of the poor
house" The young man, broken-spir-
tied, goes TO hard drinking. The young
wife with her babe goes to her fathers
house, and not only is his store wiped
out, but his home, his morals and his
prospects for two worlds, this and the
next. And devils make n banquet of fire
and fill their cups of gall and drink deep
to the health Of the old merchant, who
swallowed mp the young merchant who
got stuck on spring goods and went down.
That is one way, and so ne of you have
tried it,
But there Is another way That young
culatcd in laying in too many goods of
one kind. and been fl ung 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 ut them, and thinks how his
young wife will have to put up in
palmer house than she ever expected to
1--we in, or go to third rate boarding
house, whore they have tough liver and
sour bread Ave mornings cut of the
seven. An old merchant comes in and
saws: "Well, Joe, this has been hard
season for young merchants, end this
prolonged cool weather has put many in
thu doldrums. aud have been thinking
o. You good deal of late, for just after
started in business | once got into the
same sCrape Now, if there is any thing
can do to help Won ont Twill gladly
d. it. Better just put those goods
our 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 COM
mission, and | will go down to one of the
Wholesale houses and tell them that
know YOU and will back You mp, ana if
you want few dollars to bridge over the
present can let you have them. Be as
economical as you can, keep stiff upper
lip and remember 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
roll down his checks. 1t is the first time
he has cried. Disaster made him mad at
every thing, and mad at man and mad at
God. But this kindness melts him, and
tie 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 merchants store and says: "Well,
my old friend, l was this morning think
ing OYER what you did for me three years
ago. You helped me out of an awful
crisis in my commercial history. l
learned wisdom, and prosperity has
come. and the pallor has gone out Of my
Vife's cheeks, and the roses that were
there when courted her in her fathers
house have doomed again, and my BUSH
ness Is splendid, and thought I ought
to let you know that you saved q manW
In short time after, the Old merchant
who had been good while shady In h is
limbs and had poor spells, is called to
after lie had read the twenty third Psalm
about 1.-THE Lord is my shepherd" he
closes his eyes on this world, and an
angel who had been for many years APP
pointed to watch the Old mans dwelling
cries upward the news that the pat
riarch's spirit is about ascending. And
the twelve angels who keep the twelve
gates of Heaven unite in crying down to
this approaching spirit of the old man:
"Cume in at any OF the twelve gates you
choose! Come in an welcome, for it has
been told all over these celestial neigh
bOrhoOds that you saved o man"
| have heard men tell in public dis
course what man is. but what is wOm-
an? Until some one shall give better
definition | will tell you what woman is,
Direct from God a sacred ana delicate
gift with affections so great that no
measuring line short of that of the in
finite God can tell their bound; fashioned
to refine and sOothe and lift and IT.
radiate home and society and the world.
OF such value that no one can appreciate
it, unless his mother lives long enough to
let him uud erstand it, or who in some
great crisis of life when all else failed
him, had a wife to reinforce him with
faith in God that nothing could disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell OF the feet
that rocked you and the anxious faces
that lowered over you! Speak out, We
nurseries of all Christeudom, and ye
homes, whether desOlate or still in full
bloom with the faces of wife, mother and
daughter, and help me to d efne what
woman is. If q man during all his life
accomplished nothing else except to win
the love and confidence and help and
companionship OF a good woman he is a
garlanded victor, aud ought to have the
hands OF all people between here an d the
grave stretched out to him in cOngratula-
ton.
But, as geographers tell us that the
depths Of the sea correspond with the
heights of the mountains, | have to tell
you that good womanhOod is not higher
up than bad womanhOod is deep down
The grander the palace the more awful
| the Confa9ratlon that destroys it. The
grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down just off the coast
| Now, | should not wonder if you trembled
a little with q sense Of responsibility
! when l say that there is hardly a person
| in this house but may have an OppOrtun-
| ity to save woman. Itmay in your case
be done by good advice, or by financial
help, or by trying the bring to bear some
one Of a thousand Christian influences.
IOu would not have to go far If, for in =
| stance, yOu know among your acquaint
ances young woman who IS apt to APP
| pear on the streets about the hour when
| gentlemen return from business, and you
| find her responding to the smile of entire
| straugers-hog5 that lift their hats-gO to
| her and plainly tell her that nearly all