The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-08

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e DDS that never will be saable again ex
cept at price, ruinously reduced. That youn.
merchant, with somewhat limited capital
is IN a predicament. What s. all the OLE
merchants do as they see that young man IL
isawful crisisl Rub their hands and lau 81
and say: "Good for him. He might hav'
known better When he has been in bust
ness as long as we have, he will not load his
shelves in that way. Ha! Hal he will
burst up before long He had no business
to open his store so near to ours anyhow.
Sheriff S sale Red flag in the window
Chow much is bid for these out-of-the-fash-
ion spring overcoats and spring hats, or fal
clothing out of date! What do l hear il
the way of a bidg" -Four dollars "Ab-
surd, cannot take that bid of four dollars
apiece. Why, these coats when first put
upon the market we're offered at fifteen dol
lars EACH and now ! am offered only four
dollars. Is that all! Five dollars do
hear! Going at that! Gone at five dol
lars" and he takes the whole lot. The
Young merchant goes home that night and
saws to his wife: "Well, Mary, we VIII
have to move ont of this house
and SILL our piano That old
merchant that has had an evil eye on me
ever since l started has bought out all that
clothing, and he will have il rejuvenated, and
uext year put it on the market as new,
while we will do well if we keep out of the
poor house" The young man, broken
spirited, goes to hard drinking. The young
wife with her baby 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 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. That IS one way,
and some Of you have tried it,
But there is another way. That Young
merchant who found that he had miscalcu-
lated in laying in too many goods of one
kind and been ruined by 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 at them and
thinks how his young wife will have to be
put in palmer house than she ever ex-
pected to live in,or go to a third-rate board
ing-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 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
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 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
that you have two friends, God and myself
Good morningm 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
merchants store and says: "Well,
my old friend. was this
morning thinking over what you did for
me three years ago. You helped me out of
an awful crisis in my commercial history
learned wisdom and prosperity has come,
and the pallor has gone out of my wife's
cheeks, and the roses that we're there when
1 courted her in her fathers house have
bloomed again, and my business is splendid
and | thought ought TO let you know that
you saved manp In a short time after
Ju6 Olu Hl6TCQdQl, VINO DdQ D6en q 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 closed his eyes on this world and an
angel who had been for many years ap-
pointed to watch the old mans dwelling
cries upward the news that the patriarch'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: Come in at any Of
the twelve gates you choosel Come in and
welcome, for it has been told all over these
celestial neighbJrnoods that you saved a
man.
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life OF woman. One morning about two
years ago | saw in the newspaper that there
was q 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 a stranger, did
allow the nine o'clock mail to leave the
lamp post on our corner without CARRYING
the thirty-seyen dollars and thirty-thr g
cents; and the case was proved genuine.
Now | have read all Shakespeare's TRACE
dies and all Victor Hugos tragedies and all
Alexander Smiths tragedies, but / never
read q tragedy more thrilling than that
case, and similar cases by the
hundreds and thousands in ali
our large cities; young women
without money and without home and with
out work i'll these great maelstroms of met
ropolitan life When such a case comes
under your observation, how do you treat
it! "Get out of my way, we have no room
in our establishment for any more hands
don't believe i'll women anyway, they are
lazy idle, worthless set. John, please
show this person out Of the door, Or do
you compliment her personal appearance
and say things to ner which if any man said
to your sister or daughter you would Kill
him on tie spot. That is one way, and it is
tired every day in these large cities, and
many of those who advertise for female
hands in factories and for governesses in
families have proved themselves unfit to be
in any place outside of hell
But there is another way, and saw it the
other day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where a Young woman applied
for work and the gentleman in tone and
manner said in substance: MY daughter
we employ women here, but do lot know
of any vacant place in our department.
You had better inquire at such and such a
place, and | hope you will be successful in
getting something 20 do" The emba ras sed
and Inundated woman seemed to give way
TO christian confidence. She started out with
"a hopeful lock that think must have won
for her place in which TO earn her bread
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