Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-08

OI-Lne-IaSnlOn spring OVeTcOdJs anu SpFlH
hats or fall clothing out of dates What d
hear in the way of bidf' "Four do
lars.'' absurd, can not take that bid o
four dollars apiece. Why, these coats whel
first put upon the market were offered a
fifteen dollars each, and now / am offere'
only four dollars. Is that ala Five dollar
do heart Going at that Gone at five dol
lars,n and he takes the whole lot. Tn
young merchant goes home that night AM
says to his wife: ''Wei, Mary, we vii
have to move out of this hous'
and sell our piano. That old merchan
that has had an evil eye on me
ever since | started has bought out all tina
clothing, and he will have it reiuvenated
and next year put it on the market as new
while we will do well if we keep out. Of the
poorhouse" The young man, brokenspir
ited 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 prospect;
for two worlds, this and the next. And the
devils make a banquet of fire and fill theiI
cups of gall and drink deep to the health oil
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 miscal-
cuated in laying in too many goods of one
kind and being flung of the unusual season
is standing behind the counter feeling very
blue and biting his iinger-nail or looking
over his account books, which read
darker and W rise every time he looks at
them, and thinks how his young wife will
have 10 be put IN a palmer house than she
ever expected TO live in or go TO third-rate
boarding house where they have tough liver
and sour bread five mornings out of the
seven. An old merchantcomes 10 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 scraps. Now II
there is any thing | 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. ] win help you to some
goods that YOU can sell for me on commits
sion, and will 90 down to one Of the whole
sale 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 a stif upper lip, ana remem-
Der you have two friends, God and myself.
Good morningV' The old merchant goes
away. and the young man goes behind his
desk. and the tears roll down his cheeks. II
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. aud the tears seem 10
relieve his brain, and his spirits rise from
ten degrees below zero TO eighty degrees in
the shade, and he comes out of the crisis.
Aud about three years after, this young
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 were there
when courted her in her fathers house
have bloomed again, and my business
Is splendid. aud ! thought | on 1ht to let
you know that you saved a manm In a
short time after, the old merchant who had
been a good while shalSY in his limbs and
had poor spells is called to leave. the world,
and one morning after he had read the
.wenty-third psalm, "The Lord Is my shep
lerd,n he closes his eyes on this world, and
IN angel who had been for many years APP
pointed TO watch the old mans dwelling
,ries upward the news that the patriarch's
pirit is about ascending And the twelve
who keep the twelve gates Of Heaven
mite in crying down to this approaching
,pirit of the old man: "C0me in al any Of
hetwelve gates YOU choosel Come in ana
for it has been told all over these
CELESTIAL neighborhoods that you saved a
man,
But there is another way, and saw 1t the
,ther day in the Methodist Book Concern
n New York, where young woman ap
,lied for work, and the gentleman in tone
md manner said In substance: MY daugh-
er. we employ women here, but | do not
NOW of any vacant place in our depart /
nent You had better inquire at such and |
uch a place and hope you will be success
u in getting something to do.n The EN-.
,arrassed and Inundated woman seemed to |
rive way to Christian confidence. She /
tarted out with hopeful look that think |
must have won for her place in which to |
arm her bread.
There sometimes come exigencies in the /
lie of woman. One morning about two |
ears ago saw in the newspaper that there /
vas young woman in New York whose /
pocketbook, containing 1913, had been sto- /
len, and she had been left without farthing /
L the beginning OF a winter in a strange 4
ity, and no work. And although she was /
tranger, l did not ALLOW the nine o'clock 4
nail to leave the lamp-post on our corner /
Without carrying the 1913 and the case /
vas proved genuine. Now, have read all 1
tragedies and all Victor
Iugo's tragedies and all Alexander Smiths
ragedies, but / never read tragedy more
hrilling than that case, and similar cases
Y the hundreds and thousands in all our
lrge cities; young women without money
nd without home aud without work in
hese great maelstroms of metropolitan
fe. When such a case comes under
our observation, how do you treat it. Get
ut Of my way. we have no room in our
for any more hands / don't
elieve in women anyway, they are lazy,
lie, worthl ess set. John, please show this
erson out of the door" Or do you com
liment her personal appearance, and say
lings to her which il any man said to your
ster or daughter you would kill HIN on
ne spotl That is one way. and it is tried