West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-18

tfctOnRod cool weather has nut many In Tbs
uollruins; and have been thinking OF you a
Ia business 1 once got into Tho
Samo scrape. Now if there 4.
anything j can do 10 beip you out /
VIII gladly do ~ Better just put those goods
-S"n I'm st Slgne Tor the present aud next season
we wiz plan something about them. / will
help you TO some goods that YOU can sell for
mo on counmission, and / will 90 down to ono
9t the wholesale houses and tell them that /
Know yon and viii back you up and II you
1 can let you have them. Be as economical ne
you can, keep a stiff upper lip, and remember
that you have two friends, God n myself.
Good morningr' The old merchant goes
away the young man goes behind his
lex anu tne tears roll down his checks. IL
~ the first time he has cried. Disaster made
MN mad at everything, and mad at man
and mad at God But this Kindness melts
MN and the tears seem 30 relieve his brain,
ana ms 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. Tny 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 com
mercial history. Learned wisdom and pros
perity has come, and tho pallor has
gone out OF my wife's cheeks. and
the roses that were there when I
courtcd her in her fatherls house have
doomed again, and my business Is splendid,
n l thought l ought TO let you know that
you saved a manp' In a short time after,
the old merchant who had been a good while
shaky IN his limbs and had poor spells
Is called TO 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 oeen
TOT many years appointed TO watch the old
mans dwelling, cries upward the news that
tho patTiarch'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 tho old man: "Comefn
az any OF the twelve gates you choosel
Come in and welcome, for 10 has been told an
over these Celestial neighborhoods that you
saved n man,
There sometimes come exidencies in the
life OF a woman. One morning about two
years ago i saw in the newspaper that there
was a young woman i'm New York whose
pocketbook containing thirty-seven dollars
sna thlrty-three cents had been
out a farthing at the beginning Of
winter in a strange city, aud no work.
And although she was n stranger. / did
not allow tho nine o'clock mail to leave the
lampost on our corner without carrying the
thirty-seven dollars ahd thirty-three cents:
ana the case was proved genuine. Now /
nave read all ~Shakespeareis tragedies. and all
Victor Hugo's tragedies, aid ull Alex
ander Smiths tragediea but l never read
q tragedy more thrilling than that case,
and similar cases by the hundreds and
thousands IN all our large cities; young wo-
men without money and without home and
without work IN these great maelstroms of
metropolitan life. When such n case comea
under your observation, how do you traat iUl
Get out OF my way, we have no room IN our
establishment torany more hands. L don't be-
leVe In women anyway, they are a lazy, idle,
worthless set. John, pleaseshow this person ont
OF the door, Or do you compliment her per-
sonal appearance and say things 70 her which
II any man said 20 your sister or daughter
you would Kill him on the spotl That Is one
wayynnd it is tried every day i'm these large
cities, and many of those who advertise Tor
female hands in factoriesand for governesses
In families have proved themselves unfit 10
DC ~ a.ly H'ace outside OF hell.
But there Is another way. and / saw IL the
other day IN the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where q young woman applied
Tor work, and the gentleman i'm tone and
manner said in substance: "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 a place, and / hope you will be
successful in getting something to do.n The
embarrassed and Inundated woman seemed
TO give way 20 Christian, confidence. She
started out with n hopeful look that / think
must have won for her a place I'm which TO
earn her bread. i rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentlemen saved a
woman. New York n Brooklyn ground
up last year ahont 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, scOffed at and flung off
the ~precipice, not one hut. might nave been
saved for home and God and heaven. But
good men and good women arc not in that
kind OF business. Alas for that poor thingl
nothing but the thread OF that evening. efrTs
needle held her, and the thread broke. / have
heard men tell in public discourse whata
man Is, but what is n womanf Until some
one shall give n better definition Twill tell
you what q woman is. Direct from God. n
sacred and delicate gift with affections so
great that no measuring line short of that OF
the infinite God can tell their bound. Fash.
Toned TO refine and soothe and lift and
irradiate home and society aud the
one can appreciate it. unless his mother
lived lone enough to let him understand IL.
or VINO IN soiIe great crisis OF life when all
else failed him, had n wife 20 reinforce him
with a faith in God that nothing could dis.
turb. Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the
teet that rocked you and the anxious faces
that lowered over youi Speak out. We
nurseries OF all Christendom, and We homes,
whether desolate oristill IN full bloom with
the faces Of wife, mother and daughter, and
help mo to define what woman H. IL n man
during all MS NE accomplish nothing else
except 70 win the love and confidence aud
help and companionship OF a good woman,
he.s q ~gaTlauded victor and ought to have
the hands Of all the people between here and
the grave stretched out TO him in con
graduation.
But as geograpbers tell us that the depths
OF the sea correspond with the heights Of the
mountains, j ave 10 tell you that good
w~omunhOodl rs not higher up than bad woman
hoOt A. deep down. The grander the palaces,
the more awful tho co%niagr0tiou that destroys
&C. The grander the steamer Oregon, tho
moro terrible her going down Just of the
coast. Now ] should not wonder If YOU
trembled a little with a sense Of responsible
1ty when ] say that there Is hardly n person
IN this house hut may have an opportunity
TO sayea woman. it may, in your case, DO
done by good advice, or by financial help, OF
by trying TO bring TO bear some ona Of
q thousand Christian influences. You
would not have TO 90 far. IL,
FOR instance, you know among your
acquaintance q young woman who is
APT 70 appear on the streets about Che hour
when gentlemen return from business and
you find her responding 10 the smile Of entire
strangers, hogs shat lift their hat, 90 20 her
and plainly tell her Tint nearly all the do.
strOyed womanhood Of The world began the
downward path with that very kind of DO.
| havior.
Or II, for instance. you fni q woman en-
financial distress AMI breaking down in
health and spiritg trying 10 support her chill
dren, now That her husband Dr. dead or an im.
V9lid doing that worry important and honor
able work, but which is littlt appreciated,
Keeping q boarding housa. where ell the
guests, according ns they pay small
hnfrh or propose. without raying