Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-14

W AhtAB WV eAAsca - $1,000
would such an attorney have received as
his fee for such an Advocacy Nothing
in dollars, but much every way in a happy
consciousness that would make his W
life brighter and his own dying pillow
sweeter and his own heaven happier
the consciousness that he had saved a
mani
So there are commercial ~exigencies. A
very late spring obliterates the demand
for spring ~overcoats and spring hats and
spring apparel of all sorts. Hundreds Of
thousands Of people say: ut seems we
are going to have no spring and we shall
90 straight out Of winter into warm
weather, and we can get along without
the usual spring attire" Or there is no
autumn weather, the heat p~lunging into
the cold, and the usual clothing which
is a compromise between summer and
winter is not required. 1t makes a diff
ference in the sale of millions and mil
lions of dollars Of goods, and some over
sanguine young merchant is caught with a
vast amount of unstable goods that
never will be salable again except at
prices ruinously reduced. That young
merchant with n somewhat limited CAPT
tai is in a predicament. What shall the
old merchants do as they see that young
man in this awful crisis9 Rub their
hands and laugh and say: Good for
him. He might have known better.
When he has been in business rs long as
we have, he will not load his shelves ia
that way. Ha. Ha! He will burst up
before long. lie had no business to open
his store o neal TO ours anyhow
Sheriff's sale! Red flag in the win
dow: ''How much is bid for these
out Of the fashion spring overcoats
and spring hats or fall clothing out Of
date; What do hear in the way If n
bid?'' -Four dollars" Absurd, | can
not take that bid Of four dollars apiece.
Why, these coats when first put upon
the market were Offered at fifteen dol
lars each, and now | am offered only four
dollars. Is that all! Five dollars do /
hearl 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
will have 10 move out of this house and
sell our piano. That old merchant that
has had an evil eye on Inc ever since
l started has bought out all that
clothing. and he will have it re-
%juyenated. 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, broken spirited, goes tohard
drinking. The Young wife with her
baby goes 10 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 a 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. This is one way,
and some Of you have tried it.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had mis-
calculated in laying in too many goods
Of one kind and been flung of the I'M
usual 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 a palmer house than she ever expected
to live in or 60 TO a third rate boarding
house where they have tough liver and
sour bread five mornings out Of the
seven. An old merchant in and
says: ''Well, Joe, this has been a hard
eason 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 | II C got into the same
scrape. Now if there is anything | can
do TO help you out | will gladly do il.
Better just put those goods out Of sight
for the present, and mex season We will
plan something about them. ] will hell
You to some goods that YOU can sell fGl
me on commission, and / will go down
to one Of the wholesale houses and tel
them that | know you and will back you
up, and il you want a few dollars &c
bridge over the present | can let you
have them. BE as economical as you
can, keep a stiff upper lip and remember
that YOU have two friends, God and my.
self. Good morning. The old merchant
goes away and the young man goes behind
his desk and the tears roll down hi:
cheeks. II is the first time lie has cried.
Disaster made him mad at everything
and mad at man and mad at God. Blu.
this kindness melts him, and the tear
seem 10 relieve his brain, and his spirit
rise from ten below zero to eighty in tn,
shade, and he comes out Of the crisis
And about three years after, this young
merchant goes into the old merchant
store and says: well, my old friend,
was this morning thinking over wha
you did 70: me three years ago. Yol
helped me out Of an awful crisis in IN,
commercial history. l learned wisdom
and prosperity has come, and the PABLO
has gone out Of my wife's checks, ant
the roses that were there when I courtet
her in her fathers house have bloomeC
again, and my business is splendid, and
thought ] ought to let you know tina
you saved a man. In n short tim
after, the old merchant who had been
good while shakr in his lmls and Ia.
poor spells, is called to leave the world
and one morning after he had read tn
twenty-third Psalm, about ''The Lord ]
my ahaubard ~ H., ,l,gos ht1 ,p.u ON fhi