The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-19

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baby goe. to her fathers house, and not
only is hi, store wiped out but his home,
his morals and his prospects for two
worlds; this and the next And devils
make banquet of fire aud 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 miscal-
cuiated in laying in too many goods of
one kind and been flung of the unusual
season, is standing behind the counter and
feeling very blue and biting his finger
nails or looking over his account books,
which read darker and worse every time
he looks atthem, 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 q
third-rate boarding house where they
have tough liver and sour bread seven
mornings out of the seven. An old
merchant comes in and saws: swell,
Joe, this has been a 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 I
started in business once got into the same
scrape. Now il there is any thing can
do TO help you out will gladly do it. Bet
ter just put these goods out 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
commission, and will go down to one of
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know you and will back YOU up, and il YOU
want few dollars to bridge over the pres
ent l can let you have them. Be as eco
nomical as you can, keep a stiff upper lip
and remember that 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 cheeks. It is the first
time hs has cried. Disaster made him mad
At every thing. and mad at man and mad
at God. Eut 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, aud he comes out Of the crisis.
And about three years after this young
merchant goes into the old merchants
store and says: Wei. 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 CONNER
cial history. l learned wisdom and pros
perity has come, and the pallor
have gone out of my wife's cheeks, and
the roses that were there when l courted
her in her fathers house have bloomed
again, and nv business is splendid. and
thought | ought to let YOU know that YOU
saved a mani" In short time after the
old merchant, who had been good while
shaky in his limbs and had poor spells, is
called to leave the world. and one morn
ing after he had read the twenty-third
psalm about "The Lord is nv Shepherd"
he closes 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 ap-
preaching spirit of the old man. Come in
at any of the twelve gates You choose.
Come il and welcome, for it has been told
all over these celestial neighbor hoods that
you saved a man."
There sometimes comes exigeucies in the
life of a woman. One morning about two
years ago saw in the newspaper that
there was q young woman in New York
whose pocketbook, containing S37.53, had
been stolen and she had been left without
a farthing at the beginning of winter in a
strange city, and no work. And, although
she was a stranger. l did not allow the
nine O'Clock mail to leave the lamp post at
our corner without carrying the SSI.33;
and the case was proved genuine. Now. l
have read all Shakespeare's tragedies and
all Victor Hugo's tragedies aud all Alex
ander Smiths tragedies, but never read
a tragedy more thrilling than that case,
and similar cases by the hundreds and thou
sands in all our large cities; young wom-
en- without money and without home and
without work in these great maelstroms OF
life. When such a case
comes under your observation how do you
treat it: .'Get out of nv way. we have no
room in our establishment for any more
hands. l don't believe in women, any
way; they are a lazy, idle, worthless set.
John, please show this person out of the
door" Or do you compliment her per-
sonal appearance and say things to her
which if any man said to your sister or
daughter you would kill him on the spot.
That is one way and it is tried every day
in these large cities, and many of those
who advertise for female hands in facto-
ries and for goveruesses in families have
proved themselves unfit to be in any place
outside OF hell.
But there is another way and l saw it
the other day in the Methodist book con-
Germ in New York, where a young woman
applied for work and the gentleman in
tone and manner said in substance: NV
daughter, We employ women here, but l
10 not know of any vacant place in our
department. You had better inquire at
such and such place and hope you will
De successful in getting something to do"
The embarrassed and Inundated woman
seemed 70 give way TO Christian conf
ience. She started out with hopeful
ook that think must have won for her
place in which TO earn her bread. rather
think that considerste and Christian gen.
tleman saved a woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about 81. 100
women and would like TO grind up about
is many this year. Out OF all that long
of women who marched on
With no hope for this world or the next.
ard bruised and scoffed at
-au NoHs OA t-e PAeSip4Se, not one
but might hare been saved for
home and God and Heaven. But good men
md good women are not in that kind Of
business Alas for that poor thing, moth
n but the thread OF that sewing girls
isedle held her and the thread broke. /
lave heard men tell in public discourse
What a man is, but what is woman: IN
II some one shall give better definition
VII tell you what a woman is Direct
rom God, a sacred and delicate gift with
affections so great that no measuring line
hort Of that of the infinite God can tell
heir bound Fashioned to refine and
oothe and lift and irradiate home and So
.iety and the world OF such value that
10 one can appreciate it unless his mother
ivei long enough to let him understand it, |
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