Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-12

90 straight out Of win er into warm
weatner, eId we csn get along without |
tue usual spring attire" Or there is no |
autumn weather, the heat plunging |
into The cold, and the usual clothing, |
winch IS compromise between summer
ana winter, Is net required. 1t makes . |
ulfsrence in the sale of millions and mil
Mons CT dollars OF goods, and some over
esrgulne young merchant is caught with
vast amount OF uasalesble goods that
never will be sslesbls again except q.
p ices rufnously reduced. Thst young
merchant with somewhat limited capt.
tails
INA PaEDIcAMENT.
What shall the old merchants do as
they see that yourg man in this awful
crisis? Ruo their hands and lsugh and
say: GOOD for lin. He might have
known better. When he has been ii bust
ness as long So We have, he will not load
bis shelves iu thst way. rs! Ha! He
Will burst up before long. He had no
business to open his store SO near to ours
anyhow" Saerif's sale! Red flag in
the window: Glow much is bid for these
ut-cf-the-f.shion spring Cveccoats and
sp;ipg hats or fsll clothing ont OF OATS?
Wnat CO near 10 the wsy OF g bid!"
"Four dollars" "Absurd, I cannot take
that bid of 81 apiece Why,
these costs when first put upon the mar
ket We're offered st SIS each,
and now an ofered only 81
Is that oil? Five dollars Go heal? Co.
ing st that! Gone st S5," sgd
he takes the whole lot. TIE young mer-
chant goes hGme that night and says 10
his wife: "Well, Mary, We will hsve tc
move ont Of this house and sell cur piano.
That cid merchant hat has had al ey!!
eye on me ever since / started has bought
out 81 s2st clothing, and he vii hAV3 i.
rejuvensted, and lexs yesr put II on tne
market as Few, while we Will do well II
W. Keep cut CT the poor-hcuse." The
Ycung man, broken-spi tied, goes to hard
drinking. The young wife with Ter oaGY
goes to ner fathers house, and not only Is
his store wIpcd ont but his home, his
morals, AID his prospects f0f two
worlds, this snd the mex. And devils
make banquet of fire and fl their cups
of gEll and drink deep TO the heslIh OF
the old merchant who swallowed up tie
young merchani who got suck en- spring
goods and went down. That is one way
End some Of you have tried It.
BIT there is smother Wsy. That young
merchant who fund that he had nlIscal-
culated in laying in too many goods CT
| one kind and been flung CT the UNUSUAL
seasor, is standing behind the connter
FEELING VERY BLUE
} and biting mis- finger nsiis or looking
over his account books, which read darker
and worse every time he looks at them,
end thinks how his young wife will haYe
| TO be put in palmer house than she ever
expected to live IN or to 60 10 third
! rate boarding house where they have
Snugh liver and sour bread five mornings
cus " the seven. An old merchant comes
in snd Says: "Well, Joe, this has been c
hard season for young merchants, a1d
this PROLONGED cool weather has pu'
many 10 the doidrums, and have been
thinking Of you s9od deal Of late, fol-
jlss at;er 1 started Ia h1sioess l once got
into the same sclape. Now if there is
anything can do to help ycNu GU. Will
gladly do it. Better just pu! fSose goods
out of sight for the present and M sea
son we will plan something about !heGf-
l will help you to some goods that you
can ssll for me on commi sion, and will
go down to one of the wholesale houses
and tell them that know you and will
back you up, and IL you want 8 few dol
| lars to bridge over The present l can let
you have them. Be as economical as you
car, keep stin upper LID and remember
that you have two friends, God and my
| self. G )od morrine!" The old merchsn.
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 everything,
and mad st man and mad st God. But
this kindness melts him, and the tesrs
seem to relieve mis- brain, and his spirits
| rise from Ten below z9To to eighty II the
shade, and he comes out CT the crisis. And
about three years after, this young
merchant goes into the old merchants
store End esys: "Well, my old friend, l
IVES this morning thinking over what you
did tor me three years ago. You helpad
me cut Of
AN AWFUL CRISIS
| 10 my commercial history. l learned
wisdom aud pres perity hss come,
cheeks, and thsshSsses that Sxere there
when l courted her in her fataar's house
nave bloometSgsin, sts1 MY Bu siness is
splendid, aud Ithougds ought to let
y5u know that You; sxysd mani" Ia c
shost time sitter, the Gid merchant who
Rsd been good while shaky i'm his limos
and had poor spells is called to leave tie
| world. and one morning sitter he had
read the twsa,y third Psalm about "The
Lord is my Sheperd," he closes bis eyes
on this woEif, and en- angel who had been
for many years appointed to watch the
old mans dwelling cries upwsrd the
news HAT the patrisrch,s spirit is about
ascendipg. And the twelve angels who
keep the twelve gates CT heaven unite in
crying down to this approaching spirit of
| the old man: "Come 10 at any OF the
twelve gates you choose! Come In and
welcome, for i. has been told ell over
these Celestial neighborhoods that you
hsve saved 5 man"
There sometimes come exigencies il
the life OF woman. One morning about
two years ago l saw In the newspaper
that there was o young wo
man IN New York whose pocket
book containing S97 SO had been
stolen and she hsd been left without s.
iarthing at the beginning Of winter in q
strange city, and no work. And although
she was stranger, did not allow the 8
o'clock mail to leave the lamp post on
our corner without Carrying the 1877 SO !;
| have read sill Shskespere's tragedies and
ander Smiths Irsge dies, but never read
q tragedy more thrilling than that csse,
and similar cases by the hundreds ana
thousands in all our large cities;
YOUNG WOMEN WITHOUT MONEY
and without home and without work in
these great maelstroms Of metropolitan