Milford chronicle., 1888-10-12

anu HOW dlAl OutIt4 ollg A1uE u1AlaAns -
that ala Five dollars do heart Going at
thatl Gone at five dollars" and he takes the
whole lot. The young merchant goes home
that night and says TO his wife; "Well,
Mary, we will have 70 move ont OF
this house and sell our piano. That old
merchant that has had an evil eye on me
ever since l started has bought out all that
clothing, and be viii have 1t rejuvenated,
and next year put It on the market as new,
while we viii do well if we keep out of the
poorhouse." The young man. broken
spirited, 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 prospects
for two worlds, this and the next. And
devils make a banquet Of fire and Ill 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-
culated in laying in too many goods Of one
kind and been flung of tie unusual 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 ex-
pected to live in, or go to third rate board
ing house where they have tough liver and
sour bread five mornings out Of the seven.
An old merchant comes In and says, ''Well,
Joe, this has been hard season for young
merchants, and this prolonged cool weather
has put many in the doldrums, and l
have been thinking Of you a good
deal Of late, for Just after I started
in business 1 once got into the same scrape.
Now if there is anything I 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. Twill help you to some goods that you
can sell for me on commission, and l will go
down to one Of the wholesale houses and tell
them that know you and will back you up,
and if YOU want a few dollars 20 bridge over
tho present can let you have them. Be as
economical as you can, keep a stiff up
per lip and remember that you have
two friends God and myself. Good
morningln The old merchant goes away
and the young man goes behind
his desk and the tears roll down his cheeks
1t is the first time he has cried. Disaster
made him mad at everything, and mad at
man and mad at God. But this kindness
melts him and the tears seem to relieve his
brain, and his spirits rise from ten below
zero to eighty in tho shade, and he comes out
of the crisis And about three years after
this young merchant goes into the old mer
chants store and says: "Well, my old friend,
I was this morning thinking over what you
did for me three years ago. You helped me
out of an awful crisis in my commercial his
tory. learned wisdom and prosperity has
/ come, and the pallor has gOno ont of my
wife's cheeks and the roses that were there
/ when I courted her in her fathers house have
/ bloomed again, and my business is splen-
/ did, and / thought l ought to
let you know that you saved q
manr In a short time after, the old mer-
/ chant who had been q good while shalzy in
/ his limbs and had poor spells, is called to
leave the world, and one morning after he
had read the twenty-third Psalm, about THE
Lord is my Shepherd, p no closes his eyes on
! this world, and an angel who had been for
many years appointed to watch the old mans
/ dwelling cries upward the news that the pa
tliarch'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 choosei Come
in and welcome, for it has been told all over
these celestial neightorhoods that you saved
man"
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life Of a woman. One morning about two
years ago l saw in the newspaper that there
was q young woman in New York whose
pocketbook containing $3L33, had been
stolen and she had been left without o
farthing at the beginning Of winter in a
strange city, and no work, And although
she was a stranger, I did not allow the 0
o'clock mail to leave the lamppost on our
corner without carrying the 1878; and the
case was proved genuine. Now have read
all Shakespeare's tragedies and all Victor
Hugo's tragedies and all Alexander Smiths
tragedies, but 1 never read a tragedy
more thrilling than that case, and
similar cases by the hundreds and
thousands in all our large cities; young
women without money and without home
and without work in these great maelstroms
Of metropolitan life. When such a case comes
under your observation, how do you treat itl
"Get out Of my way; we have no room in
our establishment for any more hands,
don't believe in women anyways they are a
lazy, idle, worthless set. John, please show
this person out Of the door, Or do you COM
pliment her personal appearance and say
things to her which If ary man said to your
sister or daughter you would kill him on the
spotl That is one way, and it is tried every
day in these large cities, and many Of those
who advertise for female hands in factories
have proved themselves unfit to be in any
place outside of hell
But there is another way, and saw It the
other day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where a young woman applied
for work and the gentleman in 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 place,
and hope you will be successful in getting
something to do.n The embarrassed and hui
inflated woman seemed to give way to
Christian confidence. She started out with
a hopeful look that I think must have won
for her q place in which to earn her bread.
rather think that considerate and Christian
gentleman saved a woman. New York
and Brooklyn ground up last year about
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 and bruised and scoffed at and flung
Oh tue preclplcei hOs OuS Due AiSh' "i'e
been saved for home and God and heaven.
But good men and good women are not in
that kind Of business Alas for that poor
thingl nothing but the thread Of that sewing
girls needle held her, and the thread broke
have heard men tell in public discours
what a man is, but what is a womanl Unit
some one shall give a better definition vii
] tell you what woman is Direct from God
a sacred and delicate gift with affections 81
! great that no measuring line short Of
that Of the infinite God can tell theil
, bound Fashioned to refine and sooth'
J and lift and irradiate home and society
and the world. OF such value that no on'
: can appreciate it, unless his mother livec
long enough to let him understand it, or whC
J in some great crisis Of life when all els
, failed him, had wife to re-enforce him will