The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-08

have the honor OF trying to help that UNI
| fortunate. How much would such an
attorney have received rs his fee for such
an Advocacy Nothing in dollars, but
much every way in happy consciousness
that would make his own dying pillow
sweeter and his own heaven happier-the
consciousness that he had saved mani
So there are commercial exgencics 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: at seems we
are going TO have no spring, and we shall
| 70 straight out OF winter into warm weather,
and we can got along without the usual
spring ATTIRE" Or there is no autumn
weather, the heat plunging into the cold,
and the usual clothing, which is u COM
promise between summer and winter, is
required. 1t makes u difference in the
sale of millions and millions Of dollars, aud
some ovcr-sanguine young merchant is
caught with q vast amount of unsaleable
goods that never will be salcablc again ex-
cept at prices ruinously reduced. That
young merchant with somewhat limited
capital is in predicamenL What shall
the old merchants do us they sec that
young man in this awful crisis2 Rub their
hands and laugh and say: Good for him.
lie might have known better. When he
has been in the business IA long as we
have, he will not load his shelves in that
way. Hal Hal lie will burst up before
long. lie had no business TO open his
store 40 near TO ours anyhow" Sheriil's
salel Red flag in the window; GLOW
much is bid for these out-of-the-iashion
spring overcoats and spring hats, or fall
clothing out OF date2 What do | hear in
the way Of bid2" -Four dollars" "Ab-
surd, cannot take that bid OF ~ apiece.
Why, these coats when iist put upon the
market were offered at SO each, and now
| am offered only -. IL that ALP Five
dollars do | hear2 Going at that Gone
at So" aud he takes the whole lot.
The young merchant goes home
that night and SAYS 10 his
wife: "Well, Mary, We will have TO
move out Of this house and sell our piano.
That old merchant that has had an evil
eye ON me ever since started has bought
out all that clothing, and he will have It
rcjuvcnatod. aud next year put II ON the
market ~ new, while We will do well II We
keep out Of the poor-house. The young
man, broken spirited goes 20 hard drink
ing. The young wife, with her baby, goes
| 10 her fathers house, aud not only In his
store wiped out but his home, his morals
and his prospects for two worlds, this and
| the next And devils make a banquet ~
fire and MI their cups Of gall aud drink
| deep 90 the health Of the old merchant
who swallowed mp the young merchant
who got stuck on spring goods and went
down. That is one way aud some OF YOU
/ have tried IT,
But there is another way. That Young
merchant who found that 10 had miscal-
culntcd Ia laying ia too many goods Of one
kind and been flung Of the unusual scusnu,
IN standing behind the counter feeling
very blue and biting his finger nails or
looking over his account books, which
| read darker aud woue every time lac looks
at them, and thinks how his young wiie
| viii have 10 he put In n palmer house
than she ever expected Ia live IN or 90 to
a thiriratc clearinghouse whore they
have tough liver aud sour bread five morn
ings out ol seven. An oil merchant
comes IN and says: "Wcll, joe, this has
been n hard season for young merchants,
| and this prolonged cool weather has put
many In the doldrums, and | have been
| thinking IT you a good deal Ot late, for
| Just after ! started Ia business ! once got
into the sane scmpc. Now II there is
anything can do 10 help YOU
out will gladly do II. Better
Just put those goods ont ~ sight
Tor the present aud next season
We will plan something about them. /
will help YOU b. some goods that you can
/ sell Tor mo on commission, and will 10
down io one at the wholesale houses aud
tell them that | know you aud will back
you up, and u YOU want a few dollars Ia
bridge over the present can let you have
them. l'c ~ economical ~ you can, keep
u still upprr-ip, and remember that YOU
have two friends. God aud myself Good
morning. The old merchant gucs away
aud the Young man goes behind his desk
and the team roll down his checks II b.
/ the iint time be- has cried. Disaster made
| him mad NJ everything, mad nj man aud
mad az God But This kindness mvlts him,
and the iuars seem Ia relieve hiH brain. and
/ his spirits rise from ten below zero Ia
/ eighty in the shade, aud lee comes uut ~
/ the crisis And about three years after,
/ this young merchant gUos into the old
/ merchants store aud snyE "Moll, my old
/ friend, WIS this morning thinking over
/ what you did for me three years ago. You
helped me out 81 an awful crisi, In my
/ commercial history. | learned wisdom,
and prosperity hns come, and the pol ~
/ has gone out Il my wiic's checks, aud tho
| ROSES that were there when | cuurlcl her
/ in her fathers house have bloomcd nglin,
/ and my business ~ splendid, aud thought
/ | ought 10 let YOU know that you saved "
man" In short time after, the old mcr-
chant Who had been q good while shnhy In
/ his limbs and had poor spells, ~ called 10
/ leave the world, aud ono morning after lac
| had Rad the twonty.,hirl psalm about
/ "Iho l0l u my shepherd lee closes his
| eyes ON this world. aud un angel Who hal
| been ipr many years appointed a. watch
| the old mans dwelling cries upward the
n"s- that the piirinfchH spirit Is about
ascending Aud the twelve angels who
/ keep the twelve gates oi heaven unite In
crying down 10 this approaching spirit 81
The old man Come IN nt amy " The
! twelve gates you Chuusr' Come Ia and
welcome ior Il hls been told all over these
celestial ncigh3orhoods that you saved q
man."
There sometimes como cSigcncies In the
/ life Of q woman, Ono morning about two
| yrar ago | saw in thc newspaper thui
! there was young woman In New York
| whose pockotboD containing si6Oj had
| been stolen, aud she bad been left without
a iarlhing NJ lhc beginning oi winter In o
strange city. and no work Aud although
she was n stranger. I did not allow the q
o'clock mail 10 leave the lamp-p1gi ON our
corner without carrying the sj10L and
tile case wns proved genuine. Now, J
have read nl Shakespeare tragedies, aud
all Victor llugp's tragedies aud all Alex.
andcr Smiths tragedies, but ! mover read
q tragedy moro thrilling than that ease,
and similar cases by the hundreds aud