News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-27

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of unstable goods that will never be
salable again, except at prices ruinously
reduced.
The young merchant with some
what limited capital is in predica-
ment. What shall the old merchants
do as they see the young man in this
awful criss2 Rub their hands and
laugh and say: Good for him He
might have known better. When he
has been in business as long as we
have he will not load his shelves that
way. Hal Hal He will burst up be-
| fore long. He had no business to open
his store SO near to ours anyhow"
Sheriff's saIel Red flag in the window:
"How much is bid for these out-of-
fashion spring overcoats and spring
hats, or fall clothing out of date?
What do hear in the way of bid2'
-Four dollars" absurd, | cannot
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 l am offered only
four dollars. Is that all2 Five dol
lsrs, do hear2 Going at that 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 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
rejuvenated, 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
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 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. That is one way, and some of
you have tried it.
| WAY TO SAVE HIM.
GDeT0 Is dHOO1leT way 1utG
young merchant who found that he
had miscalculated in laying in too
many goods of one kind and been flung
of the unusual season, is standing be-
hind 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 thinking how his young wife will
have to be put in palmer house than
she ever expected to live in, or go to a
third rate boarding 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 pro-
Ionged cool weather has put many in
the doIdrums, and l have been think
ing of you a good deal of late, for just |
after started in business | once got |
into the same scrape. Now, if there is
anything l can do to help you out l
will gladly do it. Better just put those
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 com
mission, and / will go down to one of
the wholesale houses and tell them
that know you and will back you up,
and if you want few dollars to bridge
over the present, can let you have
them. Be as economical as you can,
keep stiff upper lip, and remember
that you have two friends, God and
myself Good morning2"
The old merchant goes away and the
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 the
shade, and he comes out of the crisis
About three years after, this young
merchant goes into the old merchants
store and says: "'Well, my old friend, l
was this morning thinking over what
you did for me three years ago. You
helped me out of an awful crisis in my
commercial history. LEARNED wisdom,
prosperity has come and the pallor has
gone out of my wife's cheeks, and the
roses that were there when | courted |
her in her fathers house have bloomed |
again and my business is splendid, and
/ thought ought to let you know that |
you saved mani"
In a short time after, the old mer-
chant, who had been good while shaky |
in his limbs and who had poor spells, is
called to leave the world, and one |
morning after he had read the twenty |
third Psalm about 1.-The Lord is my |
Shepherd" he 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 patriarch's spirit is about as
cending. And the twelve angels who
keep the twelve gates of heaven, unite
in crying down to this approaching
spirit of the old man, "Come in, and
welcome, for it has been told all over
these celestial lands that you saved a
man."
There sometimes come exigencies in
the life of woman. One morning a
few years ago / saw in the newspaper
that there was a young woman in New
York, whose pocketbook containing
thirth-seven dollars and thirty-three
cents had been stolen, and she had
been left without penny at the begin
ming OF winter, in q strange CITY. and