Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-27

makes a difference IN the sale OF millions
and millions Of dollars of goods. and some
oyersanguine young merchant is caught
with a vast amount of unstable goods
that will never be salable again. except at
prices %ruinously reduced.
The young merchant with a somewhat
limited capital is in a predicament. What
shall the old merchants do as they see the
young man in this awful crisisY Rubtheir
hands AM laugh and say: Good for him.
He might nave known better. When he
has been in business as long as we have he
will not load his shelves in that way. Hal
Hal He will burst up before long. He had
no business to open his store so near to ours
anyhow" Sheriff's salel Red flag in the
window: How much is bid for these out
of-fashion spring overcoats and spring
hats or fall clothing OUT of datei What
do hear in the way of a bidS" -Four dol
lars" absurd; | cannot take that bid Of
four dollars apiece. Why, these coats when
first put upon the market were offered at
fifteen dollars each, and now | am offered
only four dollars. Is hat alli Five dollars
do | heari 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 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 rejuyenated, and next
year put it on the market as new, while we
will do well If we keep out Of the poor
house" The young man, broken spirited,
goes to hard drinking. The young wife
with her baby goes to her fathers house,
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home, his morals and mis- prospects for IS
w~orlds-this and the next. And devils
make a banquet Of fire and I'LL 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
aud went down. That is one way. and
some Of you have tried it.
SAVE HIN 1 THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had miscalcu-
lated in laying in too many goods Of one
kind, and been lungof the 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 be looks
at them, and thinking how his young wife
will have TO be put in a palmer house than
she ever expected to live in, or go to a
third rate boarding house, where they nave
tough liver and sour bread five mornings
ont of the seven.
An old merchant comes In and says.
well, Joe, this has been a hard season
for young merchants, aud this prolonged
cool weather has put many in the dol
drums, and | have been thinking Of you
a good deal of late. for just after | started
in business ! once got into the same scrape.
Now, il there is anything ] can do to help
you out | will gladly DO ii. Better just put
those goods out Of sight for the present,
and next season we viii 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 the wholesale
houses and tell them that / know you and
will back you up, and il you want a few
dollars TO bridge over the present | can let
you have them. BE as economical as you
can, keep a stiff upper lip, and remember
that you have two friends, God and my
self Good morning.
The old merchant goes away and the
young mar goes behind his desk, and the
tears roll down his cheeks. It is the first
time be 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 be comes out of the crisis.
About three years after, this young mer-
chant goes into the old merchants store
and says: "Well, 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 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 splen-
did, and | thought ought to let you know
that you saved a manl'
In a short time after. the old merchant,
who had been a good while shaky in his
limbs and who had poor spells, is called TO
the world, and one morning after he
had read the twenty-third Psalm about
'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
ascending, and the twelve angels who keep
the twelve gates Of heaven. unite in crying
down to this approaching spirit Of the old
indus Ooulc III anu W~tiCoiue, LOT IL mas
been told all over these celestial lands that
you saved a man."
THE WORLD AGAINST A WOMAN.
There sometimes come exigencies in the
of a woman. One morning a few years
ago l saw in the newspaper that there was
a young woman in New York whose
pocketbook, containing thirty-seven dol
inc thirty-three cents, had been
stolen, and she had been left without a
penny at the beginning of winter ia a
city, and no work. And although
she was a stranger, | did not allow the Q
mail to cave the lamppost on our
corner without carrying the thirty-seven
dollars and thirty-three cents, and the case
proved genuine.
Now. have read all Shakespeare's TRACE
lies, and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and
All Alexander Smiths tragedies. but |
never read a tragedy more thrilling han
hat case, and similar cases by the hun
and thousands in all our large cities.
Young women without money and with
tut home and without work in the great
Of metropolitan life. When