Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-27
apvbowr sberin,s sale, Red flag in the

anyhow" Sher1n s sale! Red nag in the
| window! "How much is bid for these out
of-fashion spring overcoats and spring hats,
or fall clothing out of date2 What did hear
| in the way of bid?'' -Four dollars"
| Absurd; | cannot take that bid of 81
| apiece. Why, these coats when first put
| upon the market were offered at SIS each,
| and now am offered only 81. Is that ala
| Five dollars, do / heart Going at thatl
| Gone at So" 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 reiuyenated, 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 swal-
| lowed up the young merchant who got
| stuck on spring goods and went down. That
is one way. and some of you have tried il.
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 flung of the usual season, is
standing behind the counter. feeling very
blue, and biting mis- finger nails or looking
over his account books, which read darker
| and worse every time he looks at them, and
thinking now his young wife will have TO
be put in a palmer house than she ever eX-
pectcd 10 live in, or go TO a third-rate
! boarding house where they have tough liver
ana sour bread five mornings out of seven.
An old merchant comes in anC says: We'll,
Joe this has been hard season for young
merchants, and this prolonged cool weather
has pat many in the doidrums, and l have
been thinking Of you good deal Of late for
lust after ! started in business | once got
into the same scrape. Now. if there is
anything ! can do TO help you out, viii
gladly do IL. Better Just put those goods
out of git for the present, and next sea
son we will plan something about them. I
viii help you 10 some goods that You can
sell for me on commission, and l will 20
down to one Of the wholesale houses and tell
them that know you
AND WILL BACK YOU Up.
And fyOu want few dollars to bridge
over the present ] can let you have them
Be as economical as you can, keep q stiff
upper lip, and remember that you have two
friends, God aud myself. Good morning.
The Old merchant goes away and the young
man goes behind his desk, and the tears
roll down his cheeks. IL is the first time
he has cried. Disaster made him mad at
everything, anu mad II 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
III the shade, ana he comes out of the crisis.
About three years after this young mer-
chant goes into the old merchant store and
saws: We'll, my old friend. | was this
morning thinking over what you did for
| me three years ago. You helped me out of
an awful crisis il my commercial history. |
learned wisdom, prosperity has come, ana
the pallOr has gone out IF my wifes cheeks
and the roses that We're there when |
courted her in her fathers house have
bioomed again. and my business IS splendid,
and thought | ought to let YOU know that
YOU saved man. IN i short time after,
the old merchant VINO had been good while
shaky in his limbs aud who had poor spells,
IS called 10 leave the world. and one morn
ing after he had read the tWcuty-thvd
Psalm about The Lord is my Shepherd
he closes his eyes on this world, and an
angel who had been for many years ap-
pointed 10 watch the Old mans dwelling,
cries upward the news that the patriarch 5
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 man: Come in ana vel
come, for it has been tod all over these
celestial lands that you saved man"
THE LIFE OF WOMAN.
There sometimes come eXIgencieS in the
life of "a woman. One morning few years
ago ] saw in the newspaper hat there was
Young woman in New York, whose pOCk-
etbook containing S27.33, had been stolen.
and she had been left without a penny ut
the beginning of winter, in a strange city,
and TO work. And although she was q
stranger, did not allow the O'Clock mail
to leave the lamp-post on our corner, with
out carrying the 81. 30; and the case was
proved genuine. Now, | have read a.!
Skakcspeare'S tragedies and all Victor
Hugo's tragedies, and ali Alexander Smith
tragedies, but never read & tragedy more
thrilling than that case, and similar cases
by he hundreds and thousands in all our
large cities; Young women without money
and without home and without work IL the
great mdelstrOm5 Of metropolitan life.
When such Il case comes under your obscr-
walton, now do you treat it, Get out Of
my way. we have no room in our establish
Inent FOR any more hands. | don't believe
in women, anyhow, they are lazy, idle,
worthless set John, please show this per
son out Of the door" or do you compi-
meut her personal appearance, and say
things to her which, il any man said TO your
sister CT daughter yOu would Kill him on
The spot3 That IS one way, and II is tried
every day in the large cities, and many OF
those who advertise FOR female hands in
factories and for eovcrresses in families,
have proved themselves unfit to be in any
place
OUTSIDE OF HE'LL.
But there IS another WHY. and | saw Il
one day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, whore u young woman applied
for work ana the gentleman in tone and
manner said in substance: My daughter,
VIC employ women here, but do not know
OF any vacant place in our department. You
had better inquire at such and such a place
ana hope You will be successful in getting
something to do. Here is my name and
tell them ! sent YOU" The embarrassed
and Inundated woman seemed TO give way
TO Christian confidence. She started out
with q hopeful look mat | think must have
won for hGT pace IN which to earn her
bread. | rather think that considerate and
Christian gentleman saved 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 10 hope for this
world or the next, battered and bruised
and scofred at, and flung OF the precipice,
not one but might have been saved for
home and God and heaven. But good men
ana good women are not III that kind of
business Alas for that poor thing! Moth
ing but the thread Of that sewing-grls
needle held her, and the thread broke.
/ have heard men tell in public discourse
what 4 man is, but what is j woman! Tn
Ill some one shall give 4 better definition,
l Will TELL