The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-28


for these out OF fashion spring over I
coats and spring hats, OF fall clothing
out OF date? What do / hear IN the
way of bid?' -Four dollars" ''Ab-
surd- can not 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 alp Five dollars, do 1 hear2
Going at that! Gone at s., and he
takes the whole lot The young mer-
chant goes home that night and says to
his wife: ''Weli, Mary, we viii have to
move out Of this house and sell our
piano That old merchant that has had
an evil eye on nee ever since I started
has bought out all that clothing and he
viii have it rejuyenated and next year
put it on the market as new, while We
will do well il 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, and not only is his store
wiped out, but his morals and his pros
poets for two worlds-this and the
next
But there is another way. That
young merchant who found that he
had miscalculated in laying in too
| many goods of one kind is standing be-
| hind the counter, feeling very blue
| and thinking how his young wife will
| have to be put in palmer house than
t she ever expected to live in, or go TO
/ third-rate boarding house. An old
/ merchant comes in and says: well,
| Joe, this has been a hard season for
| young merchants, and this prolonged
| cool weather has put many in the
dOldrums, and have been thinking of
| you a good deal of late, for just after I
| started in business I once got into the
| same scrape. Now, if there is any
thing can do to help you out I viii
Z Il
| goods out of sight for the present, and
next season we will plaa something
| about them. I viii help you to some
| goods that you can sell for me on com
mission, and I will go down to one of
| the wholes ale houses and ten them
| that know you and will back you up,
and If yOu want few dollars to bridge
| over the present I can let you have
them. Be as economical as you can,
| keep a stiff upper lip, and remem ber
that you have two friends, God and
| myself Good morning!" The old mer-
chant 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 ut
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 10 below zero to so
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,
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 history. I learned wisdom,
property has come, and the pallor has
| gone out of my wife's cheeks, and the
roses that were there when I courted
] Ha IN, Ea.u- 50
again, and my business is splendid, anC
1 thought I ought to let you know that
you saved n man" In short time
| after, the old merchant who had beer
a good while shalSy in his limbs and
. who had poor spells, is called to leave
the world, and one morning after hf
had read the tweuty-third Psalm abOu'
''The Lord is my shepherd" he closel
his eyes on this world, and an ange
! | who had been for years appointed Il
watch the old mans dwelling, cries up
' ! ward the news that the patriarch
, / spirit is about ascending. And tn
, twelve angels who keep the twelv,
/. | gates Of Heaven, unite in crying dow
, | to this approaching spirit of the olj
I / man; Come in and welcome, for i
E ! has been told ali over these celestia
= lands that You saved a man"
e There sometimes comes exigencies il
r the life of a woman. One morning
= few years ago saw in the newspape
+ that there was "a young woman in Ney
2 York, whose poclSetboolz containing
q SIT. 50 had been stolen, and she ha
e | been left without a penny at the be
ginning of winter, in a strange city
n and no work. And although she wa
t a stranger, did not allow the min
s o'clock mail to leave the lamp post ol
2 our corner without carrying the S3z. 80
? and the case was proved genuine
EThaun a q ron
= observation how do you treat it? ''Ge
c out of my way we have no room in Ou
Z establishment for any more hands
s don't believe in women anyway; the
s are lazy, idle, worthless set John
It please show this person ont of th
z door" Or do you complainant her pei
q: sonal appearance and say things to he
q which If any man said to your sister o
t daughter You would kill him on tn
e spot2 That is one way, and it is trie
e every day IN the large cities, and man
Il of those who advertise for femal
e hands in factories. and for GOV
ernesses in families, have prove
n themselves unfit to be in an
: place outside of hell But there
IS another way, and I saw it one day i
i the Methodist book concern in NeY
3: York where young woman apple
50 for work and the gentleman in tone an
+ manner said in substances IN
s daughter, we employ women here, bu
d 1 do not know of any vacant place
4 our department. You had better il
o quire at such and such a place, and
e hope you will bs successful in gettiu
= something to do. Here is my name an
- tell them sent you" The EN- mbarrasse
D I aud humiliated woman seemed to Civ
] way to Christian confidence. Sh
q started out with a hopeful look that
o think must have won for her n place
which to earn her bread I rathe
think that consiGerate and Chrisfia
:. gentleman saved a woman
ri But good men and good women az
not in that kind OF business Alas fc
?: that poor thingl Nothing but thread {
o that sewing girls needle held her, an
+ the thread broke
Z have heard men ten in public di
+ course what a man IS; but what is
r, woman? Until some one shall give
d better definition I VIII tell you vghs
, woman is Direct from God, a sacre
Is and delicate gift, with affections s
u great that no measuring line short
/ that of the infinite God can tell the