The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-08-28

ana Will give you announcer cnance.
Or that young man 10 presented In the
courtroom, and he has no friends pres,
ent, and the judge says, Who 10 your
counselr' And he answers, II have
none" And the Judge sayA who will
take this young mans casef'
And there is dead halt, and no one
offers, and after awhile the Judge turns
to some attorney who never had good
case In all his life, and never ~ill, and
whose advocacy would be enough to
secure the condemnation of innocence
itself. And the professional incompe'
tent crawls up beside the prisoner,
helplessness to rescue despair, when
there ought to be struggle among all
the best men of the profession as to
who should have the honor Of trying
to help that unfortunate, How much
would such an attorney have received
as his fee for such an advocacyf Moth
Ing in dollars, but much every way IN
a happy consciousness that would make
his own life brighter, and his own dying
pillow sweeter, and his own heaven
happier-the consciousness that he had
saved man!
A COMMERCIAL EFFICIENCY.
So there are commercial exigencies.
A very late spring obliterates the de-
mand for spring overcoats and spring
hats and spring apparel of all sorts.
Hundreds of thousands of people say,
1T seems we are going to have no
spring. and we shall go straight out Of
winter into warm weather, and we can
get along without the usual spring at
tire" Or there is no autumn weather,
the heat plunging into the cold, and
the usual clothing which is a compro-
mise between summer and winter is not
required. It makes difference in the
sale of millions and millions of dollars
of goods, and some oversanguine young
merchant is caught with vast amount
Of unstable goods that will never be
salable again, except at prices ruinously
reduced.
The young merchant with a some
what limited capital is in predica-
ment. What shall the old merchants
do as they see the young man in this
awful crisis9 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"
Sherif'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 dateY
What do hear In the way of bid"
-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 am offered only
four dollars Is that ALI Five dol
lGrs, do ! heart Going ~ thatl Gone
- Ave dsllars." and be- takes the whole
|Ot.
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
ne ever since started has bought out
all that clothing, and he will have it
'ejuvenated, and next year put it on
he market as new, while we will do
we'll if we keep out of the poorhouse.
The young man. broken spirited, goes
20 hard drinking. The young wife with
Ter baby goes to her fathers house,
md not only is his store wiped out, but
lis home. his morals and his prospects
or two worlds-this and the next. And
lewis make banquet Of fire and fill
heir cups of gall, and drink deep to
he health of the old merchant who
wallowed up the young merchant who
,ot stuck on spring goods and went |
Town. That is one way, and some of
,ou have tried it.
WAY TO SAVE HIM.
But there is another way. That |
'oung merchant who found that he |
lad miscalculated in laying in too
many goods of one kind and been flung
# the unusual season, is standing be-
lind the counter, feeling very blue and
biting his finger nails, or looking over
lis account books, which read darker
nd worse every time he looks at them,
nd thinking how his young wife will
ave to be put in palmer house than
he ever expected to live in, or go to
bird rate boarding house where they
ave tough liver and sour bread five
Mornings out of the seven.
IAN old merchant comes in and says
Well. Joe, this has been hard season
or young merchants, and this pro-
onged cool weather has put many in
he doldruins, and l have been think
ng of you good deal of late, for Just
fter l started in business once got
1to the same scrape. Now. if there is
l can do to help you out l
yill gladly do it. Better just put those
Gods out of sight for the present, and
ext season we will plan something