The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-08-27

young merchant is caught with vas
amount of unstable goods that vii
never be salable again at prices ruin
ously reduced The young merchant
with somewhat limited capital is IL
a predicament
What shall the old merchants do as
they see the young man in this awful
crisis? Rub their hands and laugh ant
say: Good for him. He might have
known better. When he has been IL
business as long as we have, he will no
load his shelves in that way. Ha! Ha
lie will burst up before long. He hac
no business to open his store SO near tx
ours anyhow" Sheriff's salel Rec
for these out Of fashion spring over
coats and spring hats, or fall clothing
out of date? What do / hear in the
way of bid?" ''Four dollars" CAB
surd. | can not take that bid of s.
apiece. Why, these coats when first
put upon the market were offered al
SIS each, and now | am offered only 81.
Is that all? Five dollars, do l hear?
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: 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
xryi1 A. - ho
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
she ever expected to live in, or go to a
thirdrate 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 q good deal of late, for just after l
started in business | once got into the
same scrape. Now, if there is any
thing 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
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 a few dollars to bridge
over the present I can let You have
them. Be as economical as you can,
keep stiff upper lip, and remember
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
mas cried. Disaster made him mad at
everything, and mad at man and mad at
God. But this kindness melts him, and
he tears seem to relieve his brain, and
lis spirits rise from 10 below zero to so
n the shade, and he comes out of the
:risis.
There sometimes comes exigencies in
he life of woman. One morning a
ew years ago | saw in the newspaper
hat there was young woman in New
York, whose pocketbook containing
'I7.33 had been stolen, and she had
,een left without penny at the be-
ginning Of winter, in a strange city,
md no work. And although she was
stranger, did not allow the nine
o'clock mail to leave the lamp post on
'ur corner without carrying the S37 So;
md the case was proved genuine.
When such case comes under your
observation how do you treat it? Get |
mt Of my way, we have no room in our
establishment for any more hands. | |
ont believe in women anyway; they |
re lazy, idle, worthless set. John,
lease show this person out of the |
DOR" Or do you compliment her per-
Onal appearance and say things to her
yhich if any man said to your sister or
aughter you would kill him on the
pot? That is one way, and it is tried
very day in the large cities, and many
+ those who advertise for female
ands in factories, and for gov
rnesses in families, have proved
lemselves unfit to be in any
lace outside Of hell. But there is
mother way, and I saw it one day in
le Methodist book concern in New
ork, where a young woman applied
,r work and the gentleman in tone and
Lanner said in substance: "My
aughter, we employ women here, but
do not know of any vacant place in
1r department You had better in
lire at such and such a place, and
ope you will be successful in getting
to do. Here is my name and
IL them sent you" The embarrassed
Id Inundated woman seemed to give
ay to Christian confidence. She
arted out with hopeful look that l
ink must have won for her place in
hich to earn her bread | rather
ink that considerable and Christian
,ntleman saved a woman.
But good men and good women are