Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-09-03

and millions OF dollars Of goods, and some
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 somewhat
limited capital is in a predicament What
shall the old merchants do as they see the
young man in this awful crisisy 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 in that way. Hal
Hal He will burst up before long. He had
no business 70 open his store so near to ours
anyhow" Sheritf's sale! 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 bidg" -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 that all1 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 NAV u tlloNt ouJ VI JillN uOuSc anu
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 reiuvenated, and next
year put it on the market Gs 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,
and not only is his store wiped out, but his
home his morals and nis prospects for two
worlds-this and the next. And devils
make banquet of fire aud fill 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
and went down. That is one way, and
some of you have tried it.
SAVE HIM IN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had miscalcu-
hted in laying in too many goods of one
kind, and been flung of 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 he looks
at them, and thinking how his young wife
will have to be put in palmer house than
she ever expected to live in, or go to
third rate boarding house, where they have
tough liver and sour bread five mornings
| out of the seven.
An old merchant comes in and says:
swell, Joe, this has been hard season
for young merchants, and this prolonged
cool weather has put many in the dol
drums, and have been thinking of you
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in business once got into the same scrape
Now, if there is anything can do to help
you out | 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 commission,
and I will go down to one of the wholesale
houses and tell them that know you and
will back you up, and if you want few
dollars to bridge over the present can let
you have them. Be as economical as you
can, keep stiff upper lip, and remember
that you have two friends, God and my
self Good morning.
The old merchant 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
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 he 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 ot
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 manI'
In short time after, the old merchant
who had been a good while shaky in his
limbs and who had poor spells, is called tc
leave the world, and one morning after he
had read the twenty-third Psalm about
''The Lord is my shepherd y he closes his
eyes on this world, and an angel who haG
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 keeE
the twelve gates of heaven, unite in crying
down to this approaching spirit of the ole
man, ''Come in and welcome, for it ha:
been told all over these celestial lands thai
you saved man."
THE WORLD AGAINST A WOMAN.
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life of woman. One morning a few years
ago l saw in the newspaper that there wa!
young woman in New York who's
pocketbook, containing thirty-seven dol
lars and thirty-three cents, had beeI
stolen, and she had been left without {
penny at the beginning of winter in {
strange city, and no work. And although
she was stranger, l did not allow the
o'clock mail to leave the lamppost on ou
corner without carrying the thirty-sevei
dollars and thirty three cents, and the cas-
was proved genuine.
Now, / have read all Shakespeare's TRACE
dies, and all Victor Hugos tragedies, ant
all Alexander Smiths tragedies, but
never read tragedy more thrilling thai
that case, and similar cases by the hun
dreds and thousands in all our large cities
Young women without money and with
out home and without work in the grea
maelstroms of metropolitan life. Whel
) such q case comes under your observation
, how do you treat it? "Get out of my way
, We have no room in our establishment
for any more hands. l don't believe il
women anyway. They are a lazy, idle
, worthless set. John, please show this pei
) son out Of the door,"
Or do you compliment her personal az
, pearance and say things to her which
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