Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-08-28


first put upon the market were offered at
fifteen dollars each, and now am offered
only four dollars. Is that allY Five dollars
do / hearg 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 viii 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
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 his prospects for two
worlds-this and the next And devils
make a banquet of fire and fill their cups
of gall, and drink deep to the health of the
old merchant who swallowed up theyounR
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-
lated 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, OF
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 a
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 a hard season
for young merchants, and this prolonged
cool weather has put many in the dol
drums, and 1 have been thinking of you
a good deal of late, for just after l started
in business l once got into the same scrape.
Now, if there is anything l 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 will 20 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 | can let
YOU have them. Be as economical as you
can, keep a 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. It 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 Of
an awful crisis in my commercial history.
I learned wisdom, prosperity has come,
and the pallOr has gone out of my wife's
cheeks, and the roses that were there when
/ eourted her in her fathers house have
bloomed again, and my business is splen-
did, and thought ought to let you know
that you saved man"
In a short time after the old merchant,
who had been a good while shaky in his
limbs and who had poor SPELLS is called to
leave the world, and one morning after he
had read the twenty-third Psalm about
''The Lord is my shepherd" he closes his
eyes on this world, and in angel who had
been for many years appointed 70 watch
the old mans dwelling, cries upward the
news that the patriarch's 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 and welcome, for it has
been told all over these celestial lands that
you saved a man"
THE WORLD AGAINST A WOMAN.
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life Of "a woman One morning few years
ago / saw in the newspaper that there was
a young woman in New York whose
pocketbOok, containing thirty-seven dol
lars and thirty-three cents, had been
stolen, and she had been left without a
penny at the beginning Of winter in a
strange city, and no work. And although
she was a stranger, / did not allow the
o'clock mail to leave the lamppost on our
corner without carrying the thirty-seven
dollars and thirty-three cents, and the case
was proved genuine.
Now, have read all Shakespeare TRACE
dies, and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and
all Alexander Smiths tragedies, but
never read a tragedy more thrilling than
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 great
maelstroms of metropolitan life. When
such a case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it9 Get out Of my way.
We have no room in our establishment
for any more hands. / don't believe in
women anyway. They are a lazy, idle,
worthless set. John, please show this per
son out of the door"
Or do YOU compliment her personal ap-
pearance and say things to her which If
any man said to your sister or daughter
YOU would kill him on the spoty That is
one way, and it is tried every day in the
large cities, and many OF those who adver-
tise for female hands in factories and for
governesses in families have proved them
selves unfit to be in any place outside Of
hell. But there is another way, and l saw
it one day in the Methodist Book Concern
in New York, where q young woman APP
piled for work, and the gentleman in tone
and manner said in substance: my daugh-
ter, we employ women here but do not
know Of any vacant place in our depart
ment. You had better inquire ct such
and such place, and | 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 conf
dence. She started out with a hopeful
look that think must have won for her "a
place in which to earn her hread. rather
think that considerable Sd Christian gen
tleman saved woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground mp 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 no hope for this world or
the next, battered and bruised and scotfed
at, and flung off the precipice, not one but
might have been saved for home and God
and heaven But good men and good WON.
en- are not in that kind Of business. Alas
for that poor thingl Nothing but the thread
Of that sewing girls needle held her, and
the thread broke.
CONTRAST.
have heard men tell in public discourse
what a man is; hut what is wOmani
Until some one shall give a better defini'
ton, ! will tell you what woman is. Di-