Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-09-04

] 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
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, or looking
! over his account books, which read darker
and worse every time he looks at thom, and
| thinking how his young wife will have to be
| put in a palmer house than she ever ex.
| pected to live in, or go TO third rate board
| ing house, where they have tough liver and
| sour bread five mornings cut OF the seven
An old merchant comes in and says:
"Well Joe, this has been a hard season for
| young merchants, ami this prolonged cool
weather has put many in the doldrumS, and
have been thinking II you good deal OF
| late, for Just after | started in buslneSS
| once got into the same scrape. Now. II
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. l will help you to somc goods
that you can sell for me on commission, and
| | will go down to one OF the wholesale houses
and tell them that know you aud will back
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 myself. Good morn
lng''
! The old merchant goes away AMI the
| young man goes behind his desk, and tho
! tears roll down his cheeks. 1t is the first
| time he has cried. Disaster mado him ma
| at everything, and mad at man and mad at
! God Rut this kiuf mpfS HIM md tha
| tears seem TO relieve his brain and his
| spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty
in the shade and he comes out OF ths
| crisis.
! About three years after, this young mer-
chant goes into the old merchants store and
says: We'll, my oil friend, was this
morning thinking over what YOU did for IN >
three years ago. You helped mo out Of an
awful crisis in my commercial history. /
learned wisdom, prosperity has come, and
| the pallor has gone out OF my witc's CHEEKS.
| and the roses that were there when Icourted
her in her fathers house have bloomei again,
and my business is splendid, and thought
ought TO let you know that you saved a 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 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 an angel who hal
been for many years appointed to watch
the old mans dwelling, cries upwari the
news that the patriarcLs spirit is about as
cending. 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 1t has been told
all over these celestial lands that you saved
/ a man"
There sometimes come eIigencies in the
life OF a woman. One morning few years
ago saw in the newspaper that there was a
young woman in New York whoSs pocket
book, containing thirty seven dollars and
thirty three cents, had been stolen. aud she
had been left without a penny at tho begin
ming Of winter in strange city, ant no
work. And although she was a stranger,
did not allow the O'Clock mail to leaye tho
lamppost on our corner without carrying
the thirty-seven dollars AM thirty-threo
cents, and the case was proved genuine.
Now, | have read all Shakespeare's TRACE
dies, and all Victor Huso's tragelles, and
all Alexander Smiths tragedies, but |
never read a tragedy more thrilling than
that case and similar cases by tho hun
dreds and thousands in all our large cities
Young women without money and with
out home AMI without work IN the great
maelstroms OF metropolitan life. When
such case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it? 'tiet 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 person out Of
the door"
Or do you compliment her personal az
pearancs and say things 10 her which ii any
man said to your sister or daughter you
would kill him on the spots That is ons
way, and it is trlel every day in the large
cities and many OF th0s) who advertise
for female hands in factories and for
governesses in families have provci them
selves unfit TO be in any place outSite OF
hell. But there is another way. and | saw
1t one day in thu Methodist Book Concern
In New York, where a young woman np
piled for work, and the gentleman III toal
and manner said in su ubStAnc2: MY dau III
ter, we employ women here, bus | do not
know of any vacant pacs in our depart
ment. You had better inquire Mt such an
such place, aud hope you will be success
full in getting something to do. Here Is my
name, and tell them | sent you"
The embarrassed and humllatel wom1r
seemed to give way to Christian confidence
She started out with a hopeful look that
think must have won for het place II
which to earn her bread. rath,
think that cousiderata aud Christian gen
tlemnn saved woman New York anc
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women and would like L
grind up about as many this year. Out o.
all that long procession of women who
march on with no hope for this world or The
next, battered aud bruised AMI scottei Mt,
and flung or the precpice not ono but
might have been savel for hons and Go
and heaven. But good men IN good wom'
en- are not in that kind of business. Ala
for that poor thing Nothing but the threa'
Of that sewing girls needle held her, an'
the thread broke.
have heard men tell in public disc ours
what man is, but what Is a woman? Unit
some one shall give better definition, vii
tell YOU what woman is. Direct from God
n sacred End delicate gift, with affections st
great that no measuring lino snort of tina
, of the infinite God can tell their bound
Fashioned to refine and soothe aud HIT an
irradiate home AMI society and the worll
or such value that no one can appreciate II
, unless his mother lived long enough to lie
him understand it, or who in some grea
crisis of life, when all else failed him, had
wife to re-enforcs him with falth III 10
that nothing could disturb.
, Sneak out, We cradles, and tell OF the fee
that Bcted you aud tho anxious faces tina
hovered over you'll Speak out, ye nurseri,
of all Christendom, and ye homes, wbetha
desolate or still in full bloom with the face
| of wife, mother ana uhuShCer, uuu help u
TO define what woman is. But as geograpl
ers tell us that the depths of the sea corr
spond with the heights OF the mountains
have to tell you that a good womanhoot
, not higher up than bad womanhood is dec
G down. The grander the palace the NOR
/ awful the condagratlon that destroys il
1 The Rrander tho steamer Oregon the MOI
5 terrible her going down just Off the coast.
o Now | should not wonder il you treu
: bled a little with q sense OF responsibilit
S when l say that there is hardly person /
o this house but may have an opportunit
i to save a woman. 1t may in your case
{ done by good advice, or by financial hell
$ or by trying to bring to bear some one of
/ thousand Christian influences. II, for i
i stance, you find n woman in financial di
) tress and breaking down in health AT
Q spirits trying 10 support her children, no
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