Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-24


and I will give you another chance.
Or that young man is presented In the
courtroom, and he has no friends pres
ent, and the judge says who is youI
counselT' And he answers, II have
none" And the Judge says, who will
take this young mans caseT'
And there is dead halt, and no one
offers. and after awhile the Judge turns
to some attorney who never had a good
case In all his life, and never will, 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 a 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 nm attorney have received
as his fee for such an advocacy9 Moth
ing In dollars, but much every way In
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 a mani
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 plungng into the cold, and
the usual clothing which is a compro-
mise between summer and winter is not
required. 1t 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 a predica-
ment. What shall the old merchants
do as they see the young man in this
awful crisis7 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" 4"
Sherifrs 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 date2
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 all2 Five dol
lers, do / heart Going at thatl Gone
at live dollars" and he takes the whole
lot.
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
me ever since started has bought out
all that clothing, and he viii have it
reiuvenated, and next year put II on
the market as new, while we will do
well If we keep out OF the poorhouse.
The young man, broken spirited, goes
TO hard drinking. The young wife with
her baby goes 20 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 banquet Of fire and I'LL
their cups of gall, and drink deep to
the health of tho 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 IL.
WAY TO SAVE Kim.
But there Ia another way. That
young merchant who found that he
had mlscalculated in laying In too
many goods of one kind and been flung
OF the unusual season, is standing be.
hind 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 bis young wife win
have 10 be put in a palmer house than
she ever expected to live in, or go 10 a
third rate boarding house where they
have tough liver and sour bread Eve
mornings out of the seven.
An old merchant comes In and says;
well, Joe. this has been hard season
for young merchants, and this pro-
ionged cool weather has put many in
the doldrums, and | have been think
ing of you a good deal OF late, for just
after started In business once got
into the same scrape. Now, II there is
anything | can do 70 help you out
viii gladly do L. Better Just put those
goods out OF sight for the present, and
next season we win plan something
about them. ! win help you % some
goods that you can sell for me on com
mission, and viii 80 down 20 one Of
the wholesale houses ana tell them
that know you and win back you up,
and L you want a few dollars 10 bridge
over the present, ! can let yon have
them. BE as economical as you can.
keep a stih upper lip, and remember
that you have two friends. God and
myself Good nloramgf