Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-24

Brlhu UP hooub AZ many TINS year. OuJ OF
all that long procession of women who
march on with no hope for this world or
the next, battered and bruised and scoffed
at, and flung off the precipice, not one but
might have been saved for home and God
and heaven. But good men and good wom-
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.
A CONTRAST.
/ have heard men tell in public discourse
what a man is; but what is a womanS
Until some one shall give better deflni-
ton, will tell you what woman is Di-
rect from God. a sacred and delicate gift,
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 to open his store so near to ours
anyhow" Sheriif's 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 dateP What
do hear In the way Of bid~ -Four dol
lars" absurd; cannot take that bid of
four dollars apiece. Why, these coats when
first put upon the mark ct were offered at
fifteen dollars each, and now l am offered
only four dollars. Is that allf Five dollars
do hearP 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 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 1t on the market as new, while we
will do we'll 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 banquet Of fire and 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 miscacu-
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 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:
"Well, Joe, this has been a hard season
for young merchants, and this prolonged
cool weather has put many in the dol
drums, and have been thinking of you
a good deal OF late, for Just after | started
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 will go down to one Of the wholesale
houses and tell them that know you and
will back you up, and II 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 morningp
The old merchant goes away and this
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 |
ut 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 !
thinking over what you did for
me three years ago. You helped me out of
an awful crisis In my commercial history |
learned wisdom, prosperity has come, i
and the pallor has gone out of my wife's |
cheeks, aud the roses that were there when |
courted her in her fathers house have |
bloomed again, and my business is spien- |
did, and thought ought to let you know
that you saved q manp
In q 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 |
bad read the twenty-third Psalm about |
1.-THE Lord is my shepherd" he closes his
eyes on this world and an angel who had |
been for many years appointed to watch |
the old mans dwelling, cries upward the |
news that the patriarch's spirit is about |
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 n man."
THE WORLD AGAINST A WOMAN.
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life OF n woman. One morning few years
ago saw in the newspaper that there was
. young woman in New York whose
containing thrty-seven dol
lars and thirty-three cents, had been
stolen, and she had been left without a
penny at the beginning of winter in
strange city, and no work. And although
she was 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's TRACE
lies, and all Victor Hugos tragedies, and
Ill Alexander Smiths tragedies, but |
never ieau u IidSeuy HOIe 1urllIluB IHhu
that case, and similar cases by the hun
lreds and thousands in all our large cities.
Young women without money and with
out home and without work in the great
of metropolitan life. When
such case comes under your observation,
how do you treat itP 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,
set. John, please show this per
son out of the door"
Or do You commitment her personal nn-