The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-03

! Ol The profession as to who should have
| the honor of trying TO help that untor-
tunate. How much would such an at
tOrneY have received as his fee for such
an advocacy? Nothing in dollars, but
much every way in a happy conscious
| pess that would make MS own life
brighter. aud his own dying piller sw eet-
er, and his own heaven happier-lhe con-
'ciousncss that he had saved 4 man!
DESTRUCTION IS BEFORE HIM.
SO there are CONNIE rcial exiyenclcs.
a very late spring obltcrates the de.
mand Tor spring Overcoats and spring
hats and spring apparel of all sorts.
Hundreds OF thousands Of people say,
1T seems VIC are going to have no
spring, and we shall 60 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 plungins INTO the cold, and the
Isusnal' clothing which Is compromise
between summer and winter is not re.
quircd. 1t makes q difference III the
sale OF millions and millions OF dollars
Of goods, and some oversanguine young
merchant is caught with a vast amount
Of unsalablc goods that will never be
salable again, except at prices runously
reduced.
The young merchant with u somewhat
limited capital is in a predicamcnt
What shall the old merchants do as they
sec the young man in this awful crisis?
Rub their hands and laugh and say:
Good for him. lie might have known
better. When he has been in business
as long rs we have lie will not load his
shelves in that way. IIa! lIa! He Will
burst up before long. He had no busl-
ness to open his store 80 near to ours
anyhow" Sherin's sals! Red flag in
the windo~: "How much is bid for
these out-ol-fashion spring overcoats and
spring hats or fall clothing out Of date?
What DO 1 hear in the way Of b;d?"
"Four dollars" "Absurd; 1 cannot
take that bid Of four dollars apiece.
Why, these coats when first put upon
the market were ollere'l at fifteen dollars
each, AMI now 1 am offered only four
dollars. Is that all? Five dollars do
hear? Going at that! Gone at five dol.
lars" 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 colth-
my, and he will have It rejuvenated, and
next year put it on the market n. nea,
while we will do we'll if we keep out Of
the poorhouse." The young man, brok-
en- spirited, goes to hard drinking. The
young wife with her baby goes to her
tarther's house, and not only is his store
wh,cd out, but his hsme, his morals and
his prospects for two worlds-ths and
the next. And devils make a bank1uet
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 spriny goods and went
down. That is ole 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 mis-
calculated in laying in too T. any goods
of one kind, AMI been flung of the unusu-
al season, is standing behind the cOun-
ter, feeling very blue and biting his fin
ger nails, or looking over his account
BOOKS, which read darker and worse
every tinle, he looks at them, and think
ing how his young wife will have to be
put in palmer house than she ever cX-
pected to live in, or 60 to a third rate
boarding house, where they have tough
fiver and sour bread five mornings out of
the seven.
An old merchant comes'ia and 81 VS.:
"Well, doe, this has been a hart sea son
for yeht!s merchants, and this prolon ged
cool weather has put many III tho dol
drums, and have been thinking Of you
a good deal of late, tor Just alter start
ed in business ! once got into the same
scrape. Now, i. there is ANY thing | can
do to help you out l will gladly do it,.
Better just put those goods ont of sight
for the present, and next season we will
plan something about them. | will help
you to some goods that you can sell tor
me on commission. and | will 20 down
to one of the Wholesale houses and tell
them that L know you and will back you
up, and II you want, a few dollars TO
bridge over the present [ can let you
have them. BE as economical as you
can, keep a sliK upper lip, aud remem-
Der that YOU have i%o friends, God and
myself. Good Mornins!". .
The Old merchant goes away and the
young man goes behind his desk, and
the tears roll down his checks. 1t is the
first time he has cried. Disaster made
hm mad at everything, and mad at man
and mad at God.< But this kindness
melts lin, and tie tears seem to relieve
his brain, and his spirits rise from ten
below zero 70 eighty in the shade, and no
comes out 81 the crisis.
About three gears after, this young
merchant goes into the old merchant's s
store and says: ,'Wcll.. 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. learned wisdom,
prosperity has come, and the pallor has
gone out oimY ,wile's. cheeks. and tho
roses that were there when | courted
her in her fathers house have bloomed
again, and my business is splendid, and
! thought ought to let you know that
you saved mani"
In a short time after, the old mer-
chant, who had been good while shaky
IN his limbs and who had poor spells, is