The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-24

way. He Hal He will burst up before
long. He had no business to open bis store
so near TO ours anyhow" Sberiff's sale!
Red Tag in the window: bow much is bid
for these out-of-fashion spring overcoats
and spring hats or fall clothing out of
datei What do | hear iu the way of a
bidf' -Four dollars absurd: | can
not take that bid OF four dollars apiece
Why, these coats when first put upon the
market were offered at fifteen dollars each.
and now am offered only four dollars Is
that alIl Five dollars do heart Going al
that Gone at five dollars" and DE takes
the whole lot. The young merchant goes
home that night and says to his wife
''NelI, Mary, We will have to move out Of
this house and sell our piano That old
merchant who mas had an evil eye on me
ever since started has bought out all that
clothing and be will have it rejuvinated and
next year put IL on the market as new while
we will do well if We keep out of the poor
house" The young man, broken-splrIted,
goes 10 hard drinking. The young wife
with her baby goes TO her fathers house,
aud not only Is mis- store wiped out, but his
home, bis morals and his prospects for two
words-this aud 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 the young
mere bant who got stuck on spring goods
of you have tried it
But there Is another way. That young
merchant VINO found that be bad 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 fnger-uRils. or looking
over his account books, which read darker
and worse every time be looks at them, aud
thinking how his young wife will have to
be put in palmer house than she ever ex-
pected TO live in, or 60 to a third-rate
boarding house where they have tough liver
and sour bread five mornings out of the
esven. An old merchant comes In aud saws:
"Well, Joe, this has been u hard season for
young merchants, and this prolonged cool
weather has put many in the doldrums and
] have been thinking of you a good deal Of
late, for Just after i started in business
ouos got into the same scrape. Now, il
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.
j viii help you to some goods that you can
sell for me on commission, and | will &c
down to one of the wholesale houses
and tell them that l know you and
will back you up. and If you
want 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 myself. Good morning 7
The old merchant goes away and the young
man goes behind his desk and the tears rol
down his cheeks. 1t is the first time he hai
cried. Disaster made him mad at every
thing, and mad at man and mad at God.
But this kindness melts him, and the tear
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 ano
says: We'll, my old friend, | was this
morning thinking over what you did for me
three years ago. You helped me out of al
awful crisis IN my commercial history.
learned wisdom, prosperity has come, and
the pallor has gone out Of my wifes cheeks
and the roses that were there when courted
her in her fathers house lave bloomed again,
and my business is splendid, and l thought
] ought to let you know that you saved
a mani" In a short time after, the
old merchant who had been good while
shaky in his limbs and who had poor spells,
is called to leave the world, and one morn
ing after he had read the twenty shirc
Psalm about The Lord Is my shepherd" he
closes his eyes on this world, and an auge
who had been for many years appointed &c
watch the old mans dwelling, cries upward
The news that the patriarch's spirit is about
hsceuulHB. Anu lDe Twelve ANGELS VINO
keep the twelve gates of heaven unite in
crying down to this approac hing spirit OF
the old man, Come in and welcome, for it
has been told all over these celestial lands
that you saved a man."
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life of woman. One morning a few years
ago saw in the newspaper that there was
o young woman IN New York, whose
pocketbook containing tbirty-seven dollars
nd trNU I'D IL n
she had been left without penny at the be-
ginning of winter, In a strange city, and nc
work. And although she was a str anger,
did not allow the o'clock mail to leave the
lamp post on our corner without carrying
the tbirty-seven dollars and thlrtv-three
cents and tho case was proved genuine Now
have read all Shakespere's tragedies, and
all Victor Bugos tragedies, aud all Alex
Rnder Smiths tragedies, but never read q
tragedy more thrilling than that case
and similar cases by the hundreds ano
thousands in all our large cities; young
women without money and without home
and without work in the great mael.
stromS of metropolitan life When such
case comes under your observation
bow do you treat itl Get out of my way,
we have DO room in our establishment
for any more hands. don't believe in
women anyway. they are lazy. idle
worthless set John. please show this
person out of the door" Or do you COM
plment her personal appearance, aud
say things TO her which il any man said Ia
your sister or daughter you would kill him
Cd the spots That is one way, and il
Is tried every day ip the large cities,
and many OF those who advertise for
female hands in factories, and for govern
esses in families. have proved themselves
unfit TO be any place outside os hell But
there is another way, and saw it one day
IN the Methodist Book Concern IN New
York, where young woman applied for
work and the gentleman in tone and man.
ner said 10 substance: My daughter, we
employ women here but do not know OF
any vacant place IN our department You
had better inquire at such and such a 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 &c
Christian confidence She started out with
q hopeful look that think must have won
for her a place in which to earn her bread.
rather think that considerate and Christian
gentleman saved q woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women, and would like to
grind up as many this year. Out Of allithal
long procession Of women who march or
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 women are not
in that kind of business. Alas for the Door
thing nothing but the thread of that sew
ing girls needle held her and the thread
broke.
have heard men tell in public discourse
what a man is; but what is & woman!