Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04

at fifteen dollars each, AMI now / am offere
only four dollars. Is that all? Five dollar
do hear? Going at that! Gone at fiv
dollars" and he takes the whole lot.
The young merchant goes home tina
night and says TO his wife: well, Mary
we will have to move out OF this house AM
sell our piano. That old merchant tina
has had an evil eve on me ever since
started las bought out all that clothing
and he will have il rel uvenated, and mex;
year put it on the market as new, while W.
will do well if 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 iped ont, but his home his
morals AMI his prospects for two worlds
this and the next. And devils make a ban
quet Of fire and fl their cups of gall. and
drink deep to the health Of the old merchant
who swallowed uo 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 stan ling 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 Lave to be
put In palmer house than she ever ex.
pected TO live in, or go to a third rate board
ing house, where they have tough liver and
sour bread five mornings out of the seven.
An old merchant comes in and says:
w ell, Joe, this mas been a hard season Tor
young merchants, AMI this prolonged cool
weather has put many in the dOldrums, and
l have been thinking of you a good deal of
late, for just after l started in business
lonce got into the same scraDe. Now, if
there is anything can do to help you
nIf will Hlyy6 do orr
those goods out OF sight for the present,
and next season we will plan SO netting
about them. l 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 ard 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 myself. Good morn
ing"'
The old merchant goes away and the
young man goes behind his desk, and the
tears roll down his cheeks. It Is the first
time he has cried. Disaster made him mad
at everything. and mad al man and mad at
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 oil FRIEND l 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. l
learned wisdom, prosperity has come, and
the paIIor has gone out Of my wife's cheeks,
and the roses that were there when courted
her in her fathers house have blooned again
and my business is splendid, and thought I
ought to let you know that you saved manr'
In CHI rf oft fho ola
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 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 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 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 few years
ago [ saw in the newspaper that there was a
young woman in New York whose pocket
book, containing thirty-seven dollars and
thirty-three cents, had been stolen, and she
had been left without a penny at the begin
ming of winter in a strange city, and nc
work. And although she was a stranger, ]
did not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave the
lamppOst on our corner without carrying
the thirty -seven dollars and thirty-thre
cents, and the case was proved genuine.
Now, | have read all Shakespeare's TRACE
dies, and ell Victor Hugo's tragedies, and
all Alexander Smiths tragedies, but ]
never read a tragedy more thrilling than
that case, and similar cases by the hun
drels and thousands in all our large cities
Young women without money and with.
out home and without work in the great
maelstroms of metropolitan life When
such a case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it? ''Get out OF my way
We have no room in our establishment for
any more hands. l 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 ap-
pearanca and say things to her which if any
man said to your sister or daughter you
would kill him on the spot? That is one
way, and it is tried every day in the large
cities and many Of those who advertise
for female hands in factories and fol
governesses in families have proved them
selves unfit to be in any place outside OF
he'll But there is another way. and l saw
il one day in the Methodist Book Concern
in New York, where a young woman ap-
piled for work, and the gentleman in tons
and mann said in substance: My daugb.
ter we employ women here, but l do moi
know OF any vacant place in our depart
ment You had better inquire at such and
such pace, and l hope you will be success
tut in getting something to do. Here IS my
name, and tell them l sent you"
The embarrassed and inundated woman
seemed to give way to Christian confidence.
she started out with hopeful LOOK that ]
think must have won for her place in
which to earn her bread. rather
think that considerate and Christian gen
tleaan saved a woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women aud would like Il
grind I'D about as many this Year. Out o.