The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-04

"ioSe out OF this house and sell ou
piano That old merchant that ha. ba,
an evil eye on me ever since I starte,
mas bought out all that clothing and h,
Will have it rejuvenated and next Yea
pun IT on the market as new, while w,
wiu DO well IL we keep out of the poo
mouse" The young man, broke,
sparfted, goes TO hard drinking. Tn,
young wife with her baby goes TO he
stners house, and not only is his stor,
wiped out, but his morals and his pros
Pec.s Tor two worlds-this and the
next
but there is another way. Tha'
young merchant who found that h,
had miScalculated in laying in to<
many goods of one kind Is standing be
hind the counter, feeling very blue
and thinking how his young wife will
have to be put in a palmer house thar
she ever expected TO live in, or go to
thtrc-rate boarding house. An old
merchant comes in and says: well
Joe, this has been a hard season 70,
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
started In business I once got into the
same scrape. Now, IL there Is any
thing l "a 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 car sell for me on COM
mission, and l will go down TO one Of
the wholesale houses and tell them
that / know you and will back you up.
and il you want q few dollars to bridge
over the present I 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." The old mer-
chant goes away and the 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 at
God. But this kindness melts him, and
the tears seem TO relieve his brain, and
his spirits rise from 10 below zero TO SO
In the shade, and he comes out OF the
crisis
There sometimes comes cxigcncies in
the life of a woman One morning a
few years ago I saw in the newspaper
that there was a young woman in New
York. whose pocketbook containing
SIT. 81 had been stolen, and she had
been left without a penny at h be-
ginning OF winter. in a strange city,
and no work. And although she was
n stranger, | did not allow the nine
o'clock mail to leave the lamp post on
u corner without carrying the S31. 33;
and the case was proved genuine.
When such n case zones under your
observation how do you treat IL? Get
out of my way, we have no room in our
establishment for any hands
don't believe in women anyway; they
arc a lazy. idle. worthless SET. John,
please show this person out of the
door" Or do you compliment her per
sonal appearance and say things 10 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 for gov.
~erncsses in families, have proved
themselves unit To be in any
place outside of hell. But there i
another way. and | saw it one day in
the Methodist book concern in New
York, where a young applied
for work and the gentleman in tone and
manner said in substance: INV
daughter. we employ women here, but
| do not know of any vacant place in
our department You had better in
auirc at such and such a place, and I
hope You will be successful in getting
| something to do. Here is my name and
tell them I sent you" The embarrassed
and Inundated woman seemed " give
way TO Christian confidence. She
| started out with a hopeful look tAat |
think must have VOL for her 4 place in
which to earl her bread l Rather
think that considerable and Christian
gentleman saved a m
But good men and good women are
NOT III tiIat htut vi buNititNS Aus I'D
that poor thing! Nothing but thread o
that sewing girls needle held her, an,
the thread broke.
l nave heard men tell in public dis
course what n man is; but what is
woman? Until some one shall give
better definition l will tell you wha
woman is Direct from God, n sacre,
and delicate gift, with affections s.
great that no measuring line short O
that of the infinite God car tell thei
bound. Fashioned tn refine and sooth
and lift and irradiate home and ~societ,
and the world. OF such value that n
one can appreciate it, unless his mothe
lived long enough to let him under
stand il, or who in some great crisi
of life. when all else failed him
had a wife To reinforce him with q faitl
in God that nothing could disturb
Speak out, We cradles, and tell of tn
feet that rocked You and the anxiou
faces hat lowered you. But As tn
geographcrs tel us that the depths O
the sea correspond with the heights o
the mountains. | nave to tell you tina
a. Httu "oihubifoou u hot hiHHtE "a
than bad womanhood is deep down
The grander the palace, the more avs
full the confiagration that destroys i,
Now ] should not wonder II you trem
blcd n little with asense OF resposibilit,
when l say there is hardly a person IL
this house but may have an opportunit,
To save n nm
II, for instance, You find a woman i,
financial distress and breaking dow
in health and spirits trying TO supper
her children. now hat her husband i
dead or an invalid, doing that very i'm
portant and honorable workout which
Is little appreciatcd-keeping a board
ing house, busy yourselves in trying {,
get her more patrons. aud tell he
of divine sympathy. Yea il you see
woman favored in fortune and with al
kindly surroundings, finding in tn
hollow batteries of the world her chic
rcgalement living for herself an,
for time as il there were no eternity
strive to bring her into the king
dom of God, as did the other day n Sab
bath school teacher who was the mean
Of the conversion Of the daughter of
man of immense wealth. and tn,