Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-27

The Young merchant with somewhat
limited capital is in predlcament.
What shall the old merchants do as they
see the young man in this awtul crisis!
Rub their hands and laugh ana say:
Good for him. He might have known
better. When he has been in business
as long as we have he will not load ms
shelves that way. Ha! la! lie VIII
burst up before long He had no bust
ness to open his store so near 10 ours
anyhow" Sherff's sale! Red lag IN
the window: Glow much is BID Tor
these out-of-fashon spring overcoats ana
hats or fall clothing out OF date? Wha1
do l hear in the way of bid?" -Four
dollars "Absurd, l cannot take that
bid of S4 apiece. Why, these coats
when first put upon the market were
offered at SIS each, and pow am OF
fered only $4. Is that all? Five dol
lars, do ! hear? Going at that. Gone at
$4,' and he takes the whole lot.
The young merchant goes home that
night and says to his wife: wen,
Mary. we will have to move out of this
house and sell our piano. That old mer-
chant that has had an evil eye on me
ever since / started has bought out all
that clothing, and he will have it rcju-
VonaJeu, anu H6Ab ycdi puo ~ oii WV
market as new, while we will do we'll if
we keep out of the poorhouse. Inc
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 q banquet Of fire and eli their cups
,I,,;, IN tho health Of
the old merchant who swallowed up the
goods and went down. That is one way,
and some of you have tried it.
But there is another way. Thatyoung
merchant who found that he had mis-
calculated 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 a
palmer house than she ever expected to
live in, or go to 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:
"Wel, Joe, this has been hard season
for young merchants, and this prolonged
cool weather has put many in the dol
drums, and / have been thinking of you
q 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 l will gladly do
it. Better just put those goods out OF
sight for the present, and next season
we will plan something 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, and if you want few
dollars to bridge over the present, l can
let you have them. Be as economical as
you can, keep a stiff upper lip, and re-
member that you have two friends, God
and myself Good morning?'
The old merchant 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
mets 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
merchant goes into the old merchants
store and says: ''Well, my old friend,
was this morning thinking over what
you did for me three years ago. You
helped me out of an awful crisis i'm my
commercial history. / learned wisdom,
prosperity has come and the pallor has
gone out of my wife's cheeks, and the
roses that were there when courted
her i'm 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 merchant,
who mad 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-thbrd Psalm
about ''Fhe Lord is my Shepherd" he
closes his eyes on this world, and an an
gel who had been for many years APP
pointed 20 watch the old MANS dwelling,
cries upward the news that the patri-
arch's spirit is about ascending. And
the twelve angels who keep the twelve
gates Of Heaven, unite in CRYING down
to this approaching spirit of the Old man,
''Come i'm and welcome, for it has been
told all over these celestial lands that
you saved man."
There sometimes come CXlgencies in
the life OF q woman. One morning few
years ago l saw in the newspaper that
there was a young woman i'm New York,
whose pocketbook containing $37. 33 had
been stolen, and she had been left with
out u penny at the beginning of winter,
in strange city, and no work. And al
though she was a stranger, did not al
low the 8 o'clock mail to leave the lamp
post on our corner without carrying the
S37 33, and the case was proved genuine.
Now, / have read all Shakspeare's
tragedies, and all Victor Hugo's TRACE
dies, and all Alexander Smiths TRACE
dies, but never read tragedy more
thrilling than that case, and similar
cases by the hundreds and thousands in
all our large cities-young women with
out money and without home and with
ont work in the great maelstroms of
metropolitan life. When such a case
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