The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-08-26

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mAnd for spring overeoats and spring
hats and spring apparel Of all sorts
Hundreds OF thousands Of people say:
'It seems we are going TO have no
spring, and we shall go 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 plunging into the cold, and the
usual clothing which Is compromise
between summer and winter is not re-
quired. 1t makes difference In the
sale Of millions and millions of dollars
Of goods, and some over sanguine young
merchant is caught with vast amount
Of unsaleable goods that will never be
saleable again, except at prices ruin
ously reduced. The young merchant
with somewhat limited capital is in a
predicament. What shall the old mer-
chants do rs they see the young man in
this awful crisis? Rub their hands and
laugh and say: Good for him. He
! might have known better When he has
been in business as long as we have, he
will not load his shelves in that way.
Hal Hal He win burst up before long.
He had no business to open his store SO
near to ours anyhow" Sheriff sale! Red
flag in the window: How much is bid
for these out-of-fashion spring overcoats
and spring hats, or fall clothing out Of
datep What do hear in the way Of a
bid?" -Four dollars" Absurd can
not take that bid Of 81 apiece. Why,
these coats when first put upon the
market were offered at SIS each, and
now | am offered only 81. Is that all?
Five dollars do hear? Going at thatl
Gone at s5," 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 on me
ever since ! started has bought
out all that clothing, and he will
have it rejuvenated, and next
year put 1t on the market as new,
while we will do we'll II we keep out of
the poorhouse." 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 wiped out, but his home, his NOR
ais, and his prospects for two worlds
this and the next And devils make a
a banquet fire and Gil their cups of gall
and drink deep to the health Of the old
merchant who swallowed up the young
merchant who got stuck on spring goods
and went down. That is one way, and
and some Of you have tried it
But there is another way That
young merchant who found that he had
misealculated 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 Bit
ing 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 viii
have to be put in palmer
house than she ever expected TO
live in, or go TO a 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: ''well, Joe, this has been hard
season for young merchants, and this
prolonged cool weather has put many
in the doldrums, and have been think
ing Of you good deal of late, for just
after started in business | once got
into the same scrape. Now, II there is
anything ! can do to help you out I 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 can sell for me on COM
mission, and will 90 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
for the present l can 1T 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 merchant
goes away, and the young man goes be-
hind his desk and the tears roll down
his cheeks. II Is the first time he has
cried. Disaster made him mad at every
thing, and mad at man and mad at God.
But this kindness irelts 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 overwhat you
did for me three years ago. You helped
me out Of an awful crisis in my COM
mercial history. learned wisdom,
prosperity has come, and the pallor has
gone out OF my wife's cheeks, and the
roses that were there VIXEN courted
her In her fathers house have bloomed
again, and my business is splendid. and
! thought ought TO let you know that
you saved a manw In short time after
the old merchant who had been good
while shalsy In his limbs and who had
poor spells, is called TO leave the world,
and Que morning after he had read the
twenty third psalm about "The Lord Is
my shepherd, y he closes his eyes on this
world, and an 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
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 In and well
come, for Il has been told all over these
celestial lands that you saved aman."
There sometimes comes exigencies In