Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24

WodbueT, ana we can get along without
the usual spring attire" Or there is No
autumn weather, the heat pIunging into
the cold, and the usual clothing which
is q compromise between summer aud
winter is not required. 1t makes diff
| ference in the sale of millions and
millions of dollars Of goods, and some
Over-sanguine young merchant is caught
with vast amount of unstable goods
that will never be salable again, except
at prices ruinouSly reduced. The young
merchant with a somewhat limited cap
ital is In a predicament. What shall
the old merchant do as 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 Ha! He will
burst up before long. He had no
business to open his store so near TO ours
anyhow" Sheriff's sale. Red flag in
the window: ''How much is bid
for these out-of-fashion spring over
coats and spring hats or fall clothing
out of date? What do l hear in the
way OF a bid?" "Four dollars" cab
surd; cannot take that bid of four dol
lars apiece Why, these coats when
first put upon the market were offered
at SIS each, and now 1 am offered only
ST. Is that all? Five dollars, do
hear? Going at that! Gone at So" and
be takes the whole lot. The young
merchant goes home that night and
says TO his wife: "NYell, Mary, we will
have to move out of this house and sell
our piano. That old merchant that had
an evil eye on me ever since l started
has bought out all that clothing and he
will have it rejuvenated and next year
put it on the market as new, while we
will do well If we keep out OF the poor
house" The young man, brOken-splr-
tied, 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 a banquet
OF fire and fill their cups of gall, and
drink deep TO the health Of the old mer-
chant who swallowed up 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
miScalculated 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 &C
count books, which read darker and
worse every time he looks at them, and
thinking how his young wife will have
to be put in 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 morn
ings out of the seven. An old merchant
comes in and says: "Well, Joe, this has
been a 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 | started in |
business I once got into the same |
scrape. Now, If there is anything can |
do to help you ont 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. 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 l know you and will
back you up, and II you want few dol
arS TO bridge over the present, can
let you have them. Be as economical
rs you can, keep a stiff upper lip, and
that you have two friends,
God and myself. Good morning" The
DID merchant goes away and the young
nan goes behind his desk, and the
tears roll down his cheeks. 1t is the
first time he has cried. Disaster made
MIN mad at everything, and mad at man
and mad at God. But this kindness
nelts him, and the tears seem TO re-
ieve his brain, and his spirits rise from
ten below zero to eighty In 1he S"'''0'
and he conaoo QUE Of tnO crlSlS.
About three years after, this young
goes into the old merchants
store and says: "Well, my old friend,
was this morning thinking over what
Won did for me three years ago. You !
helped me out Of an awful crisis IN my |
commercial history. learned wisdom.
prosperity mas come, anu Tue poilOI LAS
gone out Of my wife'S cheeks, and the |
roses that were there when I courted her
in her fathers house have bloomed
again, and my business is splendid, and
l thought that ought to let you know
that YOU saved a mani" In 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, aud one morning after ne
had read the twenty-third Psalm about
"The Lord is my Shepherd" 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 welcome, for it has been
told all over these celestial lands that
you saved a man."
There sometimes come exiGencies In
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