The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-02


winter into warm weather and we can
get along without the usual spring at
lire.o Or there IS no autumn weather,
the heat plunyin5 INTO the cold, and the
usual clothing which is a compromise
between summer and winter is not re-
quircd. 1t makes dltiere .ce N the
sale Of millions and mlllions OF dollars
Of goods, and some oversangulne young
merchant is caught with a vast amount
of unstable goods that viii never be
salable again. except at prices rulnously
reduced.
The young merchant with somewhat
limited capital is in a predlcament.
What shall the ldmerchants 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. Ha! Ha! He Will
burst up before long. He had 40 busl-
ness to open his store 50 near to ours
ANYHOW" Sheritf7s sale! Red flag in
the window: How much is bid for
these out-of-fash!on spring overcoats and
spring hats or fall clothing out Of date?
What do I hear in the way OF b'd?'
-Four dollars absurd; I caunes
take that bid of four dollars apiece.
Why. these coats when first put upon
the market were ofere,l at fifteen dollars
each. and now l am offered only four
dollars. Is that all? Five dollars do l
hear? Going at that! Gone at five dol.
lars" and he takes the whole lot.
The young merchant goes home that
niskt and saws TO his wife: well, Mary,
we will have 10 move out of this house
and sell our piano. That old merchant
that has had an evil eye on me ever siuce
started has bought out all that colth-
inc, and he will have it reiuvenated, and
next year put it on the market as new,
while we will do well if We keep out Of
the poorheuse." The young man, brok-
en- spirited, goes to hard drinking. The
Young wife with her baby goes to her
farther's house, and not only is his store
wiped out, but his hsme, his morals and
his prospects for two worlds-thls and
the next. Aud devils make bankquet
Of fire and fill their cups ofgall, and drlnk
deep to the health OF the old merchant
who swallowed up the young merchant
who got stuck On spiing goods and went
down. Thet is ore way, and some OF
you have tried It.
SAVE HININ THIS WORLD AND THE
NEXT.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had mis-
calculated in laying in too II any goods
of one kind, an5 been flung Of the unusu-
al season, is standing behind the coun-
ter, feeling very blue and biting his fin
ger nails, or looking over his account
books, which read darker and worse
every time he looks at them, and think
inc how his young wife will have to be
put in a palmer house than she ever ex-
pected to live in, or 60 to third rate
boarding house, where they have tough
liver and sour bread FIVE mornings out OF
the seven.
An old merchant comes IL and says:
"Well, Joe, this has been a hard season
for young merchants, and this prolon ged
cool weather has put many IN the dol
drums, and I have been thinking OF you
a good deal Of late, for just after l start
ed in business I once got into the same
scrape. Now, i there is anything | can
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 can sell for
me on commission, and l will so 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 remem-
Der that you have two friends, God and
myself. Good Lorningw
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
melts him, and the tears seem to relieve
his brain, and his spirits rise from ten
below zero 70 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: We'll, my old friend,
1 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. learned wisdom,
prosperity has come, and the pallor has
gone out ofmy wite's cheeks, and the
roses that were there when l courted
her in her fathers house have hloomed
AGAIN. and my business is splendid, and
l thought ought to let you know that
you saved a mann'
In short time after, the old mer-
chant, who had been good while shaky
IN his limbs and who had poor spells, is
called to leave the world, and one morn
ing after he had read the twenty-thlrd
Psalm about The Lords my shep.
herd" he closes his eyes in 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 ascend
ing, and the twelve angels who keep
the twelve gates Of heaven, unite in cry
ing down to this approaching Spirit OF
the old man, Gone in and welcome,
for it has been told all over these Gel
estial lands that you saved man.
THE WORLD AGAINST A WOMAN.
There sometimes come eXigences IN
the life of woman. One morning g
few years a. l saw in the newspaper
that there was q Young woman in New
York whose pocketbook, containing
thlrty-seven dollars and thirtr-three
cents had been Stolen, and she had been
left without a penny at the beginning OF
winter in strange city, and no work.
And although she was stranger, did
not allow the O'Clock mail TO leave the