Connecticut western news., 1891-08-27

itself. And the professional incompe- tent crawls up beside the prisoner, helplessness to rescue despair, when there ought to be a struggle among all the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor of trying to help that unfortunate. How much would such an attorney have received as his fee for such an advocacy? Moth ing in dollars, but much every way in happy consciousness that would make his own life brighter, and his own dying pillow sweeter, and his own heaven happier the consciousness that he had saved man!
 A COMMERCIAL Ex1GENCy
 So there are commercial exigencies A very late spring obliterates the de mand for spring overcoats and spring hats and spring apparel of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands of people say, '1t seems we are going to have no spring, and we shall go straight saat et 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 compro mise between summer and winter is not required. It makes difference in the sale of millions and millions of dollars of goods, and some oversanguine 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 some, what limited capital is in predica. ment. What shall the old merchants do as they see the young man in this awful crisis9 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 that way. Hal Hal He will burst up be- fore long. He had no business to open | his store so near to ours anyhow" Sheriff's salel Red flag in the window: 'How much is bid for these out-of- fashion spring overcoats and spring hats, or fall clothing out of date2 What do hear in the way of a bid7' -Four dollars. Absurd, cannot take that bid of four dollars apiece. Why, these coats when first put upon the market were offered at fifteen dol lars each, and now am offered only four dollars. Is that all2 Five dol. lcrs, do hear? Going at that! Gone at five dollars" and he takes the whole lot. The unI,np ,,orobonf ,rnac bo,,o %bo, 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 all evil eye OH me ever since 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 dc we'll if we keep out of the poorhouse. ', The young man. broken spirited, zoe. to hard drinking. The young wife with 1 her baby goes to her fathers house and not only is his store wi ped out, but his home, his morals, and his prospect. for two worlds-this and the next. And devils make banquet of fire and fill their cups of gall, and drink deep to CAAO ACelICAl oI CiIC Olu luOlCllitIlL WHO swallowed up the young merchant who got stuck on spring goods and went, down. That is one way. and some ot you have tried it. A-~ -'.T..- A WAY TO SAVE HIM.
 But there is another way. That young merchant wllo found that he had miscalculated in laying, in too oonCv <,f<> lysrI ,,,l hox> of the unusual season, is standing be hind 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 plainer house than she ever expected to live in, or go to third rate boarding house where they have tough liver and sour bread f1vt mornings out of the seven.
 An old merchant comes ill and says Well, Joe, this has been a hard season for young merchants. and this pro longed cool weather llas put many ill the doldrums, and l have been think ing of you good deal of late for jus, after l started in business once go, into the same scrape. Now, if 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. 1 will help you to some goods that you can sell for me on com mission, and will go down to one ol tho xuhD1oco11. toll that know you and will back you up. and if you want a 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 remember that you have two friends God and myself Good morningY"
 The old merchant goes away and the the young man goes behind his desk, and the tears roll down his cheeks. Ii 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 rist 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 in my commercial history. learned wisdom. prosperity has come and the pallor has gone out of my wifes cheeks. and the roses that were there when I courted her in her fathers house have bloolned again and my business is splendid, and