The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-09-25

lJSelL ana the prOIeSSlOnal lncOm-
petent crawls up beside the prisoner
helplessness TO rescue despair, when
there ought TO be n struggle among all
the best men of the profession as TO who
should have the honor of trying 90 help
that unfortunate. How much would
such an attorney have received as his
fee for such an advocacy? Nothing in
dollars, but much every way in happy
consciousness that would make his own
life brighter, and his own dying pillow
sweetcr. and his own Heaven happier
the consciousness that he had saved a
mani
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:
at 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 a compromise
between summer and winter is not re-
CURED. 1t makes difference in the
sale of millions and millions of dollars
of goods, and some oversanguine young
merchant is caught with a vast amount
of unstable goods that will never be
salablc again except at prices ruinously
reduced The young merchant with
a somewhat limited capital is in a pre-
dicament. What shall the old mer-
chants 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. Ia! IIa! He will
burst up before long He had no bust
ness to open his store so near to ours
anyhow" Sheriff's sale! Red flag in
the window. How much is bid for
these old-fashioned spring overcoats
and spring hats, or fall clothing out of
date? What do hear in the way of
bid?" -Four dollars" absurd. /
can not take that bid of 81 u piece.
Why, these coats when first put upon
the market were offered at SIS each,
and now l am offered only 81 Is that
all? Five dollars do / hear? Going at
that! Gone at So" 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. The
old merchant that has had an evil eye
on me since l started has bought out all
that clothing, and he will have it reju-
venated ard next year put it on the
% HI Il
if we keep out of the poor-house. The
young man, broken spirited, goes to
hard drinking. The young wife with
her baby goes TO her fathers house, and
not only his store wiped out, but his
home, his morals, and his prospects for
two worlds-this and the next. And
devils make banquet of fire and fill
their cups of gall and drink deep to the
health Of the old merchant who swal-
lowed 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 The
young merchant who found that he
had miscalculated in laying in too
many goods of one kind, and
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 palmer house than she ever eX. |
pected to live in, or go to a third-rate
clearinghouse 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 |
a hard season for young merchants, and |
this prolonged cool weather has put |
many in the doldrums, and 1 have been
thinking of you good deal o. late, for |
just after l started in business once
got into the same scrapc. Now, If |
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 COM
mission, and l 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 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 morning" The old
merchant goes away and 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