The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-09-01

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Hundreds of thousands of people say,
ut seems we are going to have no
spring, aud we shall 90 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 p)unging INTO the cold, and the
usual clothing which IS a compromise
between summer and winter is not re
qujrcd. III makes ditfere ce In the
sale Of millions and millions OF dollars
Of goods, and some oversanGuiue young
merchant is caught with vast amount
of unstable goods that will never be
salable again, except at prices runously
reduced.
The young merchant with somewhat
limited capital is in a predicament.
What shall the old merchants 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 az we have he will not load his
shelves in that way. Ha! IIa! He will
burst up before long. He had no busl-
ness to open his store so near to ours
any how" ShcriiPs sale! Red flag in
the window: "IIow much is bid for
these out-ol-fashion spring overcoats and
spring hats or fall clothing out of datep
What do heac in tho way of bid?"
Pour dollars" absurd; l caunat
take that bid OF four dollars apiece.
Why, these coats when first put upon
The market were oilerc at fifteen dollars
each, and now | am offered only four
doiats. Is that all? Five dollars do L
hear? Going at that! Gone at five dol.
lars, y 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
aud sell our piano. That old merchant
that has had an evil eye on me ever since
| started has bought out all that coltl-
my, and he will have it rejuvenated, and
next year put it on the market as new,
while we will do we'll if we keep out of
the poovhouse. The young man, brok-
Ell spirited, goes to hard drinking. The
young wife with her baby goes to her
iarthcr's house, and not only is his store
wil'ed out, but his hsme, his morals and
lis prospects for two worlds-this and
The next. And devils make bankIuet
o. 'irc and fill theircups of9all, and drink
deep TO the health OF the old merchant
who swallowed up the young merchant
who got stuck cn spring goo,ls and went
down. That ~ orc way, and some of
you have tried It..
SAVE HMM THIS WORLD AND THE
NENT.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had mis-
calculated in laying in too = any goods
OF one kind, and been flung of the unusu-
al season. is standing behind the coun-
ter, feeling very blue and biting his fin
ger mails. or looking over his account
books, which read darker and worse
every time he looks at them, and think
ing how his young wife will have to be
put In Il palmer house than she ever eX-
pected 10 live in, or 90 to third rate
boarding house, where they have tough
liver aud sour bread five mornings out of
the seven.
An old merchant comes ia aud avs:
"Wcll, Joe, this has been hard sea son
Tor young merchants, and this prolonged
cool weather has put many III the dol
drums, and have beeu thinking of you
Il good deal OF late, tor just alter l start
ed in business l once got into the same
scrapo. Now, il 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. l will help
you to some goods that you can sell for
me on commission, and will 90 down
10 one Of the Wholesale houses and tell
them that i know you and will back you
up, and 1t you want few dollars to
bridge over the present can let you
have them. BE as economical as you
can, keep II still upper lip, and remem-
Der 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. 1t is the
first time he hus cried. Disaster made
hm 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 20 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
yon did lor 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 wiie's cheeks, and the
roses that were there when l cOurted
her in her athcr's house have bloomed
again. and my business is splendid, and
l thought ought to let you know that
you saved mani"
In q short time after, the old mer-
chant, who had been good while shaky
IN his lihibs and who had poor spells, is
called to leave the world, and one morn
ing after he had read the twenty-third
Psalm about 1.-The Lords my shep.
herd" hc 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 patrarch's spirit is about ascend.
ing, and the twelve angela who keep
the twelve gates of heaven, unite in cry
ing down to this approaching spirit of
the old man. "Come in and welcome,
for it has been told all over these cell
estai hands that you saved a man."
THE WORLD AGAINST A WOMAN.
There sometimes come eXi9ences i'm
the life OF Il woman. One morning a
few years Il, o | saw in the newspaper
that there was Il Young woman In New
York whose pocketbook, containing
tmrtY-seven dollars and thirty.three
cents hSl been Stolen and abe had hpen