Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-29

heat plunging into the cold, and the
usual clothing which Is a compromise
between summer and winter Is not re-
ouired. II makes difference In the
sale OF millions and millions OF dollars
of goods, and some over sanguine young
merchant Is caught with vast amount
of unsaleable goods that never will I've
saleable again but ut prices ruinously re-
duced. The you ~ merchant with some
what limited capital is ina predica'
ment.
What shall the old merchants do
us they see that the young man in this
awful crisis? Rub their hands and
laugh and say: Good for him. He
nigh, have known better. When he has
been in business us long us we have he
will not load his shelves in that way,
Ha. Ha! He will burst up before
long, He had no business 10 open his
store so near TO ours anyhow Shcr-
IFS sale. Red flag in the window:
How much Is bid for these out OF fash
ion spring ovcrcoa:s and spring hats.
or fall clothing out OF date: What 40
hear in the way OF bld:' -Four
dollars" absurd. cannot take that
bid OF 81 apiece. Why, these coats
when first put upon the market were
offered ut Sl5 each, and now ! am Of
fered ONLY s.. Is that ali? Five dol
las. 40 hear? Going at that. Gone
at g." and he takes the whole lot.
The young merchant goes home that
night and saws to his wife: We'll,
Mary, we will have to move out OF this
house and sell our piano. That old
merchant that has had an evil eye on
me ever since started has bought out
all that clothing and he will have 1t re-
iuvenated and next year put 1t on the
market as new, while we will do well II
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 is his store wiped out, but his
home, his morals and his prospects Tor
two worlds-this and the next. And
devils make banquet OF the fire and
fill their cups of gall and drink deep to
the health OF the old merchant who
swallowed up the young merchant who
got stuck on spring goods and went
down. That is the 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 being flung OF
the usual season, is standing behind the
coup:=", feeling very blue, and biting
his srgernails, or looking over his ac-
cou..t. 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 60 to q
third-rale boarding house where they
have tough liver and sour bread five
mornings out OF the seven. An old
merchant comes and says: "Well, Joe,
this has been hard season for young
merchants, and this prolonged cool
weather has put many in the doldrums,
and have been thinking Of you good
deal OF late. for just after ! started in
business | once got in the same scrape.
Now, il there is anything can do to
help YOU out will gladly do it. Bet
ter 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 60
down to one OF the wholesale houses
AID tell them that I know you and will
back you up, and if you want few dol
lars TO bridge over the present ! can
let YOU have them. Be as economical
as YOU can, keep 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. 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 III be-
low zero to 80 in the shade, and he
comes out OF the crisis.
There sometimes comes eXigencies in
the life OF u woman. One morning a
few years ago saw in the newspapers
that there was young woman in New
York. whose pocket-book containing
1877. 33 cents had been stolen, and she
had been left without penny ut the be-
ginning OF winter, in a strange city, and
no work. And although she was
stranger, did not allow the 8 O'Clock
mail to leave the lamp post on our cor
ner without carrying the 1878: and
the case was proved genuine. Now |
have read all Shakspeares tragedies,
and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and all
Alexander Smiths tragedies, but l new
err read tragedy more thrilling than
that case and similar cases by the nun
dreds and thousands in all our large
cities; young women without money
and without home and without work
in the great maelstroms OF metropoli-
tan life.
have heard men tell in public dis
course what q man is; but what is
woman? Until some one shall give
better definition | will tell you what
woman is. Direct from God, a sacred
and delicate gift, with affections so
great that no measuring line short OF