The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-25
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chinery, by which the vaster and heav-
Ter tonnage of the worlds burdens is to
be lifted from the crushed heart of the
human race. What you and most
need to learn is the spirit of helpful
ness.
Encourage the merchant. If he have
superior style of goods, tell him so. If
he have with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, COM
pliment his taste. If he have a good
business locality, if he have had great
success, if he fave brilliant prospects
for the future, recognize all this. Be
not afraid that, he will become arrogant
and pulled up by your approval. Before
night some shopgoing person will come
in and tell him that his prices are exor-
bitant and that his goods are of an in
ferior quality anG that his show win
dow gave promise Of far better things
than he found inside. Before the night
of the day in which you say encourag
ing words to that merchant there will
be some crank, male or female, who wiz
come into the store and depreciate
every thing and haul down enough goods
from the shelves to fit out a family for
whole winter without buying a cents
worth. If the merchant be grocer,
there will be some one before night who
| will come into his establishment and
taste of this and taste of that and taste
of everything else, in that way stealing
all the profits of anything that he may
purchase-buying three apples while he
is eating one orange!
Before the night of the day when you
approve that merchant he will have a
bad debt which he will have to erase, IA
bad debt made by some one who has
moved away from the neighborhood
without giving any hint of the place of
destination. Before the night of the
day when you have uttered encourag-
ing words to the merchant there will be
some woman who will return to his
btore and say she has lost her purse;
she left it there in the store, she brought
1t there, she did not take it away, she
knows it is there, leaving you to make
any delicate and complimentary infer
ence that you wish to make. Before
night that merchant will hear that
some style of goods of which he has a
large supply is going out of fashion, and
there will be some one who will come
into the store and pay bill under pro-
test, saying he has paid it before, but
the receipt has been lost. Now. encour-
age that merchant, not fearing that be
will become arrogant or pulled up, for
there wiz be before night enough I'm.
pleasant things said to keep him from
becoming apoplectic with plethora OF
praise.
| Encourage newspaper men. If you
knew how many annoyances they have,
If you understood that their most elab.
crate article is sometimes flung out be.
cause there is such great pressure on
the columns and that an accurate re-
port of speech is expected, although
the utterance be so indistinct, the dis.
course is one long stenographic guess
and that the midnight which finds you
asleep demands that they be awake, and
that they are sometimes ground be-
tween the wheels of our great brair
manufactures; sickened at the Otter
approach of men who want compliment
tary newspaper notices, or who wan
newspaper retraction; one day sent tC
report a burial. the next day to report
a pugilistic encounter; shifted from
place TO place by sudden revolution
which is liable TO take place any day il
our great journalistic establishments;
precarious life becoming more ant
more precarious-if you understood i
you would be more sympathetic. b
affsble when you have not an ak to b.