Year: 1860

PARABLE FOR BUSINESS MEN.-There was
once upon time man who kept a store.
and sold goods wholesale and retail.


And he became melancholy, because
customers were shy and times were bad.


And he said: Lo! | am being ruined,
and the sensation is disagreeable.


And my ruin is the more painful tc
bear, because it is slow in progress even
as water doth gradually become hotter in
the pot wherein the lobster boileth. until
the crustaceous creature shaketh out hi,
soul in anguish.


Lo! it is better to be ruined quickly
than to endure this slow torture.


will give my money away to the pool
man, even the poorest, which is he who
printeth newspapers; and | will shut VI
shop, and wrap myself in the sackcloth o
desolation, and pass my days in the pur
lieus of broken banks, cursing the hard
ness of the times, and rending my gar
ments.


And the howlings of Rome shall be a.
the dulcet sounds of dulcimero: and they
who blow flutes and instruments of music
compared to the din | will make in the
ears of the wicked, even in the ears of the
bank directors.


And even as he said, % did he: for he
was not like other sons of men, who are
foolish and know it not, and say they will
| do so and so, performing afterwards that
which is contrary.


For the sons of men are tickle, and he
that is born of a woman doth spite his
face by diminishing the length of the nose
l thereof


And, lol the prlnter-even he who die
1 publish newspapers-was made glad by
| the bounty of him who sold wholesale ano
| retail and he did blow the trumpet o
| fame respecting the mans dealings, from
the rising of the sun to the going dowI
| thereof.


And he-even the printer of papers
did magnify and enlarge upon the stocE
| of goods which the trader had in his store
| and did publish the variety and the new
ness and the cheapness thereof, till the
| people-vea all Of them, far and near
were amazed.


And said, Lo! this man has gathered
| from the East and West costly merchan.
| disc and wares of wondrous value,-even
| the workmanship of cunning artihcers
| and we knew it not.


| 10 to then. We will Law out our silver
| and our gold in those things which the
| printer printeth of and that which he
doth publish shall he ours. For this man.
| merchandise is better than the bank notes
of those that promise TO pay and therein
lie. even banks of deposit, which heguile
us Of our money. and swindle us like sin.


But the trader was still sad. and he said
the money that these people bring me
will | give to the printer, and thu,
will ruin myself; | will do that which no
man hath yet done in my time or before
me. will make the printing man, whom
al men scorn for his poverty, rich he
shall rejoice, and the sons of men shall
seek him in the market-place. and the
sheriff shall shun him, and the scoffers
shall be rebuked and take off their hats
To him who was poor.


For | will ruin myself, and he who adj
vertiseth me shall enjoy my substance.


But, 10, the trading man--even he who
sold merchandise, became rich; and even
as the unclean beast heth in the mire, so
stirred he not by reason of much gold.


And the people tlocked to his store from
the North, and from the South, and from
the East, and from the West. And the
printer rejoiced, and his fat abounded.
But the trader could not become poor
and his melancholy ceased, and the smiles
OF happiness were on his face. And his
children became mighty in the land by
reason of the dollars which the people
who read his advertisements had poured
into that traders money-bag.- York
Pioneer.