Year: 1859

There was once upon time man who
kept store, and sold goods wholesale
and retail.


And he became melancholy, becaus,
customers were shy, and times were bad


And he said Lol am 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 boilcth
until the erustaceous creature shrieketh
out its soul in anguish.


Lo! it is better to be ruined quickly
than to endure this torture.
I will gvie my money away to the poor
man-evcn to the poorest, which is he
who printeth newspapers, and l will shut
up my shop and wrap myself in the sack
cloth of desolation, and pass my days in
the purlieus of broken banks, cursing the
hardness of the times and rending my
garments. "'


And the bowling Of Rome shall be as
the dulcet sound of dulcimers, and they
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compared to the din l will make in the
ears of the wicked-even in the ears Of
the bank directors.


And even as he said, so did he; for he
was not like other mems sons who are
foolish and know it not, and they say
they will do so, and performing that
which is contrary.
For the sons of man are tickle, and he that
is born Of woman doth spite his face by
diminishing the lenth of the nose thereof
And 10! the printer---even he who did
publish ncwspapers-was made glad by
the bounty of him who sold wholesale and
retail; and he did sound his praises and
print them moreover, and he did blow the
trumpet of fame respecting that mans
dealings from the rising of the sun even
to the going down of the same.
And he-even the printer of papers
did magnify and enlarge upon the stock
Of goods which the trader had in his store,
and did publish the variety, and the ex-
cellence, and the newness, and the beauty,
and the cheapness thereof, till the people
yea! all of them far and near-were
amazed.


And they said, Lol this man hath gath
cred from the East and the West costly
merchandise and wares of wondrous value
even the workmanship of cunning arti-
| hcers-and we knew il not. Go to, then.
We will lay out our silver and nur gold
in those things which the printer printeth
Of, and that which he doth publish shall
be ours. For this mans merchandise is
better than the bank notes of those who
promise to pay, but therein lie even banks
of deposit which beguile us OF our money
and swindle us like siu.


But lat the trader is still sad, and he
said: The money that these people bring
me for the goods in my store will l still
give to the printer and thus will ruin
myself / will do that which no man hath
done in my time or before me, l will
make the printing man, whom all men
scorn for his poverty, rich; and he shall
be clad in linen, and 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 rcbuked, and shall
take off their hats to him that was poor


And he shall fash the dollars in the
eyes of the foolish and shall eat bank note
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For will ruin myself and he who ad
vertiscth me shall enjoy my substance.


But 10! the trading man-even he who
sold erchandise-becamc rich, and even
as the unclean beast lieth in the mire, SC
stirred he not by reason Of much gold.


And the people focked to his store
from the North.


And from the South.


And from the East


And from the West.
And the printer rejoiced, and his fa
did abound.


But the trader could not become poor
and his melancholy ceased, aud the smiles
of happiness were on his face.
And his children did become mighty II
the land by reason of the dollars which
many of the people who read his adver
tisements had poured into the trader
money bags.


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