Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-07-15
Pay as You Go.

The New York Times has the following advice,
which, if followed up, would prevent many an aching
heart and sorowful bosom. 1t reminds us OF some OF
Franklins excellent essays:
&c What not avail myself of this capital opportunity
for bargain just because the money not in my pock
ct? There great many snug fortunes made by
buying on time. But mercantile friends who draw
most largely on their credit will agree with us IN ad-
vising young man TO pay as he goes slxpenny
loaf of bread without butter and debt it, has
better relish than your best dinner that has to be paid
for tomorrow. The potatoes that are paid for before
eating them have no bitter taste, while coppery fla
vor mingIes with the vanilla of the creams that are
bought credit Cash lards handsomely the leanest
beef. Credit makes the faest slices shrink in the
pan. If you pay you co. very likely you will fail
of your bold specializing neghbor, but you will
have your vessel in better trim for sguall. Men do
not always get rich very rapidly who adopt the motto
but they very seldom make out to fail. 1t may be
hard for them to get rich, but it is harder for other
people TO suffer very bitterly on account OF their power
ty
The man who pays as he goes and has nothing
but the suit he has on, and the meal he is eating. that
he call his own-how much poorer is he than his
neghhor who keeps carriage and servant and lives
in spendor and owes more than he can ever .
The latter, one will say, enjoys all the money that
his splendor represents. This is very much matter
of taste. We should not enjoy it. Widows and Or
phans will weep when he dies not because he has
gone, but because his estate only pays twenty cents
SAINT business for your executor 10 Transact 1t is not
gratifying for the widow to have your debts to settle,
and children by degrees think less of their de-
ceased father, when bills presented that be
met by his assets. Pay you go. sleep sound onight
and drive out the nightmare from your dormiory. You
will keep things snugger about the house. Your
count book will be model of simplicity. You will
buy what you want, and leave what is unheeded till
money is pentier. You will find the necessities OF
life to be only the decnation of what generally
called rich Off their laces, tearing the lean and hag-
CARED mask, you will find jolly, lazy luxuries behind
A FATAL CAsE.-Old Polly Snath terribly
plain She would have borne off the jacknfe
from all competitors and given the odds of fifty starts
in the She endessly complaining of her
ailments of various kind, Mrs. Snaith, TO the no
small annoyance of such listeners she claimed to
hold, as did the ancient mariner the wedding guest
by the spell of her " glterng eye and no was
annoyed than old DR.. Bolus, cynical old fellow
of her neighborhood Meeting Mrs. Snaith NOR
ming he venued to salute her with usual compliment
| of the morning, with the accustomed. How de do ]"
Fatal mistake Why doctor, feel putty mizable
thank'ee. My old complaints is troublin me. There
never poor cretur that suffered more than do
Pains and aches and aches and palms, all the time y
Butt interrupted the doctor, growing impatient 'you
don't look very SICK " No." replied she, :" know
| don't Il feel good deal worse than look" " Coco
heaven !" cried the doctor, throwing up his hands
% then you had better make haste home, for you can
live an hour !" Mrs. Snath had the good sense Il
know what he meant, and never made any more com
plants TO him.