Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-06-30
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What, not avail myself of this capital
opportunity for bargain, just because
the money is not in my pocket There
are great many snug fortunes made ny
buying on time. But our mercantile
friends who draw most largely on their
credit. will agree with us IN advising a
Young man to pay as he goes A six
1enn9 loaf of bread without butter, and
no debt on it, has better relish than
vour bet dinner that is to be paid for
tomorrow. The potatoes that are paid
for before eating them have no bitter
taste, while coppery flavor mingles
with the vanilla of the creams that are
bought on credit. Cash lards hand
somely the leanest beef. Credit makes
the fattest slices shrink in the pan. If
you pay as you go, very likely you will
fall astern of your bold specializing
neighbors but you will have your vessel
in better trim for squall Men do not
always get rich very rapidly who adopt
the motto, but they very seldom can
make out to fail. 1t may be hard for
them to get rich, but it is harder for 9TH
er people to suffer very bitterly on ac-
count of their poverty. The man who
pays as he goes, and has nothing but the
suit he has on, and the meal he is eating
that he can call his own,-how much
poorer is he than his neighbor who keeps
a carriage and a servant, and lives in
splendor, and owes more than he can ev-
er pay? The latter, one will say, en-
joys all the money that his splendor rep
resents. That is very much matter of
taste. We should not enjoy it. Wild
ows and orphans will weep when he dies,
but because his estate only pays twenty
cents on the dollar. Pay as you CO.
and leave no unpleasant business for
your executors to transact. 1t is not
gratifying for the widow to have your
debts to settle, and children come by de-
grees to think less of their deceased faith
er, when bills are presented that cannot
be met by his assets. Pay as you go,
sleep sound o'night, and drive out the
nightmare from your dormitory. You
will keep things snugger about the
house. Your account book will be a
model of simplicity. You will buy what
you want, and leave what is unneeded |
till money is plentier. You will find |
the necessities of life to be only the dec
imation of what generally are called |
such. OFF their faces, tearing the lean
and haggard mask, you will find jolly,
lazy luxuries behind. Your library
will contain fewer and choicer books
Your wardrobe will be a collection of
wearable garments,-your home an ag-
gregation of comforts for every day use.
Your wife will be as tidy and neat as the
best of them. She will have very little
old jewelry to exchange for new, and the
moths viii not much trouble her during
.hese warm days. Your balance sheet
will always be pleasant document to
study. The amount you have in the
bank, the property you hold, the stock
you own, will be the true representatives
If your means. Pay as you 90, and
when you die enjoy the satisfaction that
here is but one debt left behind you
# you have not anything, the underta-
ler's bill will not be very heavy-too
mall to trouble you much afterwards.
Next to having money enough, the most
comfortable thing, in financial aspect,
5 to owe nothing to any man. Pay ev-
rybody as you go, but pay the printer
n advance.