The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-11-17

| ne taking up his yard SUCK, 81 know
you want it. Don't hesitate about the
matter"
Jacobs did not say no, although the
word was on his tongue. While he yet
hositatod the coat pattern was measured
of and severed from the piece.
"Thero it is, came in a satisfied, half
triumphant tone from the storekeeper's
/ lips, "and the greatest bargain you ever
had. You will want trimmings, Of
oourse2"
AS he spoke he turned to the shelves
for padding, lining, silk &C., and while
| Jacobs, half bewildered, stood looking
on, cut from one piece and another, un-
til the coat trimmings were all nicely
laid out. This done, Mr.. Edwards faced
his customer again, rubbing his hands
from an internal feeling Of delight, and
said
"You must have a handsome vest to
| 60 with this, Of course"
"My vest is a little shabby" replied
Jacobs, as he glanced downward at a
garment which had seen pretty fair ser.
vice.
off that's the best one you have, It
will never do to so with new coat, -
said Edwards, in a decided tone. "Let
me show you beautiful piece of black
satin"
And the storekeeper went on tempt
ing his customer, until he sold him a
vest and pantaloons in addition to the
coat. After that he found no difficulty
in selling him a silk dress for his wife
Having INDUCED himself with an entire
, new suit, he could not, upon reflection
think Of passing by his wife, who had
been wishing for a new dress for more
o than six months.
"Can you think Of anything elso2
r imputed Edwards. "I shall be happy
to supply Whatever you may want in my
line"
"Nothing more, I believe" answered
Jacobs, whose bill was already thirty
five dollars; and he had yet to pay fol
making his coat, pantaloons and vest.
"But you will want various articles
of dry goods. In family there is some
thing called for every day Tell Mrs
Jacobs to send down for whatever she
may need Never mind about the money
Your credit is good with me for any
amount
When Mr.. Jacobs went home and tolC
his wife what he had done, she, unre
focting woman, was delighted.
L 81 wish you had taken a piece Of
muslin" said she. "We want sheets
and pillow cases badly"
"You can get piece" replied Jacobs
awe won't have to pay for it now. Ed
wards will send the bill at the end Of
= six months, and it will be easy to pay il
g then"
"Ol easy enough" responded his wife
confidently.
d So a piece of muslin was procured or
the credit account But things did no
p stop there A credit account is too Of
ten like a breach in a canal-the stream
is small at first, but soon increases to
ruinous current. Now that want haC
found a supply source, want became
more clamorous than before. Scarcely
day passed that Mr.. or Mrs. Jacobs die
3 not order something from the store, no
dreaming, simple souls, that an alarm
ing, heavy debtwas acoumulating agains
them,
AS to tho income of Mrs Jacobs, i
It was not large. He was, as has been in
It timated, clerk in a wholesale store, ant
n received a salary of seven hundred dol
e lars a year. His family consisted of
d wife and three children, and he ha,
found it necessary to be prudent, in al
l. his expenditures, in order 10 "make boil
q ends meet" Somewhat independent il
his feelings, he had never asked credi
q of any one with whom he dealt, and, NJ
@ one offering it, previous to the tempting
o inducement held out by Edwards, h
d had regulated his Outgoes by his aotua
" income. By this means he had manag
Y ed to keep even with the world; thougI
n not to gain any advantage on the sid
- of fortune. Let us SEQ how it is wit
o him at the end of six months under th
d new system. Let us see if his "goo
I credit" has been of any real benefit {
a him.
It was so very pleasant to have thing
,- comfortable, or for little display, with
.e out feeling that the indulgence draine
ltl the purse too heavily. And weak vanit
on the part Of Jacobs, was gratihed b
d the dattering opinions of his honest
IS entertained by Edwards, tho storekeeI
er. His credit was "good, and he wa
In proud Of the fact, But the day Of recb
Oning was approaching, and at last
S, came,
Notwithstanding the credit at the dr
k goods store, there was no more none
O. in the young clerk purse at the end q
six months than at the beginning. IN
~ cash that would have gone for clothin
when necessity called for additions
the family wardrobe, had been spent f,
le things, the purchase Of which would
ry omitted, but for the fact that the dolla
If were in the purse instead Of In II
e, storekeepers hands, and tempted nee,
less expenditure.
be AS the end of the six months cred
lis approached the mind Of Jacobs bega
at to rest upon the dry goods dealers bill
is and to be disturbed by a feeling of an,
an iety. AS to the amount Of this bill
to was in some uncertainty but he thong
ds It would not be less than forty dollal
ht This was a large sum for him to oW
or particularly as no had nothing ahea
ne land his current oxpcnses were fully