Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-26

Do NOT AccgPr CRED1T.-Brothe-
Farmers :-"Beware of the dog"
He has bitten US once, let US take heed
that he bite US not second time.
Some merchants are offering credit
do not accept it; pay for everything
you buy, though you may suffer little
inconvenience at the time. Stick to it
and keep out of debt, and turn every
dollar possible to pay up the old debts.
1t is better to suffer little at present
than to suffer more in future. No
matter if your clothes are old and poor
let the gnde acije patch them put
upon patch if necessary so they be
clean and whole, no sensible person
will think the less of you for wearing
them, if they know you do it from a
desire to save means to pay your debts.
Be economical in your living, buy no
luxures till your debts are paid. The
bare necessaries of life Cost very little !;
a good living is very comfortable to
have, but do not purchase it at the ex-
p nse of future prosperity. A bushel
Of cornmeal made into hasiy pudding
and gallon of molasses for sauce,
will keep quite large family week
and costing about 81 ,25 it is both
good and wholesome. Live as we'll as
your means will allow but better to
live on the pudding and molasses than
get into debt for more expensive food
Stick to these principles, and if there
is anything Sin the man" you will be
sure to be emanclpated from the slavery
Of debts. ". H., in the Prairie
Farmer.
PAY PRoMPTLy.-"Good debts be-
come bad ones by not being called for. -
So said noted usurer once. The next
greatest evil to running in debt is that
of not paying promptly. 1t is not
only an evil to the creditor who may
have made engagements which depend
for their ful6llment upon the prompt
ness Of the debtor, but it begets bad
habits in the debtor. Alpoevs was
right. He had experience. He spoke
by virtue Of his knowledge acquired
as an usurer. Indifference on the part
Of the creditor is too often followed by
the same on the part of the debtor. 1t
is not rare to hear men complain of
the promptness and importantly of
creditors. 1t is not rare to see men
angry when asked to pay a debt hon
estly due. Such men should rarely be
trusted; they may have been spoiled
by their creditors. Once in debt, pay
promptly if possible if not, lie; the
creditor call as often as he may threat,
en-, show anger or make himself odious,
keep cool, curb passion, and get out
Of his power as soon as possible. But
prompt creditors make prompt debtors,
and it is q wise policy that makes it
q dishonor to the man who allows his
note to be dishonored-Prarie Far
naer.
DoN'r GET IN DEBr.-Debt is q
perfect bore. How it haunts man
from pillar to post-lurking in his
breakfast cup-poisoni 6 his dinner
embittering his tea now it stalk S
from him like living, moving skele-
ton, seeming to announce his presence
by recounting the liabilities. How it
poisons his domestic joys, by intruding
Its Internal "balance' into the calcu-
lation of madam, respecting the
price of new carpet, or new
dress! How it hinders dreamy plans
for speculations and accumulations |!
Botheration! How it hampers useless
energies-cripples resolutions too good
to be fulfilled. Sat. Gazette.
SUMMER SoURs.-Physiological re-
search has fully established the fact
that acids promote the separation of
the bill, from tie blood, which is then
passed from the system, thus prevent
ing fevers, the prevailing diseases Of
the summer. All fevers are "billous,"
that is, the bile is in the blood. What
ever is antagonistic to fever is "cool-
ing" 1t is common saying that
fruits are "cooling,'' and also berries
Of every description; it is because the
acidlty which they contain aids in sep
grating the bile from the blood ; that
is, aids in purifying the blood. Hence
the great yearning for greens and let
tuce, and salads, in the early spring,
these being eaten with vinegar; hence,
also, the taste for something sour, for
lemonades, on au attack of fever. But
this being the case, it is easy to say
that we nullify the good effect of fruits
and berries in proportion as We eat
them with sugar, or even sweet milk
or cream. If we eat them in their nat
ural state, fresh, ripe, it is almost i'm
possible to eat enoug h to hurt US, es-
pecially if We eat them alone, not ia
king any liquid with them Whatever.
Hence also, Is buttermilk, or even COM
mon sour milk, promotlve Of health
in the summer time. Sweet milk tends
to biliousness in scdentary people; sour
milk is antagonistic. The Greeks and
Turks are passionately fond of sour
milk. The shepherds use rennet, and
the milk-dealers alum, to make it sour
the sooner. Buttermilk acts like wa
termelons on the system Halls
journal Of Health.
How TO AVOID THE DANGER OF
DEMONSTRATING thunder storms,
persons IN houses should sit or lie in