The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30

knocked In pieces as he looked at this bill.
He told Skidd he guessed he would look it
over; and on his way homeward he examin-
ed It; but he could find nothing wrong
nothing wrong in the items-but the sum
total was poser: twenty-six dollars and
forty-two cents!
For long time after he had reached home
he tried to convince Hattie that nothing
was the matter with him; but at length he
plucked up courage, and drew forth Skidd's
bill He had expected that his wife would
be paralyzed. But on the contrary, she
only smiled and said it was all right.
Gan right !" echoed George.
"All right" so far as Mr.. Skidd is con-
cerned," said Hattie "You remember
what told you once before, and now let's
sit down and eat supper, and then we will
look the matter over" NUI trUlE
And after supper they went at the work.
Hattie took the bill, and and piece of
blank paper, and followed the items down
with her pencil.
" First she said, is box Of figs, at
CSutS % pOahus ~ Woo NCiJ SiOoP
no doubt; but the eight pounds came to
dollar and twenty-five cents. Had you
been required to pay cash, you would not
have bought them. You would, at least,
have asked me if liked them, and | should
have told you, no. Next we have gallon
of golden syrup, which we did not need,
and for which you would not have paid cash
without consulting me-"
And so she went on, and at the end she
had cut down the bill, by throwing out ar
ticles which they had not absolutely need
cd, to less than fifteen dollars.
A dollar here did not seem much to
| George; and dollar and half there; and
then seventyfve cents; and then only fifty
cents; but there had been twenty visits to
the store during the past month, and the
aggregate of these trivial sums was consid-
erable.
George saw the whole thing, and he
knew that his wife had been right from the
first.
"Don't say word" he said. 81 see
the mist AXE. But I'll have to work around
in the right track by degrees
" How so, George?''
Why ! haven't money enough left of
my months wages to- pay this bill; so l
shall be utterly unable to enter upon the
cash principle at present.
"There need be no difliclty in that di-
recton," said Hattie. I" have not spent
quite all my little capital. had already
fixed it for a bit of nest egg and don't
know that it could be put to better use
than the laying of a foundation for cash
payments. At any rate, George, let us try
it for while"
: George kissed his wife and said she was
blessing; and he promised that he would
follow her advice in the future. He took
the money which she had to give, and held
it as loan, which he was to return at the
earliest possible moments and he felt an
ambition, too, to see how speedily he could
do it,
) And on Monday morning the new rule
, Mr. Skidd's bill, and told him that here
after he should pay cash for everything he
, bought. The store keeper pooh-poo'd, and
) said there was no need of it.
Bless you, my boy, had as leave trus
you as not"
al do not doubt it, Mr.. Skidd, but
prefer not to be trusted. / would rathe
consume my own groceries than to consume
yours A bill is an evil at best, and don
choose to have evils growing on my hands
! If can help it,"
Mr.. Skidd saw very plainly that his Gus
TONER'S vision was clear, and he said M
| more.
I On the evening of that very Monday, Mr.
0 Skidd exhibited to George some extra nic
preserves, and the young mans first i'm
pulse was TO order pot of them; but TIN
Il taking out of his wallet and the breaking
ofa fve-dollar bill was palpable reminder
e and he concluded that he could get alonl
: without them. Said he to HIMSELF
y "These seemingly trivial sums, if saw
them, will, at the end of tho month, adj
up as greatly in my favor as they hav
p heretofore added against me-"
v And he found it so. And he found on
p thing more in his favor from cash payment
which he had not particularly counted upo
v AS he had the money in his hand to pa
e for the articles he had planned to purchase
he could buy it where he could get it hes
h and cheapest. Traders are not willing
d lose cash customers; and they do only tn
it fair and honest thing when they sell to sue