Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-23
Keep Accounts.

Keep Accounts.
Do not laugh, Mr.. Bonner, but / d.
wish to urge upon all young people
whose habits are yet to be formed, mol
the duty of enterprise, nor of frugality
not of temperance, nor of industry
but the duty of keeping CAREFUL ac
counts.
This isnot performed by simply en-
tering every penny spent, but of so bal,
aneing receipts and expenditures that
one may know every day precisely how
he stands with the world. Credit may
be helpful in an organized business
But when young men or women are Just
beginningto earn little money, tits wise
for them never to owe penny, not even
for day. 1t is better to go without a
hundred needed things than to be in debt
and the poorer you are, the more tyran-
nical will debt prove to be. A rich man
may venture TO 60 in debt; he has re-
sources which have only to be collected
to meet it, But poor man in debt has
only his scant earnings, which often
barely suffice to pay his daily necessities,
aud leave the debt, with accommodating
interest, to worry him and to tempt him
to dishonesty.
1t is wise for every young man to re-
fuse to incur debt, and to oblige himself
to keep clear and minute account of
every cent gained and spent. The habit
once formed, it is as easy to be method.
cal in money matters as to be careless.
Small as this may seem, it will really
exert moral influence upon ones whole
life. 1t is the foundation of business. Ii
one begins to get on in life, he will have
become so wonted to method and to clear
understanding of his affairs, that nothing
will be left to chance. He will see every
day just the road he is on, and how far
along he is.
1t may seem superfuous to exhort
business men to pursue the same course.
But it is probable that not one.half of
the business men in America keep their
accounts In such manner that they
themselves, or any one for them, could
tell, without weeks and months investi.
cation, what their real standing is. The
settling of estates is melancholy bust
ness. All values seem to shrink: hun
dreds of things import to the estate when
kept only in the mans head, and he dy-
ing the record of then is lost, or is re-
covered only by long search. Two part
ners may get along smoothly while they
are alive, Several instances have come
to our knowledge of miserable results
following the death of business men,
arising from the wantof thorough account
keeping.
1t ought not to be left question of
business prudence. A careful record of
all affairs should be a part of business
morality. 1t is part of right living to
leave ones affairs so that they can be set.
tied without Misunderstanding or quar-
rel. No one has a right to roll over on
heirs load of difficulties. 1t is a part
of a good preparation for death, to have
ones affairs SO that no one will be be in
jured, and no one perplexed and bur
dened.
Parents should bring up both boys and
girls, to keep accounts. 1t should be i'm
pressed upon them, early and late, that
business cannot be safely carried on with
out minute and accurate record. After a
habit Of accounts is once formed, system
in affairs and method in accounts become
easy. Instead of hindering they facili
tate business, economic time, give clear
ness to ones course, prevent complica-
lions, enable one at any moment to know
his actual condition, and keep his estate
so that If called to leave it, he can do SO
without liability of tormenting his fam
lily or heirs with wretched tangIe of
vexations and disappointments.
Therefore, keep accounts.-H. ". !
Beecher an NJ Y. Ledger.
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