, 1872-05-09

And SO she went On, and in the end
she had cut the bill down, by throwing
out articles which they had not abso-
lutely needed to less than fifteen dollars.
A dollar here had not seemed much
to George, and dollar and half there,
and seTenty-f1ve cents and then only if
ty cents; but there had been twenty
visits to the store during the month,
and the aggregate of these trivial sums
was considerable.
George saw the whole thing, and he
knew his wife had been right from the
first
Don't sny word" he said. "I
see the mistake. But I'll have to work
around into the right track by degrees"
How so, George y
Why-I haven't money enough left
of my mouths wages to quite pay this
bill; SO I shall De utterly unable to enter
upon the cash principle at present"
There need be no difficulty in that
direction" said Hattie. "I have not
quite spent all my little capital. 1 had
already fixed it for bit of nestegg :
and 1 don't know as it could be put to a
better use than the laying of founda-
tion for cash payments. At any rate.
George, let us try it for d WHILE
George kissed his wife. and said she
was blessing; and he promised 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
monument; and he felt an ambition, toe.
to see how speedily he could do it.
And on Monday morning the new rule
of life went into operation. George
paid Mr.. Ski Ids bill and told him here.
after he should pay cash for everything
he bought. The storekeeper pooh hood,
and said there was no need of it.
" Bless you. my boy" 1 had as lief
trust you as not"
"I do not doubt it Mr.. Skidd: but I
prefer not to be trusted. Ivould rather
consume my own groceries than to con-
sumo yours. A bill is an evil at best.
and 1 don't choose to have evils growing
on my hands if can help it,
Mr.. Skidd saw very plainly that his
customers vision was clear, and said no
more.
On the evening of that very Monday.
Mr.. Skidd exhibited to George sosne ex-
ira nice preserves, and the young mans
first impulse was to order pot Of them;
but the taking out of his wallet, and tho
breaking Of a five-iollar bill, was pal
pable reminder and be concluded he
could get along without them. Said he
to himself
"These seemingly triAing sums, if I
save them, will at the end of the month.
add up as greatly in my favor as they
have hitherto added up against me-"
And he found it so. And he found
one more thing in his favor from cash
payments, which he had not particularly
counted upon. AS he had the money
in hand to pay for the articles which he
had planned to purchase, he could buy
it where he could get it best and cheap
est. Traders are not willing to lose
such customers; and they do only the
fair thing when they sell to such
customer cheaper than they sell to 9TH
erS.
Not only is the interest of the money
on account an important item in the ag-
gregate of many accounts. but the keep
ing of that account in day-book and
ledger is an expense. George very soon
learned this; and he found that even Mr.
Skidd sold to him during this month for
cash payments, cheaper than he had
sold during the previous MONTH g. 3.
And as the months rolled on. George
Brown opened no more accounts with
traders. He found that in paying casl,
he was constantly reminded of the value
of each seperate sum as he counted it
out. and was hence not likely to pur-
chase what he did not need. And then
he had goal ahead which he had de-
termined to reach as speedily as posi-
BILE ;and by his system of cash payment
he could estimate at the close of each
day the gain he was making toward the
desired end. In two months he hal
paid what he lad borrowed from his
wife, and she pnt it into the common
fund. and in five years his home was his
own. and he owed no man anything but
love and good will.
To CURE THE LOVE OF ARDENT SPIR-
Irs.-Captain Hall was the commander
of the Great Eastern steamship. He
had fallen into such habits of drunken
ness that his most earnest efforts to re-
claim himself proved unavailing. At