The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-11-02

l1eL OeInaHU HNO leave SOIucGliIuS Ovcl'
He had Just commenced housekeep-
ing, and did not expect to save much
at first.
But, mercy! now his expectations
and anticipations were knocked into
pieces as he looked at this bill. He
told Skid he guessed he would look it
over; and on his way home he exam
ined it; but he could find nothing
wrong-nothing wrong in the items
but the sum total was aposer: t,centy-
sic dollars and torty-t,co cents.
For a long time after he reached
home he tried to convince Hattie
that nothing was the matter with him,
but at length he plucked up courage
and drew forth Skid's bill. He had
expected that his wife would be par
allied but, on the contrary, she only
smiled and said it was all right.
"All right I" echoed George,
can right 80 far as Mr.. Skid is
concerned" said Hattie. 4" You re.
member what / told you once before,
and now let's sit down and eat supper
and then we will look the matter
over. @
After supper they went to work.
Hattie took the bill and blank piece
of paper, and followed the items down
with a pencil.
''First," said she, !" is box Of
figs at fifteen cents a pound. 1t was
very cheap, no doubt, but the eight
pounds came to a dollar and seventy
cents. Had you been required to pay
cash you would not have bought
them. You would, at least, asked me
if / liked them, and would have
told you no. Next, we had a gallon
of golden syrup for which you would
not have paid cash without consulting
me-"
And so she went on, and in the end
she had cut down the bill, by throw
ing out articles which they had not
absolutely needed, to less than fifteen
dollars.
A dollar here had not semed much
to George, and a dollar and a half
there, and seventy-five cents, and
then only fifty cents but there had
been twenty visits to the store during
the last 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 say word," he said !; 81
see the mistake. But I'll have to
work around into the right track by
degrees" s'
How SO, George Z" ..-
- Why, / haynt enough lefta OF my
months wages to quite pay this bill,
so shall be utterly unable to enter
upon the cash principle at present"
"There need be no difficulty in
that direction" said Hattie. 81 have
not quite spent all my capital. l have
already fixed it for q bit Of u nest-cgg;
and don't know that it could be put
to Il better use than the laying of a
foundation for cash payments; and at
any rate, George, let us try it for
WHILE"
George kissed his wife and said
that she was a blessing, and he prom
ised to follow her advice in the future.
He took the money she had to give,
and held it as loan, which he was
to return at the earliest possible mo-
ment; and he felt an ambition, too, to
see how speedily he could do it.
And on Monday morning the new
rule of life went into operation.
George paid Mr.. Skid's bill, and told
him that hereafter he should pay cash
for everything he bought. The store
keeper pooh-poohed, and said there
was no need Of that.
Bless you my boy, I'd as lief
trust you as not"
"I do not donbt it Mr.. Skid, but l
prefer not to be trusted. l would
rather consume my own groceries
than to consume yours. A bill is an
evil at best, and | don't choose to
have evils growing on my hand if l
can help it."
Mr.. Skid saw very plainly that his
customers vision was clear, and he
said no more. -...-...
On the eve of that very Monday
Mr.. Skid exhibited to George some
extra nice preserves, and the rich nice
young mans first impulse was to
buy a pot of them, but the taking out
Of his wallet and the breaking of Il
five dollar bill was palpable remind
er, and he concluded that he could
get along without them. Said he to
himself:
"These seemingly trivial sums, if
l 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 thing more in his favor from cash
payments which he had not particu-
larly counted upon. AS he had the
money in hand to pay for articles
which he had planned to buy, he
could purchase it where he could get
it cheapest and best.
Traders are not willing to lose cash
customers and they do only the fair
and honest thing when they sell to
such customer cheaper than they
sell to others.
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