The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-26
s. Charge Ht.'


which people have to deal. It is very
pleasant to have all the little commod-
tiles offered for sale in the market, and
it is sometimes hard to deny ones self
of the same when it can be obtained by
saying charge it," But this habit Of
getting articles, however small the ex-
pense may be, without paying for them,
keeps ones funds in a low state most
of the time.
81 have not the money t0-day-but
should like the article much," says the
young man who happens into store
and sees something which strikes his
fancy.
MEYER mind says the gentlemanly
clerk, 'yOu are good fOr it,
charge it."
And so it is that little accounts are
opened at one place and another, till
the young man is surprised at his liza
bilities; which, though small in detail
are sufficiently large in the aggregate
ting day comes. In many instances,
if the cash were required, the purchase
would not be made even had the per-
son the money by him; but to some,
getting an article charged does not seem
like parting with an equivalent. Still,
when pay day comes, as always it does,
this illusion Vanishes, and a feeling is
experienced Of parting with money and
receiving nothing in return.
II there is an actual necessity of max
ing purchase, and the means are not
at hand, there is a reasonable excuse for
obtaining the same on credit; but when
the article can be dispensed with until
payment can be made, it is much to the
advantage of the purchaser to do so.
1--WE must have a nice set of furni-
ture," says young couple about to be
united in marriage, "but we have not
the means. However, we will get it
and have it charged"
And so they start in life with a debt
hanging over them for which there is
no occasion. The habit once formed is
difficult to break away from, and when
ever anything is wished for, it is pur-
chased without considering that cir
cumstanCes may arise which will rem
der the payment of the debts incurred
impossible. Were there a certainty of
health and a supply of labor, it would
place rather a different construction
upon the matter. But considering the
fluctuating character of business, max
ing it possible that a mechanic may
be thrown ont of employment at any
time, it is certainly better to be prepared
for such emergencies by keeping clear
of debt.
Sickness may also overtake one at
any time, and the thought that numer-
Gus charges are standing against us,
aggravates the disease and renders the
misfortune hard to bear. Taking this
view of the matter is it not better to
fOregO the pleasure of possessing arti-
cles which our taste may prompt us to
purchase until the means are in hand ?
It is very easy to say "charge itn but
not always so easy to pay it. And this
is always the ultimatum. It payment
| is deferred too long the very one who
politely tells the purchaser that it will
make no difference about the money
| will say he had no business to buy fine
feathers if he had no prospect of pay
ing.
And in a measure this is true. By
pursuing such course, a person is new
er independent; the host of little debts
are ever ready to perplex and worry
him, when that for which they were in
! Cured has been used. Hence it may
be said that the custom of charging it,
| is unjust both to purchaser and seller,
as the one loses his peace of mind and
| the other Oftentimes his money. Get
| ting in debt is easy, but getting out is
| just the reverse and for that reason it
would be well for people to ask, when
about to make purchase in the man
ner alluded to, is it not best for ME to
wait until have the money, and then
not have to order the seller to "charge
it tW-EExehange.
BOYS, LISTEN TO THIs.-True as the
gospel is the following, said by Robert
Collyer of Chicago:
| "1t is true that the working, success
full men of to-day were once poor, in
dustrious, self reliant boys. And the
same thing will be repeated-for from
the ranks of the hard working, econo-
mical, temperance and persevering boys
of to-day, will emanate the progressive
prominent men Of the future.
| "Every man doing any sort of work
of Chicago to-day, was raised poor
mans son, and had to fight his way to
his place. Not one of them, as l can
ascertain, was q rich mans son, and
had a good time when he was a boy.
All boys should grow as strong as a
steel bar fighting their way on to an
education, and then, when they are
ready plunge into life with that ira
dional half-dollar and a red handker-
chief, as have known great men start.
| tell you that in five and twenty years,
when most of us that are in our middle
ages have gone to our retribution, the
men Of mark in this country will not be
the sons of those whose fathers can
/ give them all they wish for, and ten
times more than they ought to have,
but it viii be those who are brought up
in farm houses and cottages, cutting
their way through the thickest hindran-
ces of every sort and all the brown
stone houses of this metropolis will
be as nothing to bring out the noble
man,
Damages.--An editor lately killed a
| lady in his paper; the bereaved hus-
band visited him. "Villain," cried the
enraged husband, "you have killed my
wife!" Editor with dignity: "Sir, ]
am an editor, not q dootQP!" "That's
lust it, cried the bereaVed husband
"youive killed her on paper, and she's
alive!" "If she is not dead, I Icongratu.
late youw Congratulated I demand
damages for disappointment"
| z
In MS, in the British museum
descriptive of Hungary, the writer says
at hath been an ancient custom among
them. that none should wear O feather
/ but he who had killed a Turk, to whom
on1ie it was lawful to show the mum,
ber of his slaine enemyes, by the mum.
ber of fethers I'm his capDe.n Thus We
Get the phrase, "That win be another
feather In his cap"
Yankee Divorces. - The Madison
| Da.oonrat +n1Is the foI1oviup divorce