The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-29
Hints for Cheating H."

Begin by borrowing quarter which
of course you need never return. The
lender will consider it money well inycs.
ted.
Always manage to smoke mt somebody
else's expense. You will be able to get
behind unusually good cigars in this way
much better than you would buy your
self
If you notice anything in sh ow win
dow. order it up to the house regardless
of the expense. The merchant is always
anxious to work of his goods, and it is
your bounden duty to help him.
lie especially careful never to return
book that friend lends you 1t will
look great deal better on your table
than on his-i you are shrewd enough to
tear out the tel-tale fly leaf.
Send home n sewing machine on the
'instalment plan. You can make the
! first payment and sell the machine for
cash before the agent calls again. This
is good investment.
Engage the best horse in the livery
every Sunday. "Money makes the mare
go"-and if it is somebody else's money
she'll go all the faster.
III your salary's small, your dinners
should of course be large. pa,ronize the
markets literally ION tick and have
everything good 10 eat in its season.
You will grow sleek by this method,
and your pocket book will not suffer
the market mans will but that's no
matter.
Your wife and daughters should dress
in silks. Not that they can afford it, or
that anybody expects them to, but it is
sort of disfimguc among strangers to wear
good clothes.
Recollect that you always promise to
pay bill next Saturday" and go fishing
all that day. .
Any suspicious looking person that
comes around the corner may be col
lector, and it would be well to cross the
street. lie will cross too, but you will
gain time to invent new lie about your
financial circumstances.
~, Doctor bills arc never to pc paid.
This IS Oh honor. "Folks that's rich
can pay them fellows-they have a
mighty easy time, and get their money
without trouble"
| Twenty-Five dollars TO n lawyer to
contest a suit for debt is a highly hon
orable and dignified way of getting rid
Of said debt. II will bring you before
the courts, and your name will be in the
| papers.
It. is great mistake to draw your own
salary. Have a "friend" who does this
for you. Then the firm that owes you
will not owe you, and "gsrnisheeing,"
"factorizing," 'trustceing," and the like
will not trouble you.
Talk very loud about your "business'
and the great things you are doing and
your plans for the future. People will
gain an impression that your Capital
is employed, and that you are an enter.
prising, stirring sort of man-which you
are, in certain lines.
House rent is Of no consequence to a
landlord. fyou occupy his house it will
give II an "air of business-likc respecta-
bllity." You may get warned OUT
after awhile, but you can always have
the satisfaction of calling h;:, "mean
stingy old curmudgeon, that never kept
the house in condition fit for hog to
live Notwithstanding that you lived
IN it yourself as long as he would allow
you.
Subscribe for the daily papers-all Of
them. You will thus be kept informed
OF what is going on in the world, and
can talk intelligently on all subjects
Drop in occasionally and make n sug
gestion or two as to the course the pape,
ought to pursue. 1t will be considered ar
equivalent for the money in advance.
Atcu: two years of ih;s SORT Of procc.
dure will serve to bring you cut as s
imam of mark" and dead beat" of the
first water.-Nep Harcn Register.