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

Begin by borrowing quarter which
of course you need never return. The
lender will consider it money well inves-
ted.
Always manage to smoke at 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.
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 off his goods, and it is
your bounden duty to help him.
Be especially careful never to return
book that friend lends you. 1t will
look great deal better on your table
than on 6is-if you are shrewd enough to
tear out the tell.tale fly leaf.
Send home sewing machine on the
'einstalment" 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 60 all the faster.
II your salary's small, your dinners
should of course be large. Patronize the
markets literally ION tickl 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 chat they can afford it, or
that anybody expects them to, but it is
sort of distinguc among strangers to wear
good clothes.
Recollect that you always promise to
pay a bill "next Saturday" and 60 fishing
all that day.
Any suspicious looking person that
comes around the corner may be a col
lector, and it would be we'll to cross the
street. He will cross too, but you will
gain time to invent new lie about your
financial circumstances.
Doctor bills are never to pc paid.
This is on 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 lawyer to
contest suit for debt is highly hon
orable and digni6ed way of getting rid
of said debt. 1t will bring you before
the courts, and your name will be in the
papers.
1t is great mistake to draw your own
salary. Have q "friend" who does this
for you. Then the firm that owes you
will not owe you, and "garnisheeing,"
"factorizing," "trusteeing," and the like
will not trouble you.
Talk very loud about your cuisines"
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 it an 'air Of business-like respecta-
bility." You may get "warned out"
after awhile, but you can always have
the satisfaction of calling him "mean,
stingy old curmudgeon, that never kept
the house in a condition fit for hog to
live in"-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 sug-
gestion or two as to the course the paper
ought to pursue. 1t will be considered an
equivalent for the money in advance.
About two years of this sort of proce-
dure will serve to bring you out as a
"man of mark" and "dead beat" of the
first water.-Neao Haven Register.