The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-07-01
"In Memory Of Cash Down."

| buried, and the mOuri1ers are home from
the funeral. He was well. known man,
but of late years he was not half appre-
ciated. There was time when he stood
head and shoulders above Trust and
Dead Beat, but times some how changed.
Cash Down left quite 4 large family,
who will take warning by his sad fate.
He cut his life short by many years in
his efforts to keep his word and meet
his pecunary obligations, and they Will
not follow in his footsteps.
There was time when Cash Down
was met with q smile and n hearty
shake of the hand. If he wanted his
buggy repaired the blacksmith would
figure fine and depend upon his pay the
hour the work WIS finished. He could
then take the money and become Cash
Down himself, making n difference oil
ten per cent. in his favor. II Cash
Down wanted new suit Of clothes the
tailor made difference Of SIS between
him and Slow Pay, and the money could
be sent East to pay for his cloth. The
last time Cash Down was out on the
street he saw Slow Pay, Bad Debt and
Dead Beat walking arm in arm, and the
blacksmith. the tailor, tue grocer and
the merchant shook hands with each one
of them and replied:
Certainly certainly. You can have
what you want on time, end III sell you
Just as cheaply, and wait upon you as
promptly, as [ will Cash Down"
One of them might pay in six months
the second might be forced to pay in n
wear or two, and the third didn't intend
to pay at any time. They got the same
treatment as Cash Down, and Il great
rush was made to send home their
goods.
The old man entered a grocery where
he had paid out hundreds Of dollars in
ready money and asked the price of su-
gar. Slow Pay sauntered in after him
and asked the same question, and both
were given one figure. Yet at that time
Cash Down had paid over that counter
more than thousand dollars in ready
cash, and Slow Pay was in debt fifty
dollars and adding to the figure.
Cash Down went to dry goods store
to purchase a dress for his wife. Bad
Debt was ahead of him. Cash Down
pulled out $50 bill and paid for his
goods on the spot. Bad Debt picked up
his bundle and told them to charge il.
In the one case the merchant hGd his
money in the cash-boX to help pay for
new stock. In the other his collector
would be months, if not years, getting
it, or in the end it would be charged TO
profit and loss. Yet Cash Down had to
pay the same price that Bad Debt did.
Cash down wanted a new pair Of
boots. He went to his old shoemaker
and was surprised to hear that lie would
be charged fifty cents more than for the
last pair.
Has there been great advance in
the price of leatherp" lie asked
"0h, no."
Do you pay your worbmcn mnreP"
"Not cent. You see, Slow Pay, Ba1
Debt and Dead Beat are into me pretty
heavily, and must makei up by charg-
ing cash customers littcmore! That's
a way we all have Of doing"
Cash Down must then pay the same
prices rs Dead Beat, and help make
good Dead Beats Indebtedness in ad-
dition! He went home, sick in mind
and body. The doctor who attended
him was bound by solemn agreement to
charge as much as if called to see Dead
Beat, and his prescriptions cost more,
because he had to held pay Dead Beats
old bill at the drug store. When he
died the undertaken made no reduction
on the casket, and the tombstone cutters
put an extra five dollars on the price Of
the shaft TO pay the balance due from
Bad Debt for the one furnished his
child's gravel
Mrs. Cash Down, widow OF the late
deceased, went down after her mourn
ing yesterday. She bought a bonnet at
one place and said she'd pay sometime
this summer. She got dress goods at
another, and simply told them to put
on the books. She needed shoes, and
she said she'd hand it in some day. She
had hundred dollars in her pocket, but
she didn't pay out a cent. She had
learned something. - Detroit Free Press.