Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1880-09-02

THE DEATH OF CAsH-DOwN.
Slow Pay, BAD Debt aud Dead Beat Killed
He is at rest. CASH Down is dead
and buried and the mourners are
home from the funeral. He was
well-known man, but of late years he
was not half appreciated. There was
q time when he stood full head and
shoulders above Trust and Dead.
Beat, but times somehow changed.
Cash-Down left quite q family, who
will take warming by his sad fate. He
cut his life short by many years in his
efforts to keep his word ana meet his
pecuniary obligations, and they will
not follow in his, footsteps.%
There was a time when Cash Down
was met with smile and q hearty
shake of the hand: IF he rsnted his
buggy repaired the Blacksmith wo6ldI
figure and depend upon Lbs pay the
hour tlie work was finished. He
could then take the money md be=
come Cssh-Down himself, making a
difference of 10 per cent. IN his favor.
If CASH down wanted new suit of
clothes, the tailor made a difference
of IS 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 black
smith, the tailor, the grocer and the
merchant shook hands with each one
of them and replied:
''Certainly-certainly. You can
have what You want on time, and
I'll sell you just as L will CASH
Down"
One of them might pay in six
months; the second might he forced
to pay in a year or two, and the
third didn't intend to pay at any
time. They got the same treatment
as Cash-Down, and 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 sugar. Slow-Pay sauRtered
in and asked the same questions, anti
both were given the one figure. Yet
at that time Cash-Down had paid
over that counter more than q thous-
and dollars in ready money, and
Slow-Pay was in debt fifty dollars,
and adding to the figure.
Cash Down went to q dry goods
store to purchase dress for his wife
Bad-Debt was ahead of him. Cash
Down pulled out $40 bill and paid
for his goods on the spot. Bad
Debt picked up his bundle and tolt
him to charge it. In the one cas-
the merchant had his money in th'
cash box to help to pay for nev
stock. In the other his eollecto
would be months, il not years, get
ting it, or in the end 1t would b
charged to profit and loss, vet Cash
Down had to pay the same price tha
Bad-Debt did.
Cash-Down wanted new pair Q
shoes. He went to his old shoe
maker and was surprised TO hear tbs
he would be charged fifty cents mor
than for the last pair. I'll s.' -....
Has there been great advance i
: the price of leather?' he asked.
3 oh no. .,.
, DO you pay your workmen more
Not a cent. You see, Slow Pa
! Bad Debt and Dead Beat are into n
pretty heavy, and 1 must make it u
t by charging cash customers a litt
: more! That's way we all have I
a doing n
= Cash-Down4 must then pay Il
e same price as Dead, Bea. - aud ! bel
/. make good Dead-Beat's indebtedne!
r in addition, He went home, sick
t mind and body. The doctor who a
tended him was bound by solem
t agreement to charge as much as
r called to see Dead Beat and his pr
), scription cost more, because he hs
i to help pay Dead Beats old bill
the drug store. When he died Il
n undertaken made no reduction on Il
S casket, and the tombstone cutie
put an extra five dollars on the pri'
!. of the shaft to pay the balance d.
6 from Bad-Debt for the one furnishe
e his child's grave.
y Mrs. Cash-Down, widow of the la
e deceased, went down alter her mour
ing yesterday. She bought o bonn
u at one place and said she Would p
d sometime this summer. She 6
= dress goods at another and slmp
It told them to put it on the books. 5
l. needed shoes and said she'd hand
in some day. She had a hundr
- dollars in her pocket, but she did'
le pay out cent. She had learn
something. go ga