The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-12-09
Debt.

need drive a poney and chaise. am
afraid extravaganza is the common disease
of the times, and many protesting chris.
tians have caught 1t, 10 their shame and
sorrow. Good cotton or snuff gowns are
not good enough nowadays, girls must
have silk and satins, and then there is q
bill at the dress makers as long as win.
ter's night and quite as dismal. Show
and style and smartncss run away with q
mans means, keep the family poor, and
the fathers nose on grindstonc. Frogs
try to look as big rs bulls, and burst
themselves. A pound week apes five
hundred year, and comes to the country
court Men burn tho candle at both
ends, and then say they are unfortunate
why don't they put the saddle on the
right horse, and shy they are extraya.
giant? Economy is half the battle in
lie; it is not so hard to earn money as
70 spend it well. Hundreds would have
never known want if they had not first
known vast. If all poor mems wives
knew how to cook, how far little might
gol Our minister says:
The French and Germans beat us all
hollow in nice cheap cookery I wish
they would send us missionaries over to
conver. our gossipiug women into good
managers; this Is French fashion which
would be deals more useful .ha those
fine pictures in Mrs. Fippery's window,
with ladies rugged out in new style ev-
cry month. Dear me some people are
muc! too fine nowadays to eat what their
fathers were thankful to see on the table,
and 30 they please the palates with costly
feeding, come to the work house, and
expect everybody to pity them. They
turned up their noses ut bread aud butter
and came to eat raw turnips stolen out of
fields. They who live like fighting. cocks
at other mems cost will get their combs cut
or perhaps get roasted for it one of these
days. lfyou have great store Of peas
you may put the more in the soup; but
everybody should fare according to his
earnings. He is both fool and knavc
who has shilling coming in, and on the
strength oft spends pound which does
not belong to him. Cut your coat &C.
cording TO your cloth is sound advice;
but cutting other peoples cloth by run
ming into debt is MS like thicving as four
four-pence is like goat.
Debtors can hardly help being liars.
ior they promise to pay when they know
they cannot, aud when they have made up
a lot of false excuses they promise agai,.,
and 30 they lie rs fast as horse can
trot.
Now, if owing leads to lying, who
shall say that it Is not most evil thing.
OF c6nrse, there are exceptions, and I do
not want to bear hard upon an honest
man who is brought down by sickness or
losses but take the rule as rule. and
you will find debt to be n great dismal
swamp, n huge mud-hole, dirty ditch:
happy is the man who gets out of it after
once tumbling in, but the happieet of all
is he who has been by Gods good
ness kept out of the mire altogether. IF
you once ask the devil to dinner it will be
hard to get him out of the house again:
botter to have nothing to do with him.
Where hen has laid one egg, she is
very likely to lay another; when a man
is once in debt, ne is likely to get into it
again better keep clear of it from the
first. He who gets in for q penny will
soon be in for pound, and when q man
is over shoes, he is very liable to be over
boots. Never owe farthing, and you
will never owe guinea.
My motto is, pay as you 20, and keep
from small scores. Short reckonings are
soon cleared. PAY what you owe, and
what you're worth you'll know"
Let the clock tick, but no "tickn
for me. Better 60 to bed without your
supper than g,t up in debt. Sins and
debt are always more than we think them
to be.
Little by little man gets over bis head
and ears 1t is the petty expenses thatemp.
ty the purse. Money is round, and rolls
away easily. Tom Thrftless buys what
he does not want because it is n great
bargain, and SO is oon brought to sell
what he does want, and finds it q very
little bargain. He cannot say emo" to his
friend who wants him to be, security he
gives gread dinners, makes many holi-
days, ke % fat table, lets his wife dress
fine, never looks after his servants; and
by and by no is quite surprised to find
the quarter days come round so very fast
and that his creditors bark SO loud. He
has sowed his money in the field Of
thoughtlessness, and now he wonders that
he has to reap the harvest of poverty.
Still he hopes for something to turn up to
help him out of difficulty, aud 80 muddles
himself into more trouble, forgettingthet
hope and expectation are FOOLS income.
Being hard up, he goes to market,
with empty pockets, and buys at-what.
ever prices tradesmen like to charge him,
and SO he pays them double, and gets
deeper into the mire. This leads him to
scheming, and trying little tricks and
mean dodges for it is hard for an empty
sack to stand upright. This is sure not to
answer, for schemers are like spiders
webs which never catch anything better
than flies, and are soon swept away. AS
we'll attempt to mend your shoes with
brown paper, or stop broken window
with sheet of ice, as to Try to patch up
falling business with maneuyering
and scheming. When the schemer is
found out, he is like a dog in Church,
whom avery hody kicks e., ed .:sa
barre! of powder, which nobody wants for 10
a neighbor.
They say poverty is sixth sense, and
1t had need be, for many debtors seem to
have lost tho other five, or were BON
without common sense, for they appear
to fancy that you not only make debts,
but pay them, by borrowing. A man
pays Peter with that he has borrowed of
Paul, and thinks he is getting out of his
difficulties, when he is putting one foot
into the mud to pull the other out. It 10
hard to shave an egg, or to pull hairs out
OF bald pate; but they are both easier
than paying debt out ofan empty pocket.
Samson was strong man but he could
! not pay debts without money, and he is o
fool who thinks he can do il by scheming.
As TO borrowing money Of loan societies,
! it's like drowning man catching at ra-
rors; Jews and Gentiles, when they lend
money, generally pluck the geese as long
as they have any feathers. 4 man must
cut down his outgoings and save his in