Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-19
..In Memory of Cash DOWN.

"ID Memory OF Cash Down"
He is at rest. Cash Down is dead
and buried and the mourners are home
from the funeral. He was a we'll
known man, but of late years he was
not half appreciated. There was time
when lie stood head and shoulders above
Trust and Dead Beas, but times some
how changed. Cash Down left quite
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 pecuniary obliga-
tions, and they will not follow in his
foot steps.
There was time when Cash Down
was met with a smile and a hearty
shake of The hand. If lie wanted his
buggy repaired the blacksmith would
fgure f. and depend upon his pay the
hour the work was finish. lie could
then take the money and become Cash
Down himself, making differe nee of
ten per cent in his favor. If Cash
Down wanted Il new suit of clothes the
tailor make difference of 81 between
him and slow Pay, and the money
could be sent East to pay for his cloth.
The last time Cash Down was out or
the street he saw Slow Pay, Bad Debt
and Dead Beat walking arm In arm,
and the blacksmith, the tailor, the gro
Ger and the merch ant shook hands with
each of them and replied:
Certainly-certainly. You can
have what you "ant on time, and IN
sell you just as cheaply, and wait upon
as promptly, as Twill Cash Down"
One ofthem might pay in six months !;
the second might be forced TO pay in
yeIr or two. and the third didn't intend
10 pay al any tine. They got the same
treatment as Cash Down, and 4 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 sauntered IN after
him and asked the same question, and
both were given one figure. Yet at
tie same time Cash Down had paid Ov-
er that counter more than thousand
collars in ready cash. and Slow Pay
was in debt fifty dollars and adding to
the figure.
Cash Down went TO dry goOds..store
10 purchase dress for his wife. Bad
Debt was ahead af him. Cash Down
pdlled out $40 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 had
his money in the cash-box to help pay
for new stock. In the other his col
lectOr would be months, if not years,
getting 1t, or in the end it would -
charged TO profit and loss. Yet ash
Down had to pay the same .:.-o that
Bad Debt did.
Cash Down wanted lew pair Of
boots. He went TO his I'D shoemaker
and was surprised 10 hear that he
would be charged fifty cents more than
for the last pair
''lias there Teen a great advace in
the price of .eather:" he asked.
"'0I No."
'-DO YOU pay your wOl kman more?''
Not a cent. You see, Slow Pay,
Bad Debt and Dead Beat are into me
pretty heavily, and / must make it up
by charging cash customers a little
more. That's 4 way we all have of DO
ing"
Cash Down must then pay the same
prices AZ 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
10 charge as much as if called to see
Dead Beat, and his prescriptions cost
more, because he had 10 help pay Dead
Beats old bill at the drug store. When
he died the undertaken made no reduc-
tion 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 furnish
ed his child's grave!
Mrs Cash Down, widow of the late
decease, went down after her mourning
recently. She bought bonnet at
one place and said she'd pay sometime
this summer. She got dress goods a.
another, and simply told them 10 put
il on the books. She needed shoes,
and she said she'd hand it in some day.
She had hundred dollars in her pock-
ct. but she didn't pay out cent. She
had learned something.