Connecticut western news., 1880-05-05
"In Memory of Cash Down."

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 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 a time when he stood head and shoulders above Trust and Dead Beat, but times somehow changed. Cash Down left quite a 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 obligations, and they will not follow in his footsteps.
 There was 0 time when Cash Down was met with smile and 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 was finished. He could then take the money and become Cash Down him. self, making difference of ten per cent. ill his favor. If Cash Down wanted Q new suit of clothes the tailor made diff ference of $5 between him and Slow Pay, and the money could be sent East to pay for the 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, 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 cheaply, and wait upon you as promptly, as will Cash Down"
 One of them might pay in six months l; the second might be forced to pay in Q year or two, and the third didn't intend to pay at any time. They got the same treatment as Cash Down, and 8 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 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 purchose dress for his wife. Bad Debt was ahead of him. Cash Down pulled out $2O bill and paid for his goods on the spot. Bad Debt picked ur his bundle and told them to charge it. In the one case the merchant had his money in the cash-box to help pay for a 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 he would be chargey fifty cents more than for the last pair.
 "Has there been great advance in the price of leather? ?" he asked.
 "Oh, mo-"
 "Do you pay your workmen more ?" "Not cent. You see, Slow Pay, Bad Debt and Dead Beat are into me pretty heavily, and I must make it up by charg- ing cash customers little more That's i way we all have of doing"
 Cash Down must then pay the same prices as Dead Beat, and help make good Dead Beats indebtedness in addition 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 prescription cost more, because he had to help pay Dead Beats old bill at the drug store. When he died the under talzer 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 fol the one furnished his child's grave!
 Mrs. Cash Down, widow of the late deceased, went down after her mourn ing. She bought bonnet in one place and said she'd pay sometime this sum mer. She got dress goods at another and simply told them to put it on tht books. She needed shoes, and she sait she'd hand it in some day. She had { hundred dollars in her pocket, but sh' didn't pay out cent. She had learned something.-M. Quad.