Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-15
WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
STRENGTHENING THE AC-
COUNTS.
MIR. SpOOpendyke Cannot Make
'em Come Right.

idea Of keeping an account OF the
daily expense is the best thing you
ever did. It's business-like, and I
want to encourage you in it.
"Here's the ink" said Mrs. Spoop-
endyke, growing radiant at the com.
pliment. II had tue pen day before
( yesterday. Let NE think" and she
dove into her work basket and then
glanced nervouslY under the bureau,
"Well, DO you suppose I'm going
to split up my finger and write With
thal?" demanded Mr. Spoopendyke.
Where's the penS I want the pen"
Il put il somewhere" said Mrs,
Spoopendyke. 'Ah! here, have 1t.
Now, you see, she continued, II put
what money L spend down here.
TnIs is your account here, aud thls
Is the JOINT account. You know
"WnaL's thls?" asked Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke.
"rhat's your account; this"
"No, no; mean tuls marine sketch
in tue second line"
"rnal? On, tnat's T."
"S'pose ever spent seven dol
lars with a tall like that TO it? 1t
you're going to make figures, why
don't you make figures? What dye
want to make a picture of prize
fight In Column of accounts Tor?
What is this elephant dong here?"
81 think that's g." replied Mrs.
Spoopendyke, obviously. "Mayo
IT'S 4. L can tell by adding it up.
"What are you going to add upf
Dye count In this corner lot and
That rose bush and this pair of sus'
penders3 Dye add these in?"
CHATS and that's 5 and the
last is an 8. TLey come out all right
and during the last month you have
spent more than I and the JOINT &C
count together"
"Haven't either. When did I spend
this broken-down gunboaL?"
THAT amt q boat. It's S42 fol
your suit.
Well, this tramp fishing off rock
when did l spend ulm?"
cit amt q tramp. It's $50 cash
you took, and | don't know what you
spent it for. Look at my account
WHATS that man pulling gig
for2' ...
SITS nothing O. the sort. That
amt gig: it's 81 for wiggin. Yor
see I've only spent twenty-five dol
lars IN a month, and you've spent q
hundred and eighty four"
"You can't tell me by this what
I've done, "growled Mr.. Spoopendyke
'Wnat's this rat trap doing In the
joint account"
i "Cnat's fourteen. GEMS cents 70
fruit when you were sick2"
| "And this measly- looking old men
what has she got 10 do with it?' 81
''Tuat's no hen; that's az.
meant two d liars for having you
chair mended."
-"W hat have you charged me wit
this old graveyard for?"
| CHATS / 5 cents for sleeve elastics
The 10 ain't plain, but that's what i
Is" --~~
"How do you make out I have
spent so much? Where's the vouch
ers? Show me the vouchers" - - -
Il don't know what you mean,
said Mrs. Spoopendyke; ''but YOU
spent all I put down"
"Haven'L done any thing of the sort
Show me some vouchers. Your &C
counts are all a humoug. You dom
know how to keep an account"
eyes, l do pleaded Mrs. Spoop
endy Ike, Sand / thlnk it's all right"
"No, you don't WHAT do yot
mean by getting up engravings of
secondhand turulture store anC
Claiming that it's my account
You're great book-keeper, you are
All you want is 81 IN hung between
you and the other side of the st. eet tt
De commercial college. IL l eve
fail in business I'm going to fill 20,
up with benches and start mig
school. Give me that pen" and MI
Spoopendy Ike Commenced running III
the columns. "Cwo twos four AM
eight twelve and four sixteen ant
carry one TO the next and there il
four. Here, this is wrong. You'v
got au eighteen for twenty here"
"Eh?" jerked out Mrs. Spoopen
dyke,
'This is 1904, not s184. I kne'
you COULDN'T keep accounts. 70
cant even add up
That makes your account eve
o1gger' replied Mrs. Spoopendyk'
i didn't think it was so much"
Slam went the book across th
room, followed by the pen, and th
ink would have gone too, but Mr.
Spoopendyke cautiously placed it OF
of his way.
'Dod CAST it !" howled Mr.. Spoo,
endyke, as be tore off bis clothes an
prepared for bed. "You amt fit /
have a pen and ink. Next time
want accounts kept I'll keep e.