The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-11-17

soon be in for a pound, and when
a man is over shoes, be is very
liable to be over boots. Never
owe a tarthing, and you will never
owe a guinea.
My motto is, pay as you go, 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 tick for me.
Better 90 to bed without your
than get up in debt. Sins
and debt are always more than
we think them to be.
Little by little man gets over
his head and ears. 1t is tho
petty expenses that empty the
purse. Money is round, and rolls
away easily. Tom Thriftless buys
what he does not want because it
is great bargain, and so is soon
brought to sell what be does
want, and finds it very little
bargain. He cannot say No to
his friend who wants him TO be
security; he gives grand dinners,
makes many holidays, keeps fat
table, lets his wife dress fine, never
looks after his servants and by
and by he is quite surprised to
find the quarter. days come round
so very fast, and that his credi-
tors bark so loud. He has sowed
his money IN the field of thought.
lessness, and now be wonders
that he has to reap the harvest OF
poverty. Still be hopes for some
thing TO turn up to help him out
of difficulty, and so muddles him
self into more trouble, forgetting
that hope and expectation are
fools income. Being hard up, ne
goes to market, with empty pock-
cts, and buys at whatever prices
tradesmen like 10 charge him, and
so be pays them double, and gets
deeper and deeper into the mire.
This leads him to scheming, and
trying little tricks and mean
lodges; for it is hard for an emp
ty sack to stand upright. This
is sure not to answer, for schemes
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 a broken
window with a sheet of ice, as to
try to patch up a falling business
with maneuvering and schemln 6.
When the schemer is found out, he
is like a dog in Church, whom
everybody kicks at, and like a
barrel of powder, which nobody
wantafor a neighbor.
They say poverty is a sixth
sense, anC it had need to be, for
many debtors seem to have lost
the other FIVE, or were born with
out common sense. for they appear
to fancy that you not only make
debts, but pay them, by borrow
ing. A man pays Peter with
what be has borrowed of Paul,
and thinks be is getting out of
his difficulties, when be is putting
one foot into the mud to pull the
other out. It is hard to shave an
egg, or to pull hairs out Of a bald
pate; but they are both easier
than paying debts out Of an emp
ty pocket. Samson was a strong
man but he could not pay debts
without money, and he is fool
who thinks be can Go it by schem-
ing. AS to borrowing money OF
loan societies, it's like u drowning
man catching at razors Jews and
Gentiles, when they lend money,
generally pluck the geese as long as
they have any feathers. A man must
cut down his outgoingS and save
his incomings if he wants to clear
himself; you can'tspend your pen
ny and pay debts with it too.
Stint the kitchen if the purse is
bare. Don't believe in any way
Of wiping out debt except by pay
ing hard cash. Promises make
debts, aad debts make promises
but promices never pay debts; +;
promising is one thing, and per-
forming is quite another. A good
mans word should be as binding
as an oath, and he should never
promise to pay unless be has a
clear prospect Of doing so in due
time; those who stave off pay
ment by false promises deserve