Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-10-06
A Nursery Rhyme.
Nv MEMoRY or oASH poWN.,

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 a
time when he stood head and shoulders
above Trust and Dead Beat, but times
somehow arc changed. Cash Down
left quito 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 pecuni.
ary obligations, and they follow in his
footsteps.
There was a time when Cash Down
was met with a smile and hearty
shake of the hand. If he wanted bis
buggy repaired the blacksmith would
figure fine and depend upon his pay
the hour the work was finished lie
could then take the money and become
Cash Down himself, making a differ.
ence of ten per cent. in his favor. If
Cash Down wished a new suit of
clothes the tailor made difference of
So between him and Slow Pay, and the
money could be sent East TO pay for
his cloth. The last time Cash Down
was 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 re.
piled;
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, the second might be forced to
pay in year or two, and the third
didn't intend TO pay at any time.
They got the same treatment as
Cash Down, and great rush was made
to send home their goods.
The old man entered grocery where
he had paid out hundreds 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 the old man 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. The old man went to dry
goods store to purchase dress for his
wife, Bad Debt was ahead Of him.
The old man pulled out a $50 bill and
paid for his goods on the spot. Bad
Debt picked up his bundle and told
them to chargelt. In the one case the
merchant had money in the cash box
to help pay for q now stock. In the
other his collector would be months,
if not years, getting it, or in the end
1t would be charged to profit and loss.
Yet the old man had to pay the same
Price that Bad Pay did.
The old man wanted a new pair of
boots. He went to his old shoemaker
and was surprised to hear that he
would be charged fifty cents moro than
the last pair.
"IIas there been a great advance in
the price of leather ?" he asked
"No, no."
ado you pay your workmen more p
"Not 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 way VIC all have Of
doing
The old man must then pay the same
prices as 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 hound by solemn agreement
TO charge as much as il he had called
to see Dead Beat, his prescriptions cost
more because he had to help pay Dead
Beats old bill at the drug store. When
he died the undertaken made no roduc.
ton on the oaslet and the tombstone
cutters put on an extra five dollars on
the price of the shaft to pay the bal.
ance due from Bad Debt for the one
furnished his child's grave
Mrs. Cash Down, widow of the late
deceased went down after her mourn
ing yesterday. She bought a bonnet
at one place and said she'd pay some.
time this Summer. She got goods at
another and simply told them to put
it on tho books. She needed shoes,
and she said she'd hand it in some day.
She had a hundred dollars in her
pocket, but she didn't pay cent. She
had learned something.