The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-16
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY APRIL 49, PAGES.

who owed the money said. Then I won't
pay"
whisky you will payF" said the collector.
YES"
Done
So he took a cigar and drank a stiff drink
OF whisky and the debtor handed over the
money, and the collector went out into the
roadway and lay down aud wrestled with
himself for half an hour and then got up and
tottered to his lodgings, feeling that he de-
served & promotion from his firm, and that
the life Of collector was altogether too So
we're one for any man who was not
Texan born.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEBTORS.
Having said this much about collectors it
may prove interesting to take view OF the
different kinds OF debtors there are in the
world. First, there IS the honest man who
is always in debt and who always pays. To
this fellow debt is a second nature. He can
no more keep out Of it than bird can keep
from flying. Give him a little money aud
he will pay such debts as are pressing but
he will immediately proceed to run up new
debts. Suppose for an instant that some
one wiped out oil of such a mans debts and
gave him O good round sum IN bank.
Would he live on q cash basis longl
Never. He would leave the money in the
bank until he had run up bills that be
couldn't meet on presentation, and he would
be just where he was before. But this man
Is perfectly honest, and, while be cannot
pay for anything when the bill is presented
10 him, be always pays for everything In
the end. Some time he gets too seriously
into debt, and then he has to live low for
a while until be can pick up aud get where
he was before. OF course these remarks
apply to mans private life. No man can
carry on business on the same system.
When business man's debts become too
pressing he fails.
There is another class Of manor rather
bOy-who runs into debt because he thinks
il manly. He likes to tell about his duns.
He soon gets over this habit, and he is
easily frightened when the duns become
pressing. OF course, these callow youths
are very foolish. They learn their lessons
IN due course. You might as we'll argue
with them as with youth who persists in
smoking cigarettes. He will break the
habit Of his own accord, or it Will break
him.
A far worse class of debtors are those
men who buy whatever they can get with
the full determination Of never paying 1t
is a strange illustration of how easily gulled
people are that these fellows Do succeed in
acquiring q great deal Of other peoples
property When they have any money
they may pay a little on account, bat it is
only with view to getting more of the
thugs they want aud of leaving the person
who supplies them in the luroh in the end.
PUT ON THE BLACK LIST.
The tailors eventually put people of this
character on the black list, but Just reflect
how long they have lived at free quarters
before they get there. For all their lives
they are pursued by collectors, for, as the
old ones give up the dunning as useless,
new ones teke 1t up in the hope Of some
success. which they never achieve. II it
had ever been possible to certainly classify
debtors of this class aud distinguish them
from other people who run up bills the laws
for imprisonment for debt would never have
been repealed. They ought 60 be impris-
oned, for they are q nuisance to society
when they are at large.
The most deserving debtors of all ere the
men who are so poor that it is impossible
for them to avoid buying on credit at
times No tradesman objects TO helping
people Of this class out of temporary diff
culties. and when the difficulties become
nimity, because the man who occasioned it
did the best he could, and fell victim to
adverse circumstances.
There seems to be no doubt that most of
the money owed in the world is owed by
men, for the simple reason that most bust
ness transactions are conducted by men.
but women owe a good deal of money
too, and when woman is in debt it is a
bard job to make her pay. You have to
end by frightening her. Coaxing and
wheedling won't do, for at that game she
can always give you points and beat you.
Tailors for men are not the only ones that
have black lists. The dressmakers also have
them, and they are pretty we'll filed out.