The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-18
FARM. GARDEN and
HOUSEHOLD.
Pay our Bills.


There are not many better New Year S
resolutions than this: II will pay my
small bills promptly At all times ii is
the duty OF every person to pay small
debts as promptly as possible. and in
times like these il is more incumbent up
on people than usual to do this, because
their small creditors are more IN need OF
money than they generally are. Procras'
tination in the matter of settling with the
grocer. the dressmaker, the shoe dealer,
the physician and everybody else is be
setting sin with altogether too many. If a
man OF means owes money to bank or a
contractor he expects it when 1t becomes
due or make some arrangement Tor an ex-
tension but il man or woman owes 4
trades man or a craftsman small bills the
chances are even that it will not be paid
until long after ii is due and perhaps not
until non. payment has caused the creditor
great embara, sment, This is not so of
ten the result of inability to pay as of neg
ligence or dis inclination. We repeated
" hear it remarked by merchants and
mechanics that rich'o well-to- do people
are slower to pay than the poor and this
rule holds good in nearly all lines of bust
ness. Naturally enough the creditor
looks after the collection OF a debt against
poor man sharper than he does one
against rich man, which he knows is
good sometime ard then again the wage
worker who depends upon his earnings to
meet his bills gets in the habit of settling
them as often as he is paid off and so long
credits are not asked by or conceded to
this class. But rich people often 90 upon
the theory that they will not pay it until
it is convenient and then small creditors
do not press them for fear of losing their
patronage and SO their accounts stand
month after month, when perhaps they
could pay Just as well as not, and their
paying would be great help
The Boston Herald tells ola veal by
lady residing on Commonwealth avenue
VINO refused to pay dressmakers bill
because she had given the money that
would have settled it to fashionable
charity. AS result the dressmaker could
not pay the sewing girls, and one of them
was obliged to apply for charity to the
very organization which the millionaires
wife was supporting, when fshe had been
paid what was due her she would have got
along without help. This suggests how
the neglect or refusal of wealthy person
to pay bill which seems so small that it
is of little consequence may cause long,
extended train of trouble to honest people
to whom small amount of money is Of
ten very important.
The great majority of people who are
supplying the daily wants of the commun-
lite, in which they live, furnishing food
clothing and all sorts of merchandise,
making repairs and doing odd jobs of all
kinds, do not have great capital. They
are in the business not because they have
much money bat to make some, and un-
less those whom they serve pay them they
cannot pay others OF whom they buy goods
or whom they employ and there is trou-
BILE all down the line. a ten dollar bill
may pay hundred debts of that amount
if it keeps travelling, but if it remains in a
mans pocket it will pay none. Even
with this consideration aside it is every
ones duty to pay his bills if he can; not
next year or next month but now.-.NW-
res amt Farmer.