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Show SURE WAY TO COLLECT DEBTS. A new way of collecting bad debts is reported from Paris. A man has gone into business th'iit who will collect exclusively ac counts which ordinary collectors havo not been able to settle. The means lie employs to collect money are particularly aggravating to those from whom he has to collect. One of his favorite schemes, for instance, is to stop at n debtor's with a wagon, around the top of which he displays signs which announce an-nounce in very loud colors that "Tnis buggy only stops in front of the houses of people who will not pay their debts." Everybody, and particularly busiuess people, dread this man's buggy so much thai they prefer to pay the full amount of tne claim to the collector, who is soated in tho buggy, calmly : " awaiting developments, in order to get rid of him, rather than allow a mob to collect in front of the place, commenting upon the presence pres-ence of this advertising buggy. TIih debtor has absolutely no redress since no one can compel a man sitting in his buggy in the street to move ou. Usually it is but necessary for this collector to stand in front of a store for a few minutes, when somebody rushes out, promising payment the very next day or so, which is voluntarily voluntar-ily brought to the man's office, and it is very unusual for him to have to appear a second time to remind his debtor of their promise to pay. |