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Show PAY YOUR DEBTS. Money makes more than "the mare go." It keeps business moving and enables people to settle set-tle their own obligations. Money is intended to be a circulating medium, and it ought not to find a resting place until it finally reaches the person to whom it is due. Little debts arc put off and delayed because they are, apparently, of small momemnt. Frequently that which appears of little account to men . of means is of much importance. to those who must labor for their daily bread. The habit of procrastination in paying debts, even small debts, is fraught with much evil. Frequently Fre-quently men in business fail because they arc-made arc-made the victims of delay by a large number of small : debtors. The. little flakes of snow by accumulation ac-cumulation block thp freight train and the limited express. What Mr. A. owes may be. little, but the little owed by hundreds and- thousands of such creditors makes a vast sum. The load made by such neglectful, if not poor payers, often becomes so heavy that the business man or firm falls prostrate with it at the door of the insolvency court. To whom, do you owe a dollar, or half a dol-Jer? dol-Jer? Pay it; hand it over or send it without obliging oblig-ing the man or firm who gave you credit to expend ex-pend 25 per cent or 50 per cent of the amount to collect the sum from you. "Money talks" and money moves, or should; and in moving accomplishes accom-plishes wonders. Here is a story or incident which will illustrate the lesson on squaring accounts: An office boy in London owed one of the clerks three half -pence. The clerk owed the cashier a penny. The cashier owed the" hoy 'a penny. One day the boy, having a half-penny in his pocket, -was disposed to diminish his outstanding indebtedness, and paid the clerk, to whom he was indebted three half-pence, one half-penny on account. ac-count. . The clerk, animated by so laudable an example, ! paid one half -penny to the cashier, to whom he was indebted one penny. j The cashier, who owed the boy a penny, paid him a half-penny. . And now the boy, having his" half -penny again in hand, paid another third of his debt -to the The clerk with the said really "current" coin squared with the cashier. The cashier instantly paid the boy in full. And now the lad, with the half-penny again in his hand, paid off the third and . last installment of his debt of three half-pence. Thus were the parties square all around, and all their accounts adjusted. Catholic Universe. . |