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Show DEADBEATS'OF ONE PATTERN Veteran Credit Man 8ays They All Talk Alike and Try 8ama Tricks. "DoadbeatB," remarked nn old credit man, "all talk alike. They aro plausible plausi-ble to start with," ho went on, "and aro so froo and ea3y thoy docolvo every ev-ery one but tho most astuto crodlt man. When thoy aro dunned tho first tlmo they make a frank and positive promiso to pay on a certain dato. They do this so unreservedly that suspicion Is disarmed Of courso they don't pay hut they havo pome of the best excuses ex-cuses In tho world. Thoy havo had a run of hard luck, for Instance. If tho merchant takes this well, thoy will ask for more credit If tho merchant Is obdurate they will como back with the Ptntement that the morchant Is making it unnecessarily hard for them to get along by crowding thorn; thoy will hint, also, that othoru havo boon soliciting their trndo. "Hlght there Is tho time to como down on them hard. Shut off their credit. Usually it Is useless to suo, for such persons aro Judgment proof. The next raovo Is to lot them think you have forgotten them. Thoy always al-ways aro on tho watch for tho man who keeps nagging them all the time but thoy grow careless of th" ruBTi who leaves them nlono. Some ' will leave n opening to tunt sorci thing enn bd attached or levied on. and then If the tlmo to Jump In nnd got your nn .oy. "A favorito trick of tho dendboat Is to offer his noto for tho nccount These follows think nothing of giving their notes They would buy tho continent con-tinent of Asia If they could glvo their noteB for It, and would clonn up a for tuno nnd get out of paying the noto Just listen to ono of thoso dondbeaU talk, remombor what he says, and whon the uext one strikes you his Ian-guago Ian-guago will bo Identical. It is almost as If It wero the fixed ritual of their order." |