Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1881 — A Lesson in Debt Paying. [ARTICLE]

A Lesson in Debt Paying.

A pretty good thing on debt paying was got off by a minstrel company in this city recently. One dollar is made to pay a debt of six dollars, by the following manner: End man No. 1 owes the middle man $2, but says he can pay him but sl, and crossing the stage hands him a dollar. The middle man . owes end man No. 2 $2, but as the dollar he has just received from end man No. 1 is all that he has, he hands that to him. End man No. 2 owes end man No 1 $2, and hands the dollar he has just received to him and pays the half he owes. Three dollars in debts have been paid, and end man No. 1 has his dollar back. Then, as he owes the dollar to the middle man, he passes it over, and the middle man in turn pays his dues to end man No. 2, who in turn squares himself by passing it back to end man No. 1. Thus a debt aggregating $6 is paid off by sl, and the first man has his money back. There is a good lesson in this.— Crawfordsville Journal.