People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — Pay Your Small Debts. [ARTICLE]

Pay Your Small Debts.

The character of a very well known man was being confidentially discussed the other day, when a neighbor of his poiutod out that he had a habit of letting small debts run. His neighbor was astonished to be told that the well-known man’s income could not be less than #40,000 a year, and that his name stood uigh in merchantile circles. The neighbor had a poor opinion of the other’s financial resources, uused upon this very slackness in paying small debts. Sensible men in debt, like bankrupt railroads, should* borrow a sum d' money and pay up the small accounts. The small people always need the small amounts* and it is better to be worried by oue mortgage than a score of anxious creditors. This is worldly wisdom, and I am led to lweil upou it because I know a man who yesterday chipped into' a syndicate to buy a steamboat company and put up a large cer itied check, although ho was pasted at two of his clubs ami jwed a meat bill of $125. It’s a queer world!—New York Press ’*