And couldn't, very well, perhaps, on a Metaphysical College income of but a few thousand dollars a day, or a week, or whatever it was in those magnificently flourishing times.

The struggling Journal had swallowed up those advance-payments, but its "claim" was a severe one and they had failed to cure it.

But Nixon cured it in his diligent three years, and joyously reported the news that he had cleared off all the debts and now had a fat six thousand dollars in the bank.
It made Mrs.Eddy's mouth water.
At the time that Mrs.Eddy had unloaded that dismal gift on to her National Association, she had followed her inveterate custom: she had tied a string to its hind leg, and kept one end of it hitched to her belt.

We have seen her do that in the case of the Boston Mosque.

When she deeds property, she puts in that string-clause.