Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-05-03

customers, nc VI SOOA SOetU tlies wy, Y
was downright insulting, and no gentleman
will stand that from another, much less from
! a vulgar mechanic Mean to inslAuate Z
Humph Yes, I did mean to insinuate. =
And MI BAKER inv olant ntarily qyie his
pace. He'll lose one good custonier, he
continued, to himself "fre. paid him a
great deal Of money, but it's the last dollar
Of mine he ever handles =
Baker was as good as his word. He
withdrew his custom from the offending
mechanic, and gave it to another. ssf7
| "Pve got one Of your old customers,
| [ Leonardi" said friend in the same busi-
ness to the mechanic, some six or eight
months Afterwards. ''sa.,s5'sa p
| "Ah! who is it!"
sBaker." s& T=st @.
Leonard shrugged his shoulders. s-
"How came you to lose him?" s'
"Pll tell you how you can keep him."
"Well, howl" "5 s<'s =s -
| eff your bill amounts-to thirty dollars,
make it thirty three and a few odd cents,
by increasing some Of the items. He will
want the surplus knocked off, which you
can affo d to do; then he will pay it and
think You Just the man ,'for him"
on lost him, then, because you would
not abate any thing from a true bill?
| ssI did,"
! "Tbank you. But suppose my bill
should be twenty-six, or seven, CT eight;
what them I couldn't knock off tie odd
dollars for the purpose of making an even
sum" : as5 - 4z s4@
sNo. In that case you must add on un-
til you get above thirty. = .z.ss:
"And fall back to that?"
eyes. It will be knocking off the odd
dollars, which he will think clear gain"
"That would hardly bel honest" -
@Hardly. But you must do it or lose his
custom; some day or other.'s' = szzs T.
II shall have to accommodate him, l
suppose II he will be cheated, it can't be
helped"
On the very first bill that Baker paid to
his new tradesman he obtained an abate-
ment OF one, dollar and ninety cents, rodd
money, but actually paid three dollars more
than was Justly due. Sill, he was very
well satisfied, imagining that he had made
saving of one dollar and ninety cents. The
not teoyer-scrupuleus tradesman laughed in
his sleeve and kept his customer. .-..r
Having withdrawn. his. support from
! Leonard, it was his candid opinion of Mr..
Baker that he was 'fgoing to the dogs" as
he expressed it, abuut as fast as man
could go. He often passed the shop, but
rarely saw customer.
"No wonder" he would say to himself.
GA man like him can't expect and don't
deserve CUSTOM"
In the eye of Baker, the very grass SEEM
ed to grow upon the pavement before the
door of the declining tsadesman. Dust set
tied thickly in his window, and the old
sign turned graJer and gray er in the bleach
ing air. ..s<5sss ..--ks
"Going to the dogs, and no wonder" Ba-
ker would say to himself, as he went by.
He appeared to take strange interest in
watching the gradual decay of the mechan-
les fortunes. One day mercantile friend
said to him
e "Do you know any thing about this
Ieonard?" .s*=is@. -. So s@ss'
fWhyw, asked Baker.
Because he wants to make q pretty
large bill with me" 49, ~g@-
"On: n:time?"
eyes, on the usual credit of six months y
- aDol4't sell to him. Why, the man is
going to the dogs, at railroad speed" @
sIndeedw
Eyes. Unlocking every day to see him
close UP. He might have done well, for he
understood his business. But he SO unac-
commodating, and may say, Insulting to
his customers, that he drives the best ones
he has away. I used to make large bills
with him, but haven't dealt at his shop now
for some time."a
"Ab! was not aware Of that. I am
glad / spoke to you, for I should mt like to
Hose six or seven hundred doffars.,' =
six or seven hundred! Is it possible
that he wants to buy so recklessly? Take
my advice, and don think of trusting him. %
e ri certainly shall not. .s' s57
When Leonard ordered the goods, the
merchant declined selling, except for cash.
"Asyou please, y returned the mechanic
indiferently, and went elsewhere and made
his purchase. Is
It happened that Mr.. L Leenard had a
very prettyand very interesting daughter,
on whose education the mechanic had be-
slowed great pains; and it also happened
that Baker had son who, in most things,
was a 'echipef the old blsck.,''' Particular
ly was he like his father in his great love
OF money; aod scarcely had he reached his
majority ere he began to look about him
with a CAREFUL eye to good matrimonial
arrangement, By which plenty of money
@woul be secured.
] Adelaide L Leonard, on account of her
beauty and accomplishments, as much ca
caressed. ..and mingled freely in societv-
Young Baker had met her frequently. and
could not he p being struck with her beauty.
intelligence and grace. y - 3
'sThere chance for you," said friend
to. him, one evening. -----'- ->5
SIN Miss leonardo s2
"She;s charming girl replied the
young ma n.@f ~ wonder if her father is
worthsany thingn,a ssszs7-st=,-
"People say So"
"Indeedr'