The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-04-26
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nor any Fulton or Field. The principal man in
the village, engaged in secular concerns, was =
merchant. For some years he had been employed
diligently and faithfully IN his business, and had
gradually become possessed Of q competency.
But his success was owing, in a great measure, 10
his economy as we'll a. % his diligence and fdel-
ity. His family was large, and fond Of display.
but their fJndness had never been freely gratiied.
for hey were under too rigid a control To admit
Of this.
Mr.. Benton, the merchant in question, was an
honest man, and consequently an exception 70
many of his vocation. Honesty, however. he
viewed, if not the best policy, the most ~estimable,
and determined. therefore, u make 1t the rule Of
his conduct. Yet he required justice to be done
u himself, as well a. 70 others. lie required has
customers At the close Of the year. 10 call and
settle their accounts or 70 discontinue their busI-
ness with him. This exactness displeased many
% his customers, for - they were not always ready
70 call and settle at the time appointed, and
disliked. thew alleged. - 70 be in subsection 70 anv
man - If they furnished him with their Gus
tom, he ought To be thankful for that, and not
muret-aud vet not satisfactorily To themselves,
for they knew beforehand the character Of the
man, and what was a prerequisite with him. OF
course they could make no plausible complaint.
For many years Mr.. Benton has thusdOne bust
ness in Neville, and thus acquired a conSidera-
bic amount Of property, as We have before in
formed the reader. But in every town there are
ALWAYS sOme that re never SatiStied-never salts
fed with the people Of the tOwn-with their poll
tics-with their new Iaper-their hOuses-their
lands-their taXes-Jheir schoOls-Or anything
else. And it was so in MELVILLE. There were
some of this character there. They didn't like
this-nOr hat-and more especially they didn't
like it, that one man should monOpOlize the whole
mercantile business Of the town. And he too
was getting rich . they said, . all the time, and
they We're getting poor No, no, they needed
another merchant there-one that understood
how to do business real city man-nOt one Of
your old fOgies-nor a man of the past genera
ton, and an eIGofOr at that So these discon-
tented, dissatisfied nondescripts alleged and
averred. And all this came To the ears of the
merchant, MIR. Benton, but he said nothing, or if
anything. merely remarked that : people that
kindled "a fire often got burnt by it themselves.
Let them have their own way, if they don't like
mine
And they did have their own way they depu-
tized u number of their own party to 90 to IA large
city and inform the merchants there, that there
was a grand opening FOR merchant in Newville-
that there was no merchant there but an old
fogy-a man 50 antiquated in the business way
that he seemed to be fifty years at least behind
the age.
The merchants in the large city listened to
their plea and readily dispatched one of their
number to MELVILLE to open Il grand establish
ment there.
Thus the Disconnected, dissatisfied part Of New
Vile succeeded in their wishes, and had great glee
~ Aa4EA ~ anu az AAN IHA VI hHN biA
merchant Benton. The new store they decorated
with evergreens and flowers, and Mr.. Benton's
they draped in mourning, aud around it set weep
ing willows. The first they did in the daytime,
the last in the night-iOr, like all debtors, they
were more bold when invisible than when iii full
view of their creditors and many of these nom
descripts were in debt To Mr.. Benton and ut the
beck of his attorney.
At all this conduct, however, Mr.. Benton was
%unmoved, and permitted things to take their own
course, waiting patiently 70 see the end.
In the meantime Mr.. Carlton, the new mer-
chant, was evidently doing 4 large business. The
papers were filled with Observation-Disclosures
tisements containing everything that he had and
everything that he hadn 't-and these magnifed
ten-fold, and all - cheap, cheaper, CHEAPEST, and
most Of them below cost -
But Mr.. Benton's family did not view these
proceedings quite as philosOphically and cOolly as
he himself did. They could not bear to see air.
Cartons family riding about i'll their carriage
every day i'll great style, without making some
remarks about it, and expressing q little envy,
especially too when they themselves had to stay
at home, or if they rode out ut all, ride i'll some
ordinary affair without attracting any notice.
The young ladies complained to their mother to
this effect, and she To her husband. 50 the sage
Mr.. Benton found himself aSsailed now on all
sides. His own Delilah even had come to find
out not where his commercial strength lay, but
where his weakness was!
why, Mr.. Benton, = says she, 4" don't you see
what a dash Mr.. Cartons family cut? why they
ride out in Il coach and tUur!'
"No, no, not 50 bad as that, saidhe, "a coach
and hrO, | guess"
"Well, that is bad enough why can't we have
n carriage, too, Surely you have labored long
enough to have some pay for it?'
- Pan! that is what these very fellows COM
plain Of they say that | am a hard old case, and
for that reason they can't abide me-
- Well, how is it that Mr.. Carlton can make
such a swell here and you do nothing -
This is u secret of his own, | imagine
Z" And can't you get into it,
" Probably | might, if | felt so disposed"
8 There, it is all your indlsposition, is it?
Well. | do think"
80! l could buy a carriage, I suppose, if 1
tried. Is that all that you want?"
"No, Of course not, we want to live in the
same style that Mr.. Carlton does, and the girls
feel sighted that they cannot"
"Ah L see, we have got 10 dash out in the
same way, and spend all that we have got to do
it"
.'There it is! Who asks you to spend all that
you have? Is Mr.. Carlton spending ali that he
has?''
81 don't know, he can tell you, | presume
of course | cannot, for l am acquainted with
neither the man or his business
s'Well, you see how his daughters ride out
every afternoon, and receive all the attention of
the town.
90 yes, l see it all"
And so our daughters have got to grow up
and be neglected by everybody, and be of no ac-
count,
Were you neglected when you were young?
and | never saw you riding in "A carriage in my
life before your marriage! ="
y after Il mean such a one as Mr.. Carl
ton carries his lady in-and his daughters
$50 then, we must have n carriage and all its
Accomplishments, | suppose %
"Why, the girls think So"
And what else do You think
- ~ bar else yhy bpNC do you SuDpOSa
know -
% You seem to be their counsellor. Is a car
riage all that you want?"
mo, they want to live in the same style that
Mr.. Cartoons daughters do"
And what is the object of it?''
q. q lanrI hnr- cnn d nsE sInnh questions .