Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-02-25
CITY FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 1864

| IT'S 10 MISS Leonard were abated, and
his attentions to her, when they met
in society, became coldly formal. The
sweet young girl, whose feelings had
really been interested, felt the change,
and was, for time, unhappy but in a
few months she recovered herself and
was as bright and cheerful as ever.
Time went steadily on, sweeping
down one and setting up another, and
still old Leonard didn't go to the dogs,
much to the surprise of Baker, who
could not imagine how the mechanic
kept his head above water after hav-
ing drove away his best customers,
as he must long since have done,
IT all were treated as he had been.
But he was satisfied Of one thing
at least, and that was, that the me-
chanic must be miserably poor, as he
in fact deserved to be, according to
his idea of the matter. .'...'
One day, about a year after his
timely caution to his son in regard to
Miss Leonard, Baker happened to pass
along street where he had not been
Tor some months. Just opposite
large, new and beautiful house, to
which the painters were giving their
last touches, he met friend As
they passed, Baker said .."..
"That's an elegant house. 1t has
been built since | was in this neigh
borhood" =.
"Yes. 1t is a very fine house, and /
suppose didn't cost less than ten thou
sand dollars" ...
"No, | should think not. Do you
know who built it?"
Yes. 1t was bnilt by Leonardo
BY whom?" Baker looked surpris-
ed.
by old Leonard. You know him"
Impossible | He is not able to
build house like that"
"Oh, yes he is, and half dozen
more like it, if necessary"
Leonard ?n ...
Certainly. Why, he is worth at
least seventy thousand dollars" (.
You must be in error" a-.
"No. His daughter is to be mar
ried next month to an excellent young
man, and this house has been built.
and is to be handsomely finished, as
marriage present"
Incredible l thought he was
going. or had gone, to the dogs long
ago" .ar r ...
Leonard q" The friend could not
help laughing aloud. "He 60 to the
dogs /! He's the last one to 60 to the
dogs. Oh, no There isn'ta man in
his trade who does SO good business,
as little show as he makes. Good
work, good prices and punctuality, are
the cardinal virtues of his establish.
ment, and make all substantial. How
in the world could you have taken up
such notion Z" ..... .....
don't know, but such has been
my impression for long time" repli-
ed Baker, who felt exceedingly cut
down on account of the mistake he
had made, and particularly SO in view
of the elegant house and seventy thou
sand dollars which might all have be-
longed to his son, in time, if he had
not fallen into such an egregious error
about old Leonard. -.
Most persons are apt to make mis-
takes of this kind and imagine that
because from some slight offence they
have Withdrawn their custom from
man, that he must necessarily be GO
ing to the dogs. Probably in the mat
ter of stopping subscriptions to news
papers and periodicals, people are
more prone to fall into this error than
in anything else. A man gets offend
ed about something-perhaps. through
some error of the clerk, his bill is sent
to him after it has been paid or,
through the neglect of a carrier, or
the purloining propensities of news
vending lads. his paper fails few
times, aud in high Indignation he or
ders discontinuance. After that he
is firmly convinced that the paper must
go down and if he happen to meet
with it a few months afterward by
accident, will very likely say
Why, is this thing alive yet? l
thought it had stopped long ago"
So the world moves on. People
are prone to think that what they smile
on lives, and what they frown upon is
blighted, and must die.