Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-11-05
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER s. 1870

peighboring farmers, whilo those who
had money to pay had been monopelizcd
by his more stirring and scheming com
petitor
"l declare" said Stover, ! must 90 and
see Mr. Goodhue, and make some arrang-
ments for securing his custom and orders,
| calculate his trade and influence will be
worth more than $1,000 q year clear
profit. lie must have got settled down
by this time and ready for business. III
only knew what sort OF a man he was l
wonld know better how to approach him,
But | guess shall know how 10 take
him after Eve studded him for while.
The trader was preparing to leave
when laboriag man entered the store
"a man habited in blue overalls aud
frock, and upon his head an old straw
hat.
"Mr Stover, think ?" sald the new
conner.
"Thats my name"
The laboring man looked little at
the man on account of the bruskness OF
his tone and manner.
81 want to get little paint, if you
please, sir; Pm -
"My boy will attend to you'll
'But, sir, your boy may be as igno.
rant of the mixing as am. l am going
to paint floor, and only know that ]
want some yellow ochre, some litharge
81 am not painter, SIR" broke in Mr.
Stover, rather roughly. "My boy will
put it up for you"
"Then you cannot accommodate Gus
toner with the benefit of your expert
ence concerning the mixing of the quan
titles required for a specified purpose,
"Knowledge isn't one of my trading
commodities. You'll find that at thC
academy, Here, John, il this man want,
anything sell it to him." And thu.
81 eaking, Mr.. Slower put OH his hat and
left the store, evidently thinking that hi,
customer, whom he had never befor,
seen, was either an itinerant laboring
man or farmer from the back region
who would want to pay for his goods j!
poplar wood or old potatoes.
Ralph Stover went to the mills, where
he found an architect and an enginee
from the city supeript ending extensiv,
improvements, But Mr.. Goodhue wa
not there. So to the house Mr.. Stove
wepded his way, where he was informed
by lady that if Mr.. Goodhue had GO
back from an errand, upon which he haC
been out, he would probably be found il
the garden.
Next To the garden, where our enter
prising trader found man in blue over
alls and frock, engaged in making |
flower bed.
"Is Mr.; GoodhRe about here ?"
"That is my name, SIR"
"But mean the man who owns the
place-who owns the mills"
81 am the man."
"You, eh :" Mr.. Stover beheld tn,
customer to whom he behaved so indie
Gently at his store,
"Keally, Mr.. Goodhue, ! had no ides
had"
at you have business with me, SIR
interrupted Goodhue, respectfully, bu
sternly, 81 will attend to you ; otherwise
my time is very precious"
Upon my soul, Mr.. Goodhue, mus
ask your pardon"
''If wish to trade with you will cal
at your store, ] suffer no man to inflic
his begging for custom upon me at m!
own house Good,day, sir"
And while Mr.. Goodhue returned t,
his work, Ralph Stover had read hi
name well enough to know that any flu
ture remark would be worse than pse
less so he turned moodily and uuhap
p,ly away.
Mr. Goodhue found Eben ShacktorC
to be an honest, upright, conscientioq
and accommodating trader, and witI
him be made arrangements for the sup
ply of goods for himself and workmer
Sacktold throve, and was grateful an,
happy. The laborers in the mills OF
tained their goods vastly cheaper thai
ever before ; while Ralph Stover, in bit
terness of spirit, curses the hour in whicl
he was led to insult q customer VIII
CHANGED to be hahitea in the garb of