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Show THE ,DOLLAR YOU SPEND. . Wi'at becomes or the dollar that you band to the merchant In this town in exchange for good s- ' Do you over think about that? If die store is an average store your dollar Is broken into small pieces, inch ono of which has a little work F - of its own to do. Four iTiits inB dm inro of tho goods from the where they aro made to the it - .ore you found them ,Five cents pnja the rent on thu store that houses tho goods tho Btoro that keeps them fresh and unspoiled until you need them. 1 One cent pajs light to help jou and others see the Kooda. Six cents pays the wages of folk who take down, wrap up and dclher tho goods )ou buy. Three cents pays for advertising die goods tells you where to buy them. And one cent Is (ho busiest worker of (hem ull. It pays -(ho carpciKer who llxea the store, pays (he boy who delivers (ho goods, feeds (he horses, oils the wagon, pays tho taxes and docs a lot of things that yuu arc apt lb forgel when you crltlclzo (hu re-lallcr re-lallcr for dm high prlceB lie cliarges. Of (he rest, eighty een(u pays for (he goods (hat jou get, and with that your dollar stops working for you. -Think this over. Did you ever look at It In tills light before? o |