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Show ONCE A CUSTOMER, ALWAYS A CUSTOMER. CUS-TOMER. What Mr. Fred ScarlT II ai to Nr Hoarding Hoard-ing tha Snee.aaful Drinifiit. . Once a customer always a customer. Having traced the origin of the foregoing fore-going motto, with which the readers of Tiik Times have doubtless become familiar fa-miliar within the past fortnight, to the popular and enterprising druggist. Mr. Fred W. ScarlT, The Times representative representa-tive receutly called upon this gentleman gentle-man at his place of business at 3 (East First South street, to obtain some information in-formation regarding his original motto. Mr. Scartr readily consented to enlighten en-lighten The Times man, and spoke as follows: Success, said he, as applied to the retail drug business, is that measure of esteem and conlideuce reposed by ft community in which the retail druggi"t resides. It mav or it may not be coupled with linancial success. In other words a retail druggist can lie successful without financial success necessarily attending it; if his talents, prudence, integrity and attainments and fitness for his business do not produce pro-duce for him financial success he should not be measured by the latter aioue. '1 he druggist follows one of tho most responsible, most exacting and slavish occupations in tho world. All of his nights as well as days, Saturdays as well as Sundays, are demanded of him. He is at the bidding of the patient as well as the physician, with not a single moment ho can call his own, year in and year out. Responsible) because he is held so by the laws and courts of the land in case any error should arine and damages, of money or imprisonment or perhaps both, may be imposed. The druggist is by no means his own master. He is the servant of the people and the physician as well as the manufacturer manu-facturer of trade marked and proprietory proprie-tory goods, and in almost every view we can take of his block, there is uo-ticeablo uo-ticeablo a vast difference from that carried car-ried by other merchants. Hence you see. remarked Mr. ScarlT, in order to be Buecesflll in our bu-iuess it isn't necessary to simply have a handsome hand-some store and fancy" Block, but, in addition to " this, one must bo a careful, competent student and employ nothing but tho best and most learned help obtainable, and to this is what I attribute my present success. suc-cess. My motto, once a. customer al-was al-was a customer, speaks for itself, and inasmuch as I have lived in Salt Lake for years past and intend to stay right here I feel confident that I can sustain sus-tain the reputation that I established in this city years airo. and intend to do nothing but a strictly first class business busi-ness making prescriptions my specially, but as heretofore I shall continue to carry a fine and seloct line of sundries second to none in the city. |