Show A L THOUSAND DOLLAR BILL Woman Made a Small Purchase and Then Changed Change Her Eer Mind Chicago Inter Ocean One day last week a well dressed woman entered a State street store stor and stopping at the Ute hosiery counter made a purchase amounting to 40 cents In payment she tendered the clerk a bank note which when unfold unfolded ed otT by him almost took away his breath It was a 1000 bill The clerk never before had seen even in dreams a 1000 bill blU He gazed at it in a bewildered way The clerks on either hand although politely at attentive attentive attentive to patrons caught a glimpse of the bill and looked unutterably sur ur So much In so little was as an Im sorry said the shopper sh that Ive no smaller bit bill with me this tills morning I hope it will wU not ot bother the house to make the change chanse The bill bUt was thrust Into a little box along with the purchase slip and started downward to the office of exchange Arrived there it created such a commotion among the dours and shirt waists that the head floor walker was caned called Into consulta consultation consultation tion He caught up the surprising bill billand billand billand and carried it to 10 the head cashier Then In ip secret conclave it was de do decided d that before the bill should be It ft must be known to be semi genuine enu enuine ine the It was wan thereupon sent out to a bank where ere It was tested and found to tobe tobe tobe be all right In the interim of waiting for her change the shopper discovered that the pair of hose the she he had selected I Ithe did not quite suit her after all aU and ana so the 1000 bill was finally returned to her herI I 1 shall have to have it changed presently she remarked as she tucked it into her pocketbook for I must have some things upstairs Meantime by a system of telegraphy peculiar to department stores the fame of the hosiery transaction had spread over o r the main floor and upstairs and down The woman with the 1000 bill was tSie whisper as the shopper I sauntered through some attractive aisles and stepped into an elevator And so it came about that when on an upper floor she had invested to the amount of OO tire th quite pre prepared prepared prepared pared to be handed a 1000 bill It was graciously received at the desk It had now acquired a pleasantly familiar look Eight hundred dollars were count counted counted ed out and delivered to the shopper Who ho thereupon took a quiet departure Then followed a second general sur nur surprise surprise prise price The address left for the delivery of the purchase P U e was in e ft questionable ques part of the city Suspicion awoke A 1000 bill was hurried a second time timeto timeto timeto to a bank This Thin time it was iWas found to tobe tobe be a genuine counterfeit t The trick grew plain as the store reflected For Forthe the bill presented in the course of her sham purchase ase down stairs the woman had substituted its counterfeit semblance in making her upstairs pay payment payment payment ment The goods were not delivered and nd so the surprised business house had that that day to record a deficit of Jf |