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Show Wit Their Stock in Trade. How many drummers owe their success suc-cess to ready wit! How many more could tell of failures, if they would, traceable to the lack at an opportune moment of but a pinch of Attic salt. No one appreciates the force of these questions better than tho old traveler who gave ine this choice morsel the other day. He had tried in vain to persuade per-suade a storekeeper to "look him through," aud concluded with, "I am positive you cannot do better with any man. Our house is tho oldest, largest awl cheapest in tho line. Storekeeper I bear that same story every day. Every drnmmer that comes here claims tho same thing. Traveler There, that shows you how they all impose on people and imitate our methods. During tho laugh that followed the grip was opened and the owner's good humor was rewarded with an order. Jewelers' Weekly. |