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Show The Telephone Kesponslble. Until tho introduction of the tele-phono tele-phono tho retailer of toys and notions never knew what it was to incur bad debts. IIo did not have to placard his store with "pleaso don't ask for credit" signs, for 1:0 one seemed to think of coming in to buy toys or trifles unless he had the wherewithal handy to pay for thorn.- But now orders come by telephone which no one likes to ignore, nor can ihc c. o. d. system bo rigidly enforced, en-forced, however much one may try. So every year a larger sum has to be written off to profit and loss as "bad debts," for the amounts, although large in the aggregate, ag-gregate, are too small to make their collection a commercial possibility. Another bad result from the telephone, tele-phone, so fur as this business is concerned, con-cerned, is tho increased percentage of goods which have to be delivered. Toys bought over tho counter are nearly al- ways taken home, but telephone orders j have to be sent, however trifling tho i profit may bo. I know of two instances j in which telephones have been aban-i aban-i doned in the hope of forcing a return tc tho old regime. But the wheels of progress prog-ress cannot be clogged, and as long as there is an obliging druggist iu the block to receive aud forward orders, and a rival store close by with a telephone in it, tlie new order of things will continueInterview con-tinueInterview in !St. Lotus Olobe-Lvuiucrat, |