Show economy ix A well known business man walked into a cigar store the other and took out two coins one was a dollar and the other a half dollar he laid to a box of imported cigars saying give me a dollars worth of those the clerk hAnded them ont and the buyer laid the sue that ha wanted in a row along the case then he said to the clerk half a dollars worth of any good five cent cigar the clerk did as he was bid and the five centers were laid along in a row also the gentleman then took the row of imported cagara and cut the ends off of them all then he mixed the five centers and the twenty centers up together and put them all into his capacious vest pockets A friend who was standing near and who had watched the operation with a good deal of curiosity said wherefore simply this my boy replied the man addressed 1 I am in a business where I 1 have to give away a good many cigars I 1 am a man who dikea a good cigar I 1 cannot afford to giveaway the kind of cigars that 1 emoke myself so I 1 buy a days supply and cut the ada off then I 1 buy some cheap when it is necessary for me to give away a cigar I 1 a uland offer one to the person whoever he may be he thinks that the ones with the ends cut off I 1 have had in my mouth and hakea one of the cheap ones whereby I 1 save a good many dollars in the course of a year and also keep myself on good t erms with ane people if is necessary to give cigars rochester democrat and chronicle |