Show THE DRUGGISTS PLAGUE the first plague of the druggist is be who having no business of his big own to attend to determines to kill time pleasantly plessant lj in his friends drug store sometimes he goes so no far as to announce his hia fiendish intention in some snob considerate remark a as 1 I have an hour or so with nothing to do no BO I 1 thought I 1 would come in and spend it here often the loafer is a chronic one and the poor druggist groans aloud as he sees him enter his tore store naturally one with nothing to do to te not likely to have much interest ing conversation to share with a friend wt he repeats his tale until the suffering drugman knows knowd it all by heart it may be that the loafer is musical in charge of a choir training a chorus or teaching an orchestra it may be that he grows cucumbers and currants it may be be has time to waste fishing or it may be he has a horse boree the re suit la if always the same the druggists earn ean are racked by the well worn familiar tale of musical capabilities vegetable monstrosities immeasurably large trout incalculably swift horses bo be rapt is he be in his enthusiasm a customer entering deters him not but like the ancient mariner at the wedding feast ile he holds the agon azoo diegman until he finishes fini shea his tale it in ia usually at night might that be bat like emerges from outside sha shade anil while legan gas oil or OE electric light blaze at the proprietors ey expense empens pens he steals bueala from the suffering aig one the few minutes of leisure so coveted for gathering up the loose strands of the days work before folding his tent like the arabs and an aa silently stealing away well it if it be only this but how often has the tired drug man after twelve hours of duty to say in modest suggestion PM im sorry to disturb you but bat it to la past the time for closing and I 1 am very tired but the druggists annoyance ann yance to not the only aspect of the aution qu estten tion his business is injured by this bloodsucking blood sucking nuisance patrons ot of drug stores dread the loafer fear bis bin remar remarks kp and resent his hia knowledge of their wants and the victimized storekeeper often sees a noMi thia customer aDoro aoh the door way and at the eight of the vampire turn upon his heel and proceed towards another store there are worse loafers even than these the self satisfied young man ot of the present day seated upon your counter and tapping his russian bussian leather shoes with his walking stick while be puffs his cigarette smoke over the down on his upper tipper lip hud and the hardened old smoker filling your store with the stench of his ancient pipe and the rankest at af tobacco what now la Is the remedy for the it is in idle to hint 1 I am very busy Just now N no puch fuch mild sug aug vanquishes the selfish tyrant it remains simply to allow him some day to tax your good nature beyond all endurance and then pour into his bis astonished ear as he be has baa so BO often poured his tale into yours your unvarnished opinion of his bascin fascinating ting habits it will pay you in th the end whether he be be your best customer or as to is usually the case no customer at all rid of him you will do more than enough work extra to pay you for the loss lose of his custom and others more profitable will take his place of the loafer above rained named one might suggest a partial botanical description ferrenial Per renial evergreen habitat drug stores epidermis much indu rated and difficult of penetration general structure woody and very dry limbs capable of entwining around adjacent objects leaves very late at night as regards inflorescence ovaries rarely any properties emetic nauseating irritating depressant exciting to murder or suicide uses much cultivated by the simple druggist but proved to be injurious rather than useful suggested remedy total extermination canadian nadian Ga druggist |