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Show WHAT THEY ALL DO A thrifty Brooklyn grocer, who began be-gan his career of Buccess driving a delivery wagon, became ambitious after he had bought out his former employer and for two or three years was doing far better than ever and thought he would make a European trip as others were doing who hadn't as much money as he had. He arranged ar-ranged his business for a three months' absence and sailed away on a big ship. In due course he returned and his foreign experience had puffed him up amazingly. Ho stuck to his grocery, but he looked down upon it with disdain and never lent a hand to his clerks as once he did. One day he was standing in front looking over the arrangement of the various articles arti-cles usually displayed In front of groceries gro-ceries nad a lady came by who was one of his old customers. She looked around a minute or so for what she wanted and found it. "Oh, Mr. Blank." she said, "what are the potatoes worth?" But he made no reply. Not he. "John," he called to a clerk Inside; In-side; "John, come out here and tell the lady what potatoes are worth." San Francisco Argonaut. MIRS BYRD CROWELL Soprano Soloist Next Weak at the Orphcum |