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Show DIDN'T USE HIS OWN GOODS. (New York Times.) William J. Bryan, on his last visit to New York, declined to answer one of a Washington correspondent's questions. ques-tions. ""'I shouldn't know my business if I answered such a question as that," said Mr. Bryan, smiling. "Every one must know his business, otherwise failure follows, and I'm sure you wouldn"t want me to fail like the young salesman of fountain pens. "There was, you know, a young fountain foun-tain pen salesman, who. to his great joy, succeeded on his first trip in persuading per-suading a stationer to order 500 pens. But all of a sudden the stationer's manner changed to the young man. "I countermanded that order," he barked, and hurried into his private office, of-fice, slamming the door behind him. "Later in the day his bookkeeper said to this station?!-: " 'May I ask, sir, why you so suddenly sud-denly countermanded your order for those fountain pens?' " 'The young salesman,' the other answered, an-swered, "hooked my order in lead pencil.' pen-cil.' " |