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Show Why H3 Vaited. A mysterious stranger with lowered brow and menacing glare stood alongside along-side one of the shoemaking exhibits in a department store and watched the shoemaker work. For a long time he stood there, never shifting his glance, staring steadily at the bench workman, watching him put handful after handful hand-ful of tacks in his mouth and gradually empty each maw load into a shoe sole. Finally a store detective became suspicious sus-picious and after keeping an eye on the fellow for a while went over to him and asked him what he meant by his actions. ac-tions. "Oh, nothing:" answered the man. "I'm just waiting to see what will happen if that shoemaker should sneeze when he has a mouthful of tacks." Philadelphia Record. |