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Show Nipped in the Bud. "So they are going to put a tariff of eight cents a pound on tea?" queried the woman as she halted before the grocer in his door. "I believe they are, ma'am." was th& reply. "That is, you have to pay etgnt cents a pound more for it?" "That's it." "And lose eight cents a pound?" "Not exactly, ma'am." "You cant mean that you will make your customers pay eight cents more a pound?" "That's the way it will be. ma'am, but, you see, the eight cents will be spread among so many that no one person will feel the increase.- "But I'll never pay it never," she shouted. "No?" 1 "I'll stop tea and take up buttermilk." butter-milk." "Yes, but you see congress knew that you would figure that .way, you see, and so it has imposed a duty or fifteen cents a gallon on buttermilk. Stick to the tea, my good woman, and savo just half." w |