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Show At the Same Rate. An elderly man walked leisurely Into a drug storo to havo a prescription prescrip-tion filled for some trifling complaint. Receiving from the druggist a llttlo box of about a dozen pills, ho was called upon to pay about three or four times what ho thought ho should. The money was paid without a murmur and In silence, but, stepping pff a fow feet from tho counter, he slowly slow-ly scanned every corner of tho store, almost every shelf of it, and the salesman, sales-man, supposing ho wanted something else, asked what he could do for him, and tho reply was: "No, you can do nothing, as I'm already done for; but I'll tell you tills, I've many times passed this store, but never beforo have been Inside and made a close survey, as I have now, and, sir, I estimate es-timate you have now on hand fully $1,000,000 In stock." |