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Show CLEVER SCHEME THAT FAILED. Old Salesman's Advice Left Fi"n Worse Off Than Before. Henry Clews Is telling a now story which ho sajs ho got straight from the Canal street district, says tho New York Times. A young Jobbing firm, tho talc tells, overbought for the fall trade. Their heaviest tnlstako nnd been In the line of overcoats, which It looked they would have to carry over a season. Efforts to get cash for tho Block wero fruitless, except ex-cept lit ruinous rates. At last tho firm went to an old timer In tho trndo for ndvlcc. "Well," said the mnn of experience, ex-perience, "jou'vo got a pretty good list of customers. Just dlvldo tho coats up Into lota of 'thirteen each. Send a batch nplece to somo of your sharpest customers, but make out tho bills for twelve. They'll bo bo tickled to get ono coat for nothing that they'll tnko 'em nil." Tho Bchemo' had been tried beforo tho men met again. The old timer wnlted for his praise. "Well, didn't they keep tho coats?" ho asked. "Yes," returned tho Jobber, sadly. "Ono each. Tho ono that wasn't hilled." |