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Show No Hope for the Consumer. The winter had been unusually severe, se-vere, and the lake from which tho Ice company gathered Its crop was frozen to a much greater depth than usual. "I suppose, Colonel," remarked .a citizen citi-zen to the president of the company one pold morning, "that you won't chargo us so much for our Ice next summer as you did last. You're getting get-ting a tremendous crop." "We may have to charge more," stiffly replied the president. "Think of the trouble and expense Involved In cutting Ice three feet thick!" Youth's Companion. |