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Show Hardly Complimentary. A clerk in tiie employ of a Chicago business man, while a fair worker, Is yet an individual of pronounced eccentricity.' eccen-tricity.' One day a wire basket fell off the top of the clerk's desk and scratched his cheek. Not having any courtplaster at hand, he shipped on three two-cent postage stamps add continued con-tinued his work. A few minutes later he had occasion to take a paper pa-per to his employer's private oflice. When he entered, the "old man." observing ob-serving the postage stamps on the clerk's cheek, fixed him with an astonished as-tonished stare. "Look here, Tom!" he exclaimed. "You are carrying too much postage for second-class matter mat-ter !" |