Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
MILLION IN IT.
The Drug business is Nothing Short OF
hiondilse, Especially if it is Located IN
Some Suburban District.

The Drug Business is Nothing Short OF a
hlondiise, Especially if it is Located IN
Some Suburban District.
Ninety per cent profit in drugs, they
say Observed the curious man.
Your estimate il conservative, re-
Joined the suburban druggist, with the
confident air OF one who KNOWS he mas
good thing. Spend an hour here
this evening"
The man who was curious to unravel
the mysteries enveloping the process
whereby vendors Of cough drops, qu1-
nine pills and personally compounded
prescriptions proveIbially. accumulated
vast riches, decided promptly that he
had something to learn, and agreed to
stay in the store upon the druggist
invitation
Customer Number one sOCn entered
and inquired for the proprietor, VINO
had gone upstairs to dinner, and the
curious man summoned him through
the speaking tube. The customer wan
ted to rGe the telephone free. He was
told he might if there was no extra
charge for the pcint he wanted to
reach. After this came a rush OF
stamp buyers, and the proprietor S
meal was again interrupted.
Ten minutes later he got back to it.
Then an impatient person began to paw
over the city directory in search of some
doctors address. He didn't find it. So
the druggist was called from his coffee
to act as a verbal directory.
He was hardly upstairs again when a
woman came in fer a stamp. please be
in a hurry Mr.. Pestle,' she said, "the
carriers at the letter box and | want to
get this off this MALL"
Guess III postpone finishing my din
ner till Tomorrow said the unhappy
man of pills He came forward to shout
the correct time by his clock to a man
who had stopped his buggy outside and
was yelling for that information at the
top Of his voice A boy stopped IN IOr
piece of string, and two little girls
wanted to know if the druggist had any
picture cards or almanacs to give away.
A woman who had tainted was
brought in at this point, accompanied
by a moTbidly curious and not too
honest croWd-as was discovered later.
The druggist bathed the fainting wo-
mans forehead and chafed her hands
until she recovered consciousness. She
thanked him sweetly for his trouble
and was led away by sympathizing
friends.
You see how it is,' said the man of
large profits, when the crowd ebbed
away in the wake Of the convelescent.
you've been here two hours and seen
my brisk trade in postage stamps, direc-
tories, telephones and free medical ad-
vice and assistance"
Here he was interrupted by man
who wanted to know what was good
for headache. The dr. ,ggist suggest
cd several things, but the man finally
decided to let it wear itself away and
walked out without purchasing any
thing.
The druggist gave a sigh Of large
size. CAS- l was saying" he resumed.
the net results are as follows: Sold
out my stock Of stamps, on which I
don't make cent and will be at the
trOUble and expense of paying some
little boy nickel to run around to the
pogscffice and SCI another dollars
worth.
That fellow stuck me for the te,e-
phone tell; in my hurry back to dinner
l did not notice 1t. But the company
will charge me for it just the same.
That directory fiend tore six pages in
two in his hurry to turn them. and the
doctor whose address he wanted always
sends his prescriptions to another drug
store to be filled.
That woman who bought the l2,7t
stamp save me a S. biz, anG l had to
clean oIt my cash drawer to give her
S4.98 in change. She never comes il
for anything but stamps. Some dishon-
est person in the crowd that came in
with the fairting woman stole box
Of toilet soap and 81 worth Of arfum-
cry Of the counter; and [ couldn't Tell
you at this moment whether I've eaten
my dinner or not"
20, yes, my boy he clappcd the
curious man on the back as he said
the words. come into the drug bua-
ness-there's millions in it!'-New
York World.