They Wasn't Businesslike

"IIow mnny i-t a ni]s lu you Bell for a quarter?" she sald to the stamp clerk at the post-office. "Twenty-flve one-cent ones, or twelve two-oeni ones, ma'am." "Don't you glve back the odd cent chance ?" "Certataly." "Are tiicy the Oolumblan stampa or the old kind ï" "I can glve yon elther." "Don't the old-Btyle ones come a llttle cheaper now '.'" "No, ma'am." "I thou.ülit they wouhl. Tlu'y're out of Btyle, you Icnow." "The governmeni receivee them the Bame' as the aew ones in payment of poatage, and many people preter them." "But thelr red color doesn't match Bome stylee ui envelopes." "I caa't help that." "Couldn't you geil me a Uozen of the old two-cent ones for ilfteen cents '.'" "No, ma'am." "Couldn't you on Friday ?" "Xo, ma'am." "But that'a bargaln day at the stores." "l'ossibly, but not at the post-ofHce." ■■"W'hen is your bargain day ?" "We don't have any." "Not have any bargain day ! Well, I never ! And iny husband told me the post-office was run on business principies. Wliy. you don't know the tirst principies of bnetneaa. I won't Iiatronize such an establishment. 111 go across the street and buy a stamp at the drug store." Wliich Bbe