Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1913 — Breaking a Bad Habit. [ARTICLE]

Breaking a Bad Habit.

Thia one Is told on a Louisville butcher. We shall call him Bm, beettuae that is not his name. ▲ customer had gone into his shop to purchase a beef roast. Now, it seems that Bill used to have a moat annoying habit (to the patrons) of bearing down with a heavy hand upon the scales. This high east of living thing, and all that, werts bad enough in all conscience, thought some of hfa patrons, but one of them'■finally broke Bill of this trick, and now be givaa ftdl weight every time. As .was stated, the customer was buying a beef roast and Bffl sSyty waa helping out the work of the scales with one pudgy fist when before a shopful of people the buyervsaM: “Take your hand off that ecate, BUI. Fm buying beef, not peak.” Since then no one has had to SMde BtU for a similar noil I note Vtee Times.