FIRE IN DRUG STORES.
(Specially written for FIRE AND WATER).
A CERTAIN country druggist sold gunpowder at retail by lamplight for over twenty years and never found fault when customers or loungers leaned against the counter and smoked while he poured it out. One night in the twenty-first year, however, there came a whish! bang! boom! Three men killed; no more powder; no more drug store; no insurance! Many druggists carry on business for years without consideration for fire precautions, but they. likeourrural friend, are aptto be suddenly interrupted.
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