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REWARD OF VIRTUE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 24.

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REWARD OF VIRTUE.

A curious example of the reward of excessive virtue is the case of certain British pickle manufacturers who have been making their pint bottles hold a little more than a pint, to be on the safe side of the British law. When these pint bottles arrived at Canada, they found that there was a law in operation which provides that any package measuring more than a pint must pay duty as a quart.