Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-21
Anlnoroas department,
THE CONSCIENTIOUS CLERK.

THE CONSCIENTIOUS CLERK.
A Galveston grocer has been observing for
several weeks past that great many Of his
customers had quit him, and were trading at a
store over the way. He also.noticed that one
of his clerks. who had been converted at a
revival, rarely succeeded in selling any goods
at all to customer. He had formerly been
very efficient clerk in selling groceries hence
the proprietor was very much bewildered
Yesterday morning the proprietor came down
before the clerk made his appearance, and
hiding behind stack of boxes of Blue Jack.
cts Liver Encouraging Btters, waited pa.
tiently for developments. Presently the clerk
came in, put on his apron, busted off the
counter, whistling From Greenland's Icy
Mountains, as he did so. 1t was not long before
wealthy lady, whose custom ran up into the
thousands came in, and asked the clerk if he
had the celebrated B No. 3 sugar. He re-
piled that they had, showed her a sample
and she said, she thought she would take 100
pounds.
The conscientious clerk looked at the lady
very earnestly, and asked:
Are you prepared to meet your maker p
The lady stared in blank amazement.
81 want to know if you have family pray
ers regularly, and if your family are fully
prepared for blssful hereafter beyond the
grave? for if you are not, you can't get the
sugar-that's all. There is enoug chloride
Of tin in 100 pounds of sugar to kill the last
one of you, and don't want anybody's blood
on my hands, particularly when they are
leading wicked lives and not 6t to die" and
he put the cover on the sugar barrel and
strolled out of the door whistling Old Hun
dred.
The lady faunted herself out of the store,
her face as red as fire, but it was not any
redder than that of the proprietor, who was
only waiting for an opportunity to rend that
clerk limb from limb Fortunately several
customers came in, and the proprietor drew
in his breath, gritted his teeth and waited as
best he could for the hour Of vengeance to
strike
"Have you got any claret, genuine French
claret"
"Who do you want it for?"
81 want it for friend of mine out in the
country"
HAS he not good constitutional
"No, he is in feeble health, and want it
to help build up his system.
"We make our genuine claret ourselves
down in the cellar The proprietor attends
to that himself Of late the infusions Of
logwood and other dye stuffs we get from
the druggists have been of such poor quality
that our genuine claret won't do for me to
recommend. l can't conscientiously do so.
You had better let your friend die a natural
death.
The man said he was very much obliged
for the information, bnt the clerk said he
was only doing his duty, and he whistled,
When Can Read My Title Clear, as the
customer strolled off,.
Other customers focked in, but he firmly
refused to sell them a dimes worth. He
explained to cadaverous looking old woman
that her dyspeptic appearance was due to the
china clay n the -four, and the glucose sui
phuric acid in the golden syrup she wanted
to purchase. Another lady wanted tea. The
good clerk said: MADAME, if you were to
drop dead and wake up where there is weep
ing and wail'ng and gnashing of teeth, |
could never sleep at night afterward. You
could not buy pound of tea at this estab-
lishment for all the wealth of the Indies. The
color of the tea is produced by Prussian blue,
which causes ossi6cation Of the valvular sys-
tenn of the heart | can see by your leathery
complexion that that is caused by the tannin
in tea, that you are not long for this world.
How do | know you have made your peace
with heaven.
"Got any good coffee p asked fresh Gus.
toner.
"We have some heans faced with phos
phate of calcium and sui phate of barium,
but the man who gets any of it has to show
a clean bill of health from his spiritual ad'
wiser. There was no trade with that man
either.
Finally, when there were no customers in
the store, the interview between the enraged
store keeper and his clerk took place, but the
clerk so impressively warned the grocer
with an AK handle-not to approach too close
unless he was prepared to 60 hence, that their
business relations were dissolved by mutual
consent The moral of all of which is that
things are not always what they seem.-GaL
veston Nears.
MISTAKEN FOR A SEA Iona cores
nondent of the World. writing from New