The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-10
He Quits the Drug Husiness.
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tof, says tnc ktUS<fy tuan " NS D~@ boy one morning this week. "lt is after nine o'clock, and should think you would want to be down to the drug store How do you know but there will be some body dying for dose ofpills "
 70, darn the drug store have got sick of that business, and l have dis solved with the drugger. l have resigned. The policy of the store did not meet with my approval, and have stepped out and am waiting for them to come and tender me better position al an increased sal ary." said the boy, as he threw cigar stub into barrel of prunes and ht Sfresh one.
 Resigned, eh v said the grocery man as he tished ou, the cigar stub and charged the boys father with two pounds of prunes. "Didn', you and the boss agree :"
 Mot exactly. gave an old lady some gin when she asked for eamphor and water. and she made show of herself. I thought would fool her, but she knew mighty we'll what 1t was, and she drank about half pint of gin. and got to tip- ping over bottles and kegs of paint. and when the drug man came i'll with his wife. the old woman threw her arms around his neck and called him her darling, and when he pushed her away, and told her she was drunk. she picked up bottle of citrate of magnesia and pointed ii al him, and the cork came out like pistol. and he thought he was shot. and hls wife tainted away. and the police came and look the old gin refrigerator away, and then the drug man told me to face the door. and when l wasn't looking he kicked me four times, and landed in the street. and he said if ever came in sight of the store again he would kill me dead. That is the way resigned. tell you, they will send for me again. They never can run that store without me.
 ''l guess they will worry along without you." said the grocery man. How does your pa take your being fired out! l should think il would break him all up.'
 70, think pa rather likes il. At first he thought he had a soft snap with me in the drug store, cause he has got to drinking again. like a fish, and he has gone back on the church entirely, but af- ter had put few things in his brandy he concluded it was cheaper to buy il, and he is now patronizing barrel house down by the river. One day put some castle soap in drink of brandy, and pa leaned over the back fence more than an hour, with his finger down his throat. The man that collects the ashes from the alley asked pa if he had lost anything, and pa said he was only "sugaring off, don't know what that is. When pa felt better he came in, and wanted little whisky to take the taste out of his mouth, and gave him some with about tea spoonful of pulverised alum in it. Well, sir, you'd dide. Pas mouth and throat was 90 puckered up that he couldn't talk. don't think that drugman win make anything by firing me out because shall turn all the trade that l control to another store. Why, sir, sometimes there were eight and nine girls in the store all to wonct, on account of my being there. They come to have me put extracts on their handkerchiefs, and to eat gum drops. He will lose all of that trade now. My girl that went back on me for the tele- graph messenger boy, she came with the res, of the girls, but she found that could be as hawty as dook. got even with her, though. pretended wasn', mad, and when she wanted me to put some perfumey on her handkerchief said all right and put on a little gera- nium and white rose, and then got some tincture of assafety and spnnkled 1t on her dress and cloak when she wen, out. That is about the worst smelling stuff that ever was, and was glad when she went out and met the telegraph boy on the corner. They went of together. but he came back pretty soon, about the homesickeSt boy you ever saw, and he told my chum he would never go with that girl again because she smelled like spoiled oysters or sewer gas. Her folks noticed it, and made her go and wash her feet, and soak herself, and her broth- CT told my chu n it didn't do any good, she smelled just like glue factory, and my chum, the darn fool, told her brother that it was me who perfumcd her, and he hit me in the eye with frozen fish down by the fish store, and that's what makes my eye black, bu, know how to cure a black eye. And guess learned that girl not to go back on boy cause he smells like a goat"
 Well. what was that about your leas- ing the wrong medicine at houses! The policemen in this ward told me you came pretty near killing several people by leaving the wrong medicine
 -The way of tt was this. There was about doren different kinds of medicine 10 leave at different places, and l was in a hurry to go to the roller skating rink, so got my chum to help me, and we just took the numbers of the houses, and when we rung the betl we would hand out the first package we come to, and understand there was good deal of complaint. One old maid, who ordered powder for her face, her ticket drew some worm lozengers, and she kicked avfully, and . widda woman, who was going to be married. che ordered celluloid comb and brush, and she got nursing bottle with rubber noszle, and toothing ring. and she made quite . fuss, but the wo- man who was weAning her baby, and wanted the nursing bottle, she got the comb and brush and some blue pills, and she never made any fuss tan. It makss . good deal of difference, lnoeice, whesh-