San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-25

handled the instrument like an
old timer and called for certain
number.
Hello" she said, after getting
connection "this is Mrs. of -
street. / bought some goods at
your place yesterday and they
/ have't come yet. Can you tell me
what is the matter?"
go, yes, / remember now" came
the answer over the 'phone, "they've
been sent out an hour ago. It's so
far you know, l don't guess the
wagon got there yet. Anything
else you want, Mrs. - ?"
"That's ALL" replied the madame,
"good by" She rang off and polite
ly left the store.
+ In few minutes the telephone
rang again and the store man an
swered the call.
"This is IS grocery store"
said voice over the wires. "Mrs.
just now rang us up to ask
about the sugar, coffee and that
other stuff she bought, and told her
that it had been sent. Well, l was
mistaken; the driver forgot it, but
| wish you would tell her that we
will send it up the first thing this
afternoon, will you ?"
The suburban storeman MUIR
INJURED something to himself, and
slammed the ear piece back into
the bracket. "That's what / call
gall" he said. "I've half uotion
to take that thing out of here"
But the climax was soon to
come, and when it did come, the
telephone went.
The other morning while / was
leisurely sUrolling to the store,o over
the little white trail that leads
straight as an arrow from our
home to the store, to make a bona
fide purchase of sack of tobacco
not that l never avail myself of
the telephone-I met the grocery
man on the particular trail leading
to Miss Darlington's house.
"Say, old man." the grocer hailed
me, 81 wish you'd watch the store
a minute. Somebody's rang up
Miss Darlington. The boys out
delivering a gallon of oil and 1
left the store alone. l wish you'd
stay there till l notify Miss OAR
lington."
OF course 1 stayed and while
l was there l sold three bars of
soap for ten cents, the domestic
who made the purchase assuring
me that this was the regular price.
l ransacked the whole place in vain
for a bottle of cholera mixture
which man in buggy wanted in
a blue blazes kind of hurry and /
lost the sale. In common with
Observation-Disclosures, Iknowthat store
like our own pantry, but could not
locate the cholera mixture at that
moment. Just as negro wanted
me to credit him with a pound
of bacon, the storekeeper reap
peared. He ordered the colored man
out of the place. Then / reported
my failure to find the cholera mix
ture and "but l did do some busi-
ness" 1 said joyfully, hoping to
atone for the loss of that sale of
medicine, and l turned over the
dime for the three bars of soap.
"That's five cents a bar straight"
he said, hesitating whether or not
to accept the ten cents. He looked
long time at the box of soap, the
miniature drug store and the tele-
| phone, and then he silently walked
behind the counter.
The following afternoon the
precious phone was taken down,
but another grocer is to open up
here shortly, and if he can be in
duced to put in telephone, things
will again resume their normal,
pleasant state out this way. Mean.
while the once we'll travelled trails
to the former popular suburban
store, are fast becoming overgrown
with sage brush and mesquite
grass. LOITERER.
NOTICE,