The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-23
AN ALARM CLOCK. THEY SAID.
The sleepy Drug Clerk Finally Did So
and This Was what Happened.

and This Wa what Happened.
The Long Acre drug clerk had one
shortcomng-his utter inability to get
down on time in the morning. In the
three years tina he held his job 1t was
~chronicied only once that he reached
the store at the proper hour. Finally
the proprietor talked so much about
IL hat the clerk wrote to his mother
up the state tina he was going to throw
up his Job. His mother advised him
TO reconsider his determination. and
concluded a fond letter with this ad-
wise:
Get an alarm clock and prove to
your boss that o can get to work
on time
He had Just finished reading the let
ter when the actor who lives just
around the corner came in, and, call
ing him to one side. began:
Say. old man. you were late this
morning"
"A little" mumbled the clerk.
well, say. why the deuce don't you
get an alarm clock?"'
The clerk had often explained that
he could never put up with alarm
clocks. for they startled him with their
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question without an answer and went
to wait on the young telephone girl
who occupied a room In the family
apartment house over the store. she
smiled as the clerk was measuring out
the peroxide OF hydrogen, and remark
ed:
You were late this morning. weren't
your
"A little" he replied. shyly.
well. why in the world don't you
get an alarm clock"
The newspaper man who dropped in
at uncertain intervals appeared sud
denly with a request for a stamp and
change for a 81 bill. As the clerk was
endeavoring to accommodate MIN the
customer exclaimed:
II understand you were delinquent
again to-day"
"A little" said the clerk.
well, II / were you I'll be hanged
II I wouldn't get an alarm clock
This customer had been gone FIVE
minutes, perhaps. when the laundry
man who conducts a place across the
street came in.
"ouite a sad accident out in front
here this morning. he began.
II didn't see it," said the clerk.
Were you late getting DOWN"
"A little"
The laundrwman shook his head
smiled, said something about an alarm
clock and nodding TO the gas-governoi
salesman. who had just dropped in
went his way.
Say" began the g~as-sovernor man,
pulling a bottle of cough medicine
from his pocket, my wife bought this
here this morning, and you gave her
the wrong kind"
Il didn't sell 1t to her." said the
clerk.
well. it was pretty late when she
bought il. and she surely didn't get II
from the night. man"
"she didn't get from me-"
Were you late getting down to-
day."
"A little" drawled the clerk.
The customer then went on to ex-
plain the exceptional qualities Of some
particular alarm clock. after which ne
bought another bottle OF cough medi-
cine and left. A moment later the tel
ephone bell n
Say. old man." the speaker began
Il was by TO see you this morning. and
you weren't there"
NO" the clerk answered. Il hsdn'I
got down yet
Were you late?"
"A little
why don't you GET but tbs
clerk hung the ringer up and went I,
wait on the velvet salesman. who hat
dropped in during the conversation
The salesman smiled ironically.
whats app" the clerk asked.
Guess / missed half my life TIL,
morning. didn't II"
why
Il understand there vas a crank call
ed on the boss"
Il hadn't heard anything OF IT."
Were you late this morning."
a little
The velvet salesman then went OF
TO say something about an intermit
tent alarm clock n departed Yer,
abruptly when the night cashier At tn