The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
WOES OF THE DRUGGIST.
He Tells How tho Cold Weather Gives
Him Great Trouble.

Drug stores are ai'-arouni convent
ences wherever the tn orn1onletnr may
stand, and when the mercury tries TO
touch the bottom of the Fahtanheit
tube they are a blessing to mankinl
A woman ran into drug store on Mad
ison street yesterday and stood up by
the radiator, quite as though she had
paid a dime for the privilege.
'There! she said when the tingle
had gone out of her fingers. i've
stopped at every drug store in the
street and thawed out. How would we
live without drug stores?"
A girl who was supping hot choco-
late nodded her head. 81 agree with
you," she said to the woman. What
would we do? I drink a hot chocolate
every hour while the thermometer is
below zero, and the drug store is the
place where / get it,
Then the girl paid for her drink and
| went out, followed by the woman
The druggist looked after them
thoughtfully.
That's the first bit of appreciation
have known any one to show since the
cold wave came" he said. He leaned
against the counter and, thinking au-
dibly, began review of the three pre-
| ceding cold days.
THE night the wave came l kept the
store open late for those who might be
cold. We were crowded until 2 o'clock
in the morning. l sold six hot lemon
AIDES, five cups of coffee and two boxes
of cold tablets. That's s1.20 exactly
! My lights alone cost me double that
1.-The store was open half-hour ear
lier next morning, the entire extra time
| being consumed in thawing the fingers
| of a girl who forgot to thank me. That
| day / advised Il persons to use alcohol
| for frostbites and sold a dimes worth
of the fluid.
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| 80 people, made coffee for nine and car
| ried cold water for 18 frostbites. Out
| of the frosted customers l didn't make
| a cent. ] told 81 folks how long they
must wait inside my front door for
car going west. I was presented with
| three stray dogs and one kitten. Did
| a slow drug business with double the
| amount of influenza cure. OF my six
| soda fountain stools four have been
| broken by people who insisted on sit
ting down while they warmed them
selves. My first making of cream OF VIC
lets for chapped hands was sold out
| by noon of that day and / have replen-
ished my supply every day since. There
| are just three bottles of prepared vase
! line in stock; every ounce of glycerine
is gone.
1.-THE prescription clerk thought of
| benzine ointment for Prostitutes; he
made a dozen bottles and an hour later
| they were disposed Of
YES we've thawed out good many
people and dispensed good deal OF
/ heat I haven't doubt but that my
water and heat bills will more than out
balance the receipts on cures Tor
chapped skins. l have worked pretty
| hard saving other peoples fingers ana
ears and / can't see that | have mueh
to show for it,
| A last coffee drinker put down his
cup with an embarrassed rattle Peo-
pie take you for sort of a public con-
venience anyway, don't they? he
asked for the sake of conversation.
Indeed they do. Drug stores ought
to come under the municipal owner
ship bill. There is nothing upon which
| the public is more dependent. We are
the directory, the telephone station, in
formation bureau and public advisors.
| We are expected to furnish respecta-
| bility for the neighborhood in which we
are located. We collect gas bills, we
| sell postage stamps and money orders
| There is no money in 1t. not cent;
| no more than there is in thawing out
peoples ears It's an outrage when
you stop to think about tia man
store turned into general utility shop
for public GAIN
..And you don't like the cold wealth
er?" ventured the man with the coffee
cup.
The druggist was decided in his re-
ply mo. don't. We have to work
like slaves to take care of every one
who stops at our door and they treat
us as though it were duty which we
should be grateful to fulfill
The man who had finished his coffee
went away wondering. But he asked
of other druggists and found them OF
the same opinion.-Chicago Chronicle.
Earnest Aspiration.