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PRANKS-OFCASI-BOYS
HOW THEY WORRY THE CLERKS IN
THE LARGE RETAIL STORES.
Pinning Salesladles’ Dresses and the
Clerks’ Coat-Talls to the Cushioned
Stools—Wrapping Up Old Shoes for Cus-
tomers—Subjected by Fines
“Cash!” cried the clerk in a prominent dry
store as he dashed a paper between
the leaves of an account-book and brought
his pencil down on the counter sev eral
times, “I wish the proprietor woull dis-
charge every mother's rascal of theso little
wretches out of this building and get tho
patent railway in their stead. 1 can’t find
a boy whenever he is needed, but just let a
pretty girl stand at this counter five min-
utes and there aro instantly seven cash boys
sweeping about this aisle. 1'd hang a boy
quicker than lightning, I would. His proper
place is in a tread-mill, anyhow.”
“What are the duties of a cash-boy?”
asked the reporter, as be gazed around and
saw several cotton-headed urchins flitting
about here and there.
“He is the rivulet by which the financial
drainage of the establishment trickles into
exchequer,” said the clerk grandlofuently.
“He can be used for other purposes than col-
Jocting cash, and that is his only redeeming
feature. A railway takes your book, your
eash, and your pencil and sends them whirl-
ing np to the central desk and back while a
boy is sparring with his fellow behind the
pile of cloaks It keeps the foor-walker
busy watching him from morning till night,
and if it were not that he is used occasion
allp to carry bundles and remove tie dust
cloths from goods in the morning, he would
be absolutely of no use
“The regulations in force in this house
have pretty well subdued him, though
There is a fine attached to almost everything
he does. If a boy goes up-stairs hie is fined
10 cents, and if he is caught standing on his
bead or pommeling another boy away goes
25 centa more, That boy with the cropp xd
bair yonder only drew three cents salary
yesterday.
morning, and a fino of three cents for every
minute he dallies in the cellar after dinner.
If a boy stays in this establishment five
There was a little red-headed fellow
three years ago who used to owe the firm #3
every Saturdry night,
TURNING OUT TO BE MILLIONAIRES
“I don’t fancy they are sent bere by their
parents to make money. If they are no enter-
prise was ever more complete a failure. The
combined wages of all these kids after the
fines have been taken out would not be
enough to feed and cloth a wooden Indian
Scme parents would even pay a salary to
have their boys in a store There is such
an opportunity to learn the business you
know, and there are so many examples of
cash-boys turning out to Le millionaires,
that parents think it is just the one great
chance needed. In point of fact, the boys
nearly all leave when they get big enough,
and very few of them ever become second-
rate clerks
“There is a fiction here that a boy will be
banged if ho is caught playing on the pave
ment, but the merciful law keeps its eyes
closed continually or we would have no end
of executions every day. You can write
laws for criminals or govern grown people
with reason, but you can’t control a boy.
“When the salesladies were provided with
seals inside the counter some time ago, a
new field of rascality was opened to
little imps. Frequently, when the girls
tried to ris» on seeing a customer, their
skirts were found to be pinned round the
head of the stool. A girl tore her skirt in
a horrible manner one day, when the pro-
prietor stepped across the floor and called
ber by name, She got up from the seat
rather suddenly, and the light summer
goods that she had on parted at the waist
The timely arrival of a sister-saleswoman
only prevented the young lady from faint.
ing. As the cash boys were not allowed to
go inside the counter, the occurrence placed
ths clerks there in a bad light An investi.
gation was had and every cash-boy over-
hauled; but without any good effect, Not
long after that tall clerk at the other end of
the counter yonder rose up from his seat
hurriedly one day and carried away the
cushion on his coat tails The gum arabic
which is used to put labels on packages at
the central desk, over there, bad Leen
smeared all over the seat. It cost him $3
to have his clothes cleaned and gave him a
name which he will carry to his grave. He
bas been known in the stores ever since as
‘Gummy.’
“There is so much of the monkey about
the average small boy that I fear there is
no use in attempting to deny our common
origin. If he sees anybody do a thing
which strikes his fancy as being Ingenious
he will devote all his powers for the next
three weeks in trying to accomplish the
wrapper down stairs who has been the ad-
miration of every urchin who bas entered
this establishment for years He wraps a
bundie with the dexterity of lightning and
flings it back of him to receive the label
showing where it is to be sent. Tho rage
for wrapping caught the urchins some time
ago as they stood arvund the bundle-table
watching the man after dinner. The next
day they devoted the whole dinner hour to
wrapping bundles. Old shoes wers caught
up from all parts of the cellar and tied up
in bundles, which only needed the label to
senid them on their way. Among the col-
lection were a lot of broom-mats and old
damaged calicoes that had been flung away
iu a corner after a fire, As there were a
number of similar packages going to North.
west Baltimore that evening, the label-boy
gathered them all together and stuck the
address on the whole pack. Well, sir, I tell
you thers was some fun in the business office
next morning as soon as seven irate women
oould get down on the cars. The proprietor
was paralyzed, and ordered an immediate
Investigation. As it happened to be the
8d day of April, the women swore that they
were being made the victims of a practical
Joke, and threatened to boycott the store,
Any boy caught near that bundles table since
bas been fired without notice.
“One soveral years ago, when we
had twice as many cash-boys as we have at
present, everybody was astonished to see
the ceiling covered over with paper men.
They had little strings tied about their
necks and were fastened to the fresco.-work
with spit-balls. All the doors of the house
were open, and as the breess entered the de-
funct army of paper men made quite a
Jively spsctncls Kitking each other on the
legs. need hardly say that nothing was
ever learned regarding
there during the dining-hour,
remained unnoticed as long
gother woe have a pretty
Loys. Some of the stores bave dispensed
with them aitogether, ana are now using
the cash-esrs exclusively, A cash-car
makes a goud deal of nose, it is true, bus
there is no danger of it ever putting
on the seat where you sit dowa to eat your
dinner, —Balt!more Heratd,
"A DOG WIICH HANEERED,
—
Recently, on a forenoen a farmer
whose wagon needed gone repairs, stop:
ped at a blacksmith’s shod on one of the
avenues. He had with Lim a dog almost
as big as a yearling calf, and when the
wagon was run into the shop the dog was
tied to a post near the door. By and by
quite a little crowd gathered to comment
on his size and appearance, and along
came an under-sized, commou-looking
cur and sat down about ten feet away.
It was then the big dog Hed n
gent forth thunderous growls a
He scratched the earth,
blood. He tugged at Li
strength of an ox.
“Don't that
loose!” cautioned the farmer, asl
from the back end of-the shop.
“S'posen wo did?” queried
the boys.
“Then he'd lessen the number of
in this village by fifty!" ,
The farmer went away, and the big
dog continued to tug and strain to get
at the little dog. The latter didn't scare
worth a cent. Ie sat there as 1
meant to stay to dinner. Evers
was wishing that the big dog wonld
loose, when along came a man wi
anyone
one
ped and asked :
“* What's the trouble #'
“That big dog
“Oh, he does?
to.”
He walked up ta the
want
Will
Wie ii,
rope, and the next 1
and the little dog were s
one could hardiy separate
i jut this lasted oul
| once the big dog ba
| and up the
| hung to his hind
{ dred feet.
| his Jambo
curbsione
{ turned
| exclaim
“What are you {
I tell you my dog
enough. to fight
panther ?”
.
ADJOURNED THE COURT,
A man who was summo
on & jury beg
the judge, interrupiing hi
“Never mind all
know,
your country.
an ton
sir, that it:
ness is likely
a Sin
Such men are m
“Hold on, Judge
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Minister—“ 1 underst
been speculating
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business and the
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deacon of the-
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speculated some,
sand dollars only yesierd
transaction
Minister (as'onnded)
80? What's wheat wortl
HE WAS
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A BUSINESS MAN,
t was at a railway junction in Illinois
Beveral passengers were waiting f
train, and one of them wns 20 ne
and impatient that a4 fellow-tx
finally said:
“Yon seem
reach home.”
“Ho Iam. Every hour is worth ten
dollars to me. I got a dispatch at
Pekin that fifty-one of my hogs have
shown the first symptoms of cholera.”
“And you are in a hurry to admin.
ister a remedy of course 7°
“A remedy? No, sir; I don’t fool
away my time and mone$ on remedies,
I want to get them hogs into Chicago
and sold before sundown to-morrow,
amd it's going to be a mighty close
shave,”
to be
very to
anxious
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LACK OF BRILLIANCY.
* Bromley, you never heard sach an
eloquent sermon before, 1 am sure.
There was no lagging of interest. Suh
brilliant passages"
“Yes, Darringer, I admit thal.
I slept during one of the passages.
“You did, eh? “Why, Iirothley, what
passage was it 7
“The passage of the collee'ion Lass
ket,”
Rs LATA AI SAAN 307 MS
It wan't roe that a pot of money was
ang up by a lot of workmen in Hunting.
don county. Money is not found in pot.
fals any more~a fellow must work for it
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