Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1901 — Knew His Duties. [ARTICLE]

Knew His Duties.

A young clerk in a wholesale house has been spending a large portion of his salary for the last few days buying cigars for friends who are “on” to a joke that was perpetrated on him. His employer engaged a new boy, and as soon as the boy came to the establishment he was Instructed in his duties by our friend, who had been promoted to the position of assistant bookkeeper and given • small office by himself. About an hour after the boy started in, the boss c?me around, and seeing him working, asked: “Has the assistant bookkeeper to*d you what to do?” “Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply, “he told me tn wake up when I saw you coming around."