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Show VlhlTOn KICKS ON CLOCKS, j II CIU All I'nhllo Tlnilfre I'alillo Uara. "A public clock la a public liar, at least In Chicago," said a countryman to the hotel clerk ycatcrday. "Hy comparing com-paring the clock acroaa the alrcet with the clock In the tor on tha uaxt block, whero I went to make aome purchases, pur-chases, I arrived at tha hotel door fifteen minutes beforo I stnrtod from the store, and, according to your clo;k. It took me twelve minute to walk nross tho rotunda to your desk " "How does your watch compare with our clock?" naked the clerk. "I don't know It atopped nwhlle ngo ot Ita own accord (lot disgusted, I guess, trying to conform to tho way your city rlocka do business. No self-respecting watch would try to run along with your public clocks Hut your clocks aro no moro uncertain no moro untruthful than some, men I I have had dealings with In this town However, I ahould not complain of the ways and customs of your city folk-for folk-for I lived here flvo years a long tlra-ago tlra-ago and made, enough money to liu ns good n farm aa )ou will find It . Wisconsin." "I did not suppose, yea bad over lived In a city a wholo week nt a time. In your life," observed the parted-hls-hnlr-ln-the-mlddlo clerk "No? Well, I hno and they used ta my I had tho sharpest private detective detec-tive agency that thla town ever bad And, say, Mr Clerk, tho next tlmo I rome to town you needn't bother to tell the houso watchman to sea that 1 nono ot the boys 'work that old hayseed.' hay-seed.' "Chicago Chronicle |
