Show procrastination is the bane of commercial travelers procrastination Is more than any other class 1 bane of travelers of men I 1 sometimes think by E L CRAWFORD baltimore Bal dmore md I 1 have heard many a drummer tell hardluck hard luck stories of what he hall had lost by delaying 01 an intended visit to some customer and I 1 have had mournful experiences in the same line 0 once ill cc I 1 stood in front of the establishment of a very liberal patron in in louisville undecided whether to enter or wait until morning it was then about in the afternoon and I 1 finally decided thabit it was too late to bother the proprietor at nine the next day I 1 was in his private office and told him of what had transpired the preceding afternoon ad 0 adding ding that I 1 knew it was better to have waited great he answered do to you mean say that you stood out there on the sidewalk and went away without seeing me well it was a a miserable trick you played on yourself for I 1 was in ill my private office at that th at v ery hour writing an order to your firm for worth of goods I 1 had to have ern cm in a hurry but if I 1 had only known you were coming 0 you assuredly would have received that order direct I 1 came nearer fainting than I 1 ever did in my life but it taught taut ht me a good lesson |