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Show Captain Allen, a veteran in the traveling business and whose birth is said to antedate the discovery of America, has returned to Chicatco. His visit was a successful one. J. H. Weist, the crazy-quilt of the profession, profes-sion, now has his permanent headquarters over Pavey's store on West Temple street. Don O'Rourke of Franklin. McVey fc Co., grocers, Omaha, has established headquarters headquar-ters here and oscillates to every point of the compass as the spirit of trade moves him. George Brink. aD old-time Nebraska, Kansas Kan-sas and Missouri cornfield racer may his shadow never grow less! now represents in this section a Han Francisco candy house. AV. H. Bince, the western representative of the May-.McCord Mercantile company of St. Joe, Mo., Is here booking orders at a lively rate. John Uleason, the John L. of the fraternity, fraterni-ty, who holds forth at Ogdenas the guardian angel of the Gate City Hat company of Omaha, is at present making it lively in this city for his competitors. John Easton of the Tuttle-Hosea company of St. Joe, Mo., is still inhaling the glorious glori-ous ozone which is found in this garden spot of the nation. There are at least 135 traveling men, representing rep-resenting almost every line under the sun, in Zion at the present time. C. M. Ramsey, a prominent merchant of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is here for the second time this season, purchasing goods. The firm of Durrans, Winters & Co., of Rexfoid. Idaho, is placing large orders here this week. Billy Horsley, a rustling merchant of Brigham City, has made the hearts of several sample men glad this week. Merchants from all parts of the arid region are here laying in their supply of fall and winter goods. KNIGHTS OF THE GIUP The Commercial Men Are Staunch Protectionists. THEY VISIT THE PRESIDENT Another Parrot Yarn With the I sual Knding A Denver Drummer's Xerve and !Shootiae Iron Kake an Enviable Record Samples From Home and Foreign rips Breezy Aotes of a Personal Xalnre. An exchahge says that over one thousand commercial travelers have gone from Chicago Chica-go to Washington to pay their respects to th president. The custom was inaugurated four years ago, when the Commercial aud Traveling Men's Republican club made a trip to Indianapolis and were addressed by Harrison, then a candidate. It is a well-Vnown well-Vnown fact that there is no class of people bcttei ualitled to feel the pulse of the public pub-lic than the drummers, and none more directly interested in the maintenance of the principles of protection. They know better than anybody else the value and extent of the home market, and they cannot be deceived de-ceived as to the proportion which exists between be-tween the sale of imported goods and of domestic do-mestic goods throughout the country. If. saj's the same authority, a drummer who has been on the road for a series of years could be induced to write and publish his Terniniscences the book would be an unanswerable un-answerable argument in favor of protection. protec-tion. It would show the gradual supplanting supplant-ing of foreign manufactures by the domestic domes-tic product of looms and foundries and shops and factories, aud at the same time decreasing prices to the consumer without any appreciable decline iu the quality of the article supplied. The majority of drummers are Republicans Republi-cans because they know so well the practical operation of protection. They handle and sell goods ot all kinds for what they really are. It would bj hard to convince them that the manifest destiny of the United States is to raise corn, cotton and pork to feed the manufacturing nations of Europe. They know tha diitereucc between raw and manufactured products and where the national prolit lies in their respective production. pro-duction. Although glib of tonarue, ' overflowing with good fellowship and apparently mercurial mer-curial ia temperament, the average drummer drum-mer is at times a deep thinker. Being a deep thinker, he is a Republican. ANOTHER l'ARl-.OT 11KX. Clerk Hart of the Continental is telling ' another parrot story, which he cribbed from the stock in trade of a drummer w ho looks enough like Charley Bell to be his brother. It was . liiiiiloicr's bird, of course, and was rioted for its pious ejaculations in church. A lady member of the congregation had just purchased a bird of the same species, and, wishing to have it brought up in the way of the holy, got permission of the clergyman to have the birds placed together. to-gether. The minister's man, John, was dispatched dis-patched for the strausrer, and, while on his return trip, he tripped over a rock, hurt him-elf him-elf a good deal and nearly killed poor Polly. "May the devil take the minister and his parrot," exclaimed John when he recovered his equilibrium. When the birds were placed together they immediately engaged iu a tierce tight, sadly interrupting the clergyman, who was preaching a sermon. Finally the strange parrot cried out: "Msv the devil take the minister and his parrot:" "Amen!" shouted the other rascal, as he ehed a bushel or two of feathers. A DRUMMER'S HEKOIC ACT. S. .T. Payne, the commercial traveler who foiled the Union Pacific robbers at La Salle on the night of August 17, has finished his Western trip and last week arrived iu Denver. Den-ver. Only three or four weeks before starting start-ing on his memorable trip he was ruined by a disastrous trip in West Virginia, and it was in the hope of recouping his fortunes that he came West. To a Denver reporter he related re-lated his exciting experience as follows: "On the night of the 17th of August I had fallen asleep and was awakened by screams in the car. Raising up and looking down the aisle, I saw that a masked man had entered en-tered the car, that the passengers had all surrendered, and he was going through their clothes. The man noticed that I was awake and fired at me. I dodged back, reached for my gun, aud, resting it on the back of the seat, fired. The shot struck him full in the breast and be fell in the aisle. "Just then one of the other robber who had boarded the train came in and I blazed away at him. He too fell, but immediately got up, dropped his plunder and grabbing the wounded man dragged him out of the car door, leaving watches and money and his revolver in the aisle. They then made their escape. The passengers regained their composure after a time, and the stolen valuables val-uables left behiud by the robbers were restored re-stored to their owners." Mr. Payne, who is the representative of the Denver Stamping company and the Lit-tlefield Lit-tlefield Confectionery company, is confident that his action saved the express from being lootod and is considerably amused over the fact that although there were any number of wild and woolly Westerners on the train, it was left to an Eastern man and a tenderfoot to display enough presence of mind to stop the hold-ups. SAMPLES PROM M.VKT'GEIPS. There aro fewer business failures in Salt Lake than any other city of its size iu the United States. The various sample rooms were well patronized this week by the visiting mar-chants. mar-chants. The sample rooms are of the dry variety. The boys report a good fall trade thus far. The old Continental) which Is to be razed shortly to give way to a more modern structure, struc-ture, will be missed by the grippers. It was a second home to many. J. A. Droste, of the Hamilton-Brown Shoe company of St. Louis, is in the midst of a prosperous season. His house does a business of $5,000,000 a year and its terms are spot cash. It was one of the first houses in America to adopt that system. The proposition to establish a headquarters headquar-ters for travelers where their samples could be displayed is no longer talked of. Charley Bell did a lively business this week. His sample room now presents the appearance of a wholesale house. Denver soap men find a ready market in Utah for their wares, although cheaper and better articles are produced at the very doors of the merchants. Jewelry is no longer considered au fait by the boys who have cut their eye teeth. There was a time when a salesman was judged by the size of the diamond he wore, but that time now belongs to the dim, dun and misty past. J. E. DeVir.e, a well-known traveling man of 8t. Louis, Mo., passed through this city this week en route home after a successful trip to the coast. He reported that business over the entire West shows a healthy increase. in-crease. Commercial men judge a town by its bank clearings. In consequence Zion is a favorite stamping ground of the fraternity. Charley Bell wears a Liberal badge with the suggestive carpetbag on it. With him it answers a double purpose. The Templeton is making a bid for the trade of the travelers. The salesman with novelties and holiday goods is now a popular caller with the merchants. mer-chants. "Jack" Shannon, on a recent trip to the Xorthwest. sold a carload of cigars. Now that he is on the road for himself, "Jack" is breaKing all previous records. L. B. Sigsber, a traveler of Springfield, Mass., is drumming up trade in this vicinity. The O'Brien triplets are here and each has brought his business eye with him. Charley and Joe are drumming up trade, with their usual good luck, for M. E. Smith fe Co., dry goods, Omaha, while Will is equally zealouj in behalf of E. D. Walker & Co., dry goods, St. Louis. John Beatty of Kirkendahe, Jones & Co., Omaha, is here growing fat, while he looks after the pedals of mankind, and Al Condon of Parrotte, Andrews & Co., Chicago, has a full line of samples of head gear. Jim Shields still holds forth at his sample sam-ple room in the Templeton. He has been campaigning hereabouts for twenty-five days and is just as fresh now as when he gtarted. |