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Show ronl. Unless they toot their own horn they will never rise to eminence in this world. A huge m a tiff was employed recently in this city by an enterprising drummer to advertise ad-vertise a well-known brand of nerve-soother. The Morgan, Templeton and Knutsford hotels are engaged in a spirited but friendly rivalry to secure the good will of the travelers. trav-elers. S. P. Rounds, jr., formerly manager of the Tribune Job Printinij company of this city, is now the traveling representative of a leading Chicago printing ink establishment. The McCornick block is the abiding place of three knights of the grip. Their sample rooms are on the seventh floor, which an irreverent wag says is as near heaven as they will ever get. The report has reached this city that Jack Shannon, the San Francisco cigar dealer, has fallen heir to a snug estate in Ireland. Jack has many friends here v. ho will rejoice to learn of his good fortune. Drummers should -adopt the golden rule as a guide. ''Do unto others as you would hare them do unto you," should occupy a permanent place on the lid of their sample case. The Eastern drummer has succeeded in making it rather lively in this city for his Pacific coast brother. For some reason, most likely silunanism, the 'Frisco merchants are now about twenty-five years behind the times. Charley Bell's pleasant face is missed in business circles. About this - time ho is 6eeing the Bostonese elephant under the I guidanco of the happy-go-lucky council-men council-men who painted this quiet city red about nine months ago. Bob Ingersoll is billed to deliver a lecture for the special benefit of the commercial travelers who make Chicago their headquarters. head-quarters. "Pagan Bob," as a Methodist preacher onco called the great agnostic, is a prime favorite with the fraternity. Ted Marks, the interest-exciter of the "Gloriana" comedy company, was at one time the most successful cigar drummer on the Pacific coast. His strong card was the "Pink of Perfection" brand, and under his skillful manipulation it enjoyed a phenomenal phenome-nal sale. In the latter part of the '70's the firm of Walker Bros, of this city was one of his heaviest customers. IvNirTlITSOFTHECrRIP The Year 1892 Has Been a Profitable Profit-able One. A FUTURE FULL OF PROMISE. Loner Freight Kates and a Competes Compet-es Itoad Will Hake Zlon a Whole-- Whole-- sale Center in Fact as Well as in Sianic - A Hoinewhat Tall Poker Yarn in Which Kalston and Nharon Figure Samples From 31 any scrips. The drummers are deserting Zion one by one, and ia a short time only the veterans of the home guards will remain. Taken as a whole, the year 1S92 has been a good one for tbem, and it is safe to assert that it has been the best, in a business sense, since 1&8J. In that year, under the influtnee of the boom fever which invaded every city and village iu Utah, the merchants ordered heavily and the result was that 1800 and 1891 saw them striving to unload their rapidly rapid-ly growing out-of-date stocks. Their shelves were finally cleaned, and this year has witnessed the replenishinir of their wares. The uucertainties, too, of iS'X), have given place to that confidence which only experience expe-rience begets, and the salesmen are assured that few, if auy, notes will be protested, and that the polite request, "please remit," will not have to be made a second time. For . Utah is now on the topmost wave of pros- ferity and will eventually land on the shores abelcd "assured success." ' A Tall Poker Yarn. Several drummers were recently discussing, discuss-ing, in the rotuuda of tho Knutsford, the ' mysteries of poker, and of course numerous fairy stories about big pots were recalled and properly digested. Among the story tellers was a Caiifornian and he regaled his hearers with an interesting yarn of how W. C. Ral-. Ral-. stou, tho most enterprising sport that ever colled the Golden state his hom. won $200,-000 $200,-000 from Sharon, the well-known millionaire of unsavory fame. It appears that Ralston won that vast sum with a pair of tens. They were playing jackpots and Sharon opened. Ralston and two or three others stayed. There was some light chipping of one or two hundred several times around, when Ralston strengthened his play and began raising by thousands. Sharon and Ralston soon had the play to themselves and it was not' loug before there was close to $150,000 in the pot. Then Sharon made a raise with a $50,000 counter. Ralston studied only a moment and then came back with a $100,000 raise. Sharon did not take long to decide his play. "I quit. Bill," he said, and shuffled his hand in the deck. Ralston was o delighted over having made his bold-playing bold-playing bank partner lay down that he spread his hand disclosing a pair of tens. 'Sharon," concluded the truthful drummer, 'never told what he held iu that hand until Ealston's death. It was a pair of jacks." The story, perhaps, is out of place in this column, but is given for the purpose of showing that occasionally a happy-go-iucky liar will creep into the pure and undefiled ranks of commercialdom. The Futore Tnll of Promise. Many sanguine persons believe that the day ia not far distant when the wholesale bouses and manufacturing industries of Zion will be multiplied three-fold. This delightful de-lightful prediction they base on the assurances assur-ances that freight rates will soon be reduced to a figure which will enable this city to compete with Omaha and Denver for tho trade of the inter-mountain country, and that a competing line to the coast will be in existence before the expiration of five years. 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