| Show ONCE HIGHEST I SALARIED SALES MANAGER IN AMERICA GAYER LIFE SENDS HIM TO POOR WARD o By DOlI DOLLY Y DALE From F om the position arid influence commanded by the highest salaried sales manager 10 in the United States to that hat of an inmate of the Salt Lake county infirmary that that is is the history given me this morning by the wreck of a very perfect gentleman James Albert Brown at one time H. H B. B general sales manager forthe the Cleflin Dry Goods company of ot New NewYork of ot driftwood Yo York l now flow one more piece graduate in that haven for tor derelicts St St. Louis university a gentleman nf of the still school-still carrIes the indelible in- in n- n old of the tho marks ot of of culture culture- culture and and the In instinctive in- in refinement of ot a Southern gen- gen tiernan Age New Courtesy sy in a to see me He rose rosea 4 MA Ah a o lady ady laoj in it the tho o n A old fl mens men's s en-s restroom from a seat and with all th the j of the I institution s Raleigh placed placeda of ot a Sir Walter Valter v au grace Hero nero was no superfIcIal a chair for me of ot an age go which bleh h Is too cial refinement things which snake mako little the busy for tor it was something a apart apart for true trUO courtesy which Years which years years-of I of ot man mai part ori cou could not efface drink and old aid 0 Ills fac tace j Is fa 12 2 years V is Brown for tor little humorous humor- humor unwrinkled around exec pun M hiS hiS' s w ey the corners cor- cor ous lines His rough n brown mouth th ners ot of his suit stilt Is spotless he stands InstitUtional soldierlY r in it erect an and and- ery for Accommodations ApologiZes nO snore more private 0 place Sorry I have apologized zed This is isa isa lie ho to se see YOU ou in but unfortunate- unfortunate a most accommodations for tor ly iy there are 0 ladY rs In fact charming young we old fellows 8 seldom it Is most are so favored must admit it it-I was as Of course I completely won very verY v very wc Well We are arc treated 11 faCt t to tobe indeed he ea added of d course e nothing liko Jlko the thebe b be gaining ot roO to pounds of my gayer days but quite as well as could be expected The Gayer Days I could not awaken much interest in any competitive weight contest con con- test The gayer days das sounded more promising I 1 understand that you are a sales sales- manager by y professIon n- n ls Is my next venture I H Yes a a. dry goods oeds buti f man originally but ot of late Inte i I must admit a greater specialist special special- isi 1st in- in wet goods goods unless unless we except tho the extra drys' drys I h have ve memories of such it seems and and the little humorous wrinkle kles showed around the corner corner of ot his eye ye and In the reminiscent smile Yes ies that is all that Is left left- memories heft memories memories His voice drifted away in the distance WHat Were Memories I wondered at the memories Were ere they of the br broken ken hearted wife and baby girl he left heft In st St. stLouis Louis twenty- twenty i fIve years eaIs ago aeo Or for the days and nights flights that at he be danced down the tho primrose primrose prim prim- I rose path t to the sound of ot flutes when the tho Women were young and the wine w Wa was old and the only song for tor he Is a a. jolly good fellow I shall never know the thoughts that he was as 5 buried burled in It seemed too oo much like tearing the fibers of his heart henrt for tor n. n a. a treatise on the ability and powers of ot that organ I had nothing to say my myself my my- self sell for tor a few minutes Near us old men of ot every imaginable description sat around a a. table an and Played cards ci or slept in the depths of ot f their chairs lost in or more often otten in the dreams of the Just Memory Is Evasive The last last r r er-r position I held was in this city He came out of f. f his dreams with a start start- It seems like two years or more that I was there I hardly remember I hardly remember anything very well The boys at the store were very kind to me for a long longtime longtime longtime time after atter my resignation was Vas accept accept- ed I did not go hungry even even though I could not work Then there was a aUm Um time that I do lo not remember it might have been days or months I found myself here when I first knew that I IWas Iwas Iwas was still J. J A. A Brown Brown- Brown J. J. J A. A Brown once a man and now now now- The peri period d of ot forgetfulness begins with his being carried by the police to the county hospital and a a. stay of many months In that Institution and ends with his being transferred to the in- in There is il a lot that Brown did not tell me Perhaps his memory was not responsive but perhaps it was too acutely His daughter Virginia I Is Is' living is-living living in St. St Louis the wife of a a prominent doctor doctor- He prefers her herto to I think him dead to to being Informed of or I his his' plight Would Be Happy He lie would b br be happy In forgetful es ess but hut the cruelest crudest knife In the tho world orld Is that or of memory to That t is aU all th that t Is memories heft memories- memories |
