Show WAITED FOR FOB HIS REVENGE Drummers Drummers' stories are not so plentiful as the they were years ago In the days das ol of slow low trains Inefficient telegraphs and fierce rivalries between merchants hants who under lIndel th the present Industrial s system would probably bly be he acting together In Iii some sort of a combination Here I 1 Is a yarn yun from the South however which has some of oC the old flavor r about it H T o drummers Benson an and Moore became became be be- came acquainted on the road am and though they were strong competitors the they came to be the best of oC friends The They met at a hotel in Raleigh N. N C C. one night and conversation developed the fact tact that U-e U they intended to the tame towns on one of the roads leading cut of ot Raleigh the next tIn day Both counted on working four Cour towns b before ore sunset It was In the sunnier summer er time and neither nei nel- titer ther man was anxious for a contest of wits so when Moore proposed a com corn community community of Intel ests Benson eagerly accepted ac ac- ac- ac his proposition There were seven el towns and anti the they each took three agreeing to meet at the seventh after afler the da days day's s work ork was over Oyer Wl When Vin n they reached the thc seventh sc U lown wn they he put up together log In the same room room at the leadIng leading lead- lead Ing InS hotel Each had done don A good days day's business s bu but t In it order t to keep in practice practice tice thc they decided to fight it out O over Or r the business s In this town the next morning The They went vent ent to sleep joking each other about the tha of th the next day Benon Benson Ben Ben- Benson son on was vas a n nCI cr CI very he heavy sleeper hut but Moore I promised ed to wake him at an carl early cody hour his prom prom- I ise c Benson awoke at 10 o'clock to find Moore gone bone and the room locked tight the time tini he was able to get set out and down town town had sold t to every er merchant In the place an caught the th limited for lor Raleigh It U took tool Benson Bemon more than two yeats eals to g get t even en At last his opportunity came Yellow fe fever fe- fe vet ver W wis is raging on th the lit gulf gill coast COlt an and a shotgun un quarantine had hat been established established in 10 southern south Alabama B. landed in ore ot-c of or th the Jest est towns lowns and learned that was to lo arrive e the next da day Without hesitation tion Benson Informed th the excited au- au of ot th the town that thit a man wh who had been exposed to fever In a Missie- Missie t town had dd his intention to tn defy eCY the tho quarantine He gave an accurate acCurate accurate rate description of or Moore and nul the olf oti dais began to watch vatch every CIT up train When Moore reached the to- to ton to-rn n the next morning he was WiS na nabbed b by the local placed In the thc e an and Kept there for Cor three thi-cc days das In the meantime meantime mean mean- time Benson son secured all the business Inen in en every en town in itt the surrounding section Before lea leaving In he hc wired Moore his con con- with a reference to old times New New New York E Evening PC Post Pont t. t |