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Show ... -.. . ' . . 1 Tries Vcinly to ECcct a Sab Vitli C-V-ciil Who "tVha't the blankety blank do I look Iikef Do I look like a man who wanted to buy a tombbtona or some kind of a monument for my own gravel Why in thunder don't you let a man die' before be-fore you bury him and come to try and fix a headstone over Tiimt I have heard that I was dead, but I'm not, much less buried. 'What do you mean by coming com-ing to my house and trying to sell me a tombstone. Do I look like a dead manf If you don't get off this porch and out of that gate in less than fifty-seven,, fifty-seven,, seconds. I. will prove to yon that I am the liveliest dead' man, or live man that yon .ever saw in your life-Get." life-Get." . . ' .This, is the greeting that a representative repre-sentative of a local tombstone eom- Eany received yesterday afternoon as e went for tho fifteenth time to the house of a man who was reported as dead three weeki ago. j The man reported dead is a well-known well-known employee of Uncle 8am. In tome way the report of hia death -reached the office of a local firm whose business busi-ness it is to furnish marble slabs or other monuments for those who have departed this life. In the employ , of this company is a young man whose business it ia to secure trad for hit employers. This young man la known as a rustler rust-ler and when the death of the Government Govern-ment man was reported he started at once to make a sale. He visited the house time and time again. There was no response to the door bell.' - j "The man was so prominent ana! his friends are of such a character that I will get a (rood commission," said the young man to himself. - . He fairly haunted that honse. He visited it morning, noon and nijrbt. He rang the front door bell, he knocked on the side door. There was' no response. re-sponse. But he never lost faith in his ability to make a sale. With the sentiment, ' 'There is no such word as fail," runninjj in his mind, the salesman eontinned to visit the bqnse. He would make -a sale. He would show his business ability. -Yesterday afternoon he received a response to his . repeated ring at the front door. A man answered the bell. With a face as long as a professional mourner the young agent stated his business. Were the friends of the dear, dead, departed thinking of something in his Hnot He expressed his sympathy in the great bereavement that had come to the family. It was such a tender feeling that he had. He felt, he believed be-lieved that he was making a hit with the man to whom he was talking until and then oh, horrors -he found he was talking to ., the man whom he thought dead. . - As he left the house by the in no way polite invitation of the supposed dead man he said a few things to himself. On his favorite ; musical" instrument last night the young man was heard to play one or, two selections that sounded very much ' like a dead march. This morning he informed his firm that the next time it sent him to sell a tombstone tomb-stone he proposed to be sure that he ia going to see someone who 'represents 'repre-sents the person who has passed away and not a man who is very much alive. |