Show A TRUE TALE A who hit wares in TITO lalic Lal lc wo have a little story that we chopo all those people who arc eternally harp ing on the wickedness of drummers 1 will read and reflect on met hundreds of people who if you tell a certain man say a stranger ia a I 1 their horror and declare that be nothing good about him in other worda no matter how anch of a gentle man lie may lc alic mere fact of his being a drummer damns him forcher A little fact has come under our observation eliat shows alint it is to judge a man by hii look the other daiy diy wo were on tho chicago eatch illinois hoail starting on n shooting trip just in front of us two women we wont call them indies for they were of the of women alio are regular fanatics and always know more than anybody alc especially about other peoples bu cinc with them was a poor lien peeked looking man alio was probably alio husband of one of them at a station there got on the car 1 nico looking man with a inigo hat valise in each hand he was well dressed wore a aind had a good honest face a sandy beard and light hair and lib face was corid aa is always alio case wilh men of lua blyle lie nodded his head in our direction ami sat quietly down in one of the front sc its aisil commenced reading alic paper 1 lien the women commenced did you aliat nasty drummer gil on said number one yes said number two dc tp csc them they go around like a pack of wolves and they do anything mean and low I 1 trust one of em a minute how ilo vo know lio is 1 dmm mer meekly pecked know how do I 1 know said number why I 1 can tell cm as fur as I 1 can sec cm them things they call grip sacks rive cm away tim fellow has pot two I 1 guess hes pot a lot of samples in ono and a big whisky bottle and a pack of cards and a whole lot of letters from girls all over tho country in alio other one 0 I 1 pity hi poor wife how do you kaow haa married ventured the knowl why boilers toilers have got wives all over iho country they aist these innocent girls aind marry on ym but they gan c ono poor wife and a lot of children of lEast somewhere and the poor thing has to MI port cm all while the drummer is gaddin round alie country cards yes art nl number two youre right they all be in the penitentiary a depraved set now jut look at that fellows face see lauw red it is ill bet ho drinks a quart of every day I 1 seen anything so red in my life bow I 1 jiwat know hes got a big husk in each of them sample cases and did vou sec alio glicck he had to bow to us when he came in and hero wo saw him before the cheeky wretch now we happened to know alio gentleman anil knew his business and we thought it a good chance to put in our oar especially as wo knew it was to us bo nodded and probably never noti ceil alic virtuous females at all so putting on a sweet smile 0 o leaned forward and said ladies I 1 co yon know something ot the world drummers arc a hard set arent they they looked at us a moment and then said yes sir I 1 hope you dont associate with them 0 no madam not for the world I 1 livo down in evansville and down there the people wont walk on alio abc side of alio street with them at all how was this for gill aiom a fellow that went on iho roid when only seventeen and drummed ten years well im glad they treat cm aa they deserve down in evansville do you know that whisky faced feller up in fronta front 1 never saw him before said we with truthful air but id just like to play a trick on him and mako him show whisky bottles lies got in his valisa val isu 0 that be nice said one bow could yon ilo it aou just leavo it to mo wo went on rope him back hen ami tell liim alint two ladies arc cry much interested in him and it will bo just like his check to conic back and open his vali ind show you a lot of letters from girls just to bhoj you what a ho is 0 how nice they cried clapping their hands ice roil set him back yo went forward and simply said to the alleged drummer II enon hero are two nice christian ladies back here who want to look at your samples B think they can help you along throw down his paper and grabbed liis valises vali ses and came back lie threw back n scat and while opening tho said ladies I 1 for me 1 am a minister at milford and of course I 1 dont get much salary and during my hummer vacation I 1 try to make 1 little money for my wife and babies by working on commission for the american bible society now do you see any of that you like and lie open both valises completely filled with copies of iho from the cheapest up to alio nicely bound ones lire usually kept on center tables what the women said wo dont know wo lit out for another car we want to bo snatched bald headed but 0 had a kind of a sweet that wo bad shown elioso vinegar faced females that you cant most always lall argus |