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Show MISTAKEN IN THEIR JUDGMENT. Prohibition Delegates Unable to Claim Stranger as Brother. "You cannot nlways tell from tho looks of a man what his business Is," said a Chicago drummer. "Many of tho Jolllest looking men are undertakers, under-takers, while many of the professional clowns are dyspeptic looking. I was a witness to n rather amusing experience experi-ence of this kind one time out in Kansas. Kan-sas. The train was pretty well crowded and 1 sat down opposite a party of three men, who afterward turned out to be prohibition candidates to somo kind of a convention. At n little station sta-tion along the way a tall, clerical looking look-ing old gentleman got on tho train and, seeing the only nvallablo seat In one of tho double ones occupied by the three delegates, sat down there. As time passed on the four engaged In ronversatlon, Urn delegates evidently evi-dently taking him for a brother member. mem-ber. Several lemniks were passed ru-, garding the prohibition work and tho liquor traffic, and It w:m a notlcenble fact that tho now nrrlwil did not warm up to the subject ns much as some of the others. Finally ono of tho trio touched him on tho shoulder and said: "Brother, are yem tn.'y making tho good fight?" "Yes," spiled tho ministerial min-isterial looking iiu.n. "end the bad ones. too. I'm a :,IsUy salesman." |