Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1887, Page 5

- " 20 BTN L 0 et ey O STAND 0N YOUR OWN MERITS, The Advice of Rev. O. A, Willlams to Prohibitionists. NOT A BELIEVER IN FUSION. Due Credit Given to the Republican Party—The Capital City Council Summoned Before the Federal Court—Brevities, [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN RUREAU.] Yesterday the congregation of the First $Paptist church held their first service at ¥unke's opera house, where service will be held Sunday mornings for scveral weeks, pending the completion of their hand- Bome house of worship now being built on the corner of K and Fourteenth streets, A v large audience greeted the pastor, Rev. 0. A. Williams, at the new place of worship, and the morning scrmon was one of the ablest of one of Lincoln's most able pastors. The theme was “Some Phases of the Temperance ‘Work," und it was listened to with close at- tention. Taking for his text the topic that the works of God will stand and must pre- wvail, and that the work of man must come to naught, the pastor spoke of the recent events that had agitated the country as nothing had the days of the civil war—the und death of the anarchists. ion that confronted the peo- t]uv\m that now, after four of them had ieeted out the full extent of the law, could the become martyrs and could docirines, imported to America. from rope, hive and thrive vould the people recognize the v structive doctrines s un-Ameri them. Following the text he believed with it, that the works and the doctrines of the agitators are entirely the work of man with out u religious inspiration and advocated by those who denied God and the ministrations of eliristian religion; therefore, ns the bible truth stated, the work would fall and perish. Taking C speaker 1 0 held that it was constantly prog But with this growth there had been the rowth of the power of the saloons, that in he politics of the land was the power of cvil confronting all parties, The speaker planted himself on the platform of total abstinence and prohibition for the land; it was the g uestion and the great problem of the day o spoke of the party that advocated prohi- bition for the state, and sald that while its platform was vight it must be owned that mistakes were mude. He found that by the recent returns of the clection in this county the prohibition ticket had failed to poll a thousand votes. If in this city of churches wis to bo'taken as the strongth of those op- posed to the liquor trafil the city heshould sorry that ho had pitched his tent in coln.” He could not believe it was and hence there must have been mistakes. He belioved that campaigns conducted on apuse of all other partics was wrong. Tho prohi- nd education this bition party wust be builded on its own principles. 1t should stand upon its own foundation rather than on a foundation made of the ruins of others. A campaign that said thero was nothing good in_the old partics from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot he did not_endorse. He be- lieved much eredit was due to the party in the north thut had given what had been gained in the line of prohibition. The speaker thought that a compromise had entered the campaign he did not believe in & compromise with any party that they could not endorse as_indi- Vidunls. The® compromise in the recent campaign was a mistake. The sermon entire was one of practical thought from a thoroughly christian standpoint on the great question of prohibition. CALLED Tho deputy United & shal has been in the eity and served notice on the mayor and councilmen to appear Tuesday in Omaha at United States court to_answer for violat- ing the injunction granted against them timo ago ordering them not to interfere with the police judge whom they wore about to re- move from oftice for violating his dutics. It will bo remembered that the council unani- mously disregarded the injunction and bounced the offending official, and it is for this that they are called to the metropolis. The order issued calls upon them to appear 8t 10 o'clock Tuesday, 80 that as soon there- after as possible thoy may show the court why they should not be attached for con- tempt. The city fathers are not yot advised whethier they are to be cast into the cit bastile pending the hearing, but if they are, their friends in Lincoln will send them a of literature to while away the tedium of their incarceration. Mayor Sawyer will be supplicd with a_complete _assortment of recent campaign circulars, Chairman Bil- will take along his record of the campaign and the grand assess- ment roll to flgure on. Grau Ensign will amuse .himself by talking horse with the jailor and H. H. Dean will sell pumps through the grating. It is understood that Citizen Courtnay will be in Omaha during the time the council are there and will send kets of grapes to the jail dai v object to taki but it is the best that can be done for them. In the meantim at Lincoln will solve the legal question whether or not ¥ic municipality is under obligation to pay saluries to the city ofiicials while they are in the hands of tho law. BRIEK ITEMS. Judge Broady was in Lincoln Saturday coming from the recent battlefield in the Fivst district. He appears none the wor tor the fizle cawpaign of Stull and fumphrey. On Wodnesday evening the boys of the fire spartment givo their second annual ball and cparations are nearly complete for the t which promises to be as great asuccess tho one a yearago. Citizens generally uld patronize the boys. ‘Work is boing pushed at the present time three new lines of street railway in Lin- n cxolesivo of the two old companics mow m operation that are laying ew track entire through the paving districts. t is o grent year for the building of street railways in the capital city. The plans are nearly completed for the new Christian church to be erccted opposite the new First Baptist church, on Fourteenth atreet, corner of K. ‘The Christian denonii- nation will have one of the handsomest houscs of worship in Lincoln, and the foun- datfon will be put in the present year. Judge Chiapman will return from Platts- mouth to-day to continue the hearing of dis- trict court cases in this city. 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Sl We don't wish to see any of our read- ers defrauded, and must warn them against the many counterfeits of the “Garland Stoves and Ranges.” These articles are without doubt the best that we have seen, both beautiful and use- ful, and cost no more than the counter- feits. ———— Sulmon still swarm the rivers of Ore- gon. Fishermen caught 10,000 in the Suislaw river in one n recently. ——e Sick headache # veadily cured by Hood's Savsaparilla, which tones and regulates the digestion, and creates an appetite, S i A box of ripe struwberries was picked on October 24 among the foot-hills of the White mountains, No trouble to swallow Dr. Picrce's Pellets. THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. The Drummer's . Tax — Localities ‘Which Imposo 1t Stockton's Case. ‘THE NESTOR OF HIS CALLING. The Eventfal Career of C. P, Lindley— The W. C. T. Board—A Good Story —Omaha's Sunday Guests—Samples. The Tax on Drummers. Some time ago Mr. Robert C. Stock- ton, representing a Kansas City house, was arrested at Tyler,Texas,for ‘‘drum- ming without a license.” On Friday of last week a writ from the United States court at Galveston was served upon the officer who hus charge of Mr. Stockton. The writ commands the said oflicer to brivg the said Stocktan before Judge Subine at Galveston to show by what right he holds him in custody. The writ is returnuble instanter, but it is suid to be the law that the officers have twenty days in which to comply with the same. Much interest is manifested in the case, and Mr. Stockton has re- ceived telegrams and letters from all over the state from moerchants and com- mercial travelers encouraging him in the fight against the law. The “Drummer " ever since its inaugural in several es and terri- tories, has been decidedly unpopular, not only among the ¢ upon whom the tax is levied, but as well among the people generally. The system though first adopted as a meuns of “drumming up” trade for the jobber, has come to be a commereial ne- cessity, as it is a matter of convenience and aid to the retailer in the purchase of hix supplies; and anything which tends 10 throw a barrier the path of the factors in the mercantile world very naturally combats u popular sentiment which scems based on practical common sense. The commercial traveler is in 1o sense a peddlar of wares, but simply makes his stated rounds, taking th orders of his patrons and display sumples of the goods his employe soll. By these samples the retailer knows just what he is buying and is thereforo cnabled to secure better goods for his custom Were unjust taxes levied upon the traveling salésman and his hours therefore compolled to with- draw him from the road, the residents of the interior soctions, compelled to buy just such goods as the cross-ronds dealer keeps, would fecl it directly and soon fully ' appreciate the value of the ' drummer system. This tem, while valuuble to the jobber, retailer und consumer, alike could perhaps be dispensed with, with less injury to the jobber than to the great body of consumers. In the great majority of localities where this tax is levied the law is a dead lot- ter and no effort is made to enforce it. Of them all the authorities of the state of Texas seem disposed to be the most {:(ax-snstuxxt intheenforcement of the law. Jpon two occasions the United States supreme court has decided this law un- constitutional on the ground that it in- terfered with interstate commerce, which under the federal constitution, congress has power to regulate. In the face of these decisions the state supreme court of Texas has upheld the tax in that stute and the result has been a continual fight against the tax by the travelers. The case of Mr. Stockton has no interest save to develop just how far the authorities of the Lone Star state propose to tax the patience of the commercial men, as this cnse, as well as all others of like character, can have but one outcome and that a victory for the drummers. The Texas authorities are fully ap- prised thatall such cases,when appealed 10 the United States rome court, will sm'n‘l&' result in a decision favorable to the drummer, and their only object seems to be to make litigation so ex- pensive and tiresome that the mer- chants will finally yicld and pay the tax they demand. It matters not how often the highest tribunal in the land m: decide the matter with each individual case, the local authorities can compel cach defendant to go through the te- dious and expensive process of litigation and appeal to the court of last resort. The right of habeas corpus is resorted to in this instance and will, without doubt, result in Stockton's discharge from custody under that The lo- calitics which impose this tax and the amounts ave as follows: Alabama, pe year, $200; 10; Bennetts: Butesburg, S. C., per day, 7 cents; rleston, S. C., per month, $10; Cum- and, Md., per day, $1; Delawa C., per per ‘visit, per year, $25; Deadwood, D. T., per eck, 85; Darlington, 8. C., §1; EuastSt. Louis, per day, 82; Elkton, Md., per cent on stock carried; Florida, per year, 2 ohn- $25; Hartwell, Ga., por trip, $5; ston, S. C., per day. cents; Lew Idaho, per trip, Montanu, per y for each county, $100; Memphis, per week, 810, per month, $25; Mo- bile, Ala. per day 83, per 25 ceuts; Nowport, arolina, per year, $100; Novada, per year, $100; Orangeburg, S 82; St. f\'x\tcucz, per du) ns, per year, $50: per month, $13 Novth week, 8$7; , 8. C., per Mathews, S. C., per day, §1 n k cisco, per quarter, $25; 1 s, per year, per quarter, $50; ; Tucson, Ariz Tombstone, Ar 1y, $10; Vi per year, ; Wilmington, N. lay, ¥3; Washington, D.” C., per year, $200; Walhalla, S, C., per day, $1. The First Drummer. Tor some time past Daniel R. Wolff, of Philadelphia, has been accorded the distinguished honor of being the first commercial traveler, and without ques- tion he has been accredited with being the parent of the now popular drum- ming system. A rival, however, hus appeared who is destined to wrest the Nestorship from the Pennsylvanian who has worn it for the past year without dispute. The most enthusiastic friend of Mr. Wolff does not date the begin- ning of his drummership earlier than 1846, while that of his rival, fully corro- borated by documentary evidence, goes back ten years earlier. C. P. Lindey is the manager of the Hartford Silver Plate company in St. Louis, and is as well a traveling representative for that establishment. Tu 1836 this gentlemen took to the road, and from that time until the present, during a period of fifty-one years he has lived mainly on stuges, steamboats and cars, and in camp, taverns and palatial hotels. In the seventieth year of his age he is to-day a hale, hearty man appearing fif- teen years younger than he really is, and can look back upon as eveutful a career as could be wished for. In 1834 Mr, Lindley, then a boy of six- teen, began ‘‘traveling” in Saratogo county, New York, Fortwo years he drove a meat wagon in the surrounding courtry, but it was in 1836 that his ca- erus a commercial traveler really be- an. In that year he entered the employ of Fdwin R. Vale, manufacturer of Japanned and Britannia ware as Mori- den, Conn., and bexnlk\ scll goods b, sample. These samples were not snugl folded away in a Iussian leather valise, but representod all the goods made by the firm, apd were stowed on the bot- tom sheli of & wagon constructed for that purpose. In those days there was no system of banking; oxchange, money onders had not been dreamed of, cur rency Was scarce. To the drummer who to-d; s his cxpenses with crisp bills, without thought of the exorbitant rates charged for poor provender, the way in which the first ropresentative of their class discharged his ol ations to the hosts is flm-mwll{ in ing. The upper portion of Lindley’s-wagon was filled with an assortment of ghotions and from this stock he would ‘pay for his enter- tainment, not forgetting .to drive a lit- tle trade on his own accemit in order to keep o little ready cash on hand. His trips would last from three to four months, during which time he would accumulate a large number of orders for the ware manufactured by his firm. In 1887 Mr. Lindley made his first trip through the southern states. This trip began in a wagon and aside from his regular line of mmrlu- young Lindley carried a large stock of notions which would be especially pleasing to tho negroes. The trip was a long and tedi- ous one, but resulted profitably to the drummer as well as to his house. From Albany he went to New York by boat, and thence by road to Philadel- phia, Baltimore and Washington. Here 1is southern journey began. At that time there was a stage line running from Washington to Milledgeville, Ga., a distance of 636 miles. It was known as the ‘Piedmont or Southwestern mail line.” The line was owned by Pe Wellford & Co.. of Danville and I'r ericksburg, The advantagesof the line were set out at length, Among others, “It passes above the low grounds and miasma of the lower country. and below the mountainous vegion. T'he country is healthy and the water good. Sober and skilled drivers o specialty, Speed as great as is consistent with health and safety.” AN OLD-TIM ITIERN TRID, Lindley concluded to follow this line, as it passed through some of the best portions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and _Georgia. Many of the places he visited are now unknown to the map. Others have become his- toric. The whole country is now over- run with railroads. The stage line was then their only communicati outside world. From Washington, ley drove to Fredericksburg, thence through Alsops, Mount Pleasant, Dab- ney's Mills, Potticsville, Holluday's, Gardner’s Crossvonds, = Thompson’s Crossroads, George's, Carterville, Cum- berland Court House, Leghorn’s Raine’s Tavern, (still standing) Farm- ville, Prince Edward Court House, (burned during the war), Char- lotte, Morton’s v, (scene of a bloody gement), Provigence and Hali- sourt house. Then the young drum- entered Novth Carolina, passing through Melton, Lennox Castle Greens- borough, then a promising town, Lex- ington, Salisbury, Concord, Yorkville, Union,Laurens and Abbeville. InSouth Carolina _he visited BEaton, Greens- boro, Washington and Petersburg. Towns, there were few, settlements oftener, but as a rule a tavern, a store and a blacksmith shop alone answered for some high-sounding name. Jogging slowly along, and turning from the road often to visita plantation, remaining for days, Lindley found the people very hospitable. Money they would not dream of taking,but a fow trinkets from the wagon stock for the “Madame and the young ladics” were received with Mr. Lindley remained more than two years in the south. Some ideaof thede- velopment of the country at that time can be gleaned when it is stated that it took 226 d: to make the trip from Montgomery, Ala., to Columbus, Miss. The road lay through the country of the Cherokee Indians, and was only indi- cated by ‘blazes’ upon the trees. In the entire distance there was but one stop- ping place, or rather but one settlcment, and it was called Teckeechee, The drummer slept there with a cotton planter. When he arose in the morn- ing the negroes were all in the field, but he saw the little pickaninnies get their breakfast. In a close pen, about fifty fect squarc, were betwe sixty und seventy of them, rang- ing" in age from two to five years. Along one side of the pen was a great trough. The little ones were as nakel as the day they were born. Into this trough was poured clabber by the bucketful, Bach of the children had a little cup with which it dipped clabber from the trough. An ol ‘mammy”’ dealt outa big picce of corn bread to euch of them, und this and the clabber was their breakfust. The country was very sparsely settled, and it was & source of wonder how the people were so well acquainted with each other’s affairs. Two men would meet on the trail who lived 100 miles apart, and ask: “How is Bill Jones getting along?”’ “They say he is pretty low,” would be the reply, yet Jones probably lived sev- enty-five miles from cither. The Indians had attacked and robbed a stage-coach in Mississippi,and burned the conch, The traveler heavd of that when miles from the scene, and not over four days after it happened, LIFE IN THE PINE WOODS, On his travels the young drummer froquently met natives, “Good day, stranger!” was the salutation inter- changed, and then they would jog on together until nightfall. They would select a good place for the night and cook the evening meal over a fire of blazing pine knots. A bed of pine needles was as soft as down to the weary traveler, and rolled in his blanket he would soon fall into that slumber that knows no dream, to awake feeling like a young giant, with the first rays of the sun. He carried no weapon other than a fowling-piece, with which he would oceasionally bring into use to vary the diet of camp life. There were no such lLlhing as robbers in that country in those nys. At Milledgeville Lindley bought a young negro, who was his faithful ser- vant until he prepared o come north. He reached the l\&jssissipp‘ river, and was at Natchez wiien the great cyclone of 1840 tore through that country, and he went as far as New Orleans where he did a big business. He returned over a route south of the one taken to reach Columbus, Miss., and in the fall of 1840 he found himsel at Wetumpka, N Here he sold his horses, wagon All his stock had been gis- and negro, posed of. AN OLD TIME EXPENSE ACCOUNT. The expense account of the first com- mercial traveler for the return trip from Wetumpka to Ballston, N, Y., will prove interesting to the drummer of w-dnr. Itis carefully preserved by Mr. Lindley and is as follows: C. P. Lindley's travels and expenses: From Wetumpka, N, C., to Rome, Ga, milcs, stage, Rome to G sborourh to Augusts, 84 I R o From Augusta. Ga., to Charleston, C., 136 miles, ruiiroad From Charleston to Wilmington, N, 113 miles, steamboat. .......... From Wilmington to Weldon. - 110 eesa 8 10,00 cnsborough, 150 20.00 11.00 milés; raflroad From Waldon to miles, railroad From Petorsburg miles, railroad From Richmond miles, rajlroad NV b From Frederieksburg to Washin, D. C., 00 milcs, steamboat. ... From Washingfon to Baitimor miles, AT From Baltimore to’ Philadelplia, 100 miles, railroad. ..o . 500 From Philadelphia'to New York, 100 miles, railroad y From Now York miles, steamboat ¥rom Albany to I railroad " Trodericksburg, 50 160 y Total, 1493 miles STILL ON THE ROAD. ‘At the end of the trip Lindley left the Meriden company shortly after his return and went to. Waterbu For twenty-six yonrs he was connecied with the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing company, they operating n brass rolling mill. He traveled for that and other firms out of Waterbury, Conn., until 1880, when joining foriunes with the Harlford Sifver Dlating company, he came west, and opened the St. Louis branch. Although the manager of the western branch he prefers life road. 'This has been a very b 3 with him, and he has long since passed the 25,00 miles. His mileage for 1887 will Be nearer 40,000 than 25,000.” The old gentleman hasmany interest- ing letters of thoso days, mostly written before the days of envelopes, and the old wax geals are partially intact. They were written in the days before postage stamps, when a letter” was senton its devious_and dubious course by stage, boat and rail, the postage to be paid by the receiver, and hore on the outside written by the postmaster, “due 8¢,” or 12¢ or 16¢, as the case might be. A remarkable carcer has been that of C. P. Lindley. Toa rvepresentative of the Globe-Démocrat, who visited him , he said: r was in - a railroad accident— that is, one of those horrlble aff; that more frequent now in these days of perfected systems than they were in the ys of ‘fresh-water’ roads. I feel that sense of sercnity when snugl tucked away in my berth that sail suid to expericnee when rocked in cradle of the deep. I can draw @ map of the United States from memory, locite the towns and put in the river and railroads. I could tell of Oregonian blizzards, Louisiana yellow fever, St. Louis summers, stormy times on the lakes and Atlantio gales. 1 am now elose on to seventy years of age,and mine are the recollections of a busy life. When I ride in a palace car over coun- try where Tonce staged it, and put up in o grand hotel where once was the old log tavern; when I ascend a rviver in a palatial steamboat down which I had flonted in a keel boat; when I send a telegram and get an answer inside of twenty minutes instead of waiting two months, as I once did for a reply to the folded and wax-sealed letters that I used to write with a quill pen—for stecl pens were not inventen then—aud send them over a devious course tomy firm, I stand as one in a dream. “The telegraph was mnot invented then, Tused to know Morse, when a young man, and I helped him string Wires for his experiments on the inside of the old negro church on Wayne street four years before he sent his first tolegraph message from Baltimore to Washington announcing the nomina- tion of Clay by the Whigge That was in 1844, doesn’t scem” roal to me. Why, I ean remember the first railroad ever built in this country. It was near my home in ‘atogn. county, Noew York., 1was only ten years ol time. Think of the mavy railroad, the telegraph, the screw pro- peller, the submarine cable, the tele- phone. the electrie light and -the thou- sand wonders in the way of machinery hat have enriched and ennobled man- kind, all coming to life in one man’s time, “A half century in business means a great deal,but T need not dwell on that. We were tal about ‘drummers,” and heve I am making a stump speech about the progress of civilization. An old fellow like me can't help it though, be- cause it seoms so strango and wonderful, yet I have seen it all, just as o father sces his son grow from a baby on its mother’s breast to a gr stalwart man with his mother on his arm. “In 1887, when T concluded to take a trip through the south, intending to he gone two years or more, I used my old wagon, and crowded into it all the no- tions that the ular sampler would permit. I was living at that time with a friend who ran a mill. There were no hoarding-houses at that time. I had three boxes filled with stuff that I couldn’t carry, and I left them behind me with the familv. While I was gone my friend died, and his widow moved away. Only two or three years ago, after a lapse of fifty years, I reccived a letter from her asking what should she do with the boxes, Ihad them sent to me, and how I did laugh as I pulied out the old-fashioned stuff. I have got it all now, excopt what I have given away to friends as relics of those carly days.” Mr. Lindley, though nearly seventy years of age, i8 yet as spry as the young- estof them. His complexion is clear and rosy, and a bald spot_on the place where the hair ought to be, and a full heard of snowy whiteness' isall that tells of the touchesof time, He is one of those men who never de- stroys a document of any kind, and he has” the correspondence and expense accounts to show that each year he travels from 25,000 to 40,000 mile: He lives mainly in Pullman ca It is said that so wedded is he to the discom- forts of the road that when, on occas- ions he is forced to sleep in a hotel, ho empld muscular porter to shake his bed all night. Should the porter be- come tired and stop, the old gentleman will wake at once. They also say that he has a pair of odd sleeve buttons, one in imitation of a wisp-broom and the other in the ape of a 10,000-mile ticket, while a diamond pin on his shirt front is set in imitation of a locomotive head-light. These are only stories that “the boys” have got up on {mm Buthe don’t mind, for he is the jolliest of them all, and will spin_yarns until they all take off their hats. Pifty years of an honest, upright ca- reer as a commercial traveler has se- cured for this gentleman a fund of in- formation unexcelled. Standing, to- day, though sound in health, naturally near the end of the great lane of life, it must certainly be gratifying to the old veteran of the road to look back upon his well spent and eventful career, To him, without doubt, is due the distin- guished honor of being the first commer- cial drummer, and in that position he will certainly receive the attention and respect due the nestor of a great and important class of men. ‘W. C. T. Board, The regular monthly me board of directors of the mercial Travelers’ association was h November 6 at St. Louis, W. C. Wet- more, president, in_the chair, The fol- lowing applicants, having conformed to the requirements of the constitution, were admitted members of the associa- tion: Theodore L. Cole, Charles G. Figures, Harry R. Finke, Herbert Goss, James D. Howe, Samuel Johnson, James A, C. Meng, Thomas S. Maxwell, Harry C. Sparr, Audrew E. Schoolbred, Williamg Sickerman. Adolph L. Wink- lemeyer and Richard Wall, St. Louis; Russel L. Hinckley, Belleville, Illj Beauregard Morrison,Little Rock,Ark William H. Fidlor, Webster Groves, Mo.; Frank A, White, Oswego, Kas; Louis A. Seligman, Upper Sandusky, O.; George M. Bittman, Kansas City, Mo.; William Kothe.Indianapolis, Ind.j Eugene J. Rizer, Fort Madison, Ia.; 2o A, Bayle, Alton, IiL; Daniel ¥, Buftalo, Y.; Charles Hill, nd, Oro. "'wo gpplications were rejected. nge of beneficiary was granted J. 8. Watson, Emanuel Locb and J. H. Schuleter. The finance committee re- ported that they had reported the books of the secrotary and fressuror to the 81st of October and found them corvect. The usual monthly bills, having n duly audited, were ordered paid. The secretary was ordered to colloet secon somi-annual dues, to close on tho 15th of December. This association is grow- ing ste Its membership to datoe is 1846, has been no death-loss assessment red since the 15th of Au- gust, which speaks well for the health of the members of the organization. T'he actual cost to the member for the year will be only 14, which conveys an assurance of 33,609, being a lower " rate than that of any other association of its kind in this or any other country. 1 To Drummers, Several weeks ago the BEE began the publication of a department devoted to newsand gossip of commercial travelors, Since its inaugural this department has met with such & cordial reception by those in whose interest it is edited,that it has been decided to make it a perma- nent feature of each Monday BEE. The co-operation of traveling men and others interested is requested in order to make this column one of ex- ceptional interest. Contributions are invited in the shape of personals, arri- vals and departurcs, and other items pertinent and interesting. Stories about drummers is especially requested as well as experiences on unusual jour- The column will al be open of discussions of questions of in- terest to the traveling salesman., All such matter should be addressed to the Drummer’s department, Omaha BEE. How Two Drummers Got a Bed. Nick Slowman always has a good story to tell. He was “in” yesterday. A rep- resentative of the BEE found him at the Millard resting from his labors, and this is the tale ho unfolded: “You know Charley W- ? Well Charley and I were snowed in up on the Broken Bow line last winter. The train just managed to make a little sta- tion, along ubout dark, and we tied up there for the night. There was a light load on, but every mother’s son and one daughter of them piled out and made for the only hotel in the place. Of course Charley and I bad to help the daughter along, and when we reached the hotel overything was taken, They fixed the daughter up with a cot in the hall, and the urbane clerk offercd Charley and I the soft side of a couple of chairs in the office; but, you see, we had been figuring on just such a situation, and we thought we might get something better. We didn’t swear and try to cut up rusty, but Char- ley steppod over and set his sample case in a chair near the stove, around which everybody was standing, then we lit our cigars and waited for supper—or de- velopments, In a minute a little, nerv- ous fellow, who had been spreading his cout tails before the stove, got too warm, and looked for a chair. The one with Charley’s sample case in it was nearest, and he ed out for the caso to set it off the Well, he hadn’t touched it be- fore Charley gave a yell that would have curdled the blood of a Sioux; he jumped over everybody between hila and the case, and” snatched 1t away frouf the little fellow in a minute. “My Lord! don’t touch that,” he gasped at the man, as though he had snatched him bodily from the jaws of death. He lovingly sot the case ut his feet, and while everyhody in the room was gawking at him, I inquired in my most innocently easaal manner: “How’s the nitro-glycerine trade now, Churley?” S Rivst rat " he answered, careless “You see it's o work to sell our goor The explosives we handle have one- third more power than those sold by any other house, and we sell our goods at the same figure the other houscs do ll I've got to do is show the goods, and they sell themselves, T ean just take one of those cartridges out somewhere and explode it—u mun sees what it will do, and the stufl is sold, if he wants anything in that lin It's a little disagrrecable in this weather— have to go so far away from everything to show the stuff—not much like boots and shoes, you know.” “I don’t sce how on earth you dare carry the stufl around,” I murmured, glancing at the sample case between Charley's feet. +Oh, well. u fellow getsused to it,” he said, with the air of a man who carries his life in his hand. *“Not so much danger in cold weather—warmth ex- pands it and then its more liable to ex- plode”—he reached down here and laid his hand on the side next the stove. “Greatest danger is from somebody meddling with it. Our house never had but one uccident from a man on the rond. A man up in Montana had his sumples ina caboose that was run into by another train”—impressive silenco for aminute, then he went on in a mildly reminiscent way. “Never had to got out a w ing gang to clear up that wreck—they had to orderout the bridge gang to build a culvert over the hole it made.” Charley shook his head little man who had attempte: L move that sample case edged up io the desk. 1 followed him. “Come to think of it,” he whispered nervously to the clerk, that room to I guess I'll stay in the train. I've got some things there I want to watch, you know.” ““The clerk assurcd him the train men would look after them, hut he wouldn’t have it that way—nothing would do but he must go himself. I happened up be- side them just then, and, finding he was bound to leave,took the rocin in the most innocent way inthe world. The clerk assigned me the voom all right; but he kept glaring over at Char- ley and bis case full of infernal ma- chines all the while, and the little man stated for the door, He said he didn’t think he could wait for supper—it was 50 close in there it made him sick, and he’d have to get some air, he said. The clerk tried to detain him, but he didn’t have time to talk—he bolted for the door and flound- erod off through the drifts, When Charley and [ came per we could seo wi guests were d array on one “1 wont want s from sup- ¢ all around, TI vn up in Dbattle side of the of- fice and the clerk headed them, He pulled his moustache a minute to get his courage up, then he flew at Charley. *Your friend can have his house with that —— thing a minute longer, sir,” he said. Charley glanced down at the anathe- mized samplo caso. “What's the matter with that?” he asked, and picking it up ho carciod it to the desk, lifted it as high as he could, and let it drop before the horrified clerk could interfere, There wasn't any explosion,and when Charley oponed the case there was noth ing moro deadly displayed than a fin line of toa and coffeo samples—but we had our bod that night, Omaha's Sunday Guoests, While the commercial mon were well represented at the hotels storday, there was o scarcity of familiar faces among them, most of the guests being comparative strangovs. Among the cemmercial men at the Millard were the following: John M Comstock, Chicago; F. IR, I'ersons, Philadelphin; Thomas H. B. New Yol S, Kimmelstiel, York; A. S. Potter, Boston; S. R. Mftthows, Philadelpl C. H. Dun ham, Boston; W, C. M X K. Phillips, New Yor! New Yor! G. N gan, Boston; F . Dryfoose, H. Terrell, Now York; . sh, Chicago; F'. V. Green, New York; J. C. Meseroil, Boston; €. W. Shivel, St. Louis; George P Riley, New York; George A. Kesslor, New Yorks J. Suckett, Chicago; W, O. Corvigan, Minneapolis, grain; Goorge . Addy, New York; L. D. Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. At the ton were N, San the following: Francisco, hard- , New York; J. M. viengo; G. H. Smith Gudadey, Chicago; Robert Chicago; 1. Calland, Now York; A. Lich, New York; D. M. Jen- kins, Boston; C. W. White, Chicagos g0y C. 1L Smith, P. Hambuught, Chicago; Pullen, Chicagoy J. Lonis groceriesy A, B. Lamborn, New Yorle J. 8. Vallentine, New York, cigs C. A. A g03 2. Thompson, New Yor! Fowler, New Yor dry goods W. IHall, Boston; P, S Luvch, Chicago; N. Worden, ork: D, K. Kittredge, Rocheste M. Bolton, New York; F. W. Carter, North Adams; H, B. Welles, Now York; A. Acherson, New York; I. Shiman, New York; ¢, C. Hall, Syracuse, Now York; W. J. Tilghaman, Baltimore, K. Salinger, Chicago;C. Jenmerat,Chi ‘W. B. Duncan, St. Louis; A. M. I New York; J. H. Mugenrath, York: J. C. F. Yarnell, Pittsburgh, Pa.; A. O. Davides, Chicago, cigars: W. C. Bailey, New York; F. A. Gebhard, Now York; I. Freid, Philadelphin; M, Bar- ranco, New York; M. Gluick, New York; G. E. Sussdorff, New York; R. K. Snyder, New York; A. Lefkaw, Cin- cinnaf William Cox, Philadel- phia; F. G. Strohmaier, Phila- elphiag Gilkson, Chicago; J. S. Sherrick, Detroit; F. A, Wilson, Chicago; F. W. Rockwell, St. Louis; G. W. Preston, Philadelphia; S. Moyer, Chicago; R. Martindale, l’llilndn‘l‘phin; H. H. Dawson, New Yorky W. 8. ‘Webber, Baltimoro; J. H. Barron, Con- Chicago; I, A. W. Ronaldson, cord, N. H.; J. A. Snyder, Chica ei- gars; B. L. Olds, Racine; E. M. tors, New York. Samples, C. C. Fowler, representing Paniel Talmage & Sons, of New York city, the only rice house in the United States, and who have branch houses {n Charles- town, Savannah and New Orleang, spen$ Sunday at the Paxton. He has shipped the western countryin the past six weeks over 6,000 barrels of rice. A. M. Patterson, of Detroit spegt Sunday at the Paxton. He gepresonts a hoisery manufactory in Detroit, and has for his territory the delightful coun- try of the Paciflc coast. P. S. Lerch represonungl Marshall, Ficld & Co., Chicago, spent his Sunday at the Paxton. ——— AN OLD BEAR HUNTER. An Old Hunter Who Sold a Be: to Jay Gould, “Do bears go into theirdens in winter and cuddle up in a heap and suck thelp v living?” ’s all poppycock. I've heerd that thing talked about, an’ I've read about it, but it’s all gammon. 'Tis ’round here, anyhow. Bears may do that in other places, but they don't do it in the Pocono woods. I never seen winter yit when I couldn’t go out an find bear tracks any month when the Skin snow laid on. Take the winter of 55 an’ fur instanc It wasa loetle tougher'n lust winter, un’ that's sayin’ a good he snow stayed op from “bout Thanksgivin® time till way Jon in April, but there want a month ufi that winter that I didn’t shoot or trap a bear or two. The deeper the snocw the more they roam outside of their reg’lar trampin’ ground, ’cause when the snow is deep they kuin't git at their fodder in the swamps, an’ so they have to sneak outside to Slunt fur grub. Curlin’ up in holes in the rocks an’ suckin’ their Lms is all bosh, an’ I know it. There’s no sense in sayin’ that they do. “Thirty year ago, when Jay Gould run a tannery down where Gouldsboro is now, [ hunted bear in Spenco swamnp when the snow was more'n knee deop. Tknow'd Gould well, an’ I sold him a bear s for 35 in January, ’57, an’ the bear that skin wastook from I shot when he was wallerin’ in the snow up to his belly, When the snow gets as decp as that it takes a tough man to folier u bear : * moggin’ round in the snow :ar up to your thighs ain’t no great un, even when you know the bear ain' more™ half a mile ahead of ye. When the s been deep fur two er three time o set traps. The n’ their toes then. g hustlin’ iound after dark hunt’ fur foddoer, an’ they come right into the barnyards and nose around fur mutton. You don't have to go out into the swamps to set your traps. You jist set ’em near the |'|1y1||'lL. an you'll gita bear now'n then, as sure’s as you live! The harder the winter the more Dears you'tl hear from in these parts, 51 Iy if you live here an’own Mt I've had sheep and pig® stolo right in the middle of winter, un’ I've seen the tracks of bears on my premises the nex’ mornin’,so 1 know’d what had stole’em. That don’t look as if bears went to sleep in holes durin’ cold weather, does it? They may lay down an’ vest fur a day er two when they get their bellies full of mutton or pork, but as for their curlin’ up an’ goin’ to sleep fur a mouth er six weeks, my experience says they don’t do nothin® of the kind. Now las” winter was ‘bout a tough a one s w orally git here in the Poconos, but I'll take my oath I shot er trapped a bear or two overy month. The las' one I ketched was in March, an I got him in a trap near the age of Killam’s Swamp. S Storm Calender and Weather Fore- sts for 1888, by Rev. Irl R. Hicks, with r*x,nlunu\inn» of th ireat Jovian Period,” upon which our Planot is now tering, mailed 10 uny address, ou ro- it of a two ¢ stamp. Write plainly your Lund State, The Dr, J. H. e Co., St Louis, Mo. The Methodlsts of Brooklyn will cele- brate the centennial of Brooklyn Methe room here, but you can’t stay in this | odisw on the 13th of November, i