Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
A Successful Drummer.

"A successful Drummer.
Peck's sun: The Sun has always
maintained that the travelling men. the
"drnmmers," had more enterprise and
visegar in their composition than any
class Of men in the known world The
idea has been illustrated the past few
weeks by the drummer Howard, travel.
ing for The Colt firearms company OF
Hartford. The company desired 10
bring the merits of tassir Calling gun
before the people. 1t was = gun cha.
they prided themselves ON, and all they
wanted was chance to show it. The
reaper manufacturers send reapers to
Texas earlp in the season, with experts
10 work them on the ripening grain, and
why should not The gun men 20 where
the rebels were ripe for cutting down.
Howard took his sample case Of gun and
checked il I" Winnipeg. Ae called on
Gen. Iiddle,sn and asked for perm ission
to show his goods, and the general told
him to pack up and come along to where
the crop Of rebel half breeds WAS ripe for
the harvest. Howard took mis- gan and
package Of circulars and went TO the
front, and when the battle was going on
ne unpacked his machine and opened on
the enemy. He moved them down
right and Jeff, and the Canadian troops
stopped firing anu watched the Yankee
with his pepper box. There was no use
in their fooling away their tine firing
their single guns when Howard could
throw q hasketful Of balls right into the
ranks Of the half breeds by simply turn
ing crank. 1t was the greatest success
fhat any drummer ever met with since
the agent for ca'hartic pill visited q
bilious neighborhood years ago and gave
away pills to all who, would take them.
AS the farmers Of Texas gather around
successful reaper at trial, and order
machines tor their own use. 81 the
Canadian troops gathered around How.
ara, complimenlcd him, and shook his
hand, and said they would have to have
some Of those guns. The modest man
admitted that the slain we're not his
enemies at all, but he had simply killed
them in the way of business, and he
hoped there would be no hard feeling.
Ha felt like asking the pardon Of the
widows and orphans he had made by his
experiments, but business was business.
and he hoped they would recognize the
necessity Of a man earning an homes,
living, though it became necessary ia
=. depop'late country in doing 80. All
he asked was trial OF his goods and he
would guarantee satisfaction or it should
not cost cent. To make the atfai.
" complete, there should have been drum
III ers present from an embalming estab
Nlishment, to demonstrate how easily and
cheaply bodies could be elnbalmed, SC
Athey would retain the natural appearance
"un'il the remains could he taken home
fDealers in collins at wholesale Nigh
nave been with, Middleton with sample.
'ot goods, and the Rochester man who
ssells*tllose beautiful hearses might have
been~ present with few of his hearses r.
seIsao:the half breeds War is peculiar
science, and 1t is necessary, probably, t.
k1Ibpeep!e, but it il not necessary and i
rs right for BUSINESS men to murder
humsn'h beings in order to sell goods
This caserz may be overlooked because tn,
rebels wha.were killed were poor ant
friendless,Abut as Howard was not a,
enlisted Canadian soldier, he had
harrow escape from being premeditatet
murdurer. s1fsthat Calling gun had bee,
used as an advertisement on the rioters a
Joliet, and the drummer bad killed. any
body, not being an enlisted soldier Of tn
o'ate {" Illinois, he would have beel
murdered, or tsssd for murder, and hi
employers, the Colt Arms Co., woul,
very likely have heen mulcted i
damages tor millions of dollars. It j
possible they may now. II the familie
OF those killed by Howard can prov
that ne killed them, Us an authorize
agent OF the millionaires of Connection
anu they can get justice in the court.
there Is no dead sure thing that tn
experiment of selling guns by KILN
people for tfuD, as the ferret kills rat
may not prove the naest expensive piec
OF Dus'hrss eyer INDUCED in by Yanke
Iustier. The Cots,may be made bankruE
~ taat one. experiment, and few woul
Iegret It It they were 1sIhere ia such