Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-30
A Sad Case,

- A Sad Case.
Four druu,mors were in the smoker COM
pairing notesabJut sales and solid customers
with that strict regard for veracity which
Is so beautiful atrait of the drummer's char
acter when it came the hardware mans
turn.
~ used to have an old German customer in
a little town out on the Union Pacific" he
said. 1.-THE old man wasn't up to all the
niceties Of book keeping, but when he made
dollar he knew it as hard as anybody, and
TO save himself from all the bother of figur-
ing out per cent of profit on his goods he
had adopted the simple and comprehensive
scheme of selling his goods for Just twice
what amount they cost him. That was easy
and plain and he couldn't make any mistakes
about it. Well, had to labor pretty hard
with him the first bill sold. and in consider
alton Of time and trouble 1 felt justified in
tucking on pretty good prices or course,
took great interest in his business, and in
the course of our talk he told me how he fig
ured his profit on the goods he Sold"
'As say, got my prices pretty well up,
and the next time came around the old man
wouldn't listen TO me at all. 1t appears an
other man had been there in the meanwhile
and sold him goods so much cheaper than
had that his stock in me was way below zero.
was stuck for a minute-then one of those
brilliant thoughts that do sometimes come to
great minds flashed upon me- 1 got my in
voice and the other fellows invoice and laid
them side by side. Then l showed the old
man that on a stove he bought Of me and paid
$l5 for he made just sl5-of course he sold it
for $50. Now the other had sold him the
same stove for IS, he had sold it for SIG and
made but IS on 1t, so he made 81 more on the
stove he bought of me than he did on the
other mans stove, and 50 on through the bill
When it dawned upon his mind that instead
of making money he had actually lost s94 by
buying the cheaper goods, he swore by oceans
of lager that he would stick to me in the fu
ture--and, by Jove, he did"
The three other diummers threw away the
stubs of their cigars and gloomily betook
themselves into the next car.
He Killed the Dog.
An expensive, unfortunate, but at the same
time amusing incident occurred down the
Republican valley short time ago, which
has resulted in the clubbing of one of
Omaha's popular statesmen "dog killer"
He was arriving in town by team and the
horses were hampered by a gay and festive
canine. Ike mastered his feelings for horses
for some time but Mr.. Dog persistantly an
noyed them and in desperation Ike adopted
'cOw boy" tactics, borrowed the drivers re-
volver, fired-and certainly accidentally
killed Mr.. Dog, much to the owners regret.
Apologies, settlements, etc. were in order
on Ike's part, but it was no go with the irate
owner and consequently Ike was arrested and
fined for shooting within the city limits.
The only defense Ike made was accidental
shooting, but the driver sneered him by say
ing, it was the 'fnest shot ever see."
Grips in the Blizzard.
The duties and responsibilities Of the com.
mercial tourist do not permit him to select
his time and convenience for a difficult task
or shrink from an unpleasant and hazardous
Journey It was for this reason that many
OF the fraternity met with painful cXper-
fences during the recent blizzard while BRAY
| ing the blasts in the discharge Of their I'M
perious duties. One of the saddest of these
was the death Of A. j. Winters, of Lacrosse,
Wis. Mr.. Winters was the representative
| Of the Singer Sewing Machine company
| Thursday morning, January 12, Mr.. Winters
started In sleigh from Yankton, Dakota
| His body with that Of the driver has been
| found on the prairie frozen to DEATH about
| twelve miles out The landlord told him
| severe storm was coming, but he said he
| had weathered many u blizzard and would
| get through this one all right. Mr.. Winters
| was about nifty years OF age, and highly es
teemed by all who knew him.
| O. H. Wells has been confined to his bed in
! st. Anthony hospital at Minneapolis, suffer
| ing severely from the effects of the storm
Speaking of his experience Mr.. Wells says
| II left Inkster, Dak on the cars for War
berton. The temperature was about 3Oo
| DelOW, ana the track was IN regular DOCK
| adc condition. We struggled through to
Conway, and there had to stop. 1t was abso
lutely impossible to get any further, but as
had some private business to attend to
hired a rig-an OK sled, by the way, with O
wagon box on it, and drawn by Il pair OF
| spirited bronchos. OF we started, driver
| and q friend of mine. The distance to cover
| was about fourteen miles and we had neared
| our destination by about nine of them when
| the. .confounded bronchos scared at some
thing and threw my friend and self out on
the snow-enshrouded prairie and started on 6
mad career, and for all l know they arc
going yet. Anyhow they have never beer
heard Of since, and all we had to do was u
pick ourselves up and shoulderng two heavy
grips, put our trust in providence and thu
telegraph poles to reach Inkster. The weary
distance was finally conquered, but almost a
| the expense of our lives My friend had tC
| lose one of his feet from his tramp, and her
am with both of my feet frozen badly an,
disabled, greatly fear, for the best part o
| Mileage Tickets.
The trade circular of j. X. Armsby & Co.
Chicago, has an article in its recent issue a
follows: ''There has been quite an agitation
among passenger agents Of the dfferen
roads about abolishmg the 1000 mile ticket
for cents mile, and going back to 100
mile ticket for S25 and S. rebate. Now
while this may accommodate the genera
| public better, yet we don't believe that
| commercial ticket should be for the genera
| public, The railroads are very 10th to cor
strue this law so that il will accommodat
any class of people but themselves. Now
we don't know of any species of freight tina