Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-14

We think but little of natures work;
We only speak to the hotel clerk;
Though never of fields, or fruit or of grain,
But "Call me up for the morning train"
ONE OF THEM.
His Salary Was Too Small.
'tDo you know that man over therel"
asked one Detroiter Of another on the Lam
sing train the other day,
'No.n
'FWell. he's q drummer for a Jefferson ave-
nile house, and I've known him by sight for
fifteen years. His employer told me the other
day that he hadn't lost a day for twelve
years"
He looks the picture of health"
"So he does, but | want TO make a bet with
you. I'll bet you a silk hat he carries reme-
dies with him for no less than six different
ailments.n
They went over and the case was explained
TO the drummer, who laughed and replied:
"Wen, 1 dunno. carry some troches to
avoid hoarseness. / carry a bottle Of cough
medicine to ward off pneumonia. 1 have a
porous plaster IN my grip to put on IL | get
lame back. l have some corn salve, a bottle
of Jamaica ginger, some duinine capsules, a
phial of peppermint essence, a box of man
drake pills, a liver medicine, a gargle for
"Good landsr ' cried both gentlemen in
chorus.
'on, well, W0aU Ulu you expect ne IN
quired with an injured air. "a man on
$1,000 n year can't carry around a whole
drug store, can hel"-Detroit Free Press.
Look Out for Y ourselves.
'If every commercial traveller, who yields
the influence of q membership in any travel
ing mans association" says the Merchant
Traveller, twill give a little time to earnest,
careful consideration of fraternity schemes
and interests, and laying aside selfish motives
and personal preiudices, decide that he will
really take an interest in fraternal move
ments, something definite and commendable
will be accomplished.
The Importance of questions involving the
rights, privileges or comforts of travelling
men can only be made visible to the
world at large by noising them abroad,
and the possibility of securing them can
only be thoroughly and properly understood
by those Interested, by discussion and con-
sultation as to ways and means to be adopted
for their accomplishment. Entirely too much
time is consumed in %fruitless faultinding and
inconsiderate and unjust criticism of existing
methods and the men having the management
of our affairs in their charge.
Sunday meetings could be held at the
hotels where large numbers of men are
stopping and they could discuss the interests
of the association and it's members and
select delegates that would attend conven-
tions and make them a grand success aud
benefit both for the houses represented and
the men who are on the road.
They Were TWINS in Appearance.
~ An amusing scene occurred a few days ago
in the Mansion house, Rondout, says a writer
in the Rondout Freeman. Clarence S. Lyons,
of New York, is o hat drummer, and Charles
Stewart, Albany, is also a hat drummer The
two have been looking for each other for
over a year, and all because they look so
much alike. Lyons and Stewart are each
five feet four inches in height. Lyons has q
mustache and side whiskers and so has
Stewart. Lyons features are somewhat
sharp and so are Stewards. For the past
year, when Stewart would enter a hat store
to sell a bill Of goods, he received this greet
ing
mo, don't want any hats to-day. Your
twin brother was here yesterday and l gave
him a large order"
Then Stewart would explain that he had
no twin brother, but would like to catch the
fellow that looked like him. If Lyons went
into o place where Stewart had been the day
before, then he would be told the same thing
by the proprietor and Lyons would VOW if he
ever caught his double he would make it
warm for him. But all things have an end
ing, and so it happened that the drummers
who resembled each other so closely met by
chance in Rondout. Lyons walked into the
Mansion House, and while writing his name
pm the register John E. Lasher, the proprl-
etor, said:
"Your twin brother arrived here this
morning"
where is hea Where is that fellow that
looks like mef' exclaimed the excited drum
mer.
Some one went to Stewart and told bin
tina his twin brother was in the reading
room.
"Let me get at that fellow that looks like
me- shouted Stewart.
The drummers were brought face to face.
They scanned each other over for a minute,
and then Stewart said:
tSD Won are the chan that has hpnn nosS.
ing yourself off for the past year as my twin
brotherl"
"Yes,' responded Lyons, 81 am the chap
that has been taken Tor the past year for the
twin brother of a fellow that looks like me
and has been passing himself off as my
brother. Thunder, thought we do look
enough alike to be twin brothers, Shakel'
The two men shook hands, and at the sug-
gostion of MIR, Lasher they weighed them
selves. Lyons weighed $50 pounds and Stew
art weighed ISL pounds. For the rest of the
day Lyons and Stewart kept each other com
pany and they were pointed out by people,
who said; "There go twin brothers,"
A Lost Girl Saved.
After diligent inquiry the BEE brings to
the knowledge of the public a tale of life that
has long been whispered about by the trav-
cling fraternity and stands as a monument
of honor to the hero of our romantic story.
He was a travelling man representing a large
coffee and spice house at Toledo, o., and
Travelled over the Union Pacific, Fremont,
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley, b. & NJ, Chi
eago, st, Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail
road territory north, south and west of
Omaha, and making Cheyenne, Wyo, and
Chadron terminal points. His face was a
familiar one at the Willard hotel. and many
an hour was frightened by his sympathetic
strains on the parlor "Knabe' piano, which
seemed the young mans favorite recreation,
Energetic, courteous and noble, he made his
way through life, starting as a p%enniless
boy in Ohio, until he has established himself
in the general merchandise business at
Lyons, Neb. II was IN June when he called
on his patrons at Cheyenne TO represent the
merits of "Sionh coffee, where he met some
friends from Ohio, now living at Cheyenne,
who proposed seeing the town that evening
by 'gaslight.n