The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-17
RAINED BREECaES on PIEDMONT.
The Extraordinary Circumstances Which
Delighted the General Population and
Paralyzed Comm srcial Traveller.
GGreenville News, 24th.

GGreenville News, Oath.
Piedmont was the scene Wednesday
Of an unprecedented event and very
decided sensation. The town is blessed
with several lively boys who have at
| various times earned substantial COM
pensation by the distribution in the
town of free samples Of various wares
bestowed for advertising purposes. A
commercial traveller representing a
large clothing house and carrying an
extensive assortment Of excess baggage
made his first visit there Tuesday night
and next morning encountered two OF
the bright young sample dispensers
looking for a job. A bargain was
struck and be gave the boys large
number of pairs Of trousers, lnstructing
them to carry those samples to stores
where he intended to visit. The boys
slightly misunderstood instructions.
They gathered all the pairs of breeches
they could carry and proceeded to
distribute them zealously and consci-
tiously, one pair to each family. The
Piedmont people thought some new
kind OF millennium or special variation
Of Leo had arrived. Attracted to their
doors by knocks, they were astonished
and delighted by having trousers Of
the latest designs and best materials
handed to them. The boys were i'm
partial. They distributed the articles
as they came. A plaid loud enough to
cause deafness might be left with a
Baptist clergyman and the soberest
black might be bestowed upon the
fauciest of the male population, a fat,
short man might receive pair in-
tended for the long and lean and cit
izen of 125 pounds might be the aston
ished recipient of waistband Of thirty
six inches, but it all went. No dis
elimination was made against widows.
For each family there was a pair OF
trousers regardless sf age, sex, shape or
conditions.
There were some hits and some mis-
fits. One citizen who happened to be
at home tried OF his pair Immediately,
found them exactly right and imms-
diately sailed out in triumph, narrat-
ing bis good fortune to all who would
listen and urging his fellow citizens to
proceed forthwith to secure samples
for themselves.
The unconscious drummer found
himself centre of interest and Pied
mont was unanimous in its astonish-
ment and admiration over the latest
development of advertising enterpr Sc.
It was universally conceded to be the
softest snap the town had ever Known.
The pants dispensers returned to their
employer and with the proud con-
sciousness of duty we'll and faithfully
performed announced that they had
distributed about 5000 worth of "pants''
among the happy homes Of Piedmont,
that the demand was active aud the
people were pleased and that they were
ready to carry out some more orders
and raiment.
It took some time for the visitor to
to get through his head the calamity
that had befallen him. When he un-
derstood that his breeches had been !
lavishly distributed among the inhab-
itants and were even then per&mbu- !
lating the highways on strange and ,
legs he had symptoms
Of conclusion of the brain and his re-
marks are said to have sounded like q
chapter of the lament. tions Of the !
propher Jeremiah grated upon gravel
stoue selections from the imprecatory
psalms Of David. His thinking ma
chinery broke loose and struck a gait
of eight thousand revolutions a min
ute and the profanity is said to have
been II e finest and most profuse heard |
since the time when General Jubal
Early detailed Texas brigade to swear
q wagon train up red clay hill in Vir-
ginia and took leading part in the
services.
Messengers of woe were sent in all |
directions TO capture, gather and re-
turn the strangely bestowed breeches.
The people who had been delighted
were desolated. The enthusiastic citi-
zens who had run their eager and am
bilious legs through unexpected gar
nents were requested to withdraw
their trespasses and to hand over them
Most of the scattered sam
pies were recovered, bnt when the facts
became generally known through the
excited and earnest explanations ofthe
parties 10 interest Piedmont laughed
until she was sore.