Evening star., 1896-12-26
4 LIVING HLUrF.
What There May he mud often In In
Appearances.

Again it was the drummer.
The irrepressible drummer
And was he talking?
He not dead drummer.
THE queerest thing I've seen in long
time he was saying to a group of inter
ested listeners. II saw in a southern town
of about 10000 people. when I was there in
September last. | have heard a good deal
about people bluffing, putting up a great
front, and the other slang expressions that
mean hypocrisy in one form or another.
but this one rather got away with all com
petitors. l was lifting in the office of one
of my customers On the second floor of his
store, and as We were talking handsome
coupe, drawn by rattling fiae-looking
horse. driven by coachnian in livery.
drove up to the bank oppc site, and an
elegantly dressed old gentleman got out
and went in. the driver going away at the
same time with the turnout.
is that the President of the bank
said l.
We'll. no. my friend smiled: he isn't
quite that. but he's connected with the
bank.
:. He must own the most of it, said |.
' 'Hardly: seeing that he is merely an
employe at $40 month.
That was too much, and L began to
think my friend was gCying me.
It's a true bill,' he proceeded to ex-
plain, and 1t shows what human being
old chap used to be a rich man, in all
kinds of business ventures. but the war
kr ocked him out, and after IL was all over
he found himself with little farm OF
seventy-five acres out In the country about
two miles and half. and an almost shat
tered intellect, but with the same Old de-
sire TO make a display for the benefit of
the public. That bank was organized thirty
years ago, and the president. who had been
befriended by this old fellow. gave him a
small job at $40 month. This was an
anchor to windward, and he got a relative
OF his to take the farm on shares that is
he could have all he made on IL If he would
board and lodge him. his horse and coupe
and board his coachman for the odd Jobs
he would do on the place
Then he hired a coachman at SO a
month and found and bought a fine horse
and corpe, which he paid for on the INSTALL
ment plan. The one you saw just awhile
ago is the fifth coupe, 1 think. he has had.
for he wants them to look well. and he
gets new one when the old one gels
shabby. He never rides in il except 10
ard from the bark. and the man comes
Tor him every day at O'Clock as he brings
him in every morn ing. 1 forgot he does
drive to church on Sundays. The coach
ran wears a livery only about an hour a.
Gay, and 1t lasts a long time and so the
Coupe keeps its shine on longer than one
used a great deal.
The horse has a little more 10 do as he
family drive him to a surrey for the sake
of exercise. The old chap is a bachelor
ard the $50 he has o 1t of his salary keeps
hir, In clothes, which are of the best; also
In tobacco demijohn of Kentucky liquor
ard reading matter. which he gets from a
secondhand r11n at low rates. He will
stay in the bank, Of course till he dies, and
as long as he is all right in other respects
they are NOT going to disturb him for a
little eccentricity like that
I'm not curious person. ordinarily"
concluded the drummer, but this interest
ed me so that 1 was on hand at 4 o'clocl.
that AFTERNOON to see the old gentleman
drive home, and again in the morning at
L stopped on my way to the train 10 see
MIN drive up like a millionaire and march
with stately tread into an establishment
IN which all others were richer than he"