The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-01-20

OF the uay OH NO, ne WASH going tO
hold out on his wages, either. l saw
that he was getting ready to so to dim
ner, too. and told him that | hated
TO disturb him and all that sort OF
thing. and he just smiled as cordially
as though I,had been his long-lost
brother, and looked over Iay samples as
patiently as mother of six Mt the
county agents. Then he sat down and
strung me off nice little order.
II sort of battered myself that ii was
my winning way that was doing 1t at
first. but | changed my mind by the
time got through with him. don't
believe he wanted, those goods any
more than cat wants two tails lie
merely wanted to jolly me up and make
me feel good and thankful. was tear,
ing the duplicate out of my book. and
he had got one arm in the sleeve of his
coat when a fellow comes in who
looked as If he had been up against it
pretty hard. lie had some kind OF a
preparation to take grease and stains
out of clothes, and he wanted to operate
on the storekeeper's coat to show him
how it worked. He didn't have to.
"'Take box? Why certainly IL
take box, says the storekeeper. Ger
tainly l WILL my friend. It's just what
I've been needing; only haven't time
to use it now. just rub it on, do you !
Does it matter whether you use wool
or cotton cloth? Doesn't, Ell? How
much is it?'
Twenty-Five cents, says the ped
dler, and wish you hardened wretches
could have seer the poor devils faca
light up. Itwould have done you good II
made me glow all through my inside
Just as if 1t had been a skillfully con-
cocted cocktail. and had good no
ton to buy box OF the stuff myself.
"'That's cheap enough, says the
storekeeper. giving him quarter
Hold on; I'll take another box, | be-
lieve; I'm the worst man to get grease
on my clothes you ever saw So he
hands him out another quarter, and the
fellow goes out smiling SO that you
could see it with his back turned to you.
AS soon as he had gone l asked this no.
bic man if he always bought of agents
or only on Thanksgiving and Fourth of
July.
why he says, smiling benevolent
ly, 4 don't advertise for them, but |
most always buy when they come
around. l figure out that when a man
goes about selling thing that reta;l>
for 25 cents it's more than likely that
he's hard up. and that 25 cents is a
whole lot of money to him. It's to his
credit that he Goes it, because don't
believe it's the pleasaniest or easiest
kind of work. Then | make it work
more than one way. Now. that little
investment was so cents. Are you go
ing up to the hotel? All right, let's 60,
and I'll show you sometIlng else
He put the boxes of the cleaning
mixture in his pocket and we started
out. About two blocks down the street
he stopped and opened the door OF a
little tailor shop and walked in, and
followed him. 1t was one of the poor
est, barest-looking places you ever saw.
There wasn't anything in it but some
big shears and smoothing iron and
one or two scanty rolls of cloth, and
the tailor himself looked half starved.
| caught sight of little girl about four
years old breaking for the living-rooms
L., L. r. ha ii.t1a han o.
don't believe the poor little thing had
anything on but thin calico slip, and
her little bare legs were blue with the
cold.
"'Well, Hans said the storekeeper,
cheerily, 'how's everything?'
Poorly bad said the tailor. There
YES no peezness at all no more
well, there's better times coming,
says the storekeeper. Here's some
thing I've brought you. It's a grease
and stain remover-takes any kind of
grease spot or stain out of cloth in
simultaneously. There's a couple OF
boxes, and if ii turns out all right l
think we can manage to get you some
more
We'll, l wish you could have seen
the tears of gratitude on the poor
tailor's face. The storekeeper tried to
get away, but the tailor insisted on
calling in his wife and children to tell
them what he had done for them. and
then the whole family hung to him and
called down blessings on his head. AL
though unused to weep, myself felt
the tears springing to my"
Here the bookkeeper seized the drum
mer by the neck and one of the entry
clerks caught him by the feet and tilted
his chair back until it fell with a crash,
carrying the drummer along with it,
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