The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-09

this roundup IF I hadn't been pushed
over there by accident. ] made a finish
OF a Chicago spiel no further away than
In Dayton, O. / don remember getting
TO Dayton. but ! rene mber getting away
all right. ] got a shave and a shine and a
hair cut and a l5-cent collar in Dayton
when ! came 10. and hit up some people
there for a job. / thought they might give
me something to do in the sweep-out line,
just to enable me to buy a ticket for some
place or other after "a couple of weeks
work: but they didn't Derned if they
didn't take hold Of me at the right end,
some way or another-probably because
shot a good line of talk into 'em-and
undertake to teach me the business and
how to sell their goods. Never got ham
died so white in my life as 1 was handled
in Dayton by those people. After I'd hung
around the works there for a month or
So they told me TO stand by 10 go on the
road to sell goods. / stood by with a
whole lot Of groad grin. I want to
say. for the fellows who were then SELL
ing their goods on the road were making
money by hatfuls. When they finally told
me, however. that my first trip was to be
TO St Louis, ] was ready to do a lay
down. ! did better than that, though
up and told the man who was handling
me all about it-what a hoodoo 81. Louis
had always been to me, and that If he
sent me to ST. Louis to sell goods, Ia
probably draw on him for a thousand dol
lars before I'd been there twenty-four
hours and then he wouldn't hear any more
Of me or my samples.
That's an right said he. st Louis
is the only vacant territory. I've got just
now. and that's where you're going-to-
night. Pack up
And so l went to st. Louis TO sell goods.
L 4 4
500 a day, clean that's all. For the
FIRST week l was there l sold so many
goods that I was afraid the Dayton folks
couldn't make EN- first enough to deliver,
and ] wired the firm about it. They wired
me back TO sell million if I could, and |
started in to do it, The hoodoo seemed to
be broken. Never had such slathers of
luck in my life. My 81 a day room at the
Lacfede wasn't big enough for me after
three days, and so l got a suite. so |
could pay more money for my accommoda-
lions. Then l fell to selling goods only In
the morning, because 1 felt compunction
about taking all the money in St. Louis
for myself and my firm, and in the after
Moons l went out to the fair grounds and
looked at 'em run. Couldn't lose at that
game either. Picked five out of six on the
card every day for six days running, and
then says l to myself This hoodoo busi-
Y. L
better, l couldn't stand it. If I had any
more luck. it 'ud kin me. I'll Just take one
or two, 10 spread a few dollars around a
town that I'm taking too much money
out of. Which l did. 1 just got nibbling at
the stuft-same old way-and doing bust
ness at the same time. l went right on
selling goods and nibbling at the red-eye.
and making the coin to give away.
couldnt see any finish 10 it,
"One afternoon, after I'd been in ST
Louis for nearly a month l happened to
pass by pawnshop that looked familiar
TO me. The annual sale of unredeemed
pledges was going on al the time. and that
now ! happened to notice the Joint. | cot
TO thinking about it, and / remembered
that two years before. when | was rassling
with the St Louis hoodoo, and getting the
worst of the falls, / had put in two good
sparkers there-a ring and a pin. | won
dered If had any show to get them at this
sale, and so / went in to find out about If
having all colors Of stuff in my clothes. 20
redeem them If they We're stll there. They
were stih there. l looked them over. and |
wanted them. The pawnshop people saw
that | wanted them, and so they told me
] had no more claim on them not having
paid the interest, than the general public