The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-21

a Drummer ana shopsiri Edify and
Entertsin the Travel
Ing Public.


The frank talk heard on railroad cars
Is conducted generally on the principle
that every one in the immediate vicin-
lity Is stone deaf. On suburban train
a few days ago young woman who had
entered at one station was joined at the
next by young man. a drummer and
old acquaintance. without delay both
plunged into intimate personal remin-
iscences. Said the girl:
"You heard Jim was married, didn't
lyou?'
so a Teller told me-"
Say, now, that Teller ran into a great
cinch. He went west to Uncle Georges
and got took into partnership on the
ranch and then married a girl with
$4,000. They live perfectly elegant
She's only 16, too--they marry real
young out there. / wish I'd got mar.
ried at &c."
what makes you wish that?''
4. "Oh, | guess I'd be a sight better of
now if I'd got Teller with plenty OF
money"
well, i don't know about that. YOU
amt always better Off"
| "Why? Don't you get along with
your wife?"
| "Oh, yes, but then | amt home much.
L go back on Saturday night and leave
on Monday morning; so we don't have
much chance to scrap. tell you if you
marry travelling man you get along
pretty well, but il amt in human ma.
ture for two people to live together
without gettin' to .naggin' and jabbin'
at one another, and if you want a peace.
| full home you'd better be on the road
| tell you, there's been times when shes
been jabbin' at me that | felt like
| fyin'."
well, ! guess it's better than being
to work, anyhow. l suppose you know
I'd been workin', didn't you?"
you don't say!"
"Well, now, that's what every one
said. ] was workin' i'm a dry goods
store, and no one would believe it. Peo
pie just came in to see if it was really
so. Why, sometimes there'd be four OF
| five fellers to see how / was gettin'
along, and if it hadn't been for that
| was awful mean about it, too. II
seemed to make him mad to have me
| say a word to any one, and after awhile
| l made up my mind that j wouldn't
stand his sass any longer. Twas this
| way: Some genl'm'n friends of mine
came in and wanted me to 60 to the
theater with them, and as it was the
busy season the girls was made to stay
till eight o'clock, and if | was goin' I'c
have to leave at six, so l spoke to the
iloorwalker-a real pleasant genTm'n
and he said he'd try and fix it. Al
noon | went up to the desk and he was
| talkin' to the manager.
"'This is the young lady l was talk.
in about he says.
| oh says the manager, and doesn't
she know that we are takin' on girls
to work overtime and are rushed al
| that?'
| WELL says the floorwalker, shes
| got an engagement and wants TO go al
| six
"'All right says the manager, she
can go at six, but she needn't trouble
| to come back
81 wasn't going to take none of his
sass, so | says: I'll not wait till six
and you can give me my time and III
GO this minute, for | won't work in a
| place where we're drove like slaves
from mornin' till night, with never a
| chance to talk to Teller that comes in
to see you and kept in over hours out OF
| snite' So | came away"
WELL" said the drummer, maybe
| you're right. It's better to be married
for then you can boss things yourself
and your husband foots the bills; and il
| you never see him you can enjoy life
| your own way"
The train at this moment stopped al
| a station and the couple parted.-N. Y.
Sun.