The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-08-05
A DELIGHTFUL TRIP
Drummers-The Biggest World
"A Good TOnic-ClOud
Burst.
TERRIFIC TUMULT OF n. Y.
Broadway Methodist Mecca
The TOmbs-BrOOklyn Bridge
Electric Water Display.
Continued from last week.)

On the boat / fell in with some
drummers, which is a very easy
thing to do, and which | always en-
joy. The biggest world today is the
commercial world, and a successful
representative thereof cannot be IA
man offew ideas, but he is battery
of the energetic, moving thoughts
of today. And he is not q submarine
affair, stealing off and exploding two
miles away from you, half an hour
after you touch the clock work.
But if he is hit with an idea contain
ing single live spark, instantly he
turns broadside of q world of good
nature, wholesome wit, sound sense,
contagious laugh and workable in
formation in full play upon you.
1t S the best kind of tonic. ] will
guarantee that if IL thin-blooded,
nerve-tortured recluse has enough
Drawn left to quit his study and sus-
tain one-half days contact with
these men, his collapsed veins and
weak tissue will get more vigor and
better blood than by taking six bot
ties Paine's Cellary Compound for
$500. am often taken for drum.
mer. The introduction usually comes
in the form of request to play a
game of cards. Think of the fam
ing corpuscles such a CONFUSION
would start, tumultous, through u
preacher 5 arteries. 1t is not diff
ticut to so frame refusal, as to
prolong the interview, without fur
ther insistance on the cards. But
the least tincture of cant would
spoil it ALL Genuine manliness will
attract a commercial traveller in
any guise. Very soon in the con-
versation will come this straight
forward question: "What line are
you selling?" That was my oppor-
tunity. | frankly affirmed that was
clergyman, and consequently as a
travelling man nv cline was selling
drummcrs. and that | was particular
ly happy over my fine sale this
morning. These men can always
take care of themselves and d cross
inc OF swc'Ss as IN Introduction in
surcs u GOOD time. Everything is
open aud above board with them.
and they are not aversa to preachers
with blood in their veins. All honor
to drummcrs They are 10 the big
gest world what preachers are sup
posed TO be to the best world They
can interpret it, Thus they made
me greatly their debtor that day on
the Hudson.
Towards ) o'clock the glorious
light OF tho day outdid itself and be-
came lurid and the lurid brightness
preceded acloudburSt Of rain. When
ever Dame Nature gets herself up
too fine, let her admirers look out
for Il jilt.
Emerging from a long passage
way to the streets, | found them
rivers flush with the curbstones.
Street car tracks were out of sight
literally, and the horses (for
horses are used to some ex-
tent on New York street cars)
were wading half knee deep; their
drivers in changing had to follow.
and their language was very sui
phurous. The roar of New York
CITY appalled, me. | had supposed
that Chicago was the city pre-
eminent for noise, but it never really
frightened me, and confess that
here | was confused and afraid. In
quiring for car towards Broadway
Central hotel, | either did not un-
derstand the replies or else did not
make myself clearly understood. or
else somebody in y. Y. deceived
me, for twice had to leave the car
| boarded and by the time | reached
the third one, through the rain, and
gloom, and water, and noise, this
laundering vortex Of the commercial
world had shown me how exceeding
ly little and helpless, and inconSe-
quential lone human being is. The
bitter conviction that | was the in
finitismal germ put me out of sorts
with New York.
| plucked up little heart by con-
sidering that even germs have con-
siderable Importance today. Bless
ings on DR.. Koch. And when |
reached the snail city incorporated
under the roof of Broadway Central
hotel, and took up my residence
there in seventh ward or floor, down
Grand avenue and off Rest street
No. 743, my old self measurement
began to come back to me; es-
pecially when colored men in livery
anticipated the slightest task in my
way. A tip is sure seasame to
one S greatness in a grand hotel.
l fell asleep that night struggling
with the fireplace problem. My
room on the seventh floor had very
ample one, and if mine had then all
must have. But how2