The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-13
HOW THE LOUD VEST AND
 THE DRUMMER MADE GOOD
BY WILL r. SIBERIAN.

have anything else but money He made hit with her.. too. and he was going to double back Sunday and spend the day with her. All a man needed with woman was nerve. Now sne tried to run a bluff on him but he call ed It and she came across. Rode right up town with her in the same hack and she invited him to call at the house Would he call well, he reck- cned he would
 His name was Eistein. What was yours? Glad to know you. He was selling millinery for a St. Louis house. He was burning 'em up on this trip. Had sold more goods on that trip than his house could ship out in a week This Southern circuit was a new ter ritory and his house had sent him out because he was the bes. man on the l road On the first trip they didn't ex- pect him to do anything but make ex- penses. but he had sold the stuff by the car loads. Been getting stacks of orders.
 The monologue ran through the meal and 1t all had to do with the big things
 the millinery drummer from St. Louis had done.
 He strolled into the stuffy little ho-
 tel office after supper was over smok
 ing fat cigar with a red band around 1t. Newborn, the Atlanta hat man had
 his feet to the stove reading an Atlanta
 paper. Johnstone. the hardware man out of birmingham, was writing letter to his family. Austin who sold mill
 machinery and had more friends than any man on the road was walking aim lessly about the room. The millinery
 man wanted to take up the monologue again, but the crowd shuddered and refused to hear him. There was nobo- dy to listen but Alston who walked over to the little cigar counter whis- | Iztnf a o,- loudly and out of key
 Heres a bunch of mail for Kay" said Austin drumming on the counter and looking through the show case. Wonder how he missed it. Two let | ters from the house>and one of them's got check in 1t unless I've missed my guess. And here's a letter In his wifes handwriting and three telegrams. Won
 der what's the matter with his house, l that they have to fire in three tele- grams to him" -f Do you know Kay I've known 'em all and he's the best on the road don't bar none. All the time Is time for bus
 mess with him except the time he's at home. Hustles all day and as soon
 as his order is in he makes for his room. He's out for business before 1 the rest of us can get start There's no drive too long. no road too muddy | for him to take If there's a prospect l for an order for him. Pulls down big salary for him too, because his house knows there's nobody on the road that can touch him"
 Did you ever see his wife and baby. The kids only four years old. I think they're the handsomest pair ever saw. 1 they live over here in Cordtown. I passed through there the other day with Kay and he Is absolutely daffy | about the two of them He couldn't | sit still in the seat as we got near the town He had been away from home | two weeks And he couldn't talk about anything but his wife and baby and
 he was prouder of the baby md cared | more for her than for anything else on
 earth. Talked about her cuteness,
 what smart things she said and how
 she cuddled up to him and never left | him when he was at home. Do you | know the fellows eyes almost filled with tears when he talked about that l kid?
 When the train pulled into Cord | town there they were waiting for him, | in a buggy the two of them, In one of | these rubber tired buggies driving a
 big gray horse. The kid was one of
 these rosy checked things with curly
 hair and big blue eyes. You should
 have seen her dance and stamp in the
 buggy when she saw her daddy get off l the train.