114 SOME SALESMEN AND OTHERS. 



hot strike in progress and an excited 

 lot of cigarmakers outside the building 

 about to break in the door and attack 

 those working inside. Climbing through 

 a back window he grabbed a piece of 

 lead pipe and guarded the door just as 

 the strikers were about to force it open. 

 It wasn't exactly a ' lead pipe cinch ' for 

 him, but he stood his ground until his 

 employers had a chance to go for the 

 police. 



" When they arrived on the scene his 

 work was over, and he walked right out 

 among the crowd of strikers, boarded a. 

 train out of town, and the next clay was 

 selling cigars as if nothing naa nappened. 



" About the worst cigars are made in 

 Pennsylvania by the farmers and their 

 families during the winter. The tobacco 

 is of course grown on their own land, 

 and they make a good living by filling in 

 the winter months making these fire- 

 brands. They are sold to all sorts of 

 strange people and fakirs, and are often 



