The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-30

ough Bohemian. So does the chifionier,
the rag-picker, the garbage gatherer, the
scavenger, and the gentleman whose deli
cate olfactories most affect the
sewers and cess-pools of large cities.
We must have them all, though en-
actly where and how to have them is
matter in which tastes widely differ. In |
large cities the Bohemian is sometimes very |
convenient, if not Indispensable Odoriier
Gus though his seedy habilments may be OF
cheap tobacco and sour beer, time comes
when he is welcome and useful and III
such times he lives, anon sleeping oil the
o'ernight debauch and then waking to fitful
vtaliiv-another brilliant effort, another
iarthing candle triumph, another brief hour
of glory. another ovation among his fel-
| lows in the "gentlemens private room oil
n beer cellar. where he struts and capers
| and smiles serenely at "what might have
been" had he but consented to tie his genius
! down to the drudgery of journalism. The
tramp is rs much necessity to the
| country printing Office as is the Bohemian
! to the metropolitan daily. He nearly al
ways happens in at the right time with
sort Of m instinct that the office is short
of help, and for "a brief time he sometimes
actually seems AN angel sent from printers
heaven to help the distracted country cdi.
tor out Of hls troubles.
What country editor has not known odd
specimens of that odd class, ramping
printers We have one in memory now
m old fellow who has probably " stuck
type in more than Il hundred printing
Offices He fought on both sides during the
war. and is full Of incidents of the straits
To which our southern editorial brethren
were driven when paper was exhausted and
printers were impressed. He has slngu.
lar acquaintance with all the distinguished
politicians and editors Of the country that
il. he is familiar with their manuscripts and
really seems to be under the belief that by
ibis medium he has established sort OF
confidential intercourse with them. on
should hear him dilate on the abominable
copy "Od Dan, AZ he in the confidence of
his peculiar friendship calls the immortal
Webster used to furnish when II was on
the G}9}c.' lie knew Greeley Chrograph.
icaliv and drtested him geographically yet
he viii admit 70 yoI confidentially that after
all "Old Horace was a clover fellow
d. strange life does the tramp lead lie
is always moving ON, as restless as
the wandering Jew, from Quebec to Gal
weston. from st. Paul TO Fernandina from
Portland to Natchez. ever on the move
lie las 9lways just arrived, and he ~ al
way zen route" There is no nistakni
him Ihe lingo Of the craft is ever on hi
tongue ShOuld he die and make no sign
.bv which to identify himself, search hi'
pockets and you will find the rule he ha;
carried for a score or more Of years thou
sands Of mics 80" only that and nothing
more: :" not q copper beside. He intended
to Sc flush when he got the neat new sit,
hul. alas. the tramp is " dead matter
now.
\ rule obta,ns among printers that ever
tramp must either have a sit or n lift tina
is work or money to move on. 1t is rare
", if ever. questioned, and thus originate
the tramp-printcrs Who know enough o
tvpe-sptiing to earu few dollars and ar
constantly moving from one part of tn
country to another \ peculiar vagabOnd
age has thus become fastened on the craft
which does it no credit and often muc
disgrace. Shittless purpOselcss, alnllcss
halt-educatcd printers are made by thi
system. No good printer need be tramp
and Il bad printer can be little else. tn
professional is VIGOROUSLY unreliable ii
may seem to happen in just at the RICH
time, but he is always sure to happen on
when most wanted, and when arrange
Il mcnts have been made prcdicated on hi
good faith.
The tramp however, has at last becom
so lNcu Cldplcr tilal lew arc utclNcu "
&c him. His promises are writ in water. {
ii what is worse, bad whisky. He is bir
ii of passage with this popularity, lie neve
II knows where he will lie next week, or i
what direction he may move tomorrow
OF And yet we never look upon specimen G
q, the class without something of sympath
ID and pity. He is the oracle Of the con
posing room during his brief sojour, an
~ no old tar can draw longer bow than III
II lie evidently believes most of the maryc
ID lous stories he invented twenty years ag'
q and it would be brutality to push him trol
his stool, or question the truth of his lon
d yarns. With a sort of sadness we Away
le bid him good by, old fellow, for aftt
he all, often as he has surprised us by his III
lie looked-tor appearance when we ha
though him " locked up in deaths chase
as yet we know that time must come who
- the Old Tramp will slagger, then stop. the
TO fall, and tramp no more forever.