The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-11-25

pose such use of other peoples premises will give
you character and happiness in the journey Of
life2
Tramp-Don't suppose nothin' about it-wanted
nights lodgiu', and didn't wantto try 1t where
dogs were plenty on account of teas
Int--Is this the first time you have made your
bed in this apartment?
Tramp-Oh no, got in here by accident at first
that is, after going to three or four quiet decent
looking places, where the people didn't object but
the dogs did, we got In here, where everything is
lovely and nests plenty so we kept on coming
Int-How long have you been depending on
such precarions lodgment2
Tramp-Ever since times crowd hard and the
lime stone men, and the ore men and the canal
men couldn't or wouldn't give us work.
Int-Would you work honestly and faithfully
ifyou were offered wages2
Tramp-That would depend (still scratching hay
seed) on the price and the grub, and the kind Of
work.
Int-Dont you think you could reform and be
honest industrious men?
Small Tramp, first word for him).-Can a rot
ten egg be made sweet2
Int-Your answer, as applied to your case may
be forcible, but as you are young, and every day
you spend in this kind of vagrancy adds to your
depravity; could you not engage in honest labor
and earn livelihood?
Tramp-Why don't you ask them that's older
they say they have tried 1t, but them that have
started OH a wandering life, must wander on-that
the rich owe the poor livin', and we are bOuud
to have 1t, whether its in the hay lofts, In the
Kitchen or in the calaboose, or in the jail, or in
thel penitentiary.
IAt-YOu believe in that argument, do you, and
go on in that groove because you are in it?
Tramp-Yes, whyshouldn't we whenour friends
tell us SO, and we know 1t gives us Twin and
that is all any of you get ...
Int-Why are you so particular about scratch
ing off all the Chatf and hay seed2
Tramp-Don't want to steal from our landlord
when he is standing before us, and don't want tC
be taken for farmers boys when we get on the
streets. The other fellows would call us gran
gers"
lnt,-Would it be disgrace in the estimation ol
your people to be a granger, or a grangers sonY
Tramp-Yes, they are our worst enemies, and
keep the most dogsl We are obliged occasionally
to stop at theirplaces, but they always have some.
thing to work at, husking corn, loading manure
digging potatoes, and all such things that is not
in our line Of business, - a.ut..a.7
Init see you wantto be off. Your people, as
you apply,it are new element; do you know the
origin of your wandering, begging, pilfefing
crew? 2..+ N.. y. N.... E"Ut
Tramp--0ur old people say, rich men imposed
on business, and men in business busted, the
govenmentmade laws for the rich, until the bor-
rowing people had to stop, and then working men
had nothing to do SO they got up society and
called II the "Low-Grade Mutual Benefit Associa.
ton" to last long as times are out of joint and
money is better TEAMWORK and that will be long.
er than any of us live. We are going now. What
ever the bill is you can charge up to the National
bank account, that draws interest on whatit owes
and whatit owns.
This is not literal reflect of the conversation
had, but 1t embodies the sentiment and much of
the language.
A few doors below, and a few hours later, we
met widow lady, who told the following story,
occurring the same morning:
A daughter, on coming from the third floor to
the second, passing through hall on her way be-
low, saw two tramps in a bed room. She kept on,
without seeming to notice the intruders, and told
her mother what she had seen. The daughter
took loaded pistol went back, by rear stairway
while the mother went up stairs the front way,
and they met at the room door where the tramps
were, when the mother took the pistol and ordered
the intruders to turn their pockets inside out and
stand in their tracks or she would shoot them
down. There was determined look that indi.
Gated business, and that look reflected fact so the
tramps obeyed orders, but revealed no depreda.
ton. Now tell me what brought you up here
you miserable loafersf We were hunting for Mr..
Williams, said one of the intruders. There is no
party by the name of Williams living on the
street. and if ever catch you, or any of your
miserable gang in my rooms agaiL will ask no
questions, but shoot you down at sight, The sub.
iect of tramps has been, and is being discussed,
and intelligent action maturing, so 1 will not
theorize. In the interval between these tdbleGur
of vagrancy, your correspondent wandered across
the canal and river to the West End depot and
on the way saw placard in the window of sa'
loon, that was meant to advertise the property fol
sale. The thing was so bunglingly done, and sale
spelled with reversed S, thus; SALE that wanted
to enqnire of the proprietor the name Of the ar
tlst. cannot begin to give you the bungling Of
that card, SO you could reproduce 1t in print but
was informed 1t was executed by boss typO, a
professor of the "art preservatye," &c, and was
led to wonder what heft of intellect is required to
make typo, and how many typos it,takes to make
an editor If this, my first essay at getting up
matter for your journal is isasuccess, you may hear
again from - N sIPP0
WHO BOUGHT IT?-More than week ago we
heard it itrepOrted that farmer living but shorl
distance from town had COW die for him thai
had been very ILL., and that he had butehered the
body, prepared the meat for market, and brought
it to town where it was disposed Of. Until few
days since we were unable to obtain anything
more definite in the case, but after considerable
inquiry we learned positively that so far as pre-
pairing and bringing the beefto town are concern
ed the report was correct but 80 far we have been
unable to learn positively in what manner it was