The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-12-09
Dickens on ITzmps.

In Charles Dickens "Uncommer-
cial Traveller" there is q paper on
tramps which charaeteriZes in the
nOvelist's own inimitable style the
qualities of the different classes Of
these wandering beggars as exhibited
in English towns And highways.
Thus he describes the tramp OF the
order Savage
"He has no occupation, whatever,
this order Of tramp, and has no object
whatever in going anywhere. He will
sometimes Call himself a brickmaker,
or q sawyer, but only when he takes
an imaginative flight. He generally
represents himself, in a vague way,
as looking out for job Of work but
he never did work, he never does,
and he never, never will. IL is fa-
vOrite fiction with him, however. las
Il he were the most industrious char
acter upon earth,) that You never
work, and, as he goes by your garden
and sees you looking at your flowers,
you will Overhear him grOwl, with 3
strong sense of contrast, You are
lucky hide devil, yOu are :"
Elsewhere Dickens draws the p0r-
trait Of the lazy young fellows, who
trudge along barefoot, five or six to-
gether, their boots slung over their
shoulders, their shabby bundles under
their arms, aud their sticks newly cut
from some roadside wood. Though
not eminently ,prepossessing, these
are much less Objectionable. Here
ore of them TelatCs his experience on
the road:
$50, as I'm standing at the pump
in the market, blest il there don't
come up besdle, and he ses, Mustn't {
stand here,' he ses. why not 2.
ses. NO beZgsrs allowed in this
town. he ses. Who's a beggar =? l
ses. You are he ses. 'Who ever see
me beg? Did yOU % 1 ses. Then
you're a tramp he ses. 'Pd rather
be that than q beadle,' ses. The
company express great approval.
would you - he ses to me. Yes,
1 would ses to him. why, blow
your little town y l ses, who wants
to be in it? WOt does your dirty lit
tie town mean by comm and stiekin'
itself in tile road To anything Why
don't you get a shovel and a barrer,
and clear yO1r town out o. p psople's
way? Tine company express the
highest approval and laughing aloud d,
! they all go down the hill. ~
But the most pertinseious aud
worthless OF these pests, Dickens de-
clsres, is the educated tramp. Says
! he:
"But the most vicious, by far, OF all
the idle tramps Is the tramp Who pre-
tends 10 be gentleman. f iueated, ,
. -. hoor ahnFN
| in pale Ink of ferrGgin nus complex
lon. educated at Trim. Coll. Cam and
nursed ia the lap OF affluence.' This
shameful creature lolling about hedge
top-rOoms in his ragged clothes, now
so far from being black, that they look
as il they never can have been black,
is more selfish and insOlent than even
the savage tramp. He would sponge
on the poorest boy for farthing, and
spurn him when he had got 1t T; he
would interpOse (if be could get any
thing by it) between the baby and the
mothers breast. So much lower than
the company ne keeps, for his maud
lin assumption of being higher, this
pitiless rascal bIights the summer road
as he meandess on between the lux
uriant hedges"
Speaking OF the appointment o
| TheOdor9 Thomas as musical director
Of the Centennial the New York Irl6
Uae says that the two festivals in Gin
einnati demonstrated Thomas ability
to stimulate popular enthusiasm, ant
bring together large bodies OF Jealous
performers, while his whole life Is
guarantee that whatever he under
takes will be carried out in the mos
thorough, conscientious, and intelil'
gent manner, without vulgar Pretens'
or sensational elap-trap. His own or
ches.ra will. OF course, form the nu'
cIeus of the band, and it viii be Ia
creased to whatever size may be nee
essary. He will have q large ehorus
Philadelphia alone being slreAdy ADJ
to furnish several hundred traine'
voices, and as many more VIII o
forthcoming from other cities as n
! can make effective use OF.
In the Garden OF Eden Eve SEEM
T TO lave served as cOmmissary, bus tn
! serpent was sabtler.