Smyrna times., 1877-01-31
The "Dead-Beat" Nuisance.

The processes by which the dead-b beat is
mn,trare various. a young man Ot bad habits
goes on t. worse, until as bu>ine,s becomes
slack, lie is discharged. FROM that uay
tul tn ms clothes grow shabby. lie begins
to borrow from tho,e who knew him
in better days, with promise, and at tit,t
with the purpose, ct paying; tut at last he
wears out his friends. and begins to prey
upon society at l.rge. He has no resource
tut rowing-uorrowing on the ba is
Of any story that he can invent.
lie. wants money TO bury his WIFE, his
child, to feed 4 starving family
t. get to some place where he hats friends.
Many pretend 10 belong III the South, and
are on,y ANXIOUS to grt back. Many II
New York have Just come from the South,
their trunks Iuwned tor paSsa Ee-m0ney.
AMI they want TO get 10 Boston. Some are
Just from hospital, where they have for Il
hong time been H. They have been dismii>-
sed without money. uu' want to- reach their
irenl-.
The ingenious lies that are peidled
about New York liz any single day 10y men
and women fairly we'll dressed, for The pur-
pose ut cXtortu. from Sympathetic and
brncvol..ut people suiliS vary NnI from one
,lul,r to tweE.y iivs uollars, would make
:, series o! narratives quite sufficient TO set
consistently a.e ti,,c stories told that it l.
next to llnro->!hr tn realize that they are
not iluc: yet we >upO0Se TN II the experience
Of tle general pul'IIc. like all the private
experience with which we are acquainted.
prove that ninety nine times in nundrtu
they are pure. or most impure, inventions.
Fi. ...ilter! female dc..,I-,'rl Is, perhaps.
tn !i.r .,'>y To ct along VIII. She puts on
Az and di-n:t,.'~. Snr talks @! her former
!n.;uar. ASA az h.r rNpcrtlt!"n~. She ha.
>oLt."S of in ."lile Il ihr>rnt shut vi, hul
II Il lee. O .upl ia ti:ur. Or She haS Il
5 i. ia ON, terribly inadequate. at ct.
i.u; urI VT tiur. Siar wants >'n, tuIng To
tii -t.uv,r tar -uN that yawn- hrtwrrn the
F, ,.ol!,r ami tur next. Sometimes sI,
iGhr.c.ti,'S her >prerl, with tears, hut dignity
and IreJt >lrVtiu!npSS ant Il htautIiu.
iov "t faith IN Grl and ,nlu are her l,rn-
ctlrd in>tru.nrnt~; an; i taxes purse that
shuts Ike steel trap To- w.tn~tlnl iIpi
appeals. some OF these. wnui,n Sriti~hll
stay II Ln,ti.. or IN >c!ue nice bnardIn.-
hoH,e. aud ltu-a out th~.r chIl'Irrn, anu
even their y"un. an,i wrll-,,iu tt,,l dau.ht.
ter. t. Il, thr.r borrowing for them.
On. whom We I'm .onf..>s,.,ily - non-at-
ttuoin at any cnurrl -.ail- 1T the church
for not -upl.n:t.a- tlrr "P.eiIy follower,
OF J.~u, { :ri~t!' >A- thinks tur cnurch
N .ml'rr- are.
ru- unrI-ij m+n he.;n> to Il" for thu
pI.ps~a of -e.cl: ulnn y, or f,lr tuc pu'-
pes. ot eEct~inL himself t,r III" NON
payment of Il lot, that moment he changes
from "a man 10 a d,..d-h,..t. We thu, nave
dea'i-beats in business, 5 well a. out oil
bu~inr,>-im.n who ''-iiL irnii ilv To day /,
and never know IN tie iaoru.n- how they
are - G.t through. Tnry live CONSTANT,
by cxps,iirntS. Ot cou.>t. it cdnnot tax,
long To rrduc- inrn % ,l"ld-brat- Of til,
most di-grareiul stamp
The only safe way 10 manage thes" impOr-
tunatp and allroit s,amls is either to turn,
them over to the investigation of son.
society, or to call Ii policeman. Fortunately
there is in a barge number OF houses the
district telegraph, by the means Of which "a
policeman cdn he summoned in Il minut,
or two. without the visitors kn0wleIy..
In many Instances the policeman will know
his man at first sight. Every dollar given
10 these leerhCs upon the social body is u
direct encouragement 10 the increase
the paupPr population; and if the matter
is still regarded carelesslY we shall, IN
twenty years, he ~ badly Oft as Great Britain
in this particular. What we give goes fol
rum, as a rule. and we not only foster idle
ness, hut we nouri,h vice and crime W..
need 10 make dead set against tramp
i'll the country and dead.heats in the city il
we wish To save our children from "a reign
Of raGIeriSm only less d,stru, tive of tn
proSl lerity and the best interests Of thu
country than the reign Of w"r.-.Scrt5nCr.