The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-10

overseeing the OpeTallOHS WIFI i"Ay OIL"
humorous comment. For an instant was
foolishly indignant, but he soon brought
me to nv senses. "Shure, sur, It's only
larnin' the BOYS the habits Nv industry |
was-and NAV they niver know, be the
same token, what it is to wur-ruk tor the
bread betune their lips. Shure it's but
maxim 'em think it play, wus. AS 1ur
the colleens beyint in the kitchen, shure
isn't it better they should be helpln' your
honor here than colloguing with them
elves inside?"
Nevertheless, I thought it expedlent TO
forbid henceforth, any interruption OF ser
wants or children, with my friends "wor-
rnkn Perhaps it was the result OF this
embargo that the next morning. early tlie
Tramp wanted to see me.
"And it's sorry am to say 1t 10 yee
SURF" he began, "but it's the handing OF
this stun that's desthroyin me touch at the
brickmakin', and it's better I should lave
Won and find wor-ruk at me own thraoe,
for it's wor-ruk I'm nadin'. 1t isn't me-
self CAPTAIN, to ate the bread OF oldleness
here. So good-by to ye, and II It's nIty
c;nts YOU can be giving to me, ontll III
find a kill-its God that'll repay ye.'
He got the money. But he got also,
conditionally, a note to my next nelghbor,
wealthy, retired physician, possessed OF
a LARGE domain-a man eminently practl-
cal and business-like in his management
of it. He employed many laborers on the
sterile waste he called his 'farm," and 1t
occurred to me that if there really was
anv work in nv friend, the Tramp, which
nv own Incidence and preoccupatlon haa
failed to bring out, he was just the man 70
do it. -,
met him week after. 1t was with
some embarrassment that inquired after
nv friend. Tramp. 80, yes" he sad
reHectiyely. "let's see-he came Monday
and left me Thursday. He was l think,
a stout strong man, well-meaning good
bumored fellow, but afflicted with most
singular variety of diseases. The day !
mt him at work in the stables he devel-
oped chills and fever caught IN the
| swaps of Louisiana"
; "Excuse me-" l said hurriedly-" yor
) mean in Milwaukee,
IT know what I'm talking about,
| returned the Doctor, testify; he told mt
his whole wretched story; his escape iron
l the Confederate service; the attack OF
Y him bv armed negroes; his conceaimen
t in the bayous and swamps-
: go on, Doctor" said, feebly: "yo'
8 were speaking of his work.
It .sYes-well his system was full Q
S malaria; the first day had him wrapped
e I'M in blankets and dosed with qulmne
o The next day he was taken with all tn
D smvntoms Of cholera morbus and had t
d keep him up on brandy and capslcun
} Rheumatism set in on the following da
10 and incapacitated him for work, and
1t concluded had better give him not
IS to the director of the City Hospital tina
1T keep him here AS panthologlc'
ID study he was good, but as | was lookln
id for a man to help about the stable.
lg couldn't afford to keep him IN Dol
ut capacities" !,
at As never could really tell when tt
at Doctor was in joke or earnest droppt
ne the subject And so my friend u
It's Tramp gradually faded from my memor
he not. however, without leaving behind nj
lis in the barn. where he had slept, hinge
m inc flavor of whiskey, onions, and ffuf
n ness. But in two weeks this had go1
at and the "shebang" Gas my friends III
he verently termed my habitation) knew n
NO no more. Yet it was pleasant to think
ey him as having at last found JoD
7as brick making, or making his LOUISA
The home once more happy with his preseni
err or again tempting the tish-producl
TX main-this time with noble and eqt
able Captain.
in 1t was lovely August morning whe
lad rode across the sandy peninsula to VS.
irst certain noted family, whereof all the $
cen were valiant and the daughters beautlt
Ter. The front of the house was deserted,
18th on the rear verandah I heard the rustic
YER GOWNS. and above it arose what seen
8 it to be the voice of Ulysses, recltlng
hat. lwanderings. There was no m1stak
ack that voice-it was my friend the Trar
.asv From what could hastily gather II
ber- his speech. he had walked from ST. &c
lid TN. B.. to rejoin distressed wife IN I
rom York. who was however, living
the opulent but Objectionable relatives.
but shure. Miss, wouldn't be asking We
ring loan of clint if could get wor-ruk
but me trade of carpet wavin-and may
Its I've know of some manufacfhory W
lure, Qfhey wave carpets beyant mere. AL
are. ana III We UOH I give lue d oh.- A. SAo
wild for the loikes of me to know that
elf.n troubles has brought the tears IN
he'd. most beautiful Owes in the wur-ruld,
de- God bless We forit, Miss
and Now knew that the Most Beau
the Ewes in the World belonged to one o
I'd at most sympathetic and tenderest hear
din the world. and / felt that common Iu
: the demanded my interference betwee
bully and one of the biggest scamps Il
came world. So. without waiting to b
rries. nounced by the servant. | openet
laid, door and joined the group on the
were andah.
curse If / expected to touch the conscien
etch- nv friend the Tramp by dramati
st ex- trance. failed utterly. For no s.
r-ruk did he see me than he instantly gave
andsl to a howl of delight, and falling o.
knees before me. grasped my hans
d not turned oratorically to the ladies'
ssOh. but it's Himself-Himself
yen has come as a witness to me characl
'naisy O. but its Himself that lifted me
} the wakes ago. when was lynn with
|" tttal wakeness on the say coast and II