Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-14
TRAMP CHILDREN.
Lrro and Interesting Story Of Child
Life.

rro and Interesting Story Of Child
Life.
&yalk Of Twelvc-S ear-oio 10y anu
His Little Brsther.
cinnati, January 12;-ABulwer
:, once wrote novel, What
ue no with IT, The Cincinnati
arc now trying to solve the con-
IN what will we do with them?
fnr,orn urchins, i'll kcmpt, half
;nrrrstated with layers of dirt,
Sdest boy Of twelve, the other
kyins of six, were left by some I'M
n party at the residence Of DIR.
Mitchell, the city missionary,
Raw January 2. He carried them
10 Children's home, on Ninth
Turned over to the nurse, the girl
,und to be afflicted with a break
n which she feared was contagious
head. They were returned to the
p-station, and being examined by
r. Thresher, the girl WAS found
20 n scrofulous faint. They were
sent to the Children's Home,
! Anew now are. Pitiable looking
mems of tramp humanity and
ering vagrancy indeed they are.
tossings and buffetings about
,orld have been of such u rough
4 ,at children in good homes, with
dresides and doting parents,
i wonder that they ever lived to
Heir tale. The oldest boy, Heze-
Rorard, has a good head, and is
ssed of all the shrewdness and
INNING that either falls by ma
br is picked up by chance by peo-
low life. He can neither read
rite. yet his conversation smacks
smartness and worldly
I'm. a forethought in making his
6sh plans, and hanging to the
nes of his brother and sister, that
Il not do discreditto an older head.
parents were Abraham and
Bogard, farm laborers, and
lived In Warsaw, Missouri.
resolved to remove ealy last fall
Millersport, Ohioi the
started out carrying
worldly effects on
backs and tenting by the road
4 as did Abraham and Laban OF
81 They had chills in Missouri, the
Esaid. and "shook and shook. y
y swallowed "calomile,N rs the
pronounced it, by the quart, and
81 their sallow, parehment-like com
Hon, and the distorted, lopsided
3 le-to-be-opened mouth of the
q Susan Lydia Ann Bogard
n is little doubt of tile truth of the
u tale. The girl is a monumental
In of the effects of mercury. I'm
6to open her mouth, she is supplied
III nourishnent taken in through
fferture in the side, which is ill.
afen, and drawn down nearly tt
Hchin, presenting an appearance
bus enough to make a goblin in s
bmime or bugaboo to frighter
ren to sleep by. The
finally reached "Kiro,
# lads vernacular of tn,
IN town of chills and fever, and
the parents sent the children OF
"A. They tramped it on to Mounc
begging by day, and sleeping
- straw stacks and in fence corners
light, and having some money
& the ears for this city. Two
Is ago they reached here, and by
police were sent to Millersport, +,
- containing a cooper shop and ,
Itry store, about eighteen miles
e Huntington. Here lived oil
BY Barches. who owed their fathe
hnd they proposed to go and boarC
3llt. AT Millersport the trustee
Ned them over TO the Children
NE at Ironton, the county seat o
Wrence county, following the "mov'
n policy that poor Joe Gargery 81
@ded in Dickens novel, and tina
in the Lights of Lon
~ so charmingly illustrates. A
hton Hezekiah took spell of chill
4 fever, and was sent to the hospi
and as the authorities could no
lerstand the girl, who is unable t,
h, they packed her off, too Hos
Al treatment Mt Ironton was not ex
BY suited to the children, so they
loved onv to this city. When the,
|ched' the home Tuesday afternoon
Dir condition was horrible. yellow
Missouri mud, feeble from wan
nourishment, wrapped vi
rags too scant TO concea
Dir nakedncss, their carmen is wer'
tipped of and put to the fiery furn
\, like Meschach, Shadrack ant
bednego of old. In one of the pant
ckets of the oldest boy wa
ind "a bottle of paten
(dicine, some sort of balsam
b in the other vial of some decoc
b which he claimed was good 70
hmer complaint. When they wen
Throw an old stocking in, it wa
md to he heavy, and three doliar
y twenty cents in silver rolled out
lich the lad said was given to him
le youngest boy, Jessie, is a drie'
bit ola waif. with hands no bigge
en o baby's. "My little brother ha
Frying up of the marrow in III
tk-bone,n was the quaint way il
*iSil uc ttScTlbSu HIS llltlc blothoi
Rlal complaint. Il have an olde
Ter, Virginia Belle, who is twenty
~ a brother, John r., who is noN
near Cairo, and we want TO &
eng 70 every town until we fin
fm.n At night having been batheo
g three tramp urchins were 500
fidled up in n big bed in one of tn
fmitories Of the home. As the SO
PIT was turned on their sickly, wea;
tlaced, dricd-up little forms, youn
4 old, bowed down with ills and iii:
PES that belong TO people at three
pre- -and-ten, it seemed a hard an
pei fate that should thrust innocer
fatures In so hard a world, and hea
son them at the outset the sins {
Pr worthless and triiiing parent;
Htween the two boys on the pillo'
4 the bottle of medicine, the olde'
q stiSing TO it rs n firm friend. I'll
pildren's Home will keep them for
u or two, subject to the orders of u
rlce, who il they can not send thel