Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-09
somebody to pick it up. With this reso-
luton in view he betakes himself

luton in view he betakes himself
TO THE COUNTY ROAD ONCE MORE,
and turns his back on the inhospitable
little town in which he has passed through
so many humiliations. Our wanderer
must now subsist wholly on charity, and
takes kindlier to this new mode of exist
ence than he at one time thought himself
capable Of 1t is the first step which costs,
and having once degraded himself by ask
ing for the bread of idleness, he uses him.
selfto the practice till it never occurs to
him TO eat any other. Californian house
holders have their failings, but inhospi-
tally is not one of these, and rarely do
they refuse the solicited morsel to the
stranger within their gates" In the
course of his peregrinations our pilgrim
has observed that property is much less Sc
curely guarded in oppidan communities
than IN urban ones. In the former sort,
storekeepers expose their wares in way
which suggests the most boundless conf
dence in the integrity of human nature.
Saloon men often leave their bars I'M
guarded for ten minutes at time, tenth
OF which interval is enough for a dextrous
hand to possess himself of the contents of
their tills. Well did Shakespeare inyeigh
against opportunity; it makes more
thieves than all other causes in the world
combined. Natural bias to dishonest
courses would wear itself out, were it not
that the faculty is receiving constant slim
ulus to develop itself from the reckless
way in which
PROPERTY OWNERS EXPOSE THEIR NfER-
CHANDISE.
Arriving perchance at some one of the
little inland towns which dot the road be-
tween Sulsun and Auburn, our pilgrim has
reached stage in his wanderings when
his temporal wants are of such pressing ur-
gency, that he must either make an imme-
diate raise to recruit them, or be content
to subside into the position of dirty, pen
niless tramp. He does not want TO steal,
had much rather not in fact, but he must
exist, and to find him work or support
him in idieness nobody seems willing. Ne
cessity has no law, and rather than con-
tinue to lead this vagabonds existence for
Il day longer, he will steal and take chances
of being found out. Bad resolves are
easier put into effect than good ones, and
the opportunity our hero has been looking
for soon presents itself But lack of expe-
ilSACS StdhuS III HIS 1iSllt OHCe more, IOr
thieving, like hay-making, is trade
which those who do not understand had
better refrain from meddling with Either
the lad was too precipitate, or he was too
slow. Anyhow his failure
TO BE EQUAL TO THE OCCASION
Ended disastrously to him, and being
taken red-handed, his commitment to the
County Jail followed as matter of course.
Here the career of young hopeful ceases to
be instructive, at any rate in the light in
which we have hitherto been considering
it. In taking leave of him we can only
express the hope that some slight con-
genial employment" may offer to his
hand directly on his emerging from the
dismal precincts of the County Jail. The
sum of the matter is, that those who have
in their youth neglected opportunities for
learning a trade, and who are unendowed
with those physical powers essential to the
performance of the simplest sort of manual
labor, come at length to be reduced to
straits from which extrication is impossi-
bic, without probable loss of freedom, and
certain forfeiture of self-respect.
SYLvANUS URBAN.
Folsom, May "a, 1888.