The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-21
DIsPBRsINa A TRAMP.
What Happened to Those WAC Tried II
GraphIs Tale Graphically Told.

What Happened 10 Those WAC Tried II
Graphis Tale Graphically Told.
Toledo Blade
Twas eating dinner at a farm house
in Indiana when one Of the children
came in and announced that a highway
tramp had called at the kitchen door and
asked for a bite to eat. The farmer was
a very short, very, fat, and very bald
headed man, and he was postmaster at
the corners and Justice OF the peace in
aRd for the county. He had q son called
James, another called Moses, and a
hired man addressed as Towser, He
sent out word for the tramp to sit down
and rest, and as laugh went round the
table he explained;
"After dinner shall be pleased to
show you how we encourage tramps In
this section. This is evidently new
man In this part OF the State, or he
would never have called here"
After dinner We wentout, The tramp
was sitting under q cherry tree, looking
q comfortable as you please, and eyi-
IDENTIFY unsuspiclops that anything ex-
cept dinner was In store for him. He
looked 10 me like a bad man 10 fool
with, but the farmer didn't seem to read
him in that way,
"Now, then he said, as he rubbed
bis fat hands together, "you will stand
Nwhst iur| asked the tramp.
ITO be kicked l am going to boot
you from this spot down to that slivered
telegraph pole,n
: "But oblect,n
"Can't help that As a fourth.class
postmaster OF the United States OF
America, command you 10 arise"
III am kicked, somebody else will
get hurt" cautioned the tramp, as he
got up,
nAs one Of the justices Of the peace in
and for this county, ] command you 10
disperse, /" said the farmer, as he turned
the tramp toward the gate and admins
tered q kick.
Next instant he received a lelt-hander
on the nose, which knocked him into a
confused heap on the grass, and the
tramp got out Of his old coat and pre-.
pared for business.
'Towser, pulyerize himl" shouted
the farmer, as he struggled to his knees.
Tin the name OF the United States, / |
command you 10 knock him down."
"Towser advanced, his big fists doub-
led up, but the tramp danced to the
right and the left, and then sent one
on the hired mans commissary depart
ment, which doubled him up, and laid
him among the hollyhoCks.
"James, Moses, make him prisonerl"
yelled the old man, as he plucked a
handful Of grass and held tito his bleed.
ing nose.
;afhe tramp chuckled, There was fun
ahead.
The two boys were strapplng young
fellows, strong enough to knock down
IN OF, and they were willing TO go In.
As they stripped off the tramp backed
up between two current bushes, where
hey could not flank him, and as they
advanced upon him he grinned all over.
He played with them for a minute or
,wo, and then drew q long breath, made
.hree or four feints, and piled them on
he grass together. Neither moved TO
get up for full two minutes. Meanwhile
,he tramp rested and looked over to me
~ %Yoq amt one of the crOwdp
4No."
"And don't want mo to disperse2"
"Not particularly
"All right. l don't think the United
States and his gang want anything more
II me Just now, and as have an engage
nent down the road, I'll move on.
When they get washed up and the band-
lges on, tell 'cm l used to scrap with the
boys in Chicago in days gone by, and
hat ! held myselfin and let 'em Of very
mild. Good.by, stranger. To, ia, old
attyp
And he had been gone ten minutes
before the postmaster came over TO me
md whispered;
"Did you everl"