Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-08
A NOTORIOUS BEGGAR.
Tho Scion Of q Good English Family Who
Became tho King Of NIcndicants OF
tho Day A Daring Dcod Which ,
brought Him Large Rcwards.

I"4CkS or tho trado have not changed
much since tho beggar lay outside tho
Eatcs Of tho rich and showed his sores
doubtless painted on every morning and
washed off every night. At all events
that was trick in Luthor's time. Ono
roads Of it in tho "Libcr VagGtorum,"
to which he wrote preface. Tho trick
Is still in vogue.
o. all clover rascals undoubtedly Bam-
fyldc-Moorc Carcw was tho clcvcrest,
Gays tho Chicago Tribune. Ho was born
in 1925 of good old Dcvonshirc fami-
]y; his godfathcrG wcro Hon. Hugh Bam-
fyldc and Major Moore; his father was
rector Of icliloy-byTivcrton.
In short, the youngStor was we'll
launched. At school hc was an excel.
lent student; an all-round athlete and n
good horScrnan-of course tho son Of the
rector OF Brickloy kept his hunter. One
day no and thrco NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of
Dcvonshiro gcntry-in harur1 -scarum
mood raced through farmers wheat
IcId. The master of tho school was one
OF tho birch-rod sort. IIo ordered them
up for logging tho next day. Whore.
upon these four hopcfulS lcvantcd and
joined gypsy caravan. Time and again
th0y wcrc reclaimed by their families.
Carcw and one Of tho lads named Escott
always madc off again to tho gypSics.
Al last they wero loft to follow thcir
own devices.
C2row after many adventures was
taken up % n vaGabond and sold % q
slave to Virginia. He escaped and madc
his way back to England before the
Captain who had carried him out. A
n
tilnc escaped.
lie was mado liking Of tho Bcggars'
and played tho rascal until he Was SOY
cnty-two years Of age. Then his cousin,
S!r Thomas Carcw, died and left him o
competency.
OF al! his wild adventures undertaken
for tho sake Of quilting humanity, ono
deserves recalling. At tho timo it oc-
Cured nc was about thirty. He was
drinking ono night in m;.undcr's-pcn
IL tho parish Of Fleet, near Portland
Lace, iii Dorsot9hiro. There he CHANGED
t" hear that ship had been driven on
the shoals and was in danger Of going to
pieces. He ran down to tho coast. No
boat could live in tho sea that ragged I'D
thC rocks; few fisher folk fingered
lclplcssly on tho sands, seeing tho sig
E2lSand hearing theories Of tho wrecked
men, but unable to give aid. Carcw got
aw2y from these people, stripped to his
SKIRT and trousers. and under cover Of
The darkness plunged unseen into tho
Bca. Twice he was tossed back on tho
Ghorc. Tho third timo he Inadc shift to
Get out Of reach Of tho undcrtow and
swim to The ship.
1T was nc&ring morning. and in tho
gray light he CIambcrou on board. Ilo
found only ono Of tho crcw-a poor
wretch dashed to tho mast. Tho others
had been washed overheard or drowned
in trying to swim ashore.
''WhGL ship is this?"
"Tho Makcsurc," Gnswcrcd tho sailor;
"Shc belongs to Bristol, Captain Griffin.
master, bound from Hamburg to Bris-
toll with cargo of Hamburg goods"
A" they wcro talking tho ship parted;
every wnvo dragged away great pieces
of her.
Mako fast that rope to my waist"
said C2rcw, we'll got ashore together
orgo down"
Tho fellow was q coward-ho had not
had pluck enough to mako trial Of it
with his shipmatcs-and refused.
Still Carew urged him.
Tho poor wretch was half dead with
fear and suffering, and chung to tho
mast, shivcring and weeping. In n
moment moro he was carried under by q
Go@ thai broke over tho wreck, and
swept it off tho shoals into tho docp.
Carcw fought bis way to shoro-spent
and bruised, with IL broken arm and lor.
Day had dawncd and thorc was 4
great crowd on tho beach. 1t need
hardly DO said that Carcw got sympathy
enough and aid moro substantial. Tho
nuiEhborinE gentry viod with each
other in relieving tho poor ship-wrecIxed
sailor-only survivor Of tho Malscsuro.
lie was given clothes and money; for
two years livod on tho strength Of this
ono affair. Indeed, ono of his bior-
raphcrs--thorc 10 quite q Carow litera-
turc-statcs that the adventure brought
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