Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-01-16
STORY OF TWO TRAMPs.
One Proved Honest and Indus.
trious, and the Other Vas Beat.

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Have mo esperienssst 9 relats in re-
gard to tramps, which ses me even OIL
the question of discovering honesty aud
dishonesty among them, says d st.
Louis police captain in the st. Louis
! Globe-Democrat. One morning / was
sitting in the dining room at home,
when u poor fellow came up to the
kitchen door and asked my Wife for
breakfast, stating that he was hungry,
starving. went out, however, to see
whft specimen of a ba9gar was there,
and ! fotind an intelligent appearing
young fellow, dressed toserably well IN
clean, though threadbare clothes. He
assured me that he had tried in vain to
secure work until he was heartily dis
couraged, and, as last resort, was COM
pAlled to wound his pride by begging.
s'f you'll prove your willingness to
work by saving up that pile OF stove
wood, you can have breakfast" said ].
"Well, I'll work, cheerfully responded
the young man, and lie threw off his
coat aud pushed bucksaw with an a1ac-
rity born of hunger ard desperation. /
gave him d good breakfast the best my
table afforded. In Conversation ! found
him bright. He was 4 beokkeeper, h6
said. / took IN interest in him and Sc
cured him a position in the Missouri
Pacific freight Office, after rersuading a
friend in charge to give him a trial The
young man proved one of the finest
penmen in the Office, and after trial of
three or four months at $40 month, he
was given fine position in an office
with the SAINT line iii Afkansas.
The other experience with tramp
was with young fellow who hal got
down in the world, but came to this city
from avenworth, Kan, with letter
of Introduction he had formerly received
from an nc luaintance of mine there.
He accosted me one cold winter night
and said he had been sleeping out for
two nights and had not eaten anything
for two days. / gave him meal ticket
and paid his hotel bill for week, and
took him down to see the same man at
the Missouri Pacific Office, which, was
inclined to believe, was becoming an
asylum for unfortunate fellows who were
ginning my sympathies. The manager
didn't like the appearance OF this young
man, but he gave him q tlial. The
wages were not to Re paid for month.
The young man bsacad up and worked
steady, and stood good for his beard in
the meantime. On pay night he drew
all his months salary, and that Vas tho
last ever head Of him. He skipped. I
WIS sin the soup to the depth of $500
for his bills. / wrote the man jim
Leavenworth, who had so highly recon-
mended him to me for honesty, that l
thought he ought to reimburse me. He
replied that it was s'my own lookout;
he wasn't paying tramps bills. hap
penod to hear that lie was fishing after
an important government appointment
at Washington. That was PIE for me. j
wrote him 10 ray tina. $50 in thirty DAYS
or would nail i'm to the cross by getting
acertain United States Senator, who was
4 s'anch friend OF mine, to fight him.
Well, that $50 came up smiling by the
next mail But the fact was, / WIS not
acquainted with the United States Son
ator al 'uled to, and wouldn't know him
if ! raw him. But the Iaeasenworth
man wanted Office, and knew could
. are him into doing what was nothing
more than right.