New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-01-21
LIFE OLA TRAMP.
a Minister Tries 1t In Order to Find
Out. How 1t Goes.

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A Minister Tries 1t In Order to Find
Out. How it Goes.
The Rev. Mr.. Delano of the Tow
York Baptist conference did not be-
lieve that the tramp was as bad as he
was painted, or that he was treated
like a brother by his felow-man. In
order to prove the matter to his own
satisfaction he spent several weeks of
his last vacation on the road. Among
his experiences as a tramp were these:
II came to one house at the close of
a peaceful summers day and saw an
Old couple sitting together within. My
beard was week old and my hair
short enough for a graduateof Sing Sing.
My rather prominentnose was burned
and frayed in the contest. The old
lady had a sweet, benign face framed
in white cap border. She told me to
come in and sit down. But the old
farmer looked his prejudices. ..-
."What has brought you to such O.
state as this?" he asked sternlv.
'sBefore could answer him, the old
lady-bless her-remarked in an
audible aside:- "sPerhaps he knows
our Ned
ut was her kind and womanly way
OF disarming him. I did not know
Our Ned but hope he was worthy
OF such a mother.
"'Isn't it about time for our bread
and milk? suggested the farmer, and
was invited to partake of the simple
and most welcome meal As was 60
Ing, after thanking them, the old man
said earnestly:
"'You will be all right if you'll just
leave whisky alone.
'"This to me; respectable minister
of the, gospel! I wanted to drop nv
assumed character and assure him I
never tasted the stuff, but it was too
early in my experiment, so I kept 81
lent and resumed my tramp.
"After that I went to houses where
the door Was opened a crack, and the
narrow face of g. woman was thrust
out for a second, then the door was
slammed. Cats arched up their backs
and spat at me. Dogs growled at me.
cut hickory wood harder than iron
forbread that must have journyedwith
the children of Israel, and 1 slept on g.
carpenters bench in the basement
through the Christian charity OF the
owner Of the house."
"The last venture I made was into
a field where a fire was burning, and
three tramps lying beside it. | was
glad to meet the tramp on his own
ground and learn something of his his
tory and traditions. One of the men
jumped up and came to meet me- He
did not hold out his hand in frater-
nal way, with a smile of welcome and
a put it there, pard." Heeyed me with
suspicion, and asked megrutfly what I
wanted. He was bigger thanI, and the
other two men joined him, so kept
civil tongue, and they gradually warm
ed to me. The big one was clergyman's
son--just as Iwas and heknew as much
Latin and Greek as / did, and had
studied more classic literature and
spoke more languages. The other was
the son of q millionaire father. The
third was an outsider. We slept
around the haystack that night and
in the morning l told them who Twas.
The clergyman's son remarked: 4
noticed that you didn't swear I
heard how every mans hand was
against them, and how they were
against every man-Ishmaels Of the
world, soured and embittered by
treatment that would not be given to
, dogs. Inmy true character reasoned
and prayed with them as 1 have since
pleaded for them.
''Treat the tramp kindly and he
goes away with q blessing in his heart.
Shut the door in his face and his pray
er turns to curse That is my ex-
perience and belief. "-From the De.
trOit Free Press.