Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-15

dust on his shoes and clothing appeared on
Ie:h s;rees and read the Eign: Municipal
| lodging house.
He ventured to pull the door bell and was
usiered into the Office, where he registered and
answered all the questions asked. The rules
no smoking, no profane language, &C.. were
shown him, and he started as he supposed for
the dining room with his ticket
In this he was mistaken, for instead of the
dining room he was shown to the yard. where
several others were hard at work saving and
splitting wood. This was something new to
him. and when the man in the yard said "This
is your place" an indescribabie expression oil
surprise came over him.
my placer he asked. do you mean me?'
"Why, certainly mean you," answered the
man in charge, land here's the saw"
"For what?"
ITO saw wood"
"Me saw wood?"
"Yea"
Don't know how"
The tramp turned his back to the buck and
wood pile after saying: "They didn't do this
before" and left.
AT LAST THE STATION HOUSE.
He was hungry, and the smell of the mes,
stew in the lodging house had sharpened his
appetite. II he could only meet another old
man with fish and chicken what good time he
would have but as he did not meet such good
Samaritan he went from door to door beggina
for something to eat, and in a short time be
found himself at q little box on a street corner
"nere PoncsmAn rang Dell, ana q wagon
ca1re a"au.hs Hosn .ne A'reeI.
was not required to walk. and then instead OF
being, as he had anticipated, III Brother
Whitefords' mission or in a dodgers room, he
was behind the bars, prisoner, and wha. would
be done with him could not be imagined. The
hour for supper had passed and there was nc
oreakIas!, as prisoners arc not led In the police
Th,,s e. :. LII, diS. ,nS osioIo S9iiiS W cou.|
thero and he tsLan n conr, j., a. ..W,,;." =;
the morn;ro -
:.pr;snnsss,, ,,o, tho ~.
o,d vitS tho drmnts ,,,;i ~ d :.in u'Is
marched into the nrispn w,ron whara tbors
,yere men won,or I'D chuIran 80 80. ,s;,I the,,
he rode ~ IN, po,irn Cow 'fbn ,rrth.r ~
Wsrt tba w,~se bo sas,oed 70 60 for 49,. - -
NOT oriv fonnS h;nssIy IN ali ~. A. Iii Ir
VS. tsr-;hIy crowded o,a az .t, 49, uoi
"a d;ffarent from what ha haJ 90 lonr sntavad
tbronrb the conntrv that ,occtber ryS;th on ~.
ceedinyly empty stomach he was mode 10 feel
that medicine in large Quantities wonld moi
even allay his sufferiuy.
Prisoner after prisoner VIVA c,ly., unt,, tbe
moor trann had beoun IN ,binL be had hee,,
oyer,ooked and he Iouyod for the t;me whom tbe
iudce would hear him and saw ..you can 90 :,
II was getting we'll on toward the dinner b0ur
but even then there was not fine smciI ~ n not M
bacon ard cabbage. He prew flint and woaL
At last he hsard his name ring tbrouyh the cor.
ridor and pnrtlv through fenr and nnrtlv on ar.
couut of hunger thc .ick feeling vas d,snoIIod
and like Arnold the SLAYER NJ Eramor he wen.
into conrt with Mi his boIoncincs eInect;ng 20
wall out n free -nan ~
oAoEp Al LAST
Pefhaps he would have done 70 he'd not other
tramps boon numerous shortly before his ar
g,
o.. so,oil,;,, ,., ~ L. -, -
ont on,cos.. nd Ia .Lo H.. ,,iioo,p ~
~ 80, ~ ST. on IL "e 49, o., IN
- ,no !I,8o ~ ois t.usu ~ tes I'm
-, Inn IN WIZ uue no
~. III. ".a,. ~ ~, . .,.u 49, to' aa,l
.Srno, Is. .a,nr,aS W y. ~ wv "S?As' .nu Jause
Va I"iC un''eu u Keep mn ava! rom