The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-11

S-OA. Aney udQ come from New Orleans
oy steamer paying 81 a head for a trip of
about I. 200 miles. if I remember ricbtlv1
70 spend the summer at the north. With
one exception, they appeared TO be fairly
decent fellows, and the exception,
seemed to be tolerated by the Others be-
cause ne was a constant source of merri-
time. l concluded 10 travel with them for
DAY or two. In the evening the
gang took TO the woods There we
started a roaring fire, collected enough
wood to maintain it through the night lit
was very cold, erected a low brush
fence around the camp, filing It with
leaves 70 Keep out the wind, and gath
cred vast quantity of leaves to rest
upon; IN less than an hour we were set
tied very comfortably, indeed Next.
some coHee was made in a six gallon pot
and we RECALLED ourselves with such Wet
uals as had been bought or possibly
begged. After supper pipes were lit, and
yarns spun. Finally, the exception. ~ a
big Pomeranian. who unblushingly con-
fessed to not having worked a lick in six
years, begging his living during the sum
mer around ST. Louis, and during the
winter at New Orleans, heaved a sigh
and stated that not long before he had
! had very unpleasant experience.
TRANP's YARN.
You know" he said. i used to have
P4ehSCo NAONL III New orleans W mere I 2OI
my grub regularly, and I managed to beg
money enough to pay rent for a furnished
room. Well, there is a restaurant in
--- street where for several weeks
had gone for my dinner every day-a din
ner OF chicken soup, mind you One day,
about month ago, in a fit of a sentmlnd-
edness, l stuffed myself quite full before
dinner at some other places, but conclu-
ded that | could try to stow away that
! chicken soup somehow, anyhow-chicken
soup is scarce in my bill of fare, you
know. Well, when l went to the restau-
rant TO get the soup, sure enough-a great
| big bowl of it, more tnan l thought /
could manage, but I got it down, because
II was chicken soup. I guess.
Then was truly thankful that
had il down, and started to
go out But the boss was standing under
the door with a big club-you bet it was
blg-and told me that he was getting
tired OF my coming every day; that l
must then and there eat enough to last
me two days or get hurt Well, [ did it.
l added a great big bowl full of beef stew
TO the chicken soup, and then again
started to go out. But the man with the
big club-you bet it was big-told me that
| my duty was only half done; that, to aid
my digestion, must swallow bowl of
black coffee on top of the rest Well. l
did it l don't know how, l can hardly
believe it now, but l did it For two
days after that l was very sick; for two
| days it was all ups and no downs; and I
amt quite well yet"
1 parted company next day; while |
didn't value my life very highly, still I
didn't care to expose myself TO the dan
| ger of being hanged innocently, and there
seemed to be at least a possibility of that
| If didn't lose my partners"
BREAKING INTO JAIL.
Not many days afterward, while I was
| resting by the roadside, a well dressed
chap came along, who. after the usual
| preliminaries, stated that he was on the
road too. How had the times been with
me? he wanted to know pretty hard ="
! l told him. About two months before, 60
! ing along the Mississippi river bank
while passing through a patch of pipe
! cane stubble, | stepped on one of the
! sharp pointed stumps so unfortunately
that it penetrated the foot for over an
inch, giving me great pain. In that con-
dition l was hired by skinfint to work
as woodchOpper for twenty-five cents a
| day and found" In short, it had been a
very hard winter for me. The
| well dressed chap snorted and promptly
called me dashed fool.
Young fellow he said, don't you
know any better than that? Now, you
take my advice; next fall, when it begins
| 10 get cold, you go to - Il forget
whether he mentioned Iowa or Nebraska
but possibly the case fits more than one
state), to some county seat where they
| have good Jail and no workhouse. Go
| there just after criminal court has ad-
| journed. Then, one day, fool around a
! store and steal something not worth
! enough to send you to penitentiary-a
| pair of boots or something; steal it so that
it will be sure to be seen, and then run.
| Well, they'll lock you up; it'll be three or
! four months until court meets again, and
| the judge can only give you one, or Two, or
| three months more. All that time you
| are in a warm Jail, you have plenty to
! eat and you can play cards all day long.
! If you want clothes, Just tear your rags
| to pieces some uight-they can let you
! 60 naked. BY the time your sentence is
! out spring has come again and everything
! is lovely. See2" AS to himself, he
wanted to get settled for life. Said he:
Il got me some good duds, you see, and
! going TO hire out to a nice widow with a
| nice farm somewhere around here, and
! get on the good side of her and marry her.
! See2 BY byl' While | was in abso-
/ lutely no danger from the man, still,
! somehow, felt more comfortable the
night a catamount howled and prowled
around my lonely campfire in Florida
! wilderness than 1 did in the presence of
| this great strategist.
And am quite sure, after reviewing
the kaleidoscope of my tramping days
| over and over again, that the greatest
danger which threatens the restless
young or even unfortunate elder men who
| Ego on the road is from characters like
! the one last described, who sometimes
| cannot be avoided and whose insidious
poison must operate the more surely on
/ the weak and innocent, because the latter
| is in real or fancied distress and there
| fore predisposed to make war on society.
FISHING FOR YELLOWTAILS.