The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-06-29
THIRD EDITION
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ing Reporters.

ing Reporters.
Lloyd Brown is the youthful quiet and
uuassuming son of AL. Brown, well
known and respected resident of Lost
Greek. The boy, Notwithstanding his
tender years and retiring disposition, is
quite a wit-One Of those natural wits
who do not borrow from the almanacs
and practice patience-robbing imposi
tlOns upon the people In almost every
case in which he springs his wit it is un-
premeditated and he frequently fails to re-
a ize that he has said anything TO make
his hearers smile 1t was one of these
spontaneous outbursts that caused me to
pen this reference to him. A neigh bOr-
ing family of the Browns have son who
was unfortunate enough to lose one OF
his eyes. The other day Lloyd met the
neigh boris boy and said, johnny, amt
u funny-you have only one eye and |
have two, yet you can see twice as much
as / CAM
"Aw, whatcher givin' mey" exclaimed
Johnny.
"Yes, truly persisted Lloyd "When
look at you ! eau only see one eye, but
when you look AT me you see two eyes"
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IL is claimed that the city OF Baltimore
has solved the tramp problem, and that
the solution has been found in the one
word Work" The tramp problem has
always been a serious one, but never 80
much so as during the present year, when
the tramps discovered how much more
effectively they could ply their trade Of
intimidation by marching through the
country IN organized bodies than by
tramplng separately or IN groups OF tWOs
and threes. Under the old plan they
scared only households, especially when
the men were away from home, into CIV
ing them food, shelter, or money under
the new plan, they terrOrize tow ns, and
even large cities INTO compliance with
q hn1H a nFNE Ia Ng.v,g
successfully JhaJ one OF the prominent
leaders OF the CoNeyites has publicly eX-
pressed his surprise that IL was not
thought of earlier
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Committea on,'u..G iast .',t,,r W..
farers Lodge. which was a SORT of annex
oil a Friendly Inn which was already in
operation. these establishments refused
no tramp tood ana shelter II he agreed to
pay the price asked lOT them. IL was that
every applicant should spit and saw wood
10 the value OF what he received In add.
tlon ne was Obliged to take hot bath, use
Garooilc soap and have his clothing disin-
Iected' W men TINS plan went into opera
tioh, the station houses, which had during
the year before entertained gOI6 tramps,
We're closed to all comers unles the Way
farers' Lodge was full, in which case the
excess were accommodated with meals
ana lodging The tramps having soon
learned the nature OF the new system,
promptly gave Baltimore the go-by.
1hey dld not even march or tramp through
the city; they went around IT, and the
number applying for aid steadily and
largely tell OH In January the average
nightly number OF applicants at the
Erlendly Inn and the station-houses was