Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-14

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The speaker was "A vneahona.- ,
KNIGHT OF the road, tramp, and he
was recounting his misfortunes, II
was Sunday morning In little camr
of his fellows near Rannirg,s aud
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VI iouT other tfalnPs were listen
ing sympathetlcally
pitts Blue" n notorious chnrnrter
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usneii,, H. Nv -,l, LUZ Itlie teiuW ne
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t,n,5o,,fie ,,' zen INC ramp ana the
hnfier WI, ~ "ut ~ soIt Oh
ha a. 80 u"llp sulkes town
nv rast iaiu5ell c9iniottanle NOOK
| bar ry,ba - 'uS nls Nc out 70
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~ c cSn -T Ivui ear 10 me pieadlngs
! a., lit inc trump SHOWS inns only
! .y ~ "el', 9iu never ialls TO Keep MS
| epr "a. ,,,,,s iis as ne Can' IA retufh
| how ia ~ n, ~ s'euS nv ir tu119ea hiih
= ~, -. nis WY. lnt hiu IS IN
v,nrst uiu lamp apprentice, and the
] out to him Tor "getting pa,6 10 IN nnd
him a place to work ana 10 ln,,o III,
In It.
1t Is only ono class Of tron,ns how
/ js ~ -, ..u,IP, tHlS piact'ee' tramp
bonJs ~ n a. s,oie slNeh 10 ail Nasa-
li,,j,icd J,t, si,,,..s tley aTe
es, and every knight Of The road ts-,,o
more a tramp than every American ia
n Yankee The lowest class Of 0li IL
the bum" The "bum'' banes about
town and win not leave Il ,iniass
driven out by the pnllco' fIe rn,,ntnIns
a precarious existence by berpinf nnd
petty thievery. A bully with the won,
q terror of unprotected women and
children, he Is looked down upon Ia
other vagabonds and Justly desnised
The tramp comes next The ram IL
man who actually walks from town
to town. He lacks courage To- steni
rides on passing railroad trains ANA
makes the journeys on dusty countrv
roads. The aristocrat Of ynrabopds IL
the hobo" The hobo" will not walk
a step unless actually compeIIedto do 50
He travels by rail, and he travels frn,,,
one end of the country to the other
Washington Post.
There are, of course, many mon tn bc
found ION the road" who are not no
boes They are the unempIoycd snpl,
ing work. prodigal sons returning home.
Or occasionally, young men without
money who have some definite stopplnp
place In view. The real hobo" rs none
OF these. He Is "on the road" for the
love of 1t. He does not want work. lie
Is not going anywhere in particular
he is simply a yagabond by nature,
His characteristics are many and VA
ried. and they are not, for the most
part those that are popularity attriDu-
ted TO him. In the first place he seldom
wears a beard. When three or four
hOhoes are met together Mt least one OF |
them is sure to have a razor, and the |
task of shaving the rest of the party |
falls TO him. The hobo will 20 clean |
shaven If he possibly can. Then. he Is |
not nearly so unkempt as the comic |
papers would have us believe. The only |
article for toilet use he Invariably car |
rles is a comb, and he combs his hair
about as often as ordinary murtnls. OF |
course he is not clean In summer he
bathes In every available pool. but In
winter, Of necessity, he is a stranger
TO the bath. He never changes his
clothes, for the excellent reason that
he has no others to put on Like the
snail. he carries his worldly possessions
on his back.
Trowbrldge makes the tramp I'm his
pathetic poem, "The Nagabonds," wax |
eloquent concerning the past and the
things that might have been. The real
hobo Is singularly reticent about his an