The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-03

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bear was kept near a hotel for visitors 70
look at The game was 10 get his food
when they led him and that's how every
tramp gets food while IN Mojave.
before I was q I had been all through
Mexico and tho West prospecting. shear
iu@ sheep ana picking fruit Then ! de-
c.lcd to become an actor aud came here.
That was in lsss ioiucd Josephine Cam
crons repertoire company, or repleie
company AZ 20 ought 10 be called, md
went oil over South America with her
Josephine had more nerve than you could
rut .u a hox car. We got stranded all
uver south America. hut she managed
always 90 pun us out by saying. she waS
the wife ~ b.g Mason. and getting all
thr Masons where ste was 10 put up the
c1.u.
when 7 got back I went out with
another COMPANY which played 9iandar1
dramas We got stranded in Portsmouth.
ullc. 1ud had Co pound tho railroad Ties
fos thirty miles 10 get 20 the next stop
2irg place Alcng in the early Cos went
to south Africa oud became sundowner
That's what they call . tramp there. be
cauac he's "a bum that walks from farm
t1 farm aud always manages 20 get al a
form at rundown In that way he gets
a bed and food with the servants That
tho way / travelled all over the vcldi
when ! got tired Of that country | wen.
GO Tnclnud I was bum there. too but
me English buns. I want 20 say are no
.o.d found Besides the American
tramp they're q LOT OF workhouse stiffs
There's no beating trains there. You've
got TO keep the pike ard rs slow goln. ]
NaS On the bum an through
England ireland ana Scotland.
Then hit Lond-n ana Joined IN"
theatrical profession again Just 20 get
nance 10 ci.an Lp Tor awhile. ! worked
f1r lmre Kirolfy for tim" Then went
over 10 lrviugs Theater. che Lvcehm. ana
got a job as head spear / was bis
strong fellow and Irving waS lookin
around just ~ thbt time Tor a man who
could carry more iron than the rest 81
them happened 20 suit and stayed
wifh his company nearly two seasons
There uln't man on the stage can neo'
Henry Irving mud it don't matter whether
yol carry a spear FOR him or what you 40
neil always nave a kind word 10 say 90
YOU
- came over here with him. but when
reu ael Sow York ] decided that Ia
been away from ms oh friends too long
told Mr. Irving / thought ia go on tho
sum oRain and hc gave m" "a letter that
Two go, yet That letter has got me food
vheu Iv, been hungry and a JOB Wnen
wanted work and / wouldn exchange o.
'or whole bunch ~ coin
FL was au over the country after that
attic punching. shcaring sheep. pcking
.rult doing everything Sometimes
Iidn't have cent md then again for q
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when on the bum I've been shot ~ oy
irfuriated hrskemen ana sometimes hlt
'i'i"h ~ ""ts' Htli'sn oe' ~ OWE
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at mustr't he taken Tor granted that
every one on th" bum fights shy Of work
There's very few tramus thnt don't take
/ "a turn once in n while "a thing. IT, s.
generally az cutting wood They speak Of
saving and splitting as playing the Amer
lean bass fiddle and swinging tho great
American tomlhawk Those who in the
spring time get an itch for work do a little
shorthand writing in q mans garden with
bis spode IN tho faI tho Eastern buns
lirk hops and the Western buns pick
wheat 81 YOU SEQ for those Who look FOR
a HttIe work occasionally 90 vary tho mo
notonv OF a lie Of ease there ie general
is something 90 DO There's lot 81 buns
who never win work and they are cali
ia veee a vos has got no use f1r the
other kind OF q bum They csH EN- ehov-
el--tfrs. and ,1u rarely on the road see
the two classes together p.spita this
class distinction every man is an equal
when hos ON tho bum There's n rule lr
tramndorn thnf IL you're cool Won ride
Thaf mean. trat. II Won hook All right ,ot,
can ride IN "a rrelgnt car win tbo.c u,bo
go on b, iust a ufti. nhood ~ Won
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