The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1904-04-21
GROWING BEAUTIFULLY LESS
The Old Time Tramp Printer a
Curiosity.

This Office was visited Tuesday by ii
tourist a printer of the old time
school, one James Garland by name.
James lines have been cast in un-
pleasant places since we last saw him
| before Tuesday. 1t was in 80 that
Garland became steady for about three
months in Brookings where he held a
job on the Bookings Sentinel, then
under the management of W. II. and
| A. II. Whiting. This writer was
holding cases on George Hopp's paper,
the Brookings Press, and we remem-
ber that part of Garland's career very
we'll. After about two months wages
| had been accumulated he went to old
man Ronning, the tailor, and acquired
a S32 prince A." and when Garland
drcs sSed up III his p. 4. and wide brim
| black felt Kentucky COlOneP' hat
you would think, to see him go down
| the street, that he was the mayor of
| Chicago ON a friendly visit to the
mayor Of BrOokings did not mat
ter that the uppers had parted COM
! pany with the SOlcS OF his shoes and
were held partially in place by rubber
| bands. At about that time James
! Finch. another old school man, APP
peared on the scene and secured cases
on the Sentinel. Garland and Finch
had been partners on the road years
| before and there was iollificatiOn on
tap when the reunion took place. But
II few weeks of prosperity was all they
could stand, and the undoing OF Gar
land and Finch was brought about by
! the sudden acquiring Of a little wealth
through the publication Of daily
paper at the old soldiers encampment
at OakWood lakes in Brookings coun-
| ty. Garland went cast and Finch
west. The last time we saw Finch was
at Arlington that same summer when
| he purchased all the lemon extract in
the town to quench his unconquerable
thirst, and the last time we saw Gar
land was as he went out the office door
! after touching" us for ten cents with
which ''to buy Il lunch" It's a long
| Journey from Selma, Alabama, in
1885 to De Smet in 1904, but flats
what Garland has made.
LATER-Garland came back, and as
we piloted him over to restaurant for
the first square meal for many moons,
we passed nearly the entire legal fra
ternity Of the city and it transpired
that he had ''pan- handled" the bar
all the forenoon for lunches on the
strength of having once been a prac-
ticing attorney. We have always
known there were tramp printers, but
Il tramp lawyer beats anything we
| have ever before seen-since we were tall
enough to look through the knot hole
in fathers wooden leg.-De Smet In
dependent.
| Week before last the REGISTER re-
ceived word from Will Bell OF Slayton,
Mimi, saying that Garland was head
ed this way and proposed having job
here if he had to pie case. 1t is evil
| dent that the sleeper carried him by
this station. We remember Garland
and talk about lemon essence! He
and Jim Finch drained the stock in
Brookings. Both these old timers
were well educated and capable of
holding down the best jobs going, but
like many of the old school they
worked not for money but because
they loved their trade and loved
whiskey better than either their trade
or honor. One seldom meets one of
the ''Old boys" now but with all their
faults we are ready to take off our hats
to them. They are storehouses OF
knowledge and are gifted along all
lines highest as well as the low
est.