Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-19
Boston, was passed. The Rev. H. w.
Tuttle, Of Manchester, was elected
state Sunday school superintendent.
ONLY A TRAMP.
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Away out in Cedar township, midst
| the uroccupied and uninhabited fields
of the farms, there Is a school, house
where a dozen or more children con-
gregate from the different farm homes
Ito attend school.
; Percfiance there passed in the neigh
borhood of this school building man
some forty five years of age. His hair
was unkempt he had not been shaven
for weeks, his rainlent was old,
tattered and dirty, but still he was a
human being. He once had a home,
Some woman loved him as his mother.
Some man sought to guard and direct
his steps in the straight and narrow
way. Perchance he had those that
were beautiful girls for his sisters, 1t
may be promising, Intelligent boys for
his brothers, cousins, nephews, and
aunts and uncles. all of whom con-
stituted a large fraternal family circle
away over the sea in the sunshiny land
of italy. for this man was an italian.
What strange and mysterious con-
ditions and circumstances directed his
wanderings on the roads of Cedar
township probably will be a sealed
book for all time. We simply know
that this man said he was seeking for
work. He was directed to apply to a
farmer by the name of White. Mr.
White told him he had hired IA man
and did not need aother one. No one
seems to have seen this man afterWard
until his body was discovered slls-
pended between heaven and earth in
the woodshed of this schoolhouse.
When the discovery was made by the
teacher the alarm was given through
out the neighborhood and there was
comment and excitement. The county
coroner was notified, who repaired to
the place and held an Inquest. No one
knew anything about the suicide. No
papers that would give a clue to his
name. home or friends, was to be
found. All that could be said was
that he was a tramp who had commit
ted suicide. His body was brought
to the undertaken in this city and
after due consideration was consigned
to the surgical tables at the medical
school in Iowa City. as the etatute OF
the state prescribes. They were IN
cased in a rough box and sent through
hy express and the county paying the
expense.
"Rattle his bones over the stones,
for he's a poor outcast whom nobody
owns"
..whatsoever We would that men do
unto you, do ye SO even unto them.
Is not this the very root of christian
ity? without this precept and prac-
tice is there such thing as chris
tianityo Supposing that an American
had died in Italy, under the same cir
c,lmstances and under the same condl-
tions that this italian died here, would
it have been regarded as a Christian
act to have treated his death and dis
posal of the remains the same that
this Italian received here? Would
such treatment have been possible to
have been accorded to Russian
tramp in the semi-christian land OF
Japan?
What could have been done? One
thing could have been done. A
photograph Of his person could have
been had. 1t could have been exposed
somewhere at a morgue in Chicago or
elsewhere italians abound. BY this
means his identity possibly might have
been discovered.
ALIAS for the rarity Of Christian
charity, under the sun"