Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-26
EXPERIMENTING ON A TRAMP.

lu&. -hl " 1ioNh, NhNii SHt i'lui IiN'! and drove into the yard, a strange spectacle greeted her. What might be called the north end of a man was pro truding from a Kitchen window The case was plain. His trousers and shoes showed him to belong to the genus tramp. He had called and, finding the house alone, had forced up the sash of the window and started to climb in. At the halfway point the sash had come down on the small of bis back, and he was held as securely as if he had been handcuffed and shackled
 The widows face beamed with sat isfaction as she entered the house to take look at his phiz Yes, it was tramp, and a hulking big fellow at that. She went outdoors with look of anticipa ton in her eyes and hunted up a bit of board of just the right shape, and for the next half hour she was a busy woman. She stood of at Just the right distance from the win dow, and the board rose and fell with Ama2ing regularity and vigor. The tramp kicked his legs about and in- dulged in remarks, but the walloping did not end until the woman had tired herself out Then she took down the clotheslne and wrapped it around the tramp's legs about forty times, en- tered the house and tied his wrists securely, and then raised the sash and let him fall backward on the grass. As he lay there she came out to bend over him and ask:
 "Well, how do you feel now:'
 Fl don't exactly know,' was the reply.
 This is an experiment on my part. I want to bring you to a state of hum. bleness Do you think 1 have accom- plished it:'
 "Yes; feel humber than l did. It's a new feeln', and you must take the risks of it."
 "Oh, I'll look out for the risks. Just make yourself as comfortable and as humble as you can, and when the hired man comes up III see to your case fur ther''
 Two hours later the tramps hands were unbound and food set before him. The food consisted of bread and water. There was consistency in humble man eating humble fare. When he had finished eating he was again made se- cure and dragged to the barn and lock ed up in the granary for the night
 ".rhe next step is to arouse your am bition," said the widow as she left him, and I'll tell you my programme in the morning. l hope to find your hum hleness greatly increased by then. Do you still feel humility bubblng up in your soul?@
 1T do marm, and l am sorter afraid of it. It's new feelin'. and l don know what it's going to lead to. It's an experiment, is it:'
 Tt is.
 "Then you must take the risks, as said before. l understands myself as cheeky tramp, but when you come to make humble tramp of me that's diff ferent'
 Next morning the fellow was hauled out of the barn and asked if any addl- tiona feeling had come to him during the night, and he replied:
 II think there has. marm. 1 think I'm feeling what you call ambitious this morning l find myself thinkin' of work without the usual feelin,s of dread accompanyin' it. That's amhi- tion, l take il:
 Yes
 But don't blame me, marn. if any thin happens When you go for to i'm plant new feelin's in the breast of a tramp you can't tell what he's goin' to do
 "Win you take a bee and go to work in the field if | give you q good break fast%''
 'I will, marm. I'm sorter curus my self To see what's goin' to result from this new feclin'.'
 The first result was breakfast that should have done for three hired men It kept the widow on the jump to keep the table supplied. He wasn't eating  ambitious one When he had finished at last he was asked to cut some wood before going to the field. In the course of ten minutes lie shivered two aN handles and gave cherry tree a nor tai blow. Started for the field 10 as sist The hired man. he tramped ever the tomato and cucumber patches, tore down a panel of rail fence getting over 1t and in the course of another half hour had wielded his hoe so vigorous N among the turnips that he had dug up two bushels with the weeds and broken the blade. The hired man Sought to curb him. He was a lusty hired man that had licked over a score of trampS. but they had been tramps without ambition. When he tackled this one he was laid on his back forth with.
 Then the tramp headed for the barn. and with a club he smashed the Spokes out of three wheels of the family car riace. He pulled the harness down