The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-29
BY BURTON LESSlNG

tHI@tlS. ana they Ebl up tf't't'h to Governor Nash for his removal In it they recitcd the story of how Mayor Weed had come to be elect ed They declared that he had been iii the town only a month when chos- en to the office: that nobody knew where he had come from; that he admitted that he had been a tramp all of his life; they accused him of drunkenness. gross immortality. and mental incapacity Alonzo's gay ad- ministratiou had lasted only month when the governor turned him out of the job
 Its back to the frcights for me. said the former mayor with sigh.
 With the same surprising sudden ness did fortune strike James F.. Berry. the king of the hohoes.' Der ry had been tramping since boy hood and was 5G years old when one day in lN97. on reaching Mount Vernon. IlI. oh freight train, he heard in round about way that he had inherited one hundred thous and dollars from d relative i'll Glov- ersvillc. x \. where he had been born He went to Gloyersville and got the money Then he came back to Mount Vernon and married far mer's daughter They had got as far as Salem. III. on their honeymoon when they qumreled. He left her there and continued his travels alone.
 A little later he turned up at the best hotel in St Louis. He had not taken the trouble to chance his rags and the clerk looking him over with suspicion. asked if he had any bag gage
 None" replied the former tramp. Never carry any But I'll settle ill advance, if that's what you want"
 He pulled out $looo bill and threw il on the desk. The clerk al most tainted Before Berry went to bed that night he had spent every cent of that thousand and before rhe week was up he had made away with ten times a. much.
 The following Chns-mas Day, six months after he had received his in heritauce. the king of the hoboes' drifted into Paducah. Ky. He was a tramp again. He had spent his last cent. A few days after he was dead. There was no friends or relative To claim his remains. but a kind-hearted undertaken agreed to give him bur ial
 News travels in strange ways in Trampdom. The morning of the fun eral six grimy tramps crept into Paducah. Two had ridden in al ease in a caboosc, the others on the trucks of freight cars They had come to pay their last respects to the king"
 They attended the s:mpIe service in the undertaker's shop, ga2cd sad Iy upon the coffin and later, when they had discovered what d sympa- thetic man the undertaken was, tried to induce him 10 give them the price of meal. The six mourners were run out of town by the police that night.
 But let us turn to things less sad ito the festive tramp that came a courting pretty Miss Bella Wright, of Chambersburg, Pa. Miss Wright had been reading of women who ad- yertised for husbands, and when q circular of matrimonial agency came to her one day. she thought she would try it herself, just to see what would happen.
 In April, 1900, she put an adVer- tisement ill the agency's paper. A few days later she got a letter from C. Miller. He described himself as a railroad engineer, a Scoin of a family of high social position in Germany. The Kaiser had attended his christening. He had come to this country to make his fortune rather than depend upon his rela- tiVes, and had taken to engineering because he was too proud to let them know of his poverty. He asked for her photograph and inclosed his own.
 Miss Wright looked at the picture earnestly, and it seemed to her that he was quite handsome young man To be sure, his letter was not very grammatical and the spelling was bad, but that was probably because the English language was new to him. She wrote to him and sent picture of herself.
 Half a dozen letters came from him during the next ten days, and each one was from a different town. That, she thought, was because he was a railroad man.
 And then, at last, he came him self-came, as she learned after ward, in box car. When she saw him she gave wild shriek. He was not the handsome young man