Evening star., 1914-10-04

EtSM1W(SN who doubts the beauty and heart sig
sAuM nifcance of the Parable of the Good
@rWuMETS Samaritan, he need only go out upon
s&MuE& the lecture platform to have his eyes
&Ss&SSel opened l know of workers in the
W@S&9 whole field of human effort this side of
tramphood itself who need more often
the intervention of the Good Samaritan get them out
of trouble than the followers of that profession.
Indeed shall not even except the profession of the
Hobo; for there is certain license granted to this
latter sort of Knight of the Road that denied to
of the Lyceum Circuit. We prone to forgive
hungry tramp for breaking into casual hencoop in
search of the wherewthal satisfy the cravings of
empty stomach and when his weary bones demand a
bed there are expedients to which he may
resort without loss of dignity doubt however, that
if DR.. Hills, the Hon. Champ Clark, my humble
SELF were ever caught red-handed with a farmers
fowls dangling by their legs from fists, to
be discovered stealing nap in the soft seclusion OF
convenient hayloft, should get off quite easily
do poor old Dusty Rhodes and his famous colleague
Weary Waggles
Even as do our less loquacious brothers who foot
across country and their living by making after
dinner speeches to sympathetic farmers wives also
do advanced members of the Fraternity of
Wanderers have often to throw ourselves upon the
tender merces of Others to out of the unexpected
ScrapeS into which the most careful OF sometimes
fall. Life is ordinarily very simple thing, to
the who lives all his days in spot and knows
every curve, crook and of his special surround
ings. How much more complicated must it become,
then, TO VINO mas Spots twenty
four hours and day after day, night in and night out
readjust himself to new and unfamiliar conditions!
FOR the most part troubles, such they are,
have do with the natural perversty of train sched
ules, unexpected visitations of Nature which will
disarange the carefully forecast calculations of
men. In the machinery of our existence there are
probably more human cogs involved, which require
individual attention. than in any other known
mechanism Even the actor the road is better looked
.cx~ f1- L.
his transportation to look after his luggage and to
attend to all the little things that go to make
the comfort of travel
l have been in many scrape route myself; but
far of them has found without person.
ally devised expedient for my relief, the aid of
chance Good Samaritan, whose constant nearness in
the hour of need has convinced that there
many more of his kind in existence than most people
willing to admit. l have almost gone so far at
times believe in the Intervention of Providence
and would quite do did 1 not feel the idea some
what belttling the Divine Intelligence that orders
gongs out and our comings in.
On one occasion in the Far West l was close to
of actual murder that might readily have been
held material witness, and escaped that great in
convenience only by pursuing the exceedingly difficult
policy of holding my tongue,-always arduous
proposition for professional taker. have starved
a delayed train in Oklahoma, starvation setting in
in my case after fifteen hours