| Show A thoughtful TRAMP how hu boarded a railway rail way train A tramp got on a car at farmington a few days ago in a manner that may be read with interest the flyers which only stop very occasionally sio nally at af stations are so arrAD arranged ged that a large look reaches out grabs the mail sack and pulls it in at the side door of the mail car the saak is suspended from a hook on a high post and scaffold which is provided with steps for the mail carrier to ascend the tired but sel scheming leming tramp sup supposing 0 that he could hang barig on the opposite side of the sack and thus be landed into the car concluded he would prefer riding swiftly on the car to walking s bowly on the track after calculating on the risks and chances of getting a little hurt and a big ride he deliberately laid his plans and successfully carried them out insomuch that he be waited fora slower krhin and jumped into a freight car the dainty tramp who used to espres a preference to his feeders for the breast of a chicken and a berry pie must have a relative wandering in these parts A day or two ago lie he smilingly W asked for a lump of butter to fry some eggs in on being told that the system of economy the family were practicing would not admit of their using butter so eo lavishly themselves lie he intimated that he could for once put up tip with pure lard or nice suet but by this time the milk of human kindness had gone so sour that the tramp concluded his eggs fry in grease unless he could find more sympathetic neighbors so be tramped on in search of them I 1 counted twelve one night recently in a bunch by the U P water tank on asking where the rest of their number were they said that a few of them were up town looking for grub later in the evening they were seen laying around a targe fire made of willows and R 11 timber enjoying a little troubled sleep verily when the flys mosquitoes qui toes bedbugs and tramps put in an appearance we may know that warm weather with its attendant troubles annoyances as well as promised blessings has again visited us C T r |
