| Show life L i f ew on 1 the be boado 10 nd As related by robert turner now awaiting trial in the county prison t t these the e articles adiede s of which one will all appe appear arbach eacle week until completed are not written in a spirit of bravado but rather as an object lesson to all young boys who con contemplate contemplo te leaving home CHAPTER III I 1 was lioni home e th this Is time for about 7 months when one day I 1 had d t quarrel with mother and left again this tinie time I 1 boarded a passenger train never thinking I 1 would be caught cau glit when zhe the conductor came through and asked me for my ticket I 1 replied that I 1 have any so he said that I 1 would have faveto to get off at the next stop well I 1 I 1 did and had to wait about 8 3 hours when hong along came a loca freight and I 1 climbed aboard in the car all was quiet for a time when suddenly I 1 heard a scuffling of feet and a hoarse voice said light the candle 11 and there I 1 saw about a dozen negroes who seemed to be drunk and ready for anything they asked me ine if I 1 had bad any money I 1 told thern them no and while they were searching me two brakemen hearing the noise in the car opened the door and alli swung in ill they demanded toll of everyone of us but soon found they were up against the wrong bunch for everyone of the negroes had either it a gun or a raz or show fight those bral brakemen kenien just begged for mercy after robbing tile the brakemen tile the negroes left all lie train when it stopped and I 1 went with them I 1 believed that tile the brakemen had gotten what they deserved but when they started to cloae the door on them thought it about time to interfere so I 1 ran rail back to tile caboose and t ald id them what I 1 had see seen they w were ra only unconscious and we filli finally I 1 Y sa s1 succeeded in ill bringing them thein around arain and af abter ter that they lot let me ride in the caboose and gave me a liot lot supper that ng night lit and breakfast next biorn morning when the train pulled into the yards I 1 found out where the newspaper offices were but they ref used to let me have any papers so I 1 started for the yards again resolved to go on oil to chattanooga on oil the alie way there I 1 was startled to hear a cry for help the sound seemed to come from a refrigerator car that h had ad been sidetrack side track ed so I 1 listened and again came the cry I 1 opened the door and found a little boy about 0 6 years old w said staid that liis his home was in ill philadelphia and that lie he and his father had traveled from there all the way in this manner things look righetto right to me so I 1 asked hirn him to take a walk with me on oil the way up town I 1 stopped a policeman and told him the boys story lie he took ur to the po lice station and there I 1 saw the boys father crazy mad from froin the effects of whiskey and I 1 lim am very glad to say that I 1 have never had any use for the vile stuff I 1 presume they sent the boy back home I 1 wait to see I 1 met two other fellows and jumped a freight we arrived in jackson jac akson tenn at 12 midnight and it being to late to go up town we de aidyl the reap aarder 01 0 ol AW i the night in a loaded car of lumber it seems the watchman of this car had been having trouble with thieves anyway lie opener fire on us without a word of warn ing herbert the younger of the two boys fell shot through the a safety the other boy receiving a bullet in the leg then the watch man ran like tile the coward lie wap I 1 soon saw that herbert was di die ing so I 1 asked him if there was anything I 1 could do for hini him he rousing a 0 bit froni from the stupor into which he had fallen asked nie me to go to his mother in bowling green ky and give ive lier her a new which she bad given him and tell her the sad news I 1 promised to do this for him and then lie he died I 1 shall never forget the look of anguish on that mothers face when I 1 told lier her my sad news it made me think of how low i my ily own dear mother would feel in a like circumstance so I 1 determined to go back home right away I 1 arrived there safe and sound having had enough excitement to last for a while my dear friends there are two days inis misfortune fortune for every day of pleasure on tile the road Alt although bough you may like it it is only because the traveling fever possess es you it is a habit hard to break |
