WHO'S AFRAID.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3169, 16 April 1879, Page 1

WHO'S AFRAID.

••Who's afraid of tramps P "shrieked an lowa editor in double leaded type—and then he went on in the lurid style peculiar io novae Western editors, arid advised his readers t0,." deal with those \ peripatetic* plundering advance agents of ruin and desolation without mercy, and drive them back in utter, liopdle««, Rtragglinß confujrion to the diirk and rayjeai /catacombs of obscurity and despair! "-^-meaniof?, probably, the poor- house «nd the penitentiary, The old editor drew a long breath and feli considerably relieved: He, at ieail, h«a done his duty, and if the people woul4 respond bfateljr to his warwhoop, th« tramp nuiiftrici^ would/be; thinjr of the past. The next night about 9 a.m., • dirty-looking,' squint eyed, bow-legged tramp, about five feet high, called around at the front door of the editorial mansion and demanded an interview with "tho feller that writ that air .article/*! >After 1 the tramp had been collared by) a policeman and marched to the lock-up* it took seven strong, healthy men to haul the bloo'dkhirsty'editor out frottf under the bed and explain to him how ttie danger was all over/ •