« WHO'S AFRAID."

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 3 (Supplement)

« WHO'S AFRAID."

'Who's afraid of tramp*?' shrieked an lowa editor in double-leaded type— and then he went on in a lurid style peculiar to some Western editors, and advised his readers to ' deal with those peripatetic, plundering adranee agents of ruin and desolation without mercy, and drive them back in utter, hopeless, straggling confusion to the dark and raylesa catacombs of obscurity and despair !' meaning probably the poor house and the penitentiary. Thjn the bold editor drew a lorfg breath, and felt considerable relieved. He, at least, had done his duty, and if the people would respond bravely to bin warhoop, the tramp nuisance would soon be a thing of the past. The next night about 9 p.m., a dirty-looking, squint-eyed, bowlegged tramp, about five feet high, called around at the front of the editorial mansion and demanded an interview with ' the feller that writ that air article ' After the tramp had been collared by a policeman and marched to the lock-up, it took neven strong, healthy men to haul the bloodthirsty editor out front under the bed and explain to him how the danger was all over.