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The San Francisco Sunday Call
THE HOBO MIGRATION TO THE BIG FIGHT
<Mr. Craige, tbe author, is wcU known in the
|t*t as a student of sociology, as well as an
|tUete. He is amateur champion boxer of tbe
Atlantic etatcs and former champion middle
ircitht wrestler of America. He was a membor
»f the American Olympic team that went to Eng
land In IOCS.)
John H. Craige
T
HE great hobo migration la over.
ET«ry "cat" 3nd "chroniker"
\u25a0who made a living slinging hash
or pearl diving (washing
dishes) or in some other way helping
the Reno natives care for the avalanche
of guests that swamped them, during
fight week has pulled up stakes and
pet out for more civilized parts and a
chance to resume the steady jobs many
of them left to obey the call of the
wanderlust and hike for the scene of
the big fight.
Every "bum" and "stiff": every
"mush faker," every "jocker" and his
"prushun"; every "gun," "cloth cutter,"
"moll buzzer," "prop getter," "con
nian*' and "fony gambler" who reaped
a golden harvest from the vast, easy
groing throng, well supplied with coin,
\u25a0
rhe Tug-of-War on the Arena
Fence
that swarmed in Reno over the fourth
has shaken the dust of the town off his
feet and hit the long trail for some
place where he can put In his summer
to the best advantage gathering coin
to see him through a winter of ease
under warm southern skies.
Perhaps most readers are unaware
that there has been any unusual move
ment of our hobo population this
spring. There has, though — the great
est in tlie history of the underworld.
Early in the spring eastern and
southern sociological authorities
noticed that there was a tremendous
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stirring in the body hobo the like of
which had never been seen before.
Every tramp that came under their at
tention seemed to be resolved to go to
Reno to see the fight, and as the tramp
is a pretty resolute person when it
comes to traveling, they had no doubt
that most of the 'boes would at least
attempt the journey.
Then came reports from all over the
east and south that a vast number of
young workingmen were throwing
down their tools and starting for the
/k est.
'^'These two movements were perfectly
normal except as to the numbers of
men involved. Every year there is a
distinct flow of tramps north and west
in the spring and south and east in the
fall. Every year, also, a large number
of workmen quit their jobs in the
spring and start west, bumming it, be
coming temporary tramps or "gay
cats." The unusual feature of the
. movement this year was its vastly
greater size than ever before and the"
fact that every one of the voyageurs
/had "Reno, or at. first. San Francisco,
for his goal.
Sociologists estimated that the num.
,ber of tramps, gay cats; crooks, etc.
(for the crooks also were involved in
the movement to an unprecedented ex
tent)^would total up close to 300,000.^
Three hundred* thousand is an almost
inconceivably great army. It is larger
than the- army -'of 'Goths and Huns. that
sacked Rome under'Alaric. It is larger
than Godfrey de Bouillon's army that
captured the holy city at .the end of,
the second crusade. It is bigger than
most of the celebrated, race movements
of antiquity, yet such is the size and
wealth of our country in the present
day that it could pass over it, thou
sands of miles, and subsist on- the
charity of the country over which it t
passed without causing a ripple on the
surface of our national, life.
This vast host of tramps and near
tramps was drawn from three prin
cipal sources, all distinct and rigidly
separate, for in the underworld, as well
as the upper, there are social classes, \u25a0
and cast lines are as strongly drawn as
elsewhere. ;
The first .of these, constituting -
numerically~by far the greatest class,
is the gay cat. He is the man who will
work hard and regularly for a. longer
or shorter period, but is subject to oc
casional fits of the wanderlust, under
the influence of which he will throw
down his tools, no matter how good his
job may be, and hike out in any direc
tion that his fancy bids. He carries
enough money to buy his grub and
smooth the rough spots on the v trail
and is looked down on by the - true
- tramp, who will not associate with him.
It is estimated that over three-quar
ters of all the host vras, made up of
gay cats. They are the easiest of the
tramp classes to discourage from con
tinuing a journey, and few of them got
through to Reno, most of them falling
by the- wayside when the harvest fields
of the middle west were reached, where
work was easy and wages "good. The
harvest 'has never been so well sup
plied with labor before.
The second great class, constituting
20 per cent or about 60,000 of the host,
was composed of real tramps, or "blown
in the glass stiffs," as they call
selves. \u25a0 The, stiff is a good traveler
and very persevering. Perhaps 20 per
cent of him got through. The best
specimens of this class arrogate to
themselves the name "good people."
The third class "was composed of
"guns" — that is, criminals, yeggs, dips,
etc. — who mingle with the tramp
classes and find their promiscuity their
best hiding place from the officers of
the law. These criminal members |of
the migration made up 7 about 5 per
cent of the whole, or 15,000. "They com
prise a large part of the niost expert
and resolute petty criminals in the
United States. .
Of course, the criminal element, and'
to a larjje extent the tramps, too, were^
attracted to Reno by the prospect \u25a0 of
gain. The throng of fight fans to be
dumped into the town, each with his
little roll of bills, all excited and many
inebriate, offered a chance - without
precedent for making a cleanup. The
most powerful reaction, however, to
the great majority was genuine interest
in the outcome of_ the -big, fight. .
The average man has little idea how
keen is. the interest taken, in' sporting
events by the underworld. The sport- 5
ing page of his newspaper Is the only
page a tramp will deign to look . at. "
Cities might be burned and countries
overrun, and the tramp would know
nothing about it; but let the Horrible
Hindu flght the Desperate Dago, and
the tramp will 'know every detailof the
battle, and discuss it for months.
Against the combined pulls of the
hope of gain and the greatest sporting
interest ever felt in any event, the
.tramp offered little resistance. From
early spring, most of him hadVesolved
to see the fight. When the weather
became propitious he set out.
There are three great "happy" routes
by which the tramp in the east or south
travels north and west.
The first of these is via the New York
Central to Chicago, thence to Omaha,
and from there over the Union and
Southern Pacifies to the coast, via
Cheyenne, Ogden and Sacramento. This
used to be the greatest avenue of tramp
traffic in the underworld. It passes
through a country where habitual char
ity has rendered it very easy to batter
back doors for first class grub. All
the towns along the route are com
paratively friendly to 'boes, and there
are no bad states to cross.
fLately,. however, the New York Lake
Shore, a district for. years regarded by
the hobo as his own particular private *. :
property, has become extremely hostile. '
The Union Pacific, too, has been making"
strenuous efforts to cut down 'bo traffic
over its lines, and it is no longer the
happy road of old. Still, it is an easy
route to get by on, and perhaps a ma
jority of the hobo host came that way.
The second route is via the Balti
" more and . Ohio, through Baltimore,
Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and
thence west. . The 8.. & : 0., which is
lovingly, known to the J 'bo? under the |
nickname "the dope," is the easiest
road In the world to travel on. Tramps
ride serenely in broad daylight on this
road and- give -the' railroad bulls (po
lice) and . the shacks (brakemen) the
glad. eye and the high sign without fear':
of } Interference, j This road ' also passes
through a country where it ! Is easy to
beg," but* the trains are slow.' ; . ;
The third route comes up from ithe
south, from Gal vest on, by the Fort
Worth and Dodge City and the Denver
and Rlo.Grande railroads. It is a fairly
easy road "to travel/ and 'as perhaps a 7a 7
majority of the" real tramps spent the
winter in thefsouth and started from'
there , to, see. the^fight,, this; was per
haps the road most patronized by the
"good people." --. , • .
A descriptionof. the "good people". Is
interesting. 1 * They are the highest type
of tramp, and: a description of .them
applies on a descending scale to all the
tramp glasses down , to . r the ; tin: can
vagabond," who Is sunk so low in liquor "
that' he jis .•scarcely,; human. Many of
the typical good , people . whom I know
are men of. education .and .intelligence,
which," if 'applied; to" legitimate .-business,--/'
would gain them independence and even
wealth. ' One Is accustomed- to think
of the tramp as a poor, out' at the .el
bows, frayed and* frazzled ' individual.
A Dangerous but Common Mode of Travel
j Oneof lts: Members Tells of v.
The Jtrnw of Uncdi^
' Of Tramps ctrid Criminals Who Spent
UUeeks or Months in. Making Their ' Way
From the Atlantic States to Reno in
Time for the Jeff ries^Johnson Affair
Reno Was the Mecca of an j U ncourited Army of Tramps
glad to get anything ;in .the ' line of '
food or clothing that- may be 'poked,
out to him from a back door. • -\u25a0\u25a0. '-
Nothing could be- farther from the
facts. A good tramp is "usually- as'
weir dressed as the man who works.
To be taken for a tramp is the thing
he fears most.' For food he must have
his three squares or "set downs'^ a day,
and they; must consist of meat, spuds
and "punk and plaster" (bread*: and'
-butter). I have known tramps' who
, insisted on having chicken once a week; i
.These men : -were; adepts, at telling;
"ghost j stories"— that is, tales to gain
the sympathy of servant girls. ' They
battered the back doors of big houses,
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where chicken, was -likely to <be had.
Sometimes they were : forced, .to :' visit a
dozen or. a score "of : houses; » but" I never
knew one; to- fail to get what/he v set
put for. V ,;. * /
If^ you give a. tramp of this class a
Ihahdout"he will 'throw /it; away '{ or give
It to' somei laboringi man who : Is not (as *
well ' fed /as */ himself .f/ To - be ; called a :
;handout bum'is" the' last" word of insult
In his vocabulary. Such a tramp usual
ly /disdains" to - travel sby freight : trains.
If he uses freights' at an, it'is to sleep
in a boxcar that sis ; traveling^ in ; ;his
? direction" during the day, so - that t he^
wakes/at nighty so much farther on his
journey. v -'-:-.\u25a0\u25a0 -'.'-, -' ; - --;'-'-/' ; :-.' v V .
jNight -time' ls"; his /traveling time. > He |
Is well 'enough dr essed^toc get ;: time ;
tables of the. roads 'by wriich: he/ wishes/
to travel,-; and; to:sit*about^the^ depots'
without exciting comment. From this
time /table, he v picks ./out wthel fastest;
trains/ that are Amoving in ; direction ;
he ( wishes / to andt when Fone
he selects^ pulls I In? he f saunters
chalantly/to :her /front' end.;/ When^ she:
is V pulling/out \u25a0 he j swings \ aboard and
: rides ; safely, to the '\u25a0 next ; stop.' ; -.._., '-_< ; / , : .
'\u25a0 : Here he; must, get; busy /dodging;' the :
bulls and shacks -, if Jhe .wishes to * ride "
farther.;/ .The, blind; baggage on which
he has ridden so* far, is always searched,"
so he must leave that. Two "/means . of.
'\u25a0\u25a0 riding farther, are. dpen to ' him. He
. can • either climb, to 'the roof; or get -off
and' go under the train" and ride a truck.
Riding the roofs," is ' not iVery, hard ;
•traveling \u25a0' in ; the* west, -^.where trains
seldom make over :30: 30 miles an hour.
In the, east; where' they, sometimes go
at a.go^mile clip,-it : l3 the hardest riding
'\u25a0 in the world.\; : V " . y:^-: ;:' : l; ;-. .-'/:: :>.
t On a six wheel truck there f are two
' heavy- iron beams running parallel ". to
the body, of the car and four running
A tramp can lie v at length
1 on -these, four beams, his body stretched
about ; six inches above I the revolving |
axles of the wheels, or a small man can V
sit on the last of the beams and put his
•v: '. s~ . : ':" \u25a0 ' ': ~~^+ \u25a0 ' \u25a0 .a- \u25a0.\u25a0.-'•i*
feet ; on ; the brake rod, which is Just
below. \ / .\u25a0 .'.-;'\u25a0"."..\u25a0 '.--'\u25a0. \u25a0
t VrThis- 1 is " not pleasant riding. 'The j
slightest slip means a sure andhorrible"
death,, 7 yet . I 'have \ known tramps .who |
. would *run'underja car in; motion and;
swing on a moving truck
S giving:; it | a thought. I -have |
ibeenvlforced^-toV boards niovlng'; trucks
occasionally^ myself, but I never en- V
\u25a0\u25a0 joyed'; doing it. -„'. r ''-,'\u25a0\u25a0 •\u25a0
v ' If. a ; , tramp is hunted off the roofs and ';
ith c 'I he - has still , the rods,^ which - s
\u25a0 are^on /man y^cars, i to fall back/on/; and ' :
"' there \u25a0 are ' also f tool . 4ioxes " in which .' a
man canY travel I- .f!
VvThet:: authorities:) say X: that ;of • .; the s
. 300,000 tramps who started for the. fight ;
\u25a0•;• 50 \u25a0:; per "i cent; reached "points j, west; ot ['\u25a0.
Omahafj. Fifty \u25a0 per cent of?the?remain
' der reached the latitude of Denver and
/Salt Lake.- ;Of this ;75,000- a .third: got,
/\u25a0 by^tOjßeno.;. /. /^v .. l>'-\ : i \u25a0/;/.; -.//- r
':.*'- ; The i normal * population ': ot \; Renb'v is •
v 15,0p0.*f During? fight t-week' there Vweres
'100,000 strangers in town.s One in' every'.
'•\u25a0 < four r of *these (was /a ,'bo, > but -1 the : ,work '.?
of ; helping tlje- native care for. the others
three • gave work \ at i high .wages - to ? all i
-of ;the "'boes ; who, l would? work.;, ; \ /
All y over the >:towni there were • signs
calling^ foremen. the > first ithe /\u25a0
gay /catslseized\these jobs. '; Afters they .:
I had^ tried' begging and , found ./that there %
was ' nothing •in/; It {the tramp s iwent ito /.
work,vto6w- : Many ta /veteranKblownvini
the glass k stiff i not .foiled "his
. • hands labor -for I years)! I j'saw,; In
. " Reno' hard at i work! slinging ?hash; -\u25a0-\u0084, : /
Manyfof itheV'boes ,werej satisfied -\u25a0
being \ In v « Reno % lwithout i;attempting/ to :
see^the^flghtJ 4 Others^ were? not.t*C Just/
4 before- the ßpriricipals| entered ;Uhetrihg;i
\ J{saw/several s ithousands'of ..these; latter •
. makeyaVrushVandf scaleithe: wall/of ithe \
r arena ; onithe-sidei next; the ;trolley>line.;:
; Part lof / the ': wall \was * torn '^d own." •; One i
: Of !>thV:bums l/who the**wall*
was-la|peglegged rinegro. » ?As s. heXwas ,=, =
hanging from the top/,of. the, wall. tryins;
to swing^ himself ;;pver;; one (ot ithe^cop-1;;
p'ers .whohad/.been*;lost in, the- mob; came ?J
r and%rabbed ; hlA\byrth^''endj|
>of]his]peg leg.?; The ;n egro ? strained j and^
sweated,"*: thej copper, sweated /and cursed.' ;»
\u25a0Neither could -budge/the^btherV;';' Finally f
/a/paliOf the: negrojdropped^a/plece^of,/
three % by i f oiir/S scantling-f on 1 theSfcop's i
head, w He : rol led , on , the; ground • and ; th"e /
negro^folledf over/;the wallt on:/the". roof
;i of tone s of the; box -:/;;•"
:riThereiwere/;about-i2oibums ; on j! that i
roof. "When\ part- of the^arena^}walls
gave way, the roof gave way . also,
;vlettingKth« ebums£down«intouhejbfnce, »
4 where four* men were counting; a* pile'-'
of .money,. the gate receipts. : With one ;
accord the .four men drew i revolvers.-.
TheY bums '-left in; haste.; \u25a0/ When^they
came into view from where I Was ? that
peg legged 1 negro led all the rest. l sHe
was /; doin^.; better time - than \ariy '\u25a0 two
legged iman in ; the, bunch. :
\u25a0 Everything A wenti in Reno. The
crooks reaped > * golden harvest. •> The
police '-were ; hopelessly -swamped- and
a made; little effort to j interfere as long
as there was no/ violence /and crooked
work >was J not : too, flagrant. \u25a0 : '
/After/ the flght there was a deter
mined effort to \ keep - the | crooks and
i vagrants from coming: down into' Cal
ifornia, but many have -got through', the
cordon gpf | border | police-already, and
'. before long probably all those- 'who
-vish willget by. ..';'" ; ..
Moved largely. by pure .wanderlust,: l
set out from New York ; city, where I
had been employed, at the beginning of
the: migration? to follow its course r as a
hobo 'and see exactly J, what , became of
it and how It fared on the rough places /
of the trail. : - \u25a0-.;.. \u25a0*- • , '
At' a previous time I had lived as a
"hobo on the line. of the; Baltimore and
Ohio railroad knd acquired the moniker
(nickname) ; of "Baltimore Slim." My
character was that .of 'a prize fighter
out of a Job, with the inference- that; l
\u25a0 was > a probable yegg: As I g was fa
miliar with /.the B. and O. routed I re
solved to, go byj the northern way. |
r Leaving New York, ;i;beat f my. way to
I Albany/on : a Hudson river vboat/; Thence '\u25a0-;
I rode .the Central's •\u25a0 fastest , expresses,:
|to Buffalo.; From" Syracuse to Buffalo I
rode the roof of the ''Twentieth Century
1 Limited," the fastest train- in America.
She makes 90 miles an hour at times on
that run. Cinders shot at me as though
some one was shooting blank cartridges
in my face, and when she took up water
from between the -rails I was drenched.
When she reached Buffalo I dropped' off
in the yards. Never, again..- 1 had heard
eßhee Bhe was a hard/train to ridel She was.
' ' From Buffalo I resolved to follow. the
line of lthe^NeWi York -Central, which
cuts across the'southern end of Canada.
At; the border; l was arrested and fined
15.50 of ? the " s6.4o which :was my : total •<
£ wealth. They? say % the' prayer of - the
- Canadian ;in 5 those parts is,
"Give us.this day; our dally Yankee."
That: night .; I across the:
line 'and; rode an express freight outfor .
Detroit. -jHalf way there, at St. Thomas,
the freight "was scheduled to : stop { for
an, hour.'' I got -off J and -bought some
/ grub.: When I -was going back I met ; a*
policeman. '.\u25a0• He" questioned me and dis
covered that I was from the states. For
an American" bum to v be" arrested there „
means ithe stonepile. I was scared stiff. "
...... He began ito : me.) I saw a light.
Putting \u25a0my thumbs \u25a0/ in ; the armholes of
; my vest," I put oh a .defiant' air and told I
I him ; I would not go : with him; He] flew I
into a passion" and thrust his. face "into
mine, within * six ;; Inches/ of jmy : closed
" flst. : : AHwist of my wristdroveimy. fist
"against | his ; chin - with;'.terrible : force. '
His eyes rolled 'up and hie crumpled for
.\u25a0ward .like V a -wet dish rag. That lis I a
- trick r'of ;< old •; Bob i Fi tzsimmons, 'and; it's
a •'. peach. , The ; victim , never, knows .what
\u25a0 hit him. - 1 : got i back on ; my. freight, but :
I " knew "that \u0084w hen • he .recovered " , he
would* wire/ ahead.' .'l * was' not 'out' of
sdanger^of ;the ston€plle yet. * * '
At last I found an empty.refrlgerator 1
. car.i and t- crawled ;Jnto % one \u25a0of \ the ' > ice,
. boxes/ ? That r was -a";' single \ lce* box.* * :It;: It ;
was • 18 ' inches square] by about 'five feet
; deep:' 1 1 rodeUn r it ' five hours,v arid f sev-i
j eral a fcimeS;' heard ,;C searching <: parties
stamp ;over; my.', head. //I can ,nowj sym- ;
j path ize a with * th© 'order jof | monks whose 1
cells ; were'built: ori"these > lines. v il ? could
neither.- stand erect, -sit down! with] com-
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fort- nor. lie extended. When I got^iff:
at '[Detroit Ijfell . flat onmy. face." It .was
several minutes before I could get up^
r ' From : Detroit; toT Chicago .was easy
riding: "\ From Chicago, *or "Chi/*; as tho
bunis call : it, : I ; held\ down * trie' Overland
Limitedlclear, through to Omaha. <From
Omaha* l ./went s through ,to"Grand* Island,"
where 5 1; carelessly : allowed • myself to '
roll 'off i & r . Pullman ; roof and -was arrest- .
Ed: I, niightjhave, broken my neck. -Next
morning I'tbld the judge T was a-black
smith^ looking: for work. He.told me "to
get but of town and' look for it. * -^
\u25a0;The next ' excitement 'was at Jules
burg. Colo. There is a bad bull there.
He shot* at. me three .times as I;lay.:ln
the, yards at '=\u25a0 night -waiting for a mail'
train. I caught the train. |
•v*jAt ,\Sfdney, , Neb., : another, hobo '- and
myself were dodging a brakeman on a
freight: train, when. he tried to* kick my
head off 'as I,was coming. upjthe side of
a boxcar and knocked meoff the'lad
;der^As.;l fell I lit on my pal,\who,was
Just starting up*. 'Younever heard'such
profahity. . He- didn't '.stop. at. words,
either, j Seizing a : rock as big as -his
head 'he hove it at .the " "shack" and
knocked him. flat, "when 1 1 tried to get
up I. found that I had hurt my foot.* A
doctor ;in :Ogden said that^one of' the
small' bones was broken. \u25a0
/At Cheyenne *I tried to board a mail
«car, only to run 'into 'a messenger with
a"; shotgun. \ After, a r : few gentle hints
like, these I decided-it would be. health
ieri to;- ride 'through) the ; Hole in . the
"Wall on 'freights, which I did,
making slow time to Ogden.
. vStarting from | Ogden ' Friday a/ter
n'oon I'rode* the* Overland Limited
through; to ' Wlnnemucca, a distance of
365*. miles. v In -the. early rpart- of the
ride "it was daylight and 'tKe : whole
trainTcrew: turned out- to chase me off.
If , I knew^ any v part of I that train that
I didn't ride on I .would, go back .and
ride there now to make a complete
Job of fit.' 1 1 got on; by a' blind. Soon
I was chased off • that and took to the
roofs./" Dislodged from them I took a
chance and .boarded a struck w^hen' the
train out. "Then it became
dark * and ; the 'train crew .tired of the
sport, *.eo*l> finished ,\u25a0 my journey in
peace.* -
, . Just^out=of . Osden. I .was. riding what
I thought was a blind baggage. \u25a0 I
leaned'against the door, and insteadof
being fastened j the door gave way and
let ;ine in, almost dropping me on my
back in the midst of l a group of ex
press messengers. Only; a* few days
.bjefore a " train had been held up on
almost that/same spot. ;I; I- never saw
men", morej scared. Three \u25a0of ,them
leaped for~> sawed off " shotguns ': that
were: stacked, while the other fumbled
for;. a. revolver. I left. The- train .was
going'fast and '' it hurt my " foot; but
the thing struck ".me as. so funny that
I, almost missed the next sectionfrom
laughing. • \u25a0 '- : - • \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0•\u25a0->
, .At Wlnnemucca" I a: fight
special that had an observation car at
tached.* I rode -to within three^mlles
of-Reno in that ' observation car as
though I owned the road. .'
I had expected to ride the cushions
from .Reno to San Francisco, but I
D. D. BUICK, President, Flint, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California,
.Controlling 640 acres of; the choicest oil lands right in the very heart of
California's, Famous Oil Fields. Practically surrounded by oil wells pro-
ducing;;from 1,000 to 40,000 barrels of oU^daily. Buildings are erected,
machinery is installed, and we are now actively engaged in the oil industry.
*F6r/ further developments and 'the acquiring. of additional oil lands, Tho
Buick'Oil Company is now offering a limited number of shares of its stock
at fifty cents a share. -Par value $1.00 per share. California Oil Companies
dividends already paid, approximately, $50,000,000.00.
'WHAT MR. D. D. BUICK SAYS: "I consider the Buick Oil Company
a good business investment, and have put a large sum of my own money into
this company.* 1 I have the utmost confidence in its future. It is under my
personal management. My candid opinion is. that the. Buick Oil Company
Stock will become as valuable as did the Buick Motor Company's Stock,
which netted= the original investors nearly a hundred fold. For further in-
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; tested . Its j merits.' - Modene la t now t for j saia . at ...
; drug ' stores,-: or : will •be ;. sent by mall In safety .
mailing j cases on -- receipt "* of \u25a0 $1.00 " per . bottle.
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ifVorphine
10 Ounce Bottle - , . Free on Approval
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I • For; Bed, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes sW
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misplaced my faith on Mr. Jeffries, ftS
did many better men, and again found
myself on. my uppers.
This time I knew it -would be hard
to' get by ! outside, so I got aboard th«
train like any, other passenger, dodged
the conductor and lifted a hat checJS
from a somnolent passenger (the near
est'l'ever-came to picking a pocket)
and rode Into Sacramento in triumph.
From* there I rode. the roofs to Sulsun.
from where I had money enough to>
"buy. a; ticket. .I'll never forget the
look the conductor gave me as I got
. on that train, with my faca- and hands
black "with ~ soot,~ but : he couldn't say
anything.^ My., ticket was as good -as
any other passenger's.
On the trip I came about 2.500 miles
in_ls traveling days. Altogether I
* was "on" the road 23; days, but I stopped
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It Drew the Hobo From Every*
where
at Chicago, Salt Lake and Reno, and
spent several days at each place.
When I started the trip I welshed
174 pounds stripped. New I scale Just
160, but *I am lean and hard as a wolf.
I was never in better condition, barring
a weak foot, in my life.
On the trip I had ju3t $23. Five of
this went for a fine. On the remainder
I Jived all the way, and lived .well. tao. ,
There was never a time, when I was
forced to deny myself anything In rea
son that I wanted to eat when tho sit
uation was such, that it could be pro
cured. ... --' - #
On the whole Journey I spent $2.50
for railroad fare. $1.50 being: for the
ticket to San Francisco from Snisun.
The other dollar I paid to a brakeman
to let me sleep In a car filled with hay
one bitter cold night crossing th»
mountains.
DEAFNESS CURED
**I have demonst rated that
d eaf ness can be cv red . "
—DriGiiy Gliif ord Powell
The secret of , how to . Usa the mysterious and
Invisible natura forces for the cur* of Deafneaa
and. Head Noises has at last heea di&eoTertd hy
the famous Physician-Sclenti»t, Dr. Guy Clifford
Powell. Deafness and Head Noises disappear as
If by. magic under the use of. this new and won*
derful dlscorery. He will send all who suffer from
Deafness and Head -Noises full la formation bat
they, may be cured, absolutely free, no matte*
how J long they have been deaf or what causal
their deafness. This; marreloua- Treatment Is. t«
simple, natural and certain . that yon .will won*
'. der why .It ? was • not dlscoTered before. ' InTestl-
gators are astonished and . cured ; patients them-
- selres ,marrel [at ( the quick resuljs. Any : deaf
person can hare full Information how to b« cured
quickly. and cure.d to st.l 7 cursrt at coma with-
out Unresting •\u25a0 a " cent. Write today to Dr. Got
aifford Powells 6672 Bank Bnildlns, Peorta, 1 11 L,
and get full Information of this new and wonder*
fulfdiscoTery. absolutely free.
Get fid ot these Straps and Springs and bo CURED
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