THESE SHIFTING SCENES CONTENTS CHAPTEfc, PAGE I. OID DAYS WITH THE TRAMP PBINTERS 1 II. THE CASE OF WILLIAM HBILWAGNEB 18 III. THE MAH OUT OF WORK ....... 31 IV. THE STREETS AND THE ISLAND, THE ISLAND AND THE STREETS 47 V. LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY AND IN OTHER USEFUL STUDIES 60 VI. THE HAYMARKET AND AFTERWABD 80 VII. WHY HARRISON-WAS NOMINATED IN 1888 . Ill VIII. WHERE WAS THE DANOTARK 132 IX. THE ROCKY ROAD TO JOHNSTOWN 146 X, TIM MYSTERY THAT HAD No ENDING . . . .170 XL THE CLINIC THAT WENT WRONG 192 XII, How HARRISON WAS ...
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THESE SHIFTING SCENES CONTENTS CHAPTEfc, PAGE I. OID DAYS WITH THE TRAMP PBINTERS 1 II. THE CASE OF WILLIAM HBILWAGNEB 18 III. THE MAH OUT OF WORK ....... 31 IV. THE STREETS AND THE ISLAND, THE ISLAND AND THE STREETS 47 V. LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY AND IN OTHER USEFUL STUDIES 60 VI. THE HAYMARKET AND AFTERWABD 80 VII. WHY HARRISON-WAS NOMINATED IN 1888 . Ill VIII. WHERE WAS THE DANOTARK 132 IX. THE ROCKY ROAD TO JOHNSTOWN 146 X, TIM MYSTERY THAT HAD No ENDING . . . .170 XL THE CLINIC THAT WENT WRONG 192 XII, How HARRISON WAS NOMINATE AT MINNEAPOLIS IN 1892 ., ....., . SIS XIII. How GuevBUNp WAS NOMINATOR IN 1893 . . . 527 XIV, TRAVET. S WITH THE CHOLERA FLEET 245 XV, TALES OP A CITY ROOM CALIPH 58 XVL THE ART OF EEPOETINO ..... S85 OLD DAYS WITH THE TRAMP PEINTEES ON my way home in the summer dawns from my fathers newspaper office, I was sometimes aware at the railroad crossing of strange figures, clambering down from pass ing freight cars, or maybe dodging furtively along the tracks. These, with a reluctance I suppose to spring in part from the cheerful memories of youth, I concede to have been of the order of tramps. In one corner of my mind I knew even then that they were tramps but after a time they seemed far otherwise to me. Dirty, unkempt, always vagabonds, sometimes in sorry rags of raiment and sometimes too plainly marred and scored by drink and wild living, they were the most picturesque., and, on the whole., the most interesting tatterdemalions that have moved across my range of vision. Long ago the old race of journeyman newspaper printers perished from the earth regrettably, 1 must think, for to life In small towns their comings and goings gave a peculiar relish not to besupplied, certainly, by the type-setting machine before which they vanished. Of their own kind they were most restless of the birds of passage, driven from town to town by what seemed a goading frenzy for travel and yet the nble masters of a noble art, the very kings of their handi craft. About many western towns must still linger the fragrant traditions of their achievements, their marvelous skill and speed in setting type, or their sure touch 1 These Shifting Scenes on a difficult display advertisement, tlicir illimitable capacity for strong drink and the umnatchablc force of their profanity, culled from the choice products of many climes. In travel their accustomed mode was by box freight cars side-door palace cars in the phrase of their kind and that is why my homeward path so often, crossed theirs at the railroad tracks in that convenient hour of dim light they were emerging from a freight train or seeking to board one for I suppose I hardly need to explain that their transit was invariably without the consent or knowl edge of the railroad authorities. In our latitude their migrations began In the spring, when nights were growing warm, and ended at a safe margin before the first snow, by which time the freight trains had borne them usually southward though sometimes they hibernated in New York. Full men they were by reading and travel they knew every corner of the continent, they knew all news papers and the characteristics thereof and for general information on current topics they had no equals. The printer is always intelligent and ready-minded experi ence and changing observation had schooled these to a kind of wisdom, and the dangers of their life set them apart and gave toeven their rags the dignity of ro mance. Moreover, they were often possessed of the liter ary sense, of an excellent taste, and of the ready address of men of the world...
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