A Shrewd Young Tramp

Tlie tramp industry, liko other industries, seems to flourish bècausé it pays, as witness the two diarios of the systcraatic Maste.r Frank Labellc, or TL'aylor, agod 17, originally of St. James 2:ii:ifih, La., thea of the wido, -wido world, and now of tlio Albauy Peuitentiary, where luí mïü remnm i'or six montlis. He is slifilit nnd t'flV Diiiiiitö in appearance, and nis lay was tb work liwyers' ofticcs, asking for $2.70 witli whicli to get liome to Maiue. He wantcd to get copyiug, and, as tho lawyers hkually had no copying, ueither any $2. 70, they would compromiso by giving him a quarter or an order for a dinner, or something of the sort. Ho always asked for his benefactor's address, iiDiriiimHy to return him the sum, bufc really to ter it in his diary, with Uu; day of the month and the nmoimt of the donation. Tliis diary showed that, between December 7 and May 9, flve months, he liad received $449.05, and during the last week of that term $35.05. His best day's work was at Galveston, Mareh 15, when he took in $15.50. He says that Galveston and Houslou ure the best ;n Í most generous places he has niet with. Tlic llames of his victims inehide milroad and ,ateambo:it oiluuals, juwspaper men. United States Senators, bunkers,