Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1878 — An Experienced Youth. [ARTICLE]

An Experienced Youth.

An Indiana boy of 15 has just returned from a two-years’ tramp. Dime novels had pictured to him great happiness in such a life, but he met the reality immediately upon reaching New Orleans, in the shape of a fever. At Galveston he had an arm broken, and at Houston two ribs damaged by being

pushed from a Texas freight train. He was wouiided by a pistol ball while driving a herd of cattle across the Indian Territory, and has been beaten until life was nearly extinct. In order to keep from starving he has sold papers, blacked boots, worked in a livery stable, theater and restaurant, ent timber and herded cattle. He neither drinks, chews, gambles nor uses profane language. He says he has had enough experience, and now wants to stay at home.