Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Solving a Difficulty. [ARTICLE]

Solving a Difficulty.

A Long Island farmer has been greatly annoyed by tramps, who were apparently fearless of dogs or firearms. So he devised another plan to get rid of these pests. He got a pot o. b.ack paint and a beard, on which he painted, in large letters, “Two Thousand Tramps Wanted.” He nailed this sign between two trees that stand at the entrance to his place, and that very day four tattered wanderers came along. The sign caught their attention, and they gave every evidence of pleasure. Than they to consult, and after some time the mo it stalwart of the party started for the house. He advanced very cautiously, suplciously scanning every inch of the ground and the building ahead. As he neared the house the farmer camo out and greeted him with great cordiality, and before he could say a word marched him to tho rear of tho house and snowed him an enormous woodpile. The fellow was so overcome with astonishment that he took the saw and started in. For an hour ho kept at it; then the farmer called the man In and gave him his dinner, but would permit him to carry nothing away. The tramp departed in the most sullen manner imaginable, and he and his companions held another council of war. Thon each of tho four men set to work inscribing cabalistic signs on the turrounding fences and trees, and that was the last tramp entertained by that farmer.