Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-15


Half of the World and Part OF the
oId-stabbed, Cut and Beatcn-A
Great Story.
James Campbell, a former Cleve-
lander, spent Christmas in the Cleve-
land workhouse, after an eight years
tour of the world, during which he
travelled over 100, 900 miles. Nine years
ago he lived here with his mother,
dissipated old woman, In an Irishtown
hovel, and was picked up for stealing
coal from the cars In the yards on
Whisky island. !.
He was sent to the reform farm at
Lancaster, o. While there he read Of
the outside world, through books Of
travel Issued to the boys through the
library of the institution. He would,
he resolved, see the countries he read
about when he "gOt out"
In the spring of 1888 he was dis
charged from the school, as such boys
are usually discharged. His relations
and friends were dangerous. and his
worldly possessions a rough suit Of
clothes and $3.50. He came to Cleve-
land, babe old drunken Bridget Camp
bell, his mother, goodbye, and on the
night of April l6, 1888, "beat" his way
to Cincinnati on Bee line freight.
He got the train at Whisky, island,
not far from his house, and on the same
track where he had stolen coal year
before. He pushed on from Cincinnati
down the river to Memphis and cut
across to Malvern Junction and thence
to Hot Springs. Jim worked in the
bath houses there for three months,
raised ''clothes stake" as he says,
and easily got to Galveston, Tex,
where he first saw the sea.
A coaster took him to New Orleans.
A weeks stay there reused the wan
derer to the sea voyage pitch, and step
ping on o fruit boat he got passage and
some money during the trip to Belize.
There, and in the various corners OF
Central America Jim Campbell stayed
for six months. At odd times he was a
| fruit porter, miner, coffee plantation
overseer and lumberman. All was fish
to his net, all novelty to his hungry aid
ever open eyes, and all experience to as
natural roamer as ever roamed.
From each land he got linguistic bits.
The day before Christmas of 1883 Camp
bell sailed from Beline for Para, Brazil,
and during the winter went out on
hard wood and rubber prospecting
tours in the Amazon country. The
spring Of 1884 foundlhim again in Para
with ST 900 in his pocket. 1t all went
in spree and to the monte players
during the fete into which Campbell
ran at Para. His money gone he
shipped on coaster to Bahia and from
Bahia, with anolher American, in
land to the Patiuga diamond fields.
There Campbell struch hard luck and
nearly died with native fever.
He got back to Bahia though, and
from there on another coaster to Buenos
Ayres. In the metropolis of South
America, the Ohio nomad struck luck,
He ran against ]. 8. Browne, a former
Clevelander and American maufac.
turer's agent in a large way in that city
and was made head warehouseman BY
him. Drink and marriage of which
Campbell speaks only in his cups
got him into trouble in Buenos
Ayres, and at the end of the summer Of
1884 he had fallen into the old condition
and shipped from Monte VideO on the
British bark Lizzie Woods as an able
seaman, bound for Valparaiso, Chill.
It was poor voyage. The Lizzie go
into the September storms and went
ashore on an island off the Patagoniar
coast. All hands were saved, and be
fore the bark broke up enough of hel
stores and moveables were secured t
make the castaways comfortable. L
was nearly 80 days wait, but at last 8
Chilian brig picked them up and tool
them to the old Spanish Of Naldivia
and by December Campbell was il
Valparaiso and again in funds from
Il American sources. His friend thil
time was an Indiana man named
Williams, taken to Chilli by Henr,
Meiggs and now as rich as an Inca
Through his ex-Hossier patron Camp
bell was given and an overseership a
the copper mines of San Nearcos in tn,
province of Coquimbo, in whicl
Americans are interested and Ameri
can machinery is worked.
This lasted the wanderer until tn,
late spring of 1885, when he struck LII
ma. happy in his recollection only o
the Chilins and willing to study tn
topography of Peru for a few weeks. 4
drunken brawl and dirk thrust KEEP
Campbell in Lima hospital for nearl.
a month. Then he turned south agar
and for two months worked among tn,
guano and nitrate beds. He was bacl
in Callao again by the fall, ready t,
travel his way into poverty and anoth
er expedition of experience. A part,
, of Bolivian cattle men for trip int,
! elevated regions of Bolivia was beinI
made up, and Campbell Joined it an'
spent the winter of 1855 as hunte
for the sheep herders, with headquar
ters on the banks around the head O
beautiful Lake Titicaca. Campbell de
, scribes this as the hunters paradis
, and shows on the side of his face a.
! ugly scar received from puma's pay
In the Bolivian plateaus.
Aftera hide gathering trip into th
Argentine Republics western plains
, Campbell, again in funds, reached Qui
to, Ecuador, north bound. From Quit
he went as a guide and interpreter for
party of Englishmen to Columbis
spending a month among the pretti
, nesses and dissipations of Bogota.
A Irritation at one of the great cock
/, fights of Columbia's gay capital earne
Campbell another knife thrust and
slash across the cheek. "Broke" agai
and with American longings, Campbe
; made his way to the sea and shipped o
] coasting steamer bound for San Fran
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