Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-02-23

what I've gone through but now IT all
comes easy
when | left the nited States
had earned $4,000 of the $4,000.
After my experiences rs newsboy.
lecturer and sandwich man in London
had an oiler from French cham
pagne firm 10 advertise its products
throughout France. and to close the
contract took flying trip across the
Channel To Paris. did not succeed
in coming 10 terms, and went back to
London 10 accept an engagement at
the Gayety Theatre, where appeared
between the acts of Little Christopher
Columbus
While thus engaged was intro
duced to the representative Of IN Eng
lish banking syndicate, who took
liking 10 me, and hired me rs inter
prefer for trip through Germany.
We went To Hamburg, spending one
week. thence 10 Berlin for three days,
thence To leipsic and finally to In
spruck, where we remained one day.
Here we parted, and ! dropped into
Switzerland.
Only a short Time was spent in
Switzerland, and the round the world
tramp was soon in Naples. Here he
went on shipboard and plunged into
the Mediterranean. One Thanksgiv-
Ing Day he was putting down the
Suez Canal, and ate his dinner in full
view Of crowd OF heetiooted Arabs
that ran along BY the side Of the boat
ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN.
From Suez down along the shores
Of the historic sea that reaches out to-
ward Sinai, the distance to Eden is
i $50 miles. This was accomplished
| by the tourist almost without incl
dent, and from Eden he at once set
out into the long stretch OF the Indian
Ocean, 2,095 miles to Colombo, Cev-
Ion. At this latter place he present
ed letters OF introduction, obtained in
New York, 10 merchants who made
his stay in the city exceedingly pleas
ant. The last night he was there he
went out "on his own hook" as he
terms it, to the Town Hall, where the
Chicago Tourist Company" had been
advertised to appear.
Jones approached the manager, and
after the regular performance, gave an
entertainment of his own, consisting of
stories, songs and dances, which nctted
him round sum. Jones had been
scheduled TO cross the peninsula Of
India, and ut Colombo he took pas
sage for Bombay, and III few DAYS
was hurrying on to Calcutta.
The next stop was ut Singapore.
where Jones met the proprietor of the
Straits Hotel! At this place he lee
turcd and realized SD. From here
he entered the China Sea, and made
the run Of nearly fifteen hundred
miles to Hong Kong III time 10 eat his
Christmas dinner Mt 4 seaside resort
kept by colorcd American. Here,
81 Jones aflirms, he picked up log Of
political pointers about China, bearing
especially on the relations of Li-IIung-
Chang to the subordinate mamdarins,
which Jones say> are of nature to
suggest 'rammauv Hall.
rHuCGTr HI WAS 4 srY.
In Japan he had an experience that
for Il time ruined his prospects. He
reached that country during the New
Years festivities, which last IL week !:
and, as traveller has to use pass
port, was hampered by a failure to get
the signature of the necessary officials.
Tie supplied by American nerve the
japanese signature, but at kioto was
held under suspicion as being spy
against the government. As good
fortune would have it, he encountered
at the right instant a japanese, now
an official, who had been educated in
Boston, and he straightway released
him from his pledcament.
On his voyage across the Pacific,
Jones delivered lecture on the boat.
and in that way picked up few dol
lars. From here he goes to Tacoma.
thence To Portland. aud thence To san
Francisco.
OF his trip, a. almost completed.
Jones says
"On my tramp have found men
Of all nationalites who have seen
printed in their native tongue some
account Of my undertaking. have
found that my attempt to become an
outcast, wanderer ON the face OF the
earth, in an endeavor to escape from
the Establishments of modern civiliza-
ton. has been failure tor every
where. in varied languages and with
an intintutlo OF accent, | heard the
children singin. 'Ta-rara, boom-dc-
aye and the old folks in all hours Of
the day ami night exercising their
voices with the strains of After the
Ball. "
SEnTrasH From early child s