The sun., 1897-06-13
JOSHED 'EM EVERYW HERE
THE Ex-KING OF THE F.ikfRS TELLi
now TO MAKE 4 LIIING.
Rich AFTER Having Done Only -Four Days' wprb
In Thirty Years. aud That Through tn,
Lack of Hunor OF the Jnpnncse-Corn sniv,
for the Russinns-Nntions Easy to CaIoio

Lack Of Murnor OF the Jnpnncse-Jorn sniV,
for the Recommendations Easy to CaIoio
WASHINGTON, June 12.-"Tick" Lowndos
the cx.king OF tho fakirs was in Washington foi
q couple of days last week on his way from
Philadelphia TO the Nashville Exposition
Lowndes, having become rich, left OFT travelling
six years ago on his fifteth birthday, marriods
young wife. and 81 tiled down In Philadelphia
because was born there" he says in oxpiann
| tion of this strange thing. land believe mag
ought to give the town he was born in n show.
| For nearly thirty years Lowndcs, circumnnvt
| eating the globe eleven times. boamed upon the
| worlds population through his Moses i. Handy
| whskcrs, and. in his own words, joshed 'eir
all, white. black. red, brown, and yellow" into
| providing for his luxurious existence and for ht
eventual wealth. He got his nickname of''Tick"
from tho solid gold watches he used to soil TO
countrymcn for the nominal sum ftwo bits.
Maybe you think they won't 60, ho would
| bawl, holding up OF his watches when pur.
| chasers were backward. "Thats where you're
| way off; listen to this one tick" and he would
! initiate the ticking of n watch with his mouth
| SO that the sound could be easily heard by those
! on tho outer limits OF the crowd around his
torch.illuminatcd carriage. Success and senior
| ity gave him the title, King OF the Fakirs, by
which he was known until his retirement.
| 81 often hear noaccount chaps talking about
how hard II is to get along in this world" said
| Lowndcs, when he was here "They mako me
weary The world is easy-easy swapping
his fingers as If the subject was too silly to talk
about "Whcn was small boy. playing mar
| blcs and shnny and pcg-top, looked about me
and saw all hands breaking their nocks trying
| to earn liying-struggling, sweating. worrying,
working like the devil, every ono Of 'em. 1t was
| positively painful for me to watch 'em, although
| was only in knee breeches. made up my mind
right then that had n heap too big capacity
| for fun TO wear myself out working, and de-
| termined to mako the world my oyster, Well,
I've been nibbling on the oyster ever since. and
the only work you could call work that ever
! did was four days OF coal heaving down in tho
stoke hole of Japanese steamer which I
| was a stowaway. IIow's that for a record-only
| four days work in thirty years! Don't I
| look it r. RI,
| "Tick did look it, He was a perambulating
/ jewellers shop. Diamonds glittered, all, over
| him-not the sort of diamonds he used to put
| into his Pandora envelopes. 1t was acknoHl-
edged that he looked prosperous all right.
" But how did you happen TO have to heavo
coal that time y he was asked. ..,... q.
| Painful subject that. very, he replied. % 10
was on my first globe trot, YOU see. and hadn't
! then properly sized up all the nations OF the
earth. / was selling 'em Indian herb bitters,
guaranteed to cure anything from brokon
| neck to Il weak mind. in Nagasaki. Japan, aud
| throwing in five yen with each bottle-a bottle
OF the bittcrs went for quarter of our money.
But the Japs don't know how to take a Joke.
Every one of 'em demanded his five yen with
the bottle Of DOPE and they looked ugly when
| tried to wriggle and hedge on the thing. l wore
| Wild Bill wig and the rest of n wicked make
up when was selling the bitters, you know,
| and tried to look fierce l knew how
to scare EN- out But it was go. They
dumped me out of my jinriksha, and tried to
murder me. had to scoot for the American
consulate. leaving all my money in the 'riksha.
and the Japs divided it among 'cm. 1t left me
cold broke, that experience. The Consul save
me the dead face when struck him for passage
over to China Ia mans out of luck who depends
upon an American consul to get him out of
a scrape anywhere-you can put that DOWN.
and l was bound for China and nowhere else.
l slowed away big japanese steam
frcightcr Tor Shanghai The purser dug me
out on the second day. hauled me before tho
skipper. and the first thing knew was fooling
rl with ph %%al maui @ and a. shovel in the 6Gnk;
keelcd over on the fourth day out. and
@ 10 t an e the enf a Hr berb b nt
tiers, though. for they had nearly got ME in
e f SeSrs &o 1
"Certaifnly,, n says l. inside Of twenty min:
The ParSee's face lighted up when l said
sad hS nohsh hs os Of h The Snd
rihle looking lepeer, standing right there behind
my palanlquin. ! saw right or that there was
around there for any twenty minutes and so got
ny palangnin bearers s to Q, carry me G away from
learned 10 mumblc enough of any language to
get along. With the black and red and brown and
yellow folks, 1t is not so much the talk you put
up as your manner and your front. There's no
, use in trying 10 be successful fakir in those
| countries without you have Ii swell makeup.
Now you'll be astonishcd but the worst jays
| ever struck anywhere in the world are the
nh hyn tons nf
axie.greasc corn salvc for a rnblc an ounce box
on one trip through southern Russia. All tho
heavy sowhidc boots-t6S ordinary folks. / mean
which suppose accounts for it, fclt almost
) commerce for their corns; and ,hc worst OF il
the stun on the first day Of my arrival came 10
grease gre had en,rry % cur cured their corns. Why.
. was regarded as a public bcnefactor throughout
the whole Russian empire.
especially in the smaller towns, The tirst. time
hit France was selling West Indian perfumed
beans. They were the ordinary American beans
Z that they don't know how 10 cook in boston. do
dyed the beans blue, and soaked EN- over
(. night in cologne. used a Mexican vaqueros
for franc. with long spellbi about the per
fulnc lasting fora thousand years and 80 on. 10
All OF the South Americans. from Panama
to l'atasonia are pretty easy to gold brick All
!, Of whitening tonic to make tho half-brceds
white. made it o night As went along out
r OF any old thing that wasn't harmfu dandelion
roots. wild cherry bark. aud such stuff The
!, Governments got after me finally for it, though.
v and that's the reason thC halfbrccds of South
j. America still reddish in color. Their Gov.
. ernmcnts wouldn't let EN- buy enough Of my
whitening stuff, you see.
!, " The McXicans II buy ANYTHING. You may
i not believe il. but ! sold thousands OF dollars
II worth of common bar soHp for removing grouse
t spots on one trip down there. Notwithstanding
Il the fact that the duds worn by the people who
= bought the soap were MS much on the Gstring
order as the law Of the land would permit,
J. sold en- safety raZors that cost me a quarter
I cach wholesale for 50. which was about as Tow
Z down as ever played i, as any man who evdI
used n safety razor will admit. ~
u would hayc made a mill,on out of thu
!. residents down there hadn't cho.ed me OF. A,
F. II was, cleaned up a good bit ~ money on the
y s,.hcmc. l traded of blue speotacles with tht