The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-13
JOSHED ALL NATIONS.
THE Ex-kiNG OF THE FAkiRS TELLS
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING.

FIOW ~ mANC - GivUNo' /
Rich After Having Done Only Four Day.
Work In Thirty Yesrs-How He Got His
Nickname-Corn salve For Russians and
Perfumed Beans For Frenchmen.
Tick Lowndes, the ex- king Of the
fakirs, having become rich, left of trav-
cling ON his fiftieth birthday, married a
young wife and settled down In PhiJa-
delphia, because I was born there"
he says in explanation of this strange |
thing, "and I believe man ought to |
give the town he was born in show"
For nearly 80 years Lowndes, circum-
navigating the globe II times, beamed
upon the worlds population through
his Moses p. Handy whiskers. and, in
his own words, "joshed 'em all, white,
black, red, brown and yellow. into
providing for his luxurious existence
and for his eventual wealth. He got his
nickname of Tick from the solid gold
watches he used to sell to countrymen
| for the nominal sum Of two bits.
maybe you think they won't CO."
he would bawl, holding up one OF his
|
ward. 'That's where you're way OF.
Listen to this one tick" And he would
initiate the ticking of watch with his
mouth so that the sound could be easily
heard by those on the outer limits OF
the crowd around his torch illuminated
carriage. Success and seniority gave
him the title king of the fakirs, by
which he was known until his retire.
ment
81 often hear no account chaps talk
ing about how hard it is to get along III
this world" said Lowndes when he
was here. "They make me weary. The
world is easy-easy his
fingers as if the subject was too silly to
talk about. "When l was small boy,
playing marbles and Skinny and peg
top, I looked about me and saw all
hands breaking their necks trying to
earn living-struggling, sweating
worrying, working like the devil, every
one of 'em.
cit was positively painful for me to
watch 'em, although 1 was only in knee
breaches. I made up my mind right
then that had heap too big capaci-
ty for fun to wear myself out working,
and determined to make 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 the
stokehole of japanese steamer on
t which l was stowaway. How's that
for a record-only four days work IL
80 yearsl Don't look it?"
a Tick did look it. He was perambu
S lating jewelers. shop. Diamonds gilt
t tered all over him-not the sort OF dia
o monds he used to put into his Pandor'
envelopes. 1t was acknowledged that m
J, looked prosperous all right.
g Nov you'll be astonished, but tin
/ worst Jays l ever struck anywhere il
!. the world are the Russians. l think
S sold about five tons of axle grease corr
If salve for ruble an ounce box ON ON
trip through southern Russia. All tn
II men in Russia have corns. They all wea
=. heavy cowhide boots - the ordinar
70 folks, mean-which suppose account
D. for it. l felt almost ashamed the wa
y those Russian folks fell over each othe
v 10 buy my ordinary axle grease OF com
MERGE for their corns, and the worst {
" it was that in the larger towns, wher
staid for three or four days, the yaI
that had bought the stuff on the mrs
y. day of my arrival came to me before
O. left and told me gratefully that Tn
grease had entirely cured their corn'
ss Why, was regarded as public benz
ed factor throughout the whole Russia
empire.
se 81 found the French pretty easy ones
ed too. especially in the smaller town.
he The first time hit France was sci
ing West Indian perfumed beans. The
nd were the ordinary American beans tn;
he thew don't know how to cook in 30
n ton, despite all this talk OF Boston
nd the town Of beans. ! dyed the beal
Of blue and soaked 'em over night In G.
logne. used Mexican vaquero's NAL
az mn ON this trip and sold the beans
vn dozen for a franc, with long spel
bind about the perfume lasting for ]. w
>" years, and so on. 1t was ike nndli
m money, this bean fake in France.
"All of the South Americans, fro
ly. Panama to Patagonia, are pretty easy
I'D gold brick. All over South America
he sold thousands of gallons of whitenil
tonic to make the half breeds white.
to made it of nights as went along out
hit any old thing that wasn't harmful
be dandelion roots, wild cherry bark al
in such stuff The governments got ait
me finally for it, though, and thai
EN- the reason the half breeds OF Sou
ter America are still reddish III colo
sed Their governments wouldn't let 'em 81
enough of my whitening stuff, you Sc
aw "The Mexicans'll buy anythln
ar You may not believe it, but sold the
,st- sands of dollars worth of common .
soap for removing grease spots Oh 0
lft- trip down there, notwithstanding I
It a fact that the buds worn by the peol
fog who bought the soap were as much
an the G. string order as the law OF the Ia
ard would permit. / sold 'em safety raz'
III that cost me a quarter each wholesi
tps for 81. which was about as low DO