The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-08
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JENSEN HAS BEEN
A ROLLING STONE.
HE HAS BEEN SAILOR. SOLDIER
ssssss, AND SETTLER.
Now Hesa Goes Back, as Bearded Man
tds the Denmark Home HE Left as a
Youth Nine Years Ago---IIas Had
Varied Adventures in Many Lands.

Nine years ago two fond parents in
the little village. Of Hornum, Denmark,
were saddened by the sudden disap7
pearance Of their only child, Nels Chris
tian Jensen. boy in years and expert
Fence. s.. + s.; 81 AZ
+ Yesterday bearded man and a world
awanaerer visited the local agents of the
Cunard line, and the Yuletide in the
Denmark home will be frightened by
the unexpected return of he1prodigal.
Possessed Of an unquenchabie desire
to visit the United States, young Jen-
sen ran away from home one, evening
while his parents were at q wedding:
Since then experiences have crowded
fast upon the young man. BY various
methods he has travelled thousands and
thousands of miles over land and sea,
has learned strange languages, visited
| spite trials. and hardships, he, has
| emerged with sound mind and body
and with lingering love for the little
home in his fatherland. t
l. Jensen tells his story well and has
! a fund Of experiences which. would
make "a good Stevenson novel. His
first sstopplngplace was Berlin, Germany.
foot and working his way, the lad paid
passing visits to Switzerland, Italy,
/ Holland, Belgium and France I.
| = With practically no money saved,
Jensen then went as a stowaway from
Calais, to London. There he handled
baggage on the wharves until, growing
more adventurous, he secured the posi-
1 tion of .steerage steward on a vessel
| bound for South Africa. From Cape
/ Town he shipped to Australia and tried
i his fortune, with Indifferent success, in
! Melbourne and Sidney. He did not
miss the island of Tasmania, where he
eam ng pear falling prey to Cupid put
time settling in New London, where he
I earned 81 los day as cabinetmaker.
# There he remained until the out.
f1'break of the Boer war, when, with his
townsmen,> he travelled to Cape Town
:, and enlisted in the Boer service to
i fight the invading British. For eight
:; months he fought night and day, and
tho steadily driven back, he says he
J, made his retreat cost the enemy dear
When about two hundred miles south
:. of Johannesburg Jensen was wounded
twice in the leg on the same day
:. Twenty seven. days in the hospital re
suited in his cure and also the dissipa
, ton of his love for military glory. As
L so6n as possible he shipped for London
Once again in the world metropolis
he joined circus and toured the whole
, south of England as a trapeze2 perform
. er, leaving. the troupe at New Brighton
The adVenturer returned to work or
the docks, and this finally resulted il
This securing q stewardship on shiI
+ bound for New York Landing in thu
American metropolis with 81 in hi
pocket, the young. man had his frs
> sexperience in sleeping out Of doors. o 4
II park bench sufficed for his couch fo
: 1.-TWO. nights, and then fortune smiled
on the youth to the extent of jol
3, Eas a, shoveler.s as,r H. ~
! "A, year and: ,ae half went bY,sand then
: still without funds, 81 any amount, Jen
> ksen started. west. to- grow %*up.' II
s Buffalo for the Pan-American was hi
2 first move Then he travelled by tn
:, lakes to Chicago, and later by tn
W.unvarnished cars'' he worked his wa,
: thru Iowa to Omaha, and finally north
: ward5up into the Dakotas. Settling a
I Denhoff, n: D., the traveller took up
: claim and last summer raised enough
= fax to spay living expenses. About
:. tweek= ago he sold his claim for $1,000
81 and is now homeward bound. He 'ex
:, poets to return and take up anothe
= u claim this time in Alberta, under tn
= king whose forces he fought while will
+ the Beers. q -