Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-20
WORKS CLEVER GAME


1.-THE other day" observed the man with
tire bent stogie, some fellow with an in
| growing name wheeled along to this town.
on foot, and unwound a dream narrative to
the effect that he was occupying himself
| by making hoof journey around the world
| on bet of 10000 yen. otherwise $500. He
] said. besides a whole lot Of other things
that he was in the fourth year OF his prom
| enade. and that he'd already covered little
| matter of $1,000 miles. His trudge. he said.
would be over when he reached San Fran
| cisco, and he expected to make the earth
! quake town from Washington. still going
i on his tootsies, in about four months. After
! getting all of this. and some more, out of
| his system he explained the why and which
! Of 1t. .-- ...
| HE stated that about four years ago a
| number of gentlemen at a club in San
Francisco were talking among themselves
| about this walking around-the-eartht thing,
and that one of them ventured the observa-
| ton that it couldn't be done-that the saw
| age tribes somewhere or other would get
the walker, or that the long-distance pedes-
| TRANS feet I'D give out, or that he'd get
| sick of the job after going few thousand
| leagues, and toss 1t; at any rate, that 1t
wasn't one of those things that could pos
sibly come off. Then-according to the
, hasheesh fantasy unreeled by this walkist
| when he hit Washington-another gentle
man in the party Immediately got his gam
bling gear on and offered to hazard the
five thousand bones, gold, that it could be
done, and that he knew of man who
could and would do it,
The bet was on, then and there and the
man who told all about it. and who had al
! ready achieved the $4,000 miles, appears in
n hot int
ranged for HIM to start on the long traipse
the stipulation being that lie shouldn't do
any work on the trip and that he should
leave the starting point with only SO cents
anu three or four cigarette papers in his
nankeens. After Numbering to the extent
OF exuding all of this neat stuff, the teller
thereof indicated to those listening to him.
by sundry and divers motions and move
merits OF his lips, that he was there when it
came to being the recipient general of what
little change they cared to sip him, and he
got by with that end OF it, too The listen
erS al poked their hands into their kicks
ana pulled out something or other and
passed 1t over to the long distance hoof
mixer Nhefeupon after announcing that
he was going TO see me President of the
United States and a few persons like that
before picking up his feet and starting for
the Golden Gate, the walkist vamped or
TANNED or did whatever else was neces-
sary, PROBABLY, to reach the nearest barrel
house.
Well 1 want to see the sectional draw
ings and the blue prints. that's all. There
are heap too many of these walkers drop
ping into Washington and the rest of the
main towns all tine time with these hoOf
spielS. 1t isn't any new line of bunk at
All. but 1t seems always to be good one.
We seen and conyersed with quite few
OF these siobe-trudgers, and it sure did get
me WinSing to note how much they looked
just like plain, unSwab5eJ hoboes fitted
with lot OF nerve Plus a good idea The
portion of their narratives that looks to be
the most on the fish to me is that part
which has to do with the party of gen.
tiemen who got to betting themselves
black in the face over the possibility of
the walk around-thew world thing being
pulled Oft. It's never shown III the dope
they give just who's going to get the COIN
and where they. the hooters, are going to
get off. financially. for their long hikes
They don't uncover the amount that they're
going to draw down, and who's going to dig
for 1t. The man of the party of gentle
men who wins the bet has got to be paid
of course. the full amount of the wager
and where does that leave the walkist when
going to do him. If he doesn't get any of
the ker-tish for it, to show the party of
ciubmen that he. really can, hike around
the world OH his feet, and. when it comes
to that what good is it going to do the
gentlemen, or ciuhmen. or whatever they
are, to find out that sure enough some
whiskered male person really can make
that circle around the two hemspheres
without working or developing disabling
| callouses or bunions on the bottom of the
| feete - -"r @'' ~ -.t-l'
I'm here to be shown about that and
some other ends of il. One of the other
| ends of it is this: How can the trudgeist
really and truly mooch around the hull
| globe without doing a lick of work and
| without tael in his pajams to dig up for
| the eats along the route? He never saws
| that he does the hand-out request tn.ng
all over the earth, but that's the only pos
sible Inference open, and even when you
| take it that way it doesn't hang together
| For there are parts of the earth. I'm told
| where the best you get when you nudge
| up to the back door and ask for a hand out
! is to get camel or caribou sicked on
| you.
There are, moreover. according to the
| best information. plenty of large sections
| of the earth where the folks haven't got
/ any handouts to give, even If they're dis
posed to be liberal and hand-outish Sup
| posing one of these traipsers were to lam
! into that part of China. for example where
| as We told nearly every day in the
| papers. some 30.000,000 of Chinks are starry
! Ing to death and dining off each others
persons in their desperation-where would
| he bulge into the picture there for a hand
| out? Surprising that one of these maybe
| hooters veered into one of those portions of
| India where the millions of natives in each
province mainly occupy themselves every
year-according to the weekly publication
pictureS-in stretching themselves out on
| the ground and dying of starvation-wouId
|
out or sit-down, if he maced people in that
| kind of fix for fodder?
| Then, too, you can't walk around the
globe for four straight years On one pair
| of bregans. nor, for the matter of that, in
one suit of homespuns Where. then, do
| these tIudgers get their shoes and toys
| renewed? He can't ask breech-clouter In
! Zambesiland to stake him to half-worn
| suit of seersucker clothes and pair Of No.
8 kicks, partly worn, nor can he back up
| to some swift-riding sheikh of the Arabian
| desert and ask him for the loan, for a lit
| tie while. Of an old straw lid with a hole
| In 1t. can he? How, then. does he manage
| to keep himself so screened that he won't
| be pinched for indecent exposure when he
| hits the civilized portions of his route?
Far be 1t from me to nudge right out
on the firing line and shoot 1t out that
| these peripatetic persons with the whiskers
| and the rundown pedals are just plain or
| high-pike members of the genus bum but
| that's an idea that's been rolling around
| under my hat for quite long spell. at that
| and don't like to start in a long, trying
summer with these things in my system"
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