Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-09-05

AROUND THE WORLD
ON NOTHING AT ALL


By Harry w. Wennie.
write something about yourself" said
the managing editor. You've been some
thing of a Bohemian, haven't you?"
I obey. Mine not to reason why. Judge
for yourself. Here's some of it-and not
fiction. either. Get me. After you have
waded through this. you may, II you de-
sire to initiate the real Britisher, remark,
what price that, eh?-chap's jolly well
seen some life
I've been everything in the newspaper
game from a reel editor, empowered to
yell raucously .'c-o-p-e-e" to the boy
down to the DO who had the gladstone
pleasure of cleaning up a press In a Cali
fornia office for the price OF a cheap meal
and glad to get 1t. I've been the recip-
lent Of a monthly salary of $3.50 for re-
porting In Fairbanks. Alaska. same wages
as the pressmen and printers.-and that
wasn't in THE good old days of the Klon-
dixie, either.-only four years ago-and
I've worked on some papers in the United
States and where I didn't get
quite that much.
I've been a sailor-not the navy arti-
cle-most OF whom know about as much
OF a real ship as they do of trigonometry-
but the genuine old .'windjammer' type
several times. too. Once around the Horn
In q Frenchman. for instance, from
Frisco to London. Captain and mate
couldn't speak a word of English. and
the rest weren't much better.
rye been q brakeman-not the gold but
toned individual Of your vestibuled limi-
ted, but the dirty freight sort-yes-and
been ION the road for four days and
nights without taking off my clothes or
getting much sleep. That was before the
'16-hour law went into effect.
I've dined in state in the office OF a
Chilean 'ofhcina'-Spanish for a nitrate
piantatton-on Christmas day. with five
kinds of wine on the table, where I was
the guest of honor with my English hosts.
and the next month been a "foremast
Jack" in the Peruvian navy In Callao for
the equivalent OF about $12 a month. i've
put my legs under the splendid table of
the 100000 Alexander Young hotel in
honolulu one month-and been glad to ..sit
IN at a native feast-a .luau'' next moon
and get some poi under my belt-which
same went very well that day, believe
me.
I've been a railroad surveyor up In the
Ups OF the Andes on the highest road in
the world, nearly 1900 feet in the air. and
oy the same token, I nave probably no
peer IN the world In that respect, for I've
Oeen on q Southern Pacific survey down
on the Salton desert in Southern Cali
fornia, and that's the lowest place for a
rallroad, l mean 265 feet below the level
OF the sea- Incidentally. in that line ~
work. I've been 1000 feet underground in
the Montana copper mines,
We cierked In the Klondike. been a
book agent. a city directory -canvasser.
handled lumber in a Los Angeles ward.
Oossed a gang OF Filipinos in Manila. been
q United States marshal in China. been
on. shucks! the list IL interminable. And
1 didn't start in to write a book.
I've been broke in London, Sydney. VAL,
paraiso, Toxic. N'Yawk. Dawson CITY.
Fort said, and q lot of other villages. The
IuI list OF the same would look like the
map Of the world. and make up 20 Coz
lnopolitan an array that the usual
iglobetrotter' would be backed into the
creek. nc
And there you have a faint idea Of 4
Does 1t pay. Alys and Montmorency? NAY.
It does not! Believe muh! And Of the fu.
russ
But Just think of the time when the fell
low whom l 'istaked' to a half or 90 D.
oles leaves me a million-as they al
ways DO. you know. and twitterfng fem
ininity. CARRIED in fashions latest an
proaches and warbles-"And oh. MyrtiIie. |
! want you to meet Mr.. Blank-so inter-
eeting. you know-they say he was really /
ana truly one OF those horrid sailors"
And then you can readily see where rn /
throw out my chest as I murmur into the
ear OF the listening fair one, With ali the 4
0lstnGue and pomme de terre which
nave Observation-Disclosures ~
on q wagah with Lord Broketon. y.know |
Deucedly uncomfortable for q Tina
Jknow, but won. doncherknow p.
Think Iye been a real Bohemian 2"
What say