The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-08-28

{ AR0UND THE WORLD
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BY Harry W. Wennie.
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, if 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 "bo' 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 it. 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 KIon-
dixie, either.-only four years ago-and
I've worked on some papers in the United
States and elsewhere where I didn't get
quite that much.
I've been a sailor-not the navy artt-
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 a Frenchman. for instance. from
Frisco to London. Captain and mate
couldn't speak a word Of English, and
the rest weren't much better.
I've been a brakeman-not the gold but
toned individual Of your vestibuIed limi-
ted, but the dirty freight sort-yes-and
been on the road" for four days and
nights without taking off my clothes or
getting much sleep. That was before the
Nl6-hour law went into effect.
I've d1ned In state in the office of a
Ch1iean acknowledgements for a nitrate
plantation-on Christmas day, with five
Kinds Of wine on the table, where I was
the guest OF honor with my English hosts,
ana tfe 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
Inc s2W0SWO 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 dav believe
me.
We been a railroad surveyor I'D In the
UPS OF the Andes on the highest road In
the world, nearly $1,000 feet in the air and
ny the same token, I nave probably no
peer IN the world in that respect, for I've
peen on a Southern Pacific survey down
on the Salton desert in Southern Cali
lornla' and that's the lowest place for a
railroad, I mean PCS feet below tha IeyaI
OF inc sea. Incidentally, In tina line of
WORK, IVe been 1000 feet underground in
the Montana copper mines.
I've clerkeS in the Klondike, been a
book agent, a city directory canyasser
handled lumber in a Los Angeles ward
nossed a gang of Filipinos in Manila, been
a United States marshal in China, BEEN
on, shucks! the list is interminable. And
l 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 a lot of other villages. The
Iuil list OF the same would look like the
map OF the world. and make up SO COS
mopoitan an array that the usual,
"globetrotter' would be backed. into tha
creek. o
And there you have a faint idea Of II
Does 1t pay, Alys and Montmorency? Nav.
1T does not! Believe muh! And Of the FIJI.
ture? That's Something else again Nv
russ
But just think Of the time when the fell
low whom I AXE to a half or 90
dies and caves me a million-as thew AL
ways do, you know, and twtttering fem
ininity, CARRIED in fashions latest an
Proaches and warbles-"And oh, Myrtille.
/ want you to meet Mr.. Blank-so inter
est1ng, you know-they say he was really
and truly one of those horrid sailors."s
And then you can readily see where Ill
throw out my chest as I murmur into the
ear OF the listening fair one, with all tha
distingue and ponn1ne de terre which r
have inherited-"Er-yahs-rully-did Il
on a Wagah with Lord Broketon. y'know.
Deucedly uncomfortable for a time.
y'know, but I won, doncherknow?"
Think I've been q real Bohemian,
What say?