The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-08-28

AROUND THE WORLD
ON NOTHING ATT ALL

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BY Harry w. WenhIe.
.write something about Yourself said
the managing editor. You've been some
thing OF a Bohemian. haven't your
I obey. Mine not to reason why. Judge
for yourself Here's some Of it-and not
nctica. either: Get me- After you hsye
waded through this, you may, II you der
sire to initiate the real Britisher, remark.
what price that. eh3--chap,s jolly well
seen some life.
I'VE been everything III the newspaper
game from q ''ceel,' 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 9, press In a Gale
fornia office for the price OF q cheap meal
land glad to get II, I've been the recip-
lent OF a monthly salary OF $3.50 for re-
porting In Fairbanks, Alaska, same wages
az the pressmen and printers.-and that
wasn't I'm 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 elsewhere where ] didn't get
quite that much.
cle--most OF whom know about as much
OF q real ship as they do Of t~rigonometry-
but the genuine old t'windjammer,, type
several times. too. Once around the Horn
In q Frencfman, for instance, from
Frisco to London. Captain and mate
couldn't speak q word OF English. and
the rest weren't much better.
I've been a brakeman-not the gold butt
toned Individual OF your vestibuled limi-
ted. bat the dirty freight s~ort-yes-and
been ION the road for four days and
nights without taking off my clothes or
getting much sleep. That was before the
'1s-hour law went into effect.
I've dined in state In the office Of q
Chilean "ofncina" -Spanish for q nitrate
plantation-on Christmas day, with i've
kinds OF wine on the table, where Z was
the guest OF honor with my English hosts.
and the next month been q ''foremast
Jack" In b Peruvian navy In Callao for
the equivalent OF about $i2 a month. i've
put my legs under the splendid table OF
the $20Oo,Oo0 Alexander Young hotel in
Honolulu one m~onth-and been glad to "sit
In" at o native feast-a tluau'' next moon
and get some poi under my belt--which
same went very wen that day, believe
me.
I've been a railroad surveyor M in the
tip OF the Andes on the highest road In
the world, nearly 1900 feet In the air, and
BY the same token, i have probably no
peer In the world in that respect, for i've
been ons Southern Pacific survey down
pm the salton desert in Southern Cali
fornia, and that's the lowest place for a
railroad, I mean 265 feet below the level
Of the sea. Incidentally, In that line Of
work. Tve been 1000 feet underground In
the Montana copper mines.
I've cierkea In the KIondike, been q
book agent, a city directory canvasser,
handled lumber In a Los Angeles yard,
bossed q gang Of Filipfnos In Manila, been
a United States marshal In China, been
oh, shucksi h list Is interminable. And
I didn't start IN to write a book.
pye been broke In London. Sydney, VAL
paradise, Toxic, NsYawk, Dawson city.
Port Said, and a lot OF other villages. The
full list OF the same would look like the
map OF the world, and make up so cos
rnopolitan an array that the usual
'globetrctter' would be backed into the
creek. 3H
And there you have a faint idea OF It.
Does 1t pay, Alys and Montmorency /? Nay,
It does mott Believe muh! And Of the fu-
ture? That's "somsthing else again, Nav
russ"
But Just think OF the time when the TEL
low whom I ''staked" to a half or SO
dies and leaves me q million-as they al
ways do. you know, and twtttering fem
ininitys CARRIED In fashions latest APP
proaches and warbles-"And oh, MYRTLE,
want you TO meet Mr., Blank-yso inter-
esting, o know-they say he was really
and truly one of those horrid sailors
And then you can readily see where ri
throw out my chest as I rnurmur into the
ear Of the listening fair one, with all the
distingue and pomrne de terre which I
have OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IL
on q wagah with Lord Broketon, y'know.
Deucedly uncomfortable for a timo.
y'know, but I won, doncherknow7s'
Think I've been q real Bohemian 2"
What say? 5 "a,