Show l AN FORCED ON i TOUROF R GLOBE I OF THE SHANGHAI RETURNS 1CiIM TO AMERICA AFTER TURNS N NE NINE YEARS i IYITED TO EAT BY STRANGER Coffee and Charles fitter Dope Lumber Walker Wakes Up on I Br < Tells of Remarkable Experiences Abroad Cheney Wash After an absence of during which ho has e rears ireled ne all over the world Charles ilker has returned to Cheney and his former trade that of II resume Ills advpntures on land painter d sea suggest those one reads of In rr books Ho left hero for Spokane a tl 1 1599 and was not heard of r a long time In the Falls City Walker was robbed freight car Reaching il loaded on a coma he was shanghaied aboard a sea Balling ship which started ep mon his globetrotting career Ho tJlnes his experience In the follow g words I met a man In a dark street near e depot at Spokane who talked toe to-e for a while then It seems he uck mo on the side of the head something he drew from his coat ken I must have lost conscious ss for some time for when 1 die I was in a box car In the rail ad yards at Tacoma On leaving the r I was accosted by a stranger 10 like myself seemed to be look for work He finally Invited me to eat with a I and being hungry and without ney I accepted the Invitation Went We-nt Into a restaurant and while eat I noticed that the coffee had a ullar taste and remarked about it my companion who assured me it I It was all right I do not re mber anything from that time until awake on board the Nova Scotia rk Stlllwator loaded with lumber d three days out at sea I was Informed that I had signed the voyage to South Africa and entering an emphatic denial I was Own my own signature to the ships Ides It then occurred to me that U y 1 1 r I J I A He Struck Him on the Head ad been shangalcd I was ordered ork but refused to do so and was allowed to have any thing to eat ill l I changed my mind After a voyage of 227 days we bed port at East London South ta The voyage should have been pleted In 90 days but our vessel a ailing craft and the rough seas adverse winds prolonged it great The captain wanted mo to return h the vessel to St John N B ere I was to receive the small pay eb < In my semiconscious state I agreed to accept for my services I deserted After working at my trade a short e I enlisted In the English army a term of one year and was as wd to the Intelligence department the end of the period I reenlisted a term of three years In tho Forty regiment of tho Royal Field My and served two years In th Africa during the Boer war and year In India patrolling tho bor Alter my term of enlistment had Ired I went back to Africa where joined a railway surveying party went the fun length of the pro el railway from Cape Town to 0 Egypt Thon on returning I DMA to Australia and later traveled r IL considerable part of Chlna and an Ita Shortly after returning to Aus signed as fireman on the ie star steamship Persic and nL to Kllllad and the next 18 tbs I spent traveling over Europe April 18 1907 I left Hamburg any for Old Mexico and worked way across the ocean on a sailing el and < 1 In duo time landed at Ia osailn on the Gulf of Call Ia I wept to the western coast and aged In milling working for tho amble Mining company Finally slay 8 Ot the present year 1 landed l the i United States after an ab ee of atop years lacking 13 days |