Show JOSHED ALL NATIONS fhe EX KING OF THE FAKIRS TELLS HOW TO MAKE A LIVING rih after done only day vt ork la thirty I 1 abr biow lie got bl corn salve for Itaw lan and perfumed bean frenchmen tick lowndes the ex king of the fakiri fakirs having become rich left off trav eling on hig fiftieth birthday married a awing wife an 1 settled down in phila delphia because I 1 was torn there he S in explanation of abia strange tl ing and I 1 a roan ought to give the town he wag bora in a chow for nearly 0 years lowndes circum navigating 10 lo globe 11 times beamed upon the world a population through hia moi es P handy whiskers and in 1 is own borus joshed era all white black red brown and yellow into providing for hia luxurious essence CS sence and for I 1 is eventual wealth lie got his nickname of tick from the solid got 1 watches 1 e used to pell to countrymen tor the nominal sum of two bits maybe yon think they won t go he would baw I 1 1 up ono of bis watched w en wye back ward that s where you ro way off listen to tins one tick and 1 e would imitate the ticking of a watch with his mouth BO that the sound could bo easily 1 card by those on the outer limits of tho crowd around his torch illuminated carriage success and seniority gave him the title king of tl e fakiri fakirs by which he was known until his retire merit I 1 often 1 ear account chips talk ing abent 1 ow 1 ard it is to get along in this world said lowndes wl en he was here they make me weary the world is aisy easy snapping his fingers as it he subject was too silly to talk about when I 1 was a small boy clayn g marbles aal shinny and peg top I 1 looked about me and saw all hands breaking their necks trying to earn a living struggling sweating worry gnp working like tl e devil eiery ono 0 cm it was positively painful for me to watch cm albl bugli I 1 was only in knee breeches I 1 made up my mm 1 rigl t tl en that I 1 had a heap too big a capici ty for fun to wear myself out working and I 1 determined to make tl e world n y oyster ell I 1 ve been nibbling on the oyster eer since and the only work you could cill work that I 1 ever did was four days of coal heaving down in the blokel olo of a japanese steamer on which I 1 was n stow aw ay hows that for a mccorl only four days work in 80 don 11 look it tick di 1 look it ho was n lating jeweler 8 shop dian ands gilt acred all over him not the sort of dia mon la be used to put into his pai dora envelopes it w as acknowledged hit ha looked prosperous all right be astonished but tho worst jayn I 1 ni y where li the world are tl e Itus siang I 1 chink I 1 sol I 1 five tons of axle grease corn salve for u ruble au ounce box on one trip through southern rug la all the men in hussi i iw e corns tl ey all wear heavy cowhide boots the ordinary folk I 1 mean which I 1 suppose accounts for it I 1 felt almost al amad the way those russian folks fell over each other to buy my or binary linary axle grease of corn tierce for tl air bonig and the worst of it was that in tho larger towns where I 1 staid for three or four days the yaps that ind bought the stuff on tl e first day of lay arrival cime to mo before I 1 left and told mo gratefully that abo greate 1 ad entirely cured their corna utby aa a public bene factor throughout the whole russian empire I 1 toun 1 I 1 rench pretty easy ones too in the smaller towns the first tima I 1 hit 1 ranee I 1 was sell ing cst in lian perfumed beans tl ey acio the american leans that they don t know 1 ow to cook in bos ton despite all this talk of boston as tho town ct beans I 1 dyed the beans blue and soaked ein over night in co logue I 1 used a mexican vaquero s kiako up on this trip and sold the beans a dozen for n franc with a long spoil bind about the lasting tor 1 years aal so on finding money tl is lean fake in france all of tt e south americans from canami to patagonia are pretty easy to gold brick all oscr south america I 1 sold tl busai ds of gallons of whitening conlo to mako tho halt breeds chita I 1 made it of nights as I 1 aci t along out of andol thing that gasn wasn t harmful dandelion roots wild cherry bark and such stuff the governments got after ino finally for it tl ough and that s abs tbs reisor tho halt breeds of south are still reddish in color t let embay enough of my whitens g stuff you see the mexicans 11 buy anything you may not it but I 1 sold thou binds of dollars worth of common bar soap for remon ing granso spots on one trip down there notwithstanding tie fact ahat the duds worn by the people who bought tl 0 soap were as much on tho G string order as alie lav of tho land would permit eisold cm safety razors abit cot co t me a quarter each wholesale for 3 which was about as low down aseer I 1 clayel it as any man who ever used eastty razor will adroit I 1 woul 11 lie made a million oat of the natives of the fiji islands it the jellots white down tl cio bad not choke 1 me off As it was I 1 cleaned up a good bit of gioi ey ou the scheme I 1 traded off blue tho li jia for cochia cal at that time was about its weight in dilver iba fidis v crazy over my stock of goggles and I 1 bad several of tho island ars g il for me until tl e consuls 1 mo out I 1 ws cool ing up a scheme to sell the kaffits some stuff to straighten their kinky wool and make it look like tie wt ite mau H hair but tl 0 white people down there t stand it although there was millions in it abington cor tew I 1 ork sun |