A day or two days Inter he would appear before his consul and relate a hard luck story about being left by. his ship. From then on his success depended upon his ability use his wits. That he had been successful in the past was attested to by the marks on the reverse of the document showing "consulate passages" from several large ports Between here and Lisbon.
The unfair part of the narrative was that when appearing before the arious consulates he had not only Some months ago the reporter chanced upon two such in the Y.MLC.A. at Yokohama.—They were just starting, and from what they knew in advance about the various consulates in the cities through which they were to pass, one could not escape the belief that there was an organized ring som2- where that supplied the information, And meanwhile many an American on a foreign shore is taken in by the sad tale of a fellow countryman and comes financially to his assistance.
The scheme was doubtless given its present vogue by a young university man who started from New York some several years and made a trip round the world vich the freight boat method. On. his return, however, he wrote two books which have' become best sellers and have brought him in a small fortune, But no such idea permeates the minds of the Walters one is bound to meet who live in Shanghai, however short a time.
Inquiry at the American Consulate reveals that there is absolrely no reason for any bone fide izen of the United States, The birthday of King Christian was celebrated on Sept. 26 at the Consulate-General for Denmark, 1 Ave, Dubail, when the Acting Consul-General, Mr. C. A. C. Bran, was home to receive the Danish community and their friends, 'A very large gathering were present, including the members of the Consular Body, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Mr. S, K. Chen, Lord Li Ching-mai, several other foreign and Chinese Officials, and the greater part of the Danish Community.
At noon on the call of Mr. Brun ate drunk to the health of the King of Denmark and Iceland, after which a photograph was taken in the garden of the Consulate-General, King Christian, the son of King Frederick VII' and grandson of King Christian IX (father of Qu Alexandra) succeeded to the Danish world if he will appeal to his consul in the city in which he comes to throne in the early part of 19) unless, however, it could be rectified qyiill_Brovision is made by by the same method that is meant the clause, "settled out of court." men as fall by the wayside and no Further investigation reveals ease is brought to the American that the American Consulate is not Consulate here that does not receive the only centre of attraction for full investigation with complete these world-travelling gentry, who assistance following when the depend on wits instead of cash, but veracity of the story is proved.
Doubtless readers have met Wal-the British Consulate too has seen them and only recently has been ters in the past. Should they do taken in by as leat a bit of so in the future the best advice "Wandering Walter" philosophy as ither to have nothing to do with the local Consulates have seen them or hand them over to the some time. police. They do no good to the foreigners in the East by publicly The culprits were two youths, begging in the streets. of easy speech and manner, who, if the story told boastingly by the intimates Is true, presented them-
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