Ere'he fell Jor the gold and the mucly an he parson' joy
"Aut had learned (0 pray ith the hope and have On "farm near Keokuby 'Of iit hale, And the whiskey and 'Drained the morale clean, Ana nou tureen, 'Frei that poor but honest child, 'Such in substance was the plain' of a "Wandering Walter" when interviewed yesterday on the cause of his being found destitute im Shanghai, Furthermore he had an experience to relate that threw a different light fon many of hig calibre, and if the condition exists as he described it certain allowances can be made for them in their dificult The Saag He claimed to have been born in England, and some years ago, anxious to sail under the American ting, found on application that it was necessary for him to have proof of his intention of becoming an American citizen, Consequently "he took out first citizenship papers and was duly signed on the ship's articles, It eventuated that he ran afoul of 'a pair of dark eyeg in Shanghai and the ship sailed without him. There upon he appealed to the American Consulate as being an American citizen but found that under Washington law he was still classed, as a subject of the British Empire.
A plea for assistance to the local British authorities, however, revealed that having taken out first American citizenship papers he was classed og a citizen of the United States, and they could do nothing for him, Thus the man was between the devil and the deep sea, And as a consequence he ig stilt abroad in the Settlement, receiving assistance from such as come within his ken, King of the Castle 1
But the prize development was the discovery of one of the travelling flan ho had made a certain. name for himaclf and. was considered dite the King of the local gentry.
This man hes been in the Settlee ment for the last eight years and, incredible as it seems, has not dione a stroke of work in all that time, according to one with whom he is only too swell acquainted.
a New Zealander and some she years ago was given the opportunity, Emong others, of securing a ship t0 Australia, from where, his bene factors assumed, he conkd manage promote himself a trip across the Short Tasman Sea, But the gentle= man would have none of it, Nob nly thd he refuse absolutely to take the ship but he threw himself nce sain en those who had been Supporting him who soon after lost heart and gave him up as a bad job, "Wise fo all the tricks of the tad@
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