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PAUL JONES
Is the King of Traps Starts out a
(ilabe Trotting.
(NAKED AND PENNILESS
He is Making a Trip Around
the World on a Wager.
Must Return in a Year
and ShoW $5,000
»he has Made
* Paul Joiijs, around the world fc r
$5,000, ’ were the words inscribed it
i boh , mascu iua chirograpby across
the register of tLe Planters Hotel
yesterday morning.
The queer inscription was ths
ciuse of so many inquiries during the
com se of the day as to the writer’s
identity, that Clerk Cunningham was
one time seriously consideiin# the
advisability of having the printers
I run off a couple of thousand circulars
giving th« inquisitive public the in
formation that Paul Jones i» h
I Boston tan, and an ex-newspaper
man, who is making the circuit ot
lhe world on a wager that he
could start from “the Hub’’ na
ked and peniless, and return with
JD one yeur, having earned $5,000
b on the way.
A Republic reporter sen* a card
up to Mr. Jones' room last night,
•nd when he followed it a few
minutes later, found a tall, broad
►houldered young man of 28 years,
| i Landing 6 feet 2 inches, and look
ing every inch the. athlete. He
talked quite freely about his
I 'niquH trip, his experience hereto-
I Lore, and what ne intended doing
‘I left Boston February 12, ’said
’he tn-vier, -and have just come
J here foom Kansas City. Working
backward? Well, yes, it is, a little;
*ut you see, 1 bed a chance to
make some money through a rail
road advertising scheme by thus
doubling on rnv track, and I can’t
afford to overlook such an oppor
, (unity, bee use, you know, I must
earn $5.U00 fafure I return to
-Boston next February, aim I have
to make at least $4 000 of it it this
country.
Yos, thut is what delayed me so
origin America, but lye done
quite well thus far, and will go
• row heiH direct, to »Sau Francisco,
from whence 1 sail for Austria, ex
pecting to get nick to the United
States within 95 days. As a matter
of fact, I have calculated that it
can be done in 75 days, but 1 want
a little time to spare and to pick
up a tew boned “seeds” on the
way.
”1 am no a Harvard graduate
■i staind Hi an afternoon paper
yestenmy, but 1 have been con
nected with a number of news-
tn rrig t n»-m i r • -e
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England Magazine.
Before this I was a schoolmaster
» real estate brokfef. a farm hand,
a book agent, a Western Union
messenger, an a<ivwr(|Bef and a
number of other things.
•in Kansas City I had an ar
rangement with su opera house
to read between the sets, and ani
trying to make such a deal here
I usual'y rend the poems of Sam
Foss. You know that he whs for
a long *ime editor of the Yankee
Blade, and he nas written some
very e’ever verses which I have
been told I read well.”
“How did I happen tn conceive
B uch a trip as the one j’m on? The
explanation is simple. Some
friends and I were discussing .the
cheapness of travel one evening,
and 1 argued that every man had
an equal chance in this world of
ours, and boasted that I could
make a trip around the world,
starting without money or elwthee
and return in cn« year after earn
ing $5,000.
'Che boast resulted in a
and a night or bo afterwards the
start whs made from the Boston
Press Ciub. The bettors ineiß'ed
that I should stand by the aggree
meut to the letter so I retired to a
private room and disrobed.
The curiosity of the boys arou d
the club was aroused, and as many
of them wanted to see me, I earn
ned my first money by charging 1
cent admission fee. in thia way I
made 20 cents with which I sent
out and bought some manilla pep
per, out of which I constructed a
suit of clothes. This suit I after
ward sold for $lO, and bought a
horse blanket, which served to
make another, This one I also
sold, and then I went to running
errands, holding horses, blacking
b jots : in short, doing anything to
earn a penny.
“Meanwhile the newspapers had
picked me up and as I worked my
way westward I lectured, posed as
a freak in museums and clerked in
stores fora commission on the
goods I Bold. In this way I have
worked my way through 7U cities
and have earned enough to carry
me the-reit of the long journey in
comparative ease.”
Paul Jones, which by the way is
a pseudonym, is keeping a diary,
w hich he expects to issue in book
form on his return to Boston, and
he will also give a series of lec
tures concerning his travels and
experiences. The lowest amount
he made in oue day since the
beginning of his long trip was $3
50. in Peekskill N. Y. The great
est was slls , which he earned as
a clerk in a New Haven (Conn)dry
goods store.
Mr. Jones has formulated a set
of principles for his guidance, the
firgt of which is:“ If a man will
sink his pride forget bi? preju
dices and do his best under all '
ciroumstancea, he can ge; along in
any part of the world.”
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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.SUNDAY OCTOBER, 1 4 1894.
NOT SINFUL TO DANCE.
But Komen Should Keep Their
Partners ata Distance.
“ Rev. John L. Scudder, pastor of
' the Jersey City Tabernacle, is
i preaching a series of Sunday eve r -
ing lectures to young persons. “Is
It Sinful to Dance?” was his sub
ject last night.
“Dancing in some form lias ex
isted in all ages,” lie said, “anil
I suppose it always will, for in hu
man nature, as in the Hebrew
language, dancing and joy are syn
onymous. The word “to dance”
in Hebrew means to leap for joy.
Dancing in Judea and dancing in
America, however, were very un
like*
Formerly the sexes danced sepa
rately. With no Scriptural prece
dent, therefore, to guide us, we
must consult conscience and com
mon sense. If your dancing is of
such a character that you can
glorify God in it, no one can just
ly criticise it. It is against the
abuses only that we should in
veigh
Take heed when you dance. Ev
ery party should break up at 12
o’clock or before. We are human
beings, not bats and owls •
“Scantiness of feminine attire
and sudden transition from a heat
ed atmosphere to the outside chil
ly air have cost many a young
lady her life. Many ‘full dress’
entertainments are not rightfully
named. From observation I should
say that some of the ladies were
only part'y dressed and evinced a
disposition to revert to the primi
tive fashion that obtained in the
Garden of Eden. Many have paid
the cost of such folly by succumb
ing to pneumonia and consump
tion .
The manner of dancing is a
paramount moral consideration,
and here both parents and the
pulpit should be explicit. There is
a proper and an improper mode of
dancing. The proper inode is for
the man to hold his partner at a
respectful distance, and a woman
should allow* no more fami iarity
in dancing than when she is sit
ting in a parlor or walking on the
street.
Undue liberalities are taken in
in round dancing which are al
ways reprehensible and sometimes
hurtful to morals. The chief of
police of New York once said that
three-fourths of the abandoned
women in that city were led astray
by dancing. There is danger, then,
in improper modes of indulging in
this amusement, and young peo
ple slwld be on their guard.
Th« danger of dancing depends
largely upon the) class of people
you dunce with. Public balls,
where innocent women intrust
themselves to the arms of men Un
known to them before the ball
commenced, are no places for our
daughters. Many a well dressed
man is a libertine in heart and
life. Beware! Os him you know
nothing. Oftentimes such dancing,
us the Scripture says, shall be
turned into mourning.
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