die the fear of death was one of the strongest in the of the nature man to live he must have a natural diet the open air and the blessed sunshine now an winter has no for those the nature man who wish to return to nature so darling started out in search of a climate he mounted a and headed south for the university claimed him for a year here he studied and worked his way attending lectures in as scant garb as the authorities would allow and applying as much as possible the principles of living that he had learned in his favorite method of study was to go off in the hills back of the university and there to strip off his clothes and lie on the grass in sunshine and health at the same time that he soaked in knowledge but central has her and the quest for a nature man s climate drew him on he tried los and southern being arrested a few times and brought before the insanity because his mode of life was not after the mode of life of his fellow men he tried where unable to prove him insane the authorities him it was not exactly a he could have remained by serving a year in prison they gave him his choice now prison is death to the nature man who only in the open air and in god s sunshine the authorities of are not to be blamed darling was an citizen any man is who with one and that any man should to the extent darling did in his philosophy of the simple life is ample of the authorities verdict of his so darling went thence in search of a climate which would not only be desirable but wherein he would not be and he found it in the of garden spots and so it was according to the the of the the nature mar the nature man narrative as given that he wrote the pages of his book he wears only a cloth and a fish net shirt his stripped weight is one hundred and pounds his health is perfect his that at one time was considered ruined is excellent the lungs that were practically destroyed by three attacks of have only recovered but are stronger than ever before i shall never forget the first time while talking to me that he a the had settled in the middle of his back between his shoulders without interrupting the flow of conversation without dropping even a syllable his clenched fist shot up in the air curved backward and smote his back between the shoulders killing the and making his frame like a bass drum it reminded me of nothing so much as of horses kicking the in their the in the african pounds his chest until the noise of it can be heard half a mile away he will announce suddenly and beat a hair raising devil s on his own chest one day he noticed a set of gloves hanging on the wall and promptly his eyes brightened do you box i asked i used to give lessons in when i was at was the reply and there and then we stripped and put on the gloves bang a long arm flashed out landing the end on my nose he caught me in a duck on the side of the head nearly knocking me over i carried the lump raised by that blow for a week i under a straight left and i the of the landed a straight right on his stomach it was a fearful blow the whole weight of my body was behind it and his body had been met as it forward i looked for him to up and go down instead of which his face beamed approval and he said that was beautiful the next instant i was covering up and striving to protect myself from a of hooks and then i watched my chance and drove in for the i hit the mark the nature man dropped his arms gasped and sat down suddenly ril be all right he said just wait a moment and inside thirty seconds he was on his feet � ay and returning the compliment for he me in the and i gasped dropped my hands and sat down just a trifle more suddenly than he had all of which i submit as evidence that the man i with was a totally different man from the poor ninety pound of eight years before who given up by and lay gasping his life away in a closed room in the book that darling has written is a good book and the binding is good too has for years her need for desirable she has spent much time and thought and money in desirable citizens and she has as yet nothing much to show for it yet the nature man she refused to give him a chance so it is to s proud spirit that i take this opportunity to show her what she has lost in the nature man when he arrived in he proceeded to seek out a piece of land on which to grow the food he ate but land was difficult to find the nature man � that is land the nature man was not rolling in wealth he spent weeks in wandering over the steep hills until high up the mountain where clustered several tiny he found eighty acres of brush which were apparently as the property of any one the government officials told him that if he would clear the land and till it for thirty years he would be given a title for it immediately he set to work and never was there such work nobody that high up the land was covered with and by wild pigs and countless rats the view of and the sea was magnificent but the outlook 