The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-21
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butt stone walls, honowed out trout
ponds and planted orchards of olives
and walnut trees.
I've got mile Of roses" he said,
with smiling pride.
He told me that his ha bit was to
drive away at his writing in the fore
noon, while in the afternoon he worked
with the man 90 whom he had given a
part of his pillow land in payment for
assistance in the other work about the
orchard. Thus, it will be seen, he has
much the same idea expressed by
Tolstoi as he walks behind his Russian
harrow. We ate supper in the tent
like dning-room OF his mothers cot
tage. He served IN quiet, free hospi-
tally, and talked on about the great
new world of liberty and equality
which he saw coming.
After the meal, we walked out TO sec
his Italian chestnuts and his olives. and
there / saw more of his mile of roses.
His remarkable water supply is Of great
value and enables him to have springs
and fountains at most unexpected
places. lie took O boyish delight in
showing them to me- One most nota-
bic fountain produced at a moments
notice marvellous natural shower
which fell on the roof in musical roar.
This device enabled him TO sit under a
fine shower in midsummer moons when
all the rest of the Land lay perched and
choked IN dust TWAS poets thought
aud, like many another poets thought,
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His main peculiarities arc associated
with his love for the woods. and the
elemental life men live beneath the
open sky.
Il love the old traditions Of tho
woods and mountains" he said, alb
rupt1y, with q sweep OF his hand about
the room, and my glance took in the
saddle in the corner, the rugs upon the
floor and the tent-like root
One need not wonder at this he
was born In Indiana woods, and when
child he took the overland journey
through the Rockies, to the coast, and
his boyhood was spent in Oregon, whose
mountains and forests seem to me to
lie beyond the reach of any other mans
expression save his own. He has al
ways lived close down TO the earth AKA
near neighbor 10 trees
This causes him to 6espise certain
aspects of our civilization. lie hates
and fears its dark and terrible cities.
BE avoids the crush of population; he
regards with gloomy eyes the despera-
; ton OF greed and the gloomy prison
walls where the poor toll and die.
There was pathos as well as poetry
In his description of his life He told
NE his doors were never locked and
seldom shut, and she proof of it was
in has attempt to close the door on nv
behalf Il was warped 50 strongly to
an open position, that it refused OBJ
stinately to shut out the air which
seized upon me with disturbing viEor.
He glowed with delight as he de-
seribed the owls which came at night
to perch on pole he has placed for
them before the open door.
There they sit" he said. and perch
and peer and marvel ut the man
stretched CT his bed within. I suppose
they wonder why should so TO bed in
the finest part OF the day
lie knows all the birds that come
about and he took me into the orchard
10 snow me a minute little lizard
which = butcher bird had impaled on a
thorn lie showed re the cautenas
made Of bear skin il which he had car
ried his revolvers and bags Of gold dus.
IN his youthful days. when he rode the
famous pony express HIS talk of pio-
neer days was very interesting. quiet
ana digRised, but very graphic. He