Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-08
SEEKS AFTER TRUTH.
DENVER MATCHMAKER TO DWELL WIFE NATURE FAR FROM CROWDS.

DENVER MATCHMAKER TO DWELL WIFE NATURE FAR FROM CROWDS. Will Travel In Novel Wagon-Hidden Secrets VIII Be Fathomed-such the Eastern Mystics Have Learned on Tibet 8 Lofty Heights.
 Elisha Lane Of Denver has just started out on an expedition so novel that the paltry quest of Diogenes for an honest man is child's play compared with 1t
 Mir. Lanes mission is to wrest from nature her secrets, and he philosophic- ally proposes to go about this task by putting himself in harmony with na- ture y
 To this end he has had built house wagon in which he will travel from Denver clear through to southern Cali fornia. halting by the way wherever the lisp of leaves, the brawl of mountain streams or the soughing of winds in primeyal forests seems to be telling the secret of which he Icngs to become pos sessed.
 
 however. travel alone. He will be ac- companied by his wife and three little children, aged years, 3 years and 10 months, respectively.
 The itinerant home for this family cost $750, and 1t will be drawn by two horses. IL is 12 feet long, feet wide and feet high, and Is made of pine boards 254 inches wide and three-Quar- ters of an inch thick, placed vertically. Under the drivers seat is a tool box the space beneath the body of the wagon is to be used for storing household goods, and at the rear is a feed box for the horses. The entrance is at the rear through a door of polished oak with glass panels, and the interior is quite in keeping with this handsome entrance.
 The floor is handsomely carpeted, the portieres are hung on bronze rods, the walls and ceiling are artistieally pa- pered and the two windows, 20 by 24 inches each, are provided with dainty lace curtains
 Across the front end of the wagon an oak seat runs which becomes the sup port for the head of bed, which is re- leased by a spring from its position in the wall. A bed similarly devised is at the left of the door.
 By careful economy in space this room also contains tiny ehiffonier, a plate glass mirror, a washstand, Q fold ing writing table with drawers and pigeonholes, and a stove, the ashes of which will be dropped to the ground through a sort of funnel.
 Every detail of this conveyance was planned by Mir. Lane himself, who is a man of about 31 years and q watchmak- CT by trade. He was born ill Bowling Green, Ky. He married Miss Carrie Mcfarland Of Leavenworth, Kan, and lived i'll Kansas City until July last, when he removed to Denver. h appear ance Lane bears q striking resemblance to Schlatter. He is entirely self educat- ed, not to say uneducated, for by his own confession only two years ago he was unable to read Shakespeare with any appreciation of his meaning.
 The sum total of his philosophy as ex- pressed by him is '.I claim that there 1 Is some secret force, some hidden power in nature, which men have not discov- cred. 4 few men have caught faint i gleams of this occult force. and thereby they have become wise beyond their generation. Luther WAS one of these men and ochlatter Is another. To gain this knowledge a man must follow na- ture, and 1t is for that reason that al low my hair and beard to grow When reach the mountains, shall hope to touch that higher state which has en- abled the adepts Of India in Tibet to ac- quire their mystic power.
 h order to sustain the material man oa the way to the wellsprings of Hid den Truth, Mr Lane will halt from time to time ill mining camps and in small towns. and take heed of time by mending watches and selling eyegl glasses. New York World.