The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-11


respect for this government, the hermit
made an extended pilgrimage to many
OF the sacred Shrines- He encountered
thousands of policemen and tramps,
about 1 per cent. of whom did not use
beer nor tobacco; hundreds of indus
trlous farmers, who did not know where
washington was born, nor that he had
a Ball for his mother; some of his
llneal descendants (who were old
enough, with every other constitutional
qualification for the presidency of the
United StateS.) who had never read his
farewell address. And now, in this year
OF our Lord, the first of the Twentieth
century, one hundred and twenty-ffth
of the independence of the United States
or America, and the thirteenth of the
establishment of Camp Ben Harrison,
free government having been extended
beyond the limits of this continent and
the administration of William McK1n-
ley mournfully ended, it seems more
needful than heretofore that something
should be undertaken to strengthen and
extend the desire to cultivate and in
culcate proper respect for this govern
ment Gree government, the author of
it, and the Observation-Disclosures by which
1t was set up, preserved and extended,
as also the chosen officials of the people
of the United States of America. And
for such as would bride or aSSaSsinate
them, a wholesome hatred might be
strengthened and extended, without in
curing the displeasure of the good.
With these objects in view the Hermit
take another pilgrimage before the close
of the year"
Perhaps when he returns he will make
the formal announcement of his return
to the ways of men. He says that he is
not sure when he will do this. He is
still suffering from the frightful burns
he received two weeks ago, and which
he thinks We're the warning that he
must give up his hermitage. A friend
of General Cameron gives the following
account of the accident:
HIS FRIGHTFUL WARNING"
Zone of the most remarkable expert
enceS of the Kansas Hermit occurred on
the night of December 26 of the first
year of the Twentieth century. He has
the most profound reverence for Christ
mas and intense alteration of the Christ.
He has given hundreds of dollars main
tanning Carpenter Court, P1ow and
Stable, in Washington, D. c., holding
that the Carpenters Son is the worlds
emancipation, and that without the pillow
(chief implement of agricultural and the
stable birthplace of Jesus civilization
would be an impossibility, as agricul-
ture is the groundwork and agent of all
progress and prosperity.
General Cameron sometimes ce1e-
brateS two days instead of one. At this
time he had put in the usual season of
rejoicing and at midnight had an i'm
mense camp fire. He had raked out
large bed of live Goals and was feeling
well in body and soul. 1t was midnight
and he prepared toast, apples and
cheese for IOW-tWelVe supper. A dog
had come near and was bowling dis
mally. The Hermit keeps no dogs and
was puzzled at this ones actions TAX
ing a bite of toast. he knew nothing
more until he found himself walking
about in awful pain with both hands
high in the air and terribly burned
From then until daylight he suffered
agony that must be felt to be realized.
Nothing is more excruciating than the
fire pain.
He was sitting about ten feet from the
mass of Goals and campfire Anyone in
falling would naturally throw out the
hands, palms down Instead, both were
on the wrists. The right was scorched in
side, the left palm was uninjured. How
any one could fall unconscious in a fire
like that and come out without a SINCE
of hair or beard or the smell of fire on
the velvet cuffs of his coat that came
well down on the hands, is q mystery past
finding out A doctor at Lawrence said
that it looked like the burn of alcohol or
coal oil. Another man, used to such
burns, said it was evidently done with
acid Several things indicate that he had
been unconscious for some time. One
plausible theory was that in his deep rev.
cry he chloroformed"
He now alludes to this his period of
torment and is satisfied that there was
some purpose in the accident
There are people who say that General
Cameron is insane and he frequently re-
fers to these statements in facetious
The Kansas Hermit is not an ordinary
man, that is certain. but farther than
that one must judge for himself as to his
whether he is a fanatic,
crank or insane