The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-02
HERMIT IN AUTO.
He Would Travel Through
State in Modern Way.
Plans q Good Roads Campaign
i'm Kansas.
HE LIVES IN A TREE.
Wants to Be Where Gods Med
ieine Can Reach Him.
Here to Celebrate His Eighty
Second Birthday.
HE LIVES IN A TREE

General Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
Hermit. is in the city making arrange
ments for the purchase or an aulomo-
bile in which he expects TO make
tour of the state in the interest OF sooo
roads and other reforms. the OLD gen,
eraI. who has just celebrated his Szo
birthday, started to make the Journey
from his home in Lawrence to this city
on foot, having made the trip many
times in recent years In this way.
He was oyertaken by the rain wed
day night at Lake View and Tor tnls
reason made the remainder OF the Trip
Inv train though he Is opposed 10 tnls
mode of travel. He abandoned MS nut
81 C,onon Rem Harrison in the early part
of the summer and moved to Lawrence
where he has lived on PLATFORM
which he constructed twenty feet from
the ground in tree at the corneF ol
Pennsylvania and Louisiana streets
He dug a cave at this location which
he dedicated on the Fourth OF July,
intending to make this his home, put
found the dampness of the ground dld
NOT agree with his aches and pains.
Swinging from two trees and directly
over this cave an immense American
flag waves during fair weather, though
n is carefully furled and placed In
tree house which he constructed for 1t
from dry goods boxes when the ind1-
cations of unfair weather appear: IL
is in this same tree that the platform
which has been the nome or the gem
eral this summer was built
ST am going to abandon my home In
the tree for the time being, SAID the
Hermit. 1.-The nights are getting lit
tie too cool for me and then must go
back to Camp Ben Harris on, where
have a few head of thoroughbred stock
that demand my attention during the
winter. 1 am going to build a nut OF
some kind to live in this winter, for
there is no house on the place since 1
was burned out by my enemies severai
you see I want all the fresh air
that I can get and if I had good
house 1 would not live in it. I want to
live where the air can blow over me
from every direction while I sleep for
It is Gods medicine and good for man
81 am 50 years of age, yesterday be-
ing my birthday as well as that of John
Adams, the second president of the
United States, who would have been
172 years of age If he had lived until
this time. I expect to live for 81 years
more and perhaps longer, for 1t viii
take about that long to accomplish the
things I have mapped out and feel
sure that I will live to see my hopes
fulfilled.
at am stronger and more hearty now
than was two years ago and am i'm
proving all the time excepting my eye
ei9ht which is not as good as 1 wish
that 1t was but 1t will improve soon.
YotI see I am firm believer in mental
suggestion and faith cures and 1 prac-
tice these upon myself daily.
''I want to live to see the memories
Of Senator Ross and President Johnson
venerated and placed along side of
those of Washington and Lincoln. l
will spend the remainder of my life
with that purpose in view and If 1t takes
n years as 1 anticipate that it will 1
will be spared for the work.
st am getting too old to make my
trips on foot as I have done in years
gone by and for that reason I am try
ing to make arrangements for the pur-
chase of an automobile. When I get
one I am going to live in it and travel
about over the state advocating many
much needed reforms which will be
adopted when they are called to the at
tention of the people in this way