Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02

-Av - Miss Fortune" meant a
bride and $4,000 Mis-
fortune" meant death, perhaps; at
any rate, failure and five years work
for nothing. $50 ,
But now it's to be neither the one
nor the other. Miss Fortune" true
to her promise, is to become "Mrs.
Greenlee," and misfortune" is no
more-young Greenlee is even now on
his way back to Australia to claim
not only the hand of the girl he loves,
but the $4,000 prize offered there for
walking wholly around the world!
He has done it in five short years.
In that time he has been in every
country but one on the face of the
earth; he has set foot on every CONT
nent and great island. He has fought,
starved, thirsted, bled, sickened-
everything but died. But it's. all for.
gotten now He has won all because
he has dared all, according to writer
in the New York World. ~
And in daring he says he has seen
over hundred men s2die-of them
three Were the chums and travelling
AAAS>SSso "AAO oOI Jul WILL ullu. ll0t
others were men they fought and
killed to save their own lives in: diff
ferent places on the face of the globe
But who offered $4,000 for this globe
trotting and why did Miss Fortune
promise her hand to anyone? Read
andeyou shall learn sf.i sg0ss ia p
OF chums there were four when this
story began, five years ago in far
away Australia-Jack Jones, Dennis
McCluskey, Fred Ryan and Harry
Greenlee. All young-Greenlee is but
"a now-they were filled with the
spirit of do and dare; they loved ex-
element; they wanted to see the
world. Not that Greenlee wasn't quite
veteran at that sort of thing already.
AS youngster he had run away from
home to be bugler boy in the Beer
war, but even this wasn't enough for
him.
The Bushmen's league Of Australia
is a very powerful and wealthy organ
2.fzation. Some of the richest men of
that island which is continent of
ITSELF belong to it. A few of them
got together one day and offered
prize for feat which no one ever yet
had accomplished.
Fifteen thousand guineas for the
/, nan who walks around the world, Wis
iting every country, without begging,
borrowing or stealing" ,4
Two Fortunes to Win.
That, says Greenlee, was the Bush
mems offer. The, quartet of Young
fellows noted it. And $4,000 guineas
Is SIC, OOO-a fortune. And when their.
girl chum and schoolmate, Miss Mary
Smith Fortune, now beauty: of New
South Wales, offered to marry the one
who could do it. that made two for
tunes, didn't it? At least those Aus
tralian fellows thought it did, any
way, because all four loved the girl
more than any one would have con
fessed to the other three, friends as
4 they were. Greenlee says he was
willing. He Is still willing. 4
And 80 all four determined to make
tn. the g try, each resolving to finish, each
one hoping the other three would drop
out, but all four firmly resolved to
stick together and share thier com
mon danger: as long as they stuck to
their self-appointed task. They started
( from Melbourne on June i, 1904. With
them they carried the itinerary pre-
pared for them by John Rutherford
president of. the Bushmen's leagres
All four wore brass badges Of identifl-
cation and carried on their persons
Masonic emhlems all four had at
tanned the thirty second degree in the
craft. -
was the one thing that put me
Through" said Greenlee. earnestly. rs.
ferring to his Masonic connections.
s5wnen ne arrived IN New York, his
wv mi journey or more than five
years at an end.
TssInania was the first stays ofEthe
globe eacircling trip, ana 1T proved an
easy one for these hardy young feI.
lows from Australia. Their letters