The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-09-03

tune-which?
Harry A. Greenlee
faced a ticklish problem.
N Miss Fortune" meant q
bride and 5000. Mis-
fortune" meant death, perhaps; at
any rate, failure and five years work
for nothing.
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 eve 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 1t 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 a writer
in the New York World.
And in daring he says he has seen
yer a hundred men die-of them
three were the chums and travelling
mates who set out with him. The
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 SIS. 900 for this globe
trotting and why did Miss Fortune
promise her hand to anyone? Read
and you shall learn.
OF chums there were four when this
story began, Ave 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
a veteran at that sort of thing already.
As q youngster he had run away from
home to be a bugler boy in the Boer
war. but even this wasn't enough for
him.
The Bushmen's league Of Australia
is q very powerful and wealthy organ
ization. Some Of the richest men of
that island, which ID . continent Of
itself. belong to It. A few Of them
got together n day and offered .
prize for . feat which no m ever yet
had accomplished.
Fifteen thousand guineas for the
man who walks around the world, Wis
iting every country. without begging.
borrowing OF stealing"
Two Fortunes 70 Win.
That, says Greenlee. was the Bush.
mems offer. The quartet Of young
fellows noted It. And 5000 guineas
u 81. OOO-a fortune. And when their
girl chum and schoolmate, Miss Mary
Smith Fortune. now a beauty of New
South Wales, offered to marry the one
who could do it. that made two for
tunes, didn't It? At feast those Aus-
tralian fellows thought II did. any
way. because all four loved the girl
moro than any a would have con
fessed to the other three, friends "A
they were. Creenlee says he was
willing. He In still willing.
And % al four determined to make
the try. each resolving to finish, each
M hoping the other three would drop
out, but all four firmly resolved to
stick together and share thier com
mon danger az long a. they stuck to
their self-appointed task. They started
from Melbourne on June 1. 1904. with
them they carried the itinerary pre-
pared for them by John Rutherford.
president Of the Bushmer's league.
All four brass badges Of identin.
cation and carried on their persons
Masonic emblems-all four had ~.
tanned the thirty-sscond degree in the
craft.
1T wa1 the one thing that put me-
through" said Greenlee. earnestly. 70
ferring 70 his Masonic connections.
when he arrived In New York. his
$4,000 mile 5ousney Of more than ave
years Ut n end.
Tasmania VA the flrst- stage n thu
globe sncircafng trip. and Il proved a
easy one Tor these hardy young fel.
lows from Australia Their letters