Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-09-11

Az Miss Fortune meant a
bride and $4,000. 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 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 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 $4,000 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, 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
a veteran at that sort of thing already
As a 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 a very powerful and wealthy organ
ization. Some of the richest men of
that island, which is a continent of
itself, belong to it. A few of them
got together one day and offered a
prize for a feat which no one ever yet
had accomplished.
Fifteen thousand guineas for the
man who walks around the world, Wis
iting every country without begging
s borrowing or stealing
Two + OrruneS TO WIN.
That, says Greenlee, was the Bush
mems offer. The quartet of young
fellows noted it. And $4,000 guineas
is 75.O00-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 1t, that made two for
tunes, didn't it? At least those Aus
fr-cI i1r, fol
way, because all four loved the girl
more than any one would have con
fessed to the other three, friends as
they were. Greenlee says he was
willing. He is still willing.
And so all four determined to make
the 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 1, 1904. With
them they carried the itinerary pre-.
pared for them by John Rutherford
president of the Bushmen's league
All four wore brass badges of identifi-
cation and carried on their persons
Masonic emblems-all four had at
tanned the thirty-second degree in the
-craft-
1t was the one thing that put me
through" said Greenlee. earnestly. re
ferring to his Masonic connections
when he arrived in New York. his
$4,000 mile journey of more than five
years at an end.
Tasmania was the first stage of the
globe encircling trip, and it proved an
easy one for these hardy young fel
lows from Australia Their letter.