, 1925-08-05

Buffalo Bill. How well can
1 remember the old days when he
used to break the bottles. used
to sit upon the circus boards in
awe wondering how the deuce he
could get that way. l would have
difficulty in hitting the side of Cedar
bottles" said Chas. L. Greenleaf
when he visited The Herald office
n day last week. Mr.. Greenleaf
is hiking over the United States.
When coming thru Denver he
said, Il spent a whole night sleeping
very near his wonderful tomb"
G~reenleaf. who has walked from
Los Angeles to New York. Florida,
to Chicago and return to Los An
geles. north to Seattle and now on
his way to Portland. Maine. from
where he may go once more to the
southern peninsula, seemed greatly
impressed with the Cody monument.
1T is things like this that show a
peoples thought. Too bad, tho.
that Mr.. Cody could not have been
buried here, too. | will have a lot
more to say about this topic in
book number three of my "Hiker"
series. These will be numbered
"A Hiker." numbers one, two and
three.
The famous hiker said that he
thought Cody better thar the av-
erage western town in hospitality.
Last night I went into the Irma
hotel fully expecting a rebuff, but
was surprised by being invited to
supper. Then [ was allowed by DR..
Lewellen to sleep on his grounds.
it being hat they have stringent
rules upon the camping site about
a Then this morning the White
Lunch restaurant was accommodate
ing" Greenleaf has been through
every sort of ordeal a human could.
and yet out alive and smiling. Said
he knew why Cody was a better
western town. up on the north
ern route there is a big dilution of
tramps, hobos and buns. which the
average person confuses with a real
hiker. The difference being in their
degree of usefulness to humanity.
a hiker. you will find. invariably
has some big object in view. which
will be brought out in my books.
The hiker said he thought Vel
lowstone park miraculous, the Sho-
shone forest almost human. 81
would call it the nearest that in
animate objectivity could come
to being animate. Everywhere We're
there faces of humans, animals
even Henry Ford was represented.
Marshall Foch stood out in relief
in the background. but most of
all does human nature in reality
interest me. To study it is a prob
lem.
IT sound as though | was reflect
against the two men just mentioned,
but 1 am not. would not exactly
classify them as ordinary humans,
which is the individual that interests
me most. To observe his struggle
for existence. to study his environ
ment. his motives. are all fascinat-
ing, but when it m to his man
ipulation-ah. that's another thing.
IT'S the difference between un-
Outstanding the machinery and the
knowledge of how to run it. All
humans aAN Iht odilts gtA 81 VII
ferent-similar to thumbs or faces.
$50 it is with other things which
l have not the space to so into de-
tail about here in your paper. l
am especially interested in chill
dren because they will be the gen
Grafton with which | win have
contact with most. 1t is fine to
know them. to understand. and be
able to control and manipulate
these without irritation on their
part"
Greenleaf a%pologized for having
taken so much room with the things
in which he is interested, but after
all said he thought that the people
were interested in themselves.
And so it happens that my book
will interest everyone from five
years to one-hundred and fifty. |
don't believe they grow much older.
Everything from the meeting of
wild animals to sleeping in tenn
perature from one and fifty TO forty
below in Il tent, in the most UNI