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Show BEVERLY HILLS.-Well all I vow is just what I read in the Papers or what I see here and there papt-ia, " , Rotrers and Mary are away off on one of those Mediterra-nian Mediterra-nian cruises and I think they are about Cairo Egypt by now. Think they did a little flying. They wanted to stay longer in Jerusalem and Palestine, L" " so they flew over to catch the boat again in Egypt. I never was on one of those cruises; They must be. very fine trips. You know I never did do much along that line for just pleasure. I was always al-ways pretty busy. Done a lot of traveling trav-eling but it was always working my way In the early days it was working work-ing my way on a boat to try and get back home. I left home first class one time and it took me two years and nine months to get back third class. Thats what a clever lad I was, and had to go all the way around the world to do it. I -want to go to the Holy Land. I flew over it and circled Jerusalem, but I dident land. By golly a billy goat couldent land. Those old early settlers had the world to pick from and by golly they go and. settle on that place, and its the rockiest place you ever saw. River Jordan looked pretty good. That Nile has got some fertile land, and the best grass I ever saw outside of the early days in the Indian Territory where I was born. Was in a very big long valley, hundreds of miles, and 1 thought looking down on it from the plane coming from China to Europe, that 1 had found me a real new cow coun- try, and I thought my goodness why dont folk3 settle here, I bet they dont know where It is. There was just roving bands of Nomads with cattle, sheep, goats and camels. (Not all in the same bunch, but each handling han-dling different stock.) I said to the pilot, a Holland Dutchman, too bad people dont know about this place, it sure looks fertile. fer-tile. Pretty soon he circled the plaue, and pointed down and said. "There Is the Garden of Eden." Not a thing there but tall grass, not a soul in miles, not a tree, just plains. It was right above the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Pretty soon he pointed out the ruins of Babylon. Nothing there either. I hold the record of being the only person that ever went to Cairo and dident go out to the Sphynx and the Pyramids. It aint far out of town. There is some great things to see over the world, and its getting so you can travel cheaper than you can stay at home, and here at home its still cheaper, and we got a lot to see. I wish I just had the time to get in a car and just take my time and prowl arouud, see a lot of ranches that I been always wanting to see. I never been on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, Drove along below the south rim the other day, Fred Stone, Edd Vail, a California cattleman, and got off the train about eight oclock In Seligman, Arizona. Drove all day long. Saw just three ranch houses, two men hauling wood at one, one sheepherder with a band of sheep, and one cowboy at another ranch, and we drove till dark. Now thats about a record for keeping away from the crowds. coming is spoken of In acres. In fact lots of ranch countries dont mention acres. They speak of sections, sec-tions, thats 640 acres. But this country always speaks of It in townships, thats 36 times 640. They will say there Is a little ranch up hereof I think its 15 or twenty townships, town-ships, that twenty twen-ty times 36 times 640. There is an awful lot of room In this country. Thats where 1 was a hollering for the high center car. My good friend Brisbane said all you had to do was to put on wheels a foot higher, he dident say what would happen to the fondors. Then I have been swamped with wires and literature saying the Cryslor put one out, and I think maby the Plymouth. I never did hear from Ford about it He was just about monkeying around and had his mind on some thing else. I had Irvin Cobb on a horse here Southern Gentleman spread out not only over tho saddle but the horse He was funny but not to that old cowpony Ho was riding nn old In- Suds. Leo Carrlllo ccno dashing up this evening on a brand new Pal m no. (Light Dun to you., Jost of e actors that had race horses, the deUvery wagons have taken en, buck; th,GsUeok3 tt,,0,,t 1X11 tl,a'8 |