The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-22
RESTS HERE AFTER DOING
 22,OOO MILES ON A WHEEL
W. (. Sanford of Battle Creek, Washington, Circles the Globe, But Finds Nothing Bet
 ter Than America.
ter Than America.

a good Filipino was when that Filipino was dead-and very dead at that.
 After his year was up Sauforu lefs Manila and sailed for Hong KonG and from the Flowery Kingdom went 70 Singapore, thence to Calcutta and down to Bombay. Then he got over into Egypt and on the banks of the Nile ana through the land of the Sphinx his good old American bicycle came into play once more. {. -.fss-
 Then taking boat again he got into Arabia. and with his bicycle wheeled to
 the town of Alden, wheeling along the
 hanks of the Red Sea to the little town of Suez-the namesake of the great ca-
 nal. Going eighty-seven miles farther on
 he reached Port Said.
 Sunny Italy came next and Naples was
 the first point he struck in that iand oL
 wine, women, poetry and sunshine; tho
 town of Pisa, famous for the wonderful
 leaning tower, coming next.
 I,eahorn came next and then Genoa, the
 bicycle doing good service here, and then came the land of the Dons. Barcelona was the first town reached in spain ana then came Madrid-beautiful old Madrid. It was too cold here, and Sanford douoied
 back on his wheel to Sunny Italy again, going back to Naples. To Rome he went and from there to Florence, and then
  those famous mountains on his bicycle He had no brake on his wheel and sew eral times he narrowly escaped deafh-s shooting around sharp curve ne was
 dAshing straight for the edge of a preci- nice hanging over several. thousand feet
 of space. He says that just then he pre- ferred staying on top to shooting iake bird through all this space, and the only way to prevent it was to hurl himself on fatn nntn he would dash around curve and drop into a dark tunnel-there was no stop ping the wheel, and he simply had to go on into the tunnel. taking his chances of meeting anything
 The only time he left his wheel in the Ans was at the celebrated eight-mtie tunnel. where he took the train, as does
 everybody going through that tunnel. Lyons was the first town of importance
 he reached in France, and then on to the one city of the world that stands in a class distinctly by itself-Paris, the Peer | less. He had a punctpred tire here. and 1 it took him three days to find one Of his American make. Down to Calais and | then across the English Channel to The Tight Little Isle and of course "Lnnnon | Town
 Down to Southampton, where, taking the steamer St Louis, he landed in New I York on the lith oay or has'f tgVA, !use | two years and three days from the time he had started around the circle from Battle Creek. Mich.
 | Mir. Sanford is most interesting talk l CT and describes his travels with zest,
 but he always winds up by declaring that the United States is good enough foE | him. s .-sa4s st
 We are a hundred years ahead of al the countries of the Old World" he says and the only things they beat us on are | the roads.
 "Everything was transported by wagon | in the old times, and the famous army roads that Napoleon built through the Alps are still kept up, but in everything | else as compared with the United States.
 the old countries are at a sad disadvant- l age.'