The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-11

drinker acts like Suicide who only hopes
that he inny commit n murder before tht
/ Of thousand of people In this town who have
no ambiti9n except to get bit Of bread to
sustain s them TIL they can get a drink Of
4 tirely, and feed on gin. and look like mad
i dogs and snarl at everybody they see. MS mucl,
4 as to say: What arc YOU going to do about
a good square American meal would give
them n fit. and they would go to hospital
\ and die if the meal could not be got out OF
them.
/ Gosh, but was glad to get out OF the
4 White Chapel district. and kept looking back
Z, for fear onci of the men or women would slit
! inc up the back with n butcher knife, anu
laugh like an insane asylum inmate.
| 30 YOU know, those people who drink gin
ican rnnrdcrers. Our nurdcrers Will assault
you with n smile. rob you with q Joke on
their tongues end, and give You back car
fare. when they hold you up. and Il they muir
der you they will 10 1t easy and lay You out
with your hands across on your breast and
YOU up into chunks. and throw your re-
mains head first into something nasty, and II
n bottle of GIN, your murderer Is rs well
satisfied ms though he got roll. Some men
in our country commit murders In order to
get money to lay away SO they can live nice,
respectable life and he good ever afterwards,
but yonr Stun murderer In London Just kills
because his stomach Graves drink. and when
he gets it he Is tame. like n tiger that has
eaten native Of India.
You may think this letter Is a solemn occn-
are not funny, but II you ever travelled abroad
you will find that there is no fun anywhere
except In America, unless YOU. mako it or
buy it.
We arc taking in the solemn things first
In order TO get dads mind in condition
he can be cured Of things he thinks all him.
we got out Of II he wanted to have America
Interfere and have the COMPOUNDED place burnc I
down and grass sown on the site and park
made Of II.
The tower covers thirteen acres Of ground.
and there are more things brought to Wis
TORS attention that ought to be forgotten
than you ever thought about.
II remember attending the theatre at homo
and seeing Richard III played. and remem-
Two little boy princes that were murdered by
Richard III, but thought 1t fake |
play. and that there was nothing true abou.
it, but, by gosh. 1t was right here in the
Tower of London that the old hump backed |
cuss murdered those little princes. and dad
and stood right on the spot and tho beef
ficulars. Dad was indignant, and said to the !
.stffE@.s M
md let Richard kill those princes without ut.
tcring. protest or protecting them or ring
ing for the police? BY the great hornspoon.
you must have been accessory to the fact, and
you ought to be arrested and hung, and
lad pounded his cane on tho stone floor and
looked savage.
The beef-eatcr got red in the face and said
Begging your pardon. don't you know. but
was not no at the time This istory
vas made SIX undred years ago"
Dad begged the mans pardon and told him
ne supposed the boys were murdered a year or
wo ago, and he gave the beef-catcr n dollar.
ND md he was 10 gratified = think he would
here and then If dad had insisted on it,
You feel in going through tho tower like
you was In M American slaughter house. for
was here that kings and queens were be-
headed by the Dozen They showed us axes
hat >wcre used to behead people and blocks
hat the heads Of the victim were laid on
md the places where the heads fell on the