The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-29
They Run Over y Peasant With itE.
III ali Automobile and \; n Climb
"Glaziers' iii Switzerland.
81 # Dad Falls Over d Preci- 31ss
pice, But - Is Rescued s's:s as's, y I.5i,
by the Guides.
BY Hon. George w. Peck

WI Publisher Of Pccks Sun All thor OF SUI III
NJ sS9 a pock,s Bad Boy, t etc.) 3 II
(Copyriglt 1906, by Joseph 3. u l,owles.)
q d DN EVA, SWITZERLAND. My Dear
Old Man by ginger, but I would Ike lt'
to bc homo now. L have had enough Of
foreign trnVo;g#i don't see what ls the
Use OF travelling, to- see people OF foreign
countries, when you cdm 50 TO any large
city intAmerca, and find more people
belonging 10 any foreign country than
.yo,, caii lind by going to that country.
ami they know q COMPOUNDED sight more.
Take the Russians In New York, the
Norwegiais or Minnesota, tho Italian
on Chicago. and tho Gormuts in NJ wau-
5kce, and they chn t,llls English and you
can find out all about their own co Jul a
tries BY talking With them; but you go
to their countries and the natives don't,
know that there Is such ID language IS
the United States language, and " they
laugh at you when you ask questions
Lam sick Of the whole business, and
would Give all II ever expect to BIO worth.
to be homo right now, with my skutes
sharp. AZ III 81
1 would like to open tho door OF your
old Lsocery, and take one long BREATH
ana did right there OIL the doorstep,
eign country. Do&yotl Know y sOlnetimes
90 into a grocery store abroad, and
smell around, In order5to get my thoughts
on dear old America; but nothing abroad
smells as tho Same thing does \ In our
country. VI II az could get ono more smell
Of that key Of snuef krnut back OF your
counter, when 1t is ripe enough to pick,
think 15awould break right down and
cry for Joy T.. OF 8 co rse. 81 have smelled
saucrkrauts ovors here, but It all seems
now and tame compared to yours 4 I
may be tho kraft here Is not aged enough
to- be good but yours is aged enough
to vote and sticks TO your clio hes. MI Gee,
but Just ache t Q get Into your grocery
and eat things. and smell smells, and
then lay down on#t the counter with tho
cat with my head on a pile Of wrapping
paper, and go to sleep and wake up In
America, an nerlcan 4 citizen, that no
king or queen can tell to hush 9upa and
take o If my hntSwhenaI want my hat on.
on may wonder how we got out OF
Monte Carlo, W hen u We had lost every
5cent4w had rambling vell, 1--WE wan
dered about vi II gil u had our
breakfast setit iup to our room and had It
charged. U expecting that when the bill
came In we would have Jump into the
ocean n, as we had no gun to kill ourselves
with. Just after breakfast q duke. or
some thing, came to our room, 20 nd dad
said IT was al X off, and i8 he called upon
the Dakota man to make speech on
lapolitIcs. while dad and j Skipped out. We
Thought the duk 10 was the manager
Sofs Il tho hotel, would & not sund orstnnd the
speech fatid would II Ink VIC were great
people, who Had got stranded
9$. The Dakota man IS started In on a Dem
ocratic speech that no used to oliver IN
! the campaign OF n 90. and In half an hour
L 10 1p
| Dakota man let up. on the speech. Then
|sthe duke took 4out a roll OF bills and said (:
|Enzc shentlomen Is what you call Z bust.
| IA II not so o.. Daid snid no could 4 bet
| his life 1t was SO. u T hen the duke handed
| the roll OF bills to dad, and said ~ was :
tribute from the prince OF Mona o, ana ana
| that we were his guests, and when our
Estov5 was III tan end, automobiles would
he furnished for us to go to Nice, & where
We could cable home for funds and 4 p 'e
happy. y. , -. .,a,,, ,, v, /.
! .Youdn't that skin you" and he gave ave
| tho DakCca man one OF the bllls 70 ~
on the bartender and when he foundz tt le
money was good we order RED an =, aueo, ~,
chouffeuri could not understand English
i i az wc talked over tho situation and de-
cide6 t1lntithc only way to ybo 3looke ed upon
o. . renYIne it,utomobiists would be TO wear
roerles and look prosperous and mao "a =,
everybody. We took turns looking la - :
/ at everybody we passed on the ronu ~ ~
got it down so fine that peope p.aN.,h ), - i
r roeks after we had passed and and threw t,,s
Man, = { ,,s. and then we knew that w w
were succeeding in being considered sei-
nine. rich automobile tourists. !,
i Aftcr we had succeeded for an non l,a =.
two'in Convincing the tia tWse % dat
properly hearttess a ly pudI cd to make te
i SAG ei sccess wns to run over solnebooy
Hn said nearly all the American 1.,,aa an sone
bile tourists In Europe mad ki'leq so., ne
body and had been o. opt Two IN France
snnpor5 "a t th' proudrr 81 It thar
tha y would be they endowed a. uniVer.
h built church ;yn ana no e s be tor
c crusaI IN running through tho country
but wouldn't least crp ple some n ,Ine q
We'll Just before, We got t 20 F ia road
darkness vas set tiin hia d horn there was
Scream that would raise hair on .taoraGd|
Greeley,s head, the automo6il (, stopp eit
and there was bundle 50 q austy III !,
clothes With an ,,ro oa W out and lifted he
,,n ana there we were, the woman N {
faint the peasants gathering AROUND ,,,,l W.
ana rr Se bl ga faced faced wo
h mah n Ma until finally a doctor came, ant
after examining the W3mabm n SUI q 9tIsh
n ntsns w wanted 70 50 on but !, w Z
ddnt be cut 9pe sa,S T'th IL Tsy'aSs
20 tis, az tho woman, came out wlthat
hIs nfes ana e eF' u
hot gag Sa nds ii ike a stage being hele
cried Tnallfy X, ttbo ha sbant
s,u IS seitie for Sioo because he could pa,
funeral FL bag sao eoneth Mn
i Lor r. 5, a in for Christmas. As TIL
ans say p9nts IS t e. d maae Y ant
l'p rrso e1s To send 30 month for clever
Years uuntll the Oldest child was Of g.,
We got nWayetallye s anq g9t ba ns
and We cabled home for money 70 J, 2 :,
sent to Geneva. switzerland, but 90 =
between tho Russians and the japanese 3
is done 1T night. This y caused sens py Me-
destructive nature Of modern guMs, MS = !,
Il -, -, !, ~. Il oUrl men like WNcslt v