Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-08

ABOUT A HUNDRED FEET WITH THE
ROPE ON HIM.
all the cows wear tea bells. and 1t
sounds like chimes in the distance. 1t
Is beautiful in Switzerland, but the
cheese is something awful.
At night We arrived at a station
where we hired guides and clothes. and
things, and the next morning we start
ed. Dad wanted me to stay at the sta
ton a couple Of days, while he was
gone, and play with the goats, but
told him II there were any places In
the mountains or glaciers any more
dangerous than Paris or Monte Carlo,
wanted to visit them. so he let me go.
Well, we were rugged UP for discover
ing the north pole. and had alpen-
stocks to push ourselves UP with, and
the guides had ropes to pull us up
when we got to places where we
couldn't climb. could get along all
right, but they had dad on rope most
of the time pulling him until his
tongue run out and his face turned
blue. But dad was game, and don't
you forget 1t.
Before noon we got on top OF
glazier, which is the Ice OF frozen
river, that moves all the time, sliding
towards the sea. There was nothing
but hard winter, in summer, to the
experience, and We would have gone
back the same night. only dad slipped
down a crevice about 100 feet with the
rope on him, and the two guides
couldn't pull him up, and we had to
send lunch down to him on the rope
and one of the guides had to go bacf
to the village for help to get dad up
Well. sir, l think dad was nearer dead
than he ever was before, but they sent
down a bottle Of brandy, and when he
drank some of It the snow began to
melt and he was warm enough to use
bad language.
He yelled to me that this was the
limit and wanted to know how LONE
they were going to keep him there. ]
yelled to him that one Of the guides
had gone for help to pull him out. and
he said for them to order yoke o.
oxen. I told MIN that probably he
would have to remain there unit
spring opened and that / was going
back to America and leave him there
and he better pray. I don't know
whether dad prayed. down there in the
bowels Of the mountains, but he didn't
pray when help came, and they finally
hauled him up. His breath was gone.
but he gave those guides some Ian
guage that would set them to think
ing II they could have understood
him, and finally we started down the
mountain. They kept the rope on dad
and every little while he would slip
and slide 100 feet or so down the
mountain on his pants. and the snow
would go up his trousers legs clear to
his collar, and the exercise made him
so hot that the steam came out OF his
clothes, and he looked like locomo-
tive wrecked in q snow bank blowing
on steam.
II became dark and I expected we
would be killed, but before midnight
we got to the station and changed our
clothes and paid OF the guides and
took q train back. Dad said to me. as
we got on the cars: Nov, Hennery,
have done this glazier stunt, Just to
show you that a brave man. whatever
his age, Is equal to anything they can
propose in Europe. but by ginger. this |
settles It, and now I want TO 90 where |
things come easier. am now going |
to Turkey and see how the Turks wor-
~ along. Are you with met" "You |
bet your life." says I. Yours truly,
zENEERx