Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-25
>. +. Mcbride and Wife, Former
lowan's Travelling Across
the Continent
LUXURIOUS
HAVE
OUTFIT
Reach Washington After Travelling
5000 Miles in Wagon Covered and
Furnished Like a Household-visit
to the Battlefields Where Mcbride
Fought in Civil War.

Washington, April 2d.The fiowcry
beds Of ease are spread out for aged j.
e. Mcbride and his younger wife across
the entire continent and sweet Is the
peace they find in their home that
travels thru hills and valleys.
For genuine contentment they say
there Is nothing like their existence.
With plenty of money, good health and
u Maytime disposition. they have trav-
eed thru Kansas Missouri. Illinois.
Kentucky Tennessee, Mississippi, Alab-
ANA, Georgia. Florida, South Carolina.
North Carolina, Virginia. and now they
are going to look upon the big, blue
ocean and turn back to their home at
Aurora. Neb., where they started July
10, 1905. He is 70 years old and she
IL 49. They are robust and sun
Drowned and their faces are ever ALT
with the smiles of satisfaction.
I'VE have just had dinner and are
waiting for supper" This is the way
they look at life. I'VE never get sick
because 1t doesn't feel good. We never
quarrel. We believe in sleeping and
eating a plenty because 1t makes us
feel good, and we believe in feeding
our team because they can pull
better. In fact we believe in living
and letting live"
Have Travelled 5000 Miles.
Mr.. Mcbride, venerable and yet
flushed with the lingering prime. and
his wife reached Washington after
travelling more than 5000 miles. Their
wagon Is covered and furnished like
a household and they stop 1T meath a
spreading tree when the sun goes
down, so when they arise with the sun
next day they have a different front
yard than they had the day before.
About twenty miles day-just far
enough to give the horses good exer-
else, with stop by some fern glen for
dinner and bath in babbling
brook Is all the progress peaceful
traveller would care for.
Telling stories as they sit in their
wagon journeying over the hills, jok-
ing and laughing with persons they
meet on the highway and as free from
care as the birds they feed from their
hands, the couple have steadily rolled
the scenery of more than dozen
states behind them. Now they are seek
ing Washington.
This is q mighty pretty city" said
Mrs. Mcbride, sweeping Pennsylvania
avenue, the monument, executive man
hull u
glance. But 1t looks to me as If the
folks would get tired of seeing 1t every
day. There's nothing like travelling.
We have seen nearly everything there
Is tell you the southern people are
all right. They are the most hospitable
people ever met. Just wouldn't let us
go. Wanted us to stay forever"
But we are going back to our home
to stay lnterposed Mcbride. our
journey has been fine one, free from
troubles or trying experiences and we
have enjoyed it every inch. but of
course there is no place like home and
we don't expect to make any more
trips.
Pay Visit to Battle Fields.
I'VE have seen the battle fields where
l fought in the Fifty seventh Illinois
and historic scenes that recall my wild
young life -Corinth and Pittsburg
Landing, around which hangs world
Of memories-and we will see Niagara
falls before we go back. Dolly and
Maud, our horses, will haul us thru
Michigan, part of Canada, across the
farms of Indiana and the hills and vail
leys of Illinois and Iowa. We may not
get back home until fall, but we are not
hurrying, because-what's the use?"
I'VE don't believe in doing things in
a hurry" said Mrs. Mcbride. Make
haste slowly"
While Mcbride and his wife saw
Washington, Dolly and Maud potlucked
with bobtailed horses in aristocratic
paddocks and found as much at which
to wonder as the couple they hauled in
to this city. They talk to one another
Of the Changing scenes and the other