Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-06-28

sen, IaSlc, Switzerland, then Zurlch.
All France seemed bathcd in sunshine
with the peasants at work in the
fields and peace r"ignc,l. AZ the
Swiss border our baggage had 10 10"
examined and to facilitate matters
We went into a large room. deposited
our bacrag.. on Il long. low table,
oy- ned The lGtl;GaSc and awaited the
official. Considering this monotOnous
and unpleasant work. ] found the
custom men agreeable enough. They
looked mostly for tobacco. cigars
spirits and jewclry. Having only a
suitcase was quickly chalk"d off
and ! walked through a door AT the
other end OF this large room where
caught my train for Zurich. This
train. from Basic to Zurich. was n
Joke compared with our poorest roads
In this country. Rough, slow, hot and
stuffy, this train stopped at every lit
tie dinkcy town on tho line. and still
il was named the Zurich Express"
found no country whose railroads
could equal ours. especially thOs" on
the continent of Europe. ] liked the
English railroads best of any. yet in
many ways the American railroads
are superior. They have no great
coaches and locomotives To equal
ours and the sight of Il Santa Fc d"
Luxe or a Southern Pacific Golden
State Limited would. in my opinion.
bc a wonder to the avcrag" contincn-
tai European. But "" must give
them credit for speed on their boat
trains" These ar" made up ready to
carry passengers and mail from the
incoming American steamer to Lon
don or Paris as the case may br.
These simply fly" and on the French
road from Chcrhurg to Paris ii seem
eternity at any moment. considered
the readbcd to bc so old and in
excellent condition. otherwise their
little. light coaches could not have
stayed on the track.
We reached Zurich. Switzerland.
about sundown and n charming city il
Is. I had read George Barr McCutch-
in's "Graustark," n novel of the far
fetched order. and when | rode
through the streets Of Zurich ! imag
incd that ! was. at last. in Graustark.
The city is on Lake Zurich, a very
large and most beautiful sheet of
water formed mostly 10y water from
melting Alpine SHOWS and drain
ed by one of the clcarcSt and most
rapid rivers, flowing through tn"
heart OF the city. that | have cv-
cr seen. This river Is crossed 10y six
concrete bridges and my hotel was
on n street leading from one of these
bridges and Immediately on the river
bank overlooking the stream from my
windows.
reached Zurich on Saturday
afternoon. Going to my room that
night. found n feather bed on the
fSot of r. -.hed,-atr- .9.s. -4-;e:ild-:nat-
Ghderstand. but soon learned that 1t
extremely cold for eight or nine
months in the year and | have worn
my overcoat in July and August on
occasions over there. This fluffy,
light bed proved very useful before
daylight came. The next morning
carly I heard. repeatedly. Shufflin".
grinding movement that could not
understand. Jumping out of he'd and
going to the window. soon saw the
cause OF the commotion. II was Il
swimming match 10y a number of
Swiss amateur swimmers. They
would start ut tho lake. about n half
mile off. and swim down stream. GO
ing under the bridge arches on which
was n crowd of people who would run
to the other side of the bridge as the
swimmers passed under. Some of the
participants were students of the Iu-
rich Polytechnic Institutc-onc of the
very finest of its kind in Europe, with
some 1000 students. | was told. This
beautiful river runs between hanks Of
solid masoncry the length of the city.
About 9 o'clock n. M. walked mp
the river and around part OF the
lake. An excursion steamer was
about to start on trip over and
around the lake when band struck
up "Thc Directorate" march by SouSa,
but II was rather an amatrurish at
tempt and did not interest me. i did.
however. hear the Royal Swiss Guard
band of about 60 members. play
concert that afternoon and to use an
American slang. there were no flies
on them" They were good-wonderful
| may say-producinC some of tho
Crandest clmaXcs and tone -colorinCs
ever heard. The dense populations
of Europe require much of the indi-
vidual man IL he expects to ever ac-
complish n standing in his line: it
Is hard. constant drudgcry in any line
that gives these people commanding
position. and listening to this band
(somc of the men appeared TO he 10
or 10 years OF agc) ! knew from a
lifetime experience, that with them II
had been a case of practice. practice.
then some more. (Thc German licu-
tenant said his entire life had been
made up of drill. drill. drill. then
drill) never thought that genius
existed much more in one man than
another: it's work, we'll applied. that
succeeds. and believe II was Mr..
Edison who said. Genius Is one per
cent inspiration and 80 per cent per-
spiration." There's no doubt that. tai
cnt and n touch of genius facilitate
matters. hut work produces results.
From Zurich we went by train Can
other dinkey) to Romanshorn on Lake
Constance Here we took n small hut
comfortable lake steamer for Lindan.
Germany. The Rhine river flows into