The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-09-22

tasy drerpsa tar work and maas 3
rush .3r Us ana one fellow yelled soEas-
skl-s h the Belgian Language that
Ssarssd Ike. Z saw them first and be
al Gold u dzd and me, and the rest
sis5d a like a 10. OF haek drivers that
lave seen 4 customer fail irto the hands
e another driver. ara made up faces az
and cai5ea the farmer Tho had
tsCga, rs the viisst lanes They said
We wosid be skiHned to q finish By the
GgEer who got Is. and they were right
He showed US from 8 high hill where
TIE different portions Of the battle we're
fought AID whers they caught Napoleon
B3aApars and whfre Blucher cau2e IN
Ea5 made things hum in the German
,zrgus5s and hen he took rs Of 10 his
farm waege the most q the relics we're
.caz5 and began 10 sell things TO dad,
1atH he had alied the hind end Of the
wagon vita bullets and grape shot,
ssssrs and bsy0Eets. old rusty rifes.
ard everything dad wanted, and We had
fE5Bga 20 fl a museum. ana when the
iaTzaer had got dads money We went
JACK 10 Brussels. AMI got cur stuff tn
fgsfeI at tha hotel Say, when 70 came
20 COL it over ne found Two rusty Colts
raralvsrs ana guns Of modern ~coEstrac-
tioa. Which have beAH bought on the
. bart.s4e}is in all countries. aud prop
cry r-s.ei 10 sell 10 tourists, I showed
dad that the revolver was unknown al
he tine Of the battle Of Waterloo, and
that every article he had bought was a
frsud, tae sabers having been made In
America before the war Of the rebellion,
and dad va mad. and gave the stuff to
he porter Of the hotel, who charged dad
seven dollars for taking it away.
Dad kept one t~hree-cornered hat that
the farmer told him Bonaparte lost
shan his horse stampeded with him,
and il had drifyed under a barbed wire
fence. where 1t had lain until the day
6etgre we visited the battlefield. Say,
thaE hat Is as good as new and dad says
it IL worth all the stuff cost, but | would
no. be found dead wearing it, cause 1t
is all i Of style.
We have seen the king Of Belgium,
and actually gothic worth Of our money
He is al old dandy. and looks like a
Philadelphia quaker, only he is not as
pious as a quaker. Dad wrote to the
king and said he was a disti1 guished
American travelling for his health. ana
had q niece VINO had frequently visited
Belgium with In opera company, and
she had spoken of the king, and dad
wanted to talk over matters that might
be Of interest both to Belgium and
10 America. Well. the messenger came
back and said dad couldn't get to the
palace a Minute too quick, and so We
went over, and as we were going
through the park we saw an old man in
citizens clothes, sitting on a bench. pat
ting tho head of a boar hound. and when
he saw us he said, Come here. Uncle
Sam, and let my dos chew your pants.
Dad thought 1t must be some lunatic.
and was going to make a sneak and get
out, when the man rose up and We saw
it was The king, and We went up to him
and sat down on the bench, and he asked
dad if he had come as a relative of the
opera singer, to commence suit against
the king for breach Of promise. or to
settle for a money consideration, re-
marking that he had always rather ray
cash than to have any fuss made about
these little matters. Dad told him he
had no claim against him for alternating
%anyhody's affections, or for breach of
promise, and that all he wanted was to
have a little talk with the king and
find out how a king lived. and how he
had any fun in running the king bust
ness, at his age. and they sat down and
began to talk as friendly as two old
chums. while the dog played tag with
me. We found the king was a regular
boy, and that instead of his mind being
occupied By affairs of state, or his
African concessions with Congo coun-I
try, where he owns a few million slaves
who steal ivory for him, and murder
other tribes, he was enjoying life lust
as he did when he was a barefooted how.
fishing for perch at the old mill pond,
and when he mentioned his career as
a boy, and his enioyments, dad told
about his youth, and how he never got
so much pleasure in after life as lie did
when he had a stone bruise on his heel.
and went off into the woods and cut a
tamarack pole and caught sunfsh till
the cows came home.
The king frightened up and told dad