Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-09-21

could give the sultan of Turkey cards
and spades and little casino in the harem
game.
You will go along, won't you, bub?'
and he gave my thumb another twist,
and | said: you bet your life, but l
won't do a thing to you and Leopold
before we get out of the Belgian hare
belt and so here we are, looking for
trouble,
1t is strange we never hear more about
Belgium IN America, but actually, |
never heard of a Belgian settling in the
United States. There are Irish. and
Germans, and Norwegians, and Italians,
and men of all other countries, but !
never saw a Belgian until to-day, and 1t
does you good to see a people who don't
do anything but work. There is not a
loafer in Belgium, and every man has
smut on his nose, and his hands are
black with handling iron, n something.
There is no law against people going
away from Belgium, but they all like
it here, and seem to think there is no
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work from choice.
always knew the Belgian guns that
sell in America for IL shillings and kill
at both ends, but | never knew they
made things here that were worth any
thing, but dad says they are better fixed
here for making everything used by
civilized people than any country on
earth, and | am glad to be here, cause
you get notice when you are going to be
be robbed. They ring a bell here every
minute to give you notice that some
one is after the coin, so when you heal
a bell ring, if you hang on to your
pocketbook, you don't lose.
This is the place where There was
a sound of revelry at night, and Bel
gums capital had gathered there
You remember the night before the bat
tie of Waterloo, when Napoleon Bona
parte got his. You must remembel
about it, old man, just when they wer'
right in the midst of the dance, ant
soft eyes looked love to eyes which
spake again. and they were taking
champagne bath, inside and out, whel
suddenly the opening guns of Waterloo
. twelve miles away, began to boom, ant
!. the poet, who was present, said, Blu
hush, hark,-a deep sound like a risinl
. knell," and everybody turned pale an
y began to stampede, when the floor man
' ager said, "'Tis but the wind, or tn
' car on the stony street, on with tn
. dance; let joy be %unconined; no slice
u till morn, when youth and pleasur
: meet, to chase the glowing hours wit,
: flying feet"
Well, sir, this is the place where tina
. ball took place. which Is described i
II the peace | used to speak in school, bu
never thought / would be here, RICH
. where the dancers got it in the necl
When dad found that the battlefield G
Waterloo was only a few miles away
he hired a wagon and we went out there
i Well, sir, of all the frauds we hav
" run across on this trip the battlefield {
o. Waterloo is the worst. When the farm
IS ers who are raising barley and bale
h hay on the battlefield, saw us comini
FL they dropped their work and msde
IL Tusn LII US, anu one ieilUW yeileu suAl'
thing in the Belgian language The
sounded like, 81 saw them first" and b
got hold of dad and me, and the re:
stood off like a lot of hack drivers thi
have seen a customer fall into the hant
L of another driver, and made up faces
# us, and called the farmer who ha
caught US the vilest names. They sal
we would be skinned to q finish by II
d faker who got us, and they were RICH
te He showed us from a high hill whel
the different portioHs of the battle WEI
fought, and wherethey caught Napolec
a Bonaparte, and where Butcher came |
10 and made things hum in the Germa