Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-09-08

them and we'fnd in our room at the
hotel a box of insect powder which is
charged in with the candles,
The King, who is boy about three
years older than am, is full of fleas,
too, and he jumps around from one
place to another, like he was shaking
himself to get rid of them. lie gets
up in the morning and goes out horse
back riding, and jumps fences, and rides
up and down the marble steps of the
public buildings, as though he wanted
to make the tleas feel in danger, so they
would leave him. Seems to me, if every
man kept as many dogs as they do in
Constantinople the fieas would take to
the dogs, but they say here that fieas
will leave dog and get on human
being, because they like, the smell of
garlic, as every Spaniard eats garlic
a dozen times day. They are trying
to teach dogs to eat garlic, but no self
respecting dog will touch it.,
We have had to fill up on garlic in
order to be able to talk with the peo-
pie, cause dad got seasick the first day
here, everybody smelled so oniony.
Dad wanted druggist to put up onions
in capsules, like they do quinine, so
he could take onions and not taste them,
but he couldn't make the man under
stand. There ought to be a law against
any person eating onions, unless he is
under death sentence. But you can
stand man with the onion habit, after
you get used 10 it, 1t is woman, a
beautiful woman, one you would like
to have take you on her lap and pet
you, that ought to know better than
to eat onions. Gee, but when you see
woman that is so beautiful 1t
makes her ache to carry her beauty
around, and you get near to her and
expect to breathe the odor of roses and
violets, it makes you tired when she
opens her mouth to say soft words
of love, and there comes to your nos
| triis the odor of onions. Do you know
nothing would make me commit sui
| eide Sc quick as to haze a wife wht
habit. ally loaded herself with oniona
Dad was living some candy for m,
at confectionery shop, of beautiful
Spanish woman, and wilen he asked
how much it was. she bent over towards
him in the most bewitching manner
and breathed in his face, and said:
| "Quatro-realis, seignor," which meant
-four bits, mister" and he handed
her tive-dollar gold piece and went
out doors for breath of fresh air, an(
let her keep the change. He said she
was welcome to the $3.50, If she would
not breathe towards him again.
Well, we have taken in the town
looked at the cathedrals, attended the
sessions of the Cortez, and the gambling
houses, saw the people sell the staple
products of the country, which arr
prunes, tomatoes and wine. The PEG
pie do not care what happens as Ions
as they have quart of wine. In some
countries the question of existence /.
bread, but in Spain it is wine. NJ
one is so poor they cannot have poo
wine, and with wine nothing else il
necessary but piece of cheese ant
bread helps the wine some, though
either could be dispensed with. Ii
some countries wine, women ant
song" are all that is necessary to live
Here it is wine, cheese and an onion.
We went to see the king, because h
is such young boy, and dad though
it would encourage the ruler to see al
American statesman. and to mingl
with an American boy, who could Civ
him cards and spades, and little casino
and beat him at any game. made da,
put on a lot of badges we had col
lected in our town when there wer
conventions held there, and when the,
were all pinned on dads breast h
looked like an admiral. There was
badge of Modern Woodmen, one of tn
Hardware Dealers association, one O
the Wholesale Druggists, one of tn
Amalgamated Association of Railwa
Trainmen, one of the Farmers Alliance
one of the Butter and Cheeseman's con
vention, one of the State Undertakes
Guild, and half dozen others in brass
bronze and tin, on various colored rit
bons.
Say. do you know, when they ushere
us into the throne room at the palace
and the little king, who looked like
student in the high school. with dys
pepsia from over study and cake be
tween meals, saw dad, he thought h
was the most distinguished America
he had ever seen, and he invited da
up beside him on the throne, and da
sat in the chair that the queen will S
in when the boy king gets married, an
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