Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-09-05
could give the sultan Of Turkey cards
ana spades and little casino in the harem

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 l said: "You bet your life, but
won't do thing to you and Leopold
before we get out Of the Belgian hare
belt" and 30 here we are, looking for
trouble.
1t is strange we never hear more about
Belgium in America, but actually. l
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 Belgian until to-day, and it
does you good to see 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, or something
There is no law against people going
away from Belgium. but they all like
it here, and seem to think there is no
other country, and they are happy and
work from choice.
always knew the Belgian guns that
sell in America for 10 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 hear
bell ring, if you hang on to your
pocketbook, you don't lose.
This is the place where There was
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 remember
about It, old man, just when they were
right in the midst of the dance, and
"ssft eyes looked love to eyes which
spake again." and they were taking a
champagne bath, inside and out, when
suddenly the opening guns Of Waterloo,
twelve miles away, began to boom, and
the poet, who was present, said. But
hush. bark,--a deep sound like a rising
knell," and everybody turned pale and
began to stampede, when the floor man
ager said, "'Tis but the wind, or the
car on the stony street, on with the
dance; let joy be unconfned; no sleep
till morn, when youth ard pleasure
meet, to chase the glowing hours with
fying feet"
We'll, sir, this is the place where th at
| ball took place, which is described in
the peace ! used to speak in school, but
| never thought | would be here, right
where the dancers got 1t In the neck.
When dad found that the battlefield of
| Waterloo was Only few miles away,
| be hired & wagon ard we W. Mt out there.
| Well, sir 9. oil the frauds we have
run acrces on t2.a 4: :. !l:s II. tieiield o!
Waterloo isAho w'ors, s. 81 ~ arm
ers who are rais!ri bare; ere ;4tc
| hav o, the '-.tIsrc'h -. =
they dropped their work and made q
rush for us, and one fellow yelled some
thing in the Belgian language that
sounded like, II saw them first" and he
got hold of dad and me, and the rest
stood off like lot Of hack drivers that
have seen a customer fall into the hands
of another driver, and made up faces at
us, and called the farmer who had
caught us the vilest names They said
we would be skinned to finish by the
faker who got US, and they were right
He showed us from a high hill where
the different portions of the battle were
fought, and where they caught Napoleon
Bonaparte. And where HluEhsr cRfts "