Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-07

don't know where the knife is COM
ing from, as you do about an American
revolver, when one OF our citizens
reaches for his pistol pocket.
Spaniards are nervous people. on the
move all the time. and Il Is on account
of fieas. Every man, woman and child
contains more than a million fleas, and
as they can't scratch all the time, they
keep on the move. hoping the iieas VIII
lump OF on somebody else. When we
came here we were fiealess, but every
person we have come near to seems
10 have contributed some fleas to us,
until now we are loaded down with
them. and we find 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 l am, Is full OF feas,
too, and he jumps around from one
place to another, like he was shaking
himself to get rid Of them. He gets
up in the morning and goes out horse
back riding, and jumps fences, and rides
I'D and down the marble steps OF the
public buildings, as though he wanted
to make the feas feel in danger, so they
would leave him. Seems to me, II every
man kept as many dogs rs they do In
Constantinople, the fleas would take to
the dogs. but they say here that fieas
will leave a dog and get on human
being, because they like the smell OF
garlic, as every Spaniard eats garlic
a dozen times q day. They are trying
to teach dogs to eat garlic, but no SELF
respecting dog will touch 1t.
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 law against
any person eating onions, unless he is
under a death sentence. But you can
stand man with the onion habit, after
you get used to it. II Is a 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
q woman that is so beautiful II
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
trils the odor of onions. Do you know
nothing would make me commit sui
eide so quick as to have q wife who
habitually loaded herself with onions!
Dad was buying some candy for me
at a confectionery shop, of beautiful
Spanish woman. and when 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 a five-dollar gold piece and went
out doors for breath Of fresh air, ant
let her keep the change. He said she
was welcome to the $3.50, II 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 peo
pie do not care what happens as Ions
as they have quart of wine. In some
countries the question of existence IL
bread, but in Spain 1t is wine. Nc
one Is so poor they cannot have pool
wine, and with wine nothing else Ii
necessary; but a piece Of cheese ant
bread helps the wine some, though
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