Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-09-15

any masquerade clothes to call on taa
emperor of Germany, like you 10 when
you visit royalty in Turkey and Egypt,
for good frocll coat and a silk nat
Will take YOU anywhere in the day
time, and sWallow-tail is legal ten
der at night, 50 dad put on his frocI
coat and silk hat, just as he would to
so and attend an afternoon wedding
at home, and we were usherel into
a regular parlor, where the emperor
was having fun with mis- children, and
the empress was doing some needle
work.
Dad supposed we would have to talk
to the emperor and the prince through
an Interpreter, and we stood there
waiting for some one to break the ice,
when some one told the emperor that
an American gentleman and his boy
wanted to pay their respects, and the
emperor, who wore an ordinary dark
suit, with no military frills, took one
OF the young princes he had been play
ing with across his knee and gave
him a couple Of easy spanks, in fun
and the whole family was laughing
and the spanked boy tackled" the EN-
peror around the legs, below the knee
like a football player, and the other
princes pulled him off, and the en-
| peror came UP to dad, smiling as
though he was having the time Of his
life, and spoke to dad in the purest
English, and said he was glad to see
the Bad Boy man, because he had
read all about The pranks of the had
boy and bid dad welcome to Germany
and he didn't look sick at all
Dad was taken all of aheap, and
didn't know what to make Of the Ger
man emperor talking English, but
when the ruler OF Germany turned to
me and said, And so this is the cham
pion little devil of America and
patted me on the head, dad felt that
he had struck a friend of the family
and he sat down with the emperor and
talked for half an hour, while the
young princes gathered around me-
and we sat down on the floor and the
boys got out their knives and we
played mumblety peg on the carpet,
just as though We were at home, and
all the boys talked English, and we
mad bully time. The princes had all
read "Peck's Bad Boy" and | think
the emperor and empress have encour-
aged them in their wickedness. for the
boys told me Of several tricks they
had played on their fatier, the EN-
peror, which they had copied from the
Bad Boy" AMI it made me blush
when they told of initiating theil
father into the Masons, the way my
chum and l initiated dad into the
Masons with the aid of a goat.
| asked the boys how their dad tool
it, and told them from what we il
America heard about the emperor o.
Germany, We would think he would xii
anybody that played trick on him
but they said he would stand anything
from the children, and enjoy it, bu
/ if grown men attempted to monkey
with him, the fur would fly. Int
, crown prince came in and was intro
duced to me, and he seemed proud t
see me, cause mis- uncle, Prince Hen
: ry, had told him about being in Mil
, waukee, and how all the women il
that town were the handsomest he haC
ever seen in his "Trip around the world
and he asked me if it was 50. | re
| ferred him to dad, and dad told min
, the women were the greatest in tn
! world, and then dad made his usua
! break. He said: Look ahere, Miste
Prince, you have got to be marr:eC
t some day, and raise family to hanC
< the German empire down to, and N
2 advice to you is not to let them saw
l off on to you no duchess or princes
g as homely as A hedge fence with n
2 ginger in her blood but you skip gu
/ to America, and come TO Milwaukee
$ and | will introduce you to girls tina
1 are so handsome they will make 80
5 toe the mark, and if you marry on
S of them she will raise family O
5 healthy young royalty with no hume
t in the blood, and you won't have t
e go off and be gay away from home
;, cause an American wife will take 70
I by the ear if you show any signs c
d wandering from your own fire side
like lots of your relatives have done.
g Gee, but that roade the emperor no
e and he said dad needn't instil any C
e his American ideas into the Germa
j. ! iET H,