Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-21

TIL morn. when youth and pleasure
meet, to chase the glowing hours with
Tying feet"
Well, sir, this Is the place where that
ball took place, which 10 described In
the peace used TO speak in school, but
never thought would be here. right
where the dancers got II In the neck.
When dad found that the battlefield OF
Waterloo was only few miles away,
he hired wagon and we went out there.
Well. sir. OF all the frauds We have
run across on kSs trip the battlefield OF
Waterloo is the worst. When the farm
ers who are raising barley and baled
hay on the battlefield, saw us coming,
they dropped their work and made q
rush for us, and one fellow yelled some
thing In the Belgian language that
sounded like, 81 saw them first" and he
got hold OF dad and me, and the rest
stood of like lot OF hack drivers that
have seen q customer fall into the hands
Of another driver. and made up faces at
us. and called the farmer who had
caught us the vllest names. They said
we would be skinned to finish by the
faker who got us, and they were right.
lie showed us from high hill where
the different portions Of the battle were
fought. and where they caught Napoleon
Bonaparte. and where Butcher came up
and made things hum in the German
language. and then he took us on TO his
farm where the most Of the relics were
found, and began to sell things to dad,
until he had illed the hind end OF the
wagon with bullets and grape shot,
sabers and bayonets, old rusty rifles,
and everything dad wanted, and We had
enough to fill museum. and when the
farmer had got dads money We went
back to Brussels, and got our stun un-
loaded at the hotel. Say, when we came
to look it over We found two rusty Colts
revolvers, and guns of modern construc-
ton. which have been bought on the
battleflelds in all countries, and prop
erly rusted to sell to tourists. showed
dad that the revolver was unknown at
the time of the battle Of Waterloo, and
that every article he had bought was
fraud, the sabers having been made In
America, before the war Of the rebellion,
ard dad was mad, and gave the stuff tc
the porter of the hotel, who charged dad
seven dollars for taking 1t away.
Dad kept one three-cornered hat that
the farmer told him Bonaparte lost
when his horse stampeded with him,
and 1t had drifted under a barbed wire
fence, where it had lain Until the day
before we visited the battlefield. Say,
that hat is as good as new, and dad says
it is worth all the stuff cost, but would
not be found dead wearing it, cause II
is all out of style.
We have seen the king of Belgium,
and actually got the worth of our money.
He is an old dandy, and looks like a
Philadelphia quaker. only he is not as
pious as quaker. Dad wrote to the
king and said he was a distinguished
American travelling for his health. and
had a niece who had frequently visited
Belgium with an opera company, and
she had spoken Of the king, and dad
wanted to talk over matters that might
be of interest both to Belgium and
to America. Well. the messenger came
back and said dad couldn't get to the
palace a minute too quick, and so we
went over, and as We were going
through the park we saw an old man in
citizens clothes, sitting on bench. pat
ting the head Of boar hound, and when
he saw us he said, Come here, Uncle
Sam. and let my dog chew your pants"
Dad thought 1t must be some lunatic,
and was going to make sneak and get
out, when the man rose up and we saw
1t was the king, and we went up to him
and sat down on the bench. and he asked
dad II he had come as a relative Of the
opera singer, to commence suit against
the king for breach Of promise, or to
settle for a money consideration, re-
marking that he had always rather pay