The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

if hare and seem to think there is no other country, and they are happy ana work from choice.
 always knew the Belgian guns that sell in America for 12 shillings ana XII 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 useu hv civilized people than any country on oorth and am glad to be here. cause von get notice when you are going to he robbed. They ring a bell here every minute to give you notice that some one Is after the coin, so when you near A bell ring, if you hang on 10 SouA nocketbook you don't lose.
 This is the place where There was a sound of revelry at night, ana bet, gium's capital had gathered there You remember the night before the battle of Waterloo. when NapoIeon DO nanarte got his. You must remember ahout if. old man, just when they were right in the midst of the dance, ana "soft eyes looked love to eyes Which snake again." and they were taking cbamna0ne bath, inside and out, when suddenly the opening guns of Waterloo. twelve miles away, began to boom' ana the poet, who was present, said: put hush. hark,-a deep sound like rising knelI," and everybody turned pale ana hegan to stampede, when the floor roanager said: Iris but the wind, or inc car on the stony street, on with the dance: let joy be unconfined; no sleep fill morn, when youth and pleasure meet. to chase the glowing hours with flying feet"
 Well. sir. this is the place where that hall took place, which is described In inc peace I used to speak in school put I never thought would be here, right where the dancers got 1t In the neck. When dad found that the oattletielo or waterloo was only few miles away ba hired A wagon and we went out there. ., -. A.,,o run across on this trip the battlefield of Waterloo is the worst. When the farmers who are raising barley and baled hay on the battlefield saw us coming, they dropped their work and made a rush for us, and one fellow yelled something in the Belglan ian- puage that sounded like: T 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, ar made up faces at us, and called tLe farmer who had caught us the Yilest names. They said we would be skinn- ed to finish by the faker Who eot uS' and they were right.
 He showed us from high hill where inc different portions of the battle were fought, and where they caught Napoleon Bonaparte. and where Bluch- CT came up and made things hum in the German language. and then he took us off 10 his farm where most of the relics were found. and began to sell things to dad, until he had filled the hind end of the wagon with bullets and grape shot. sabers and bayonets, old rusty rifles. and everything dad want ed. and we had enough to fill a muse um. and when the farmer had got dad 8
 money we went back to Brussels, and oot our stuff unloaded at the hotel. Sav. when we came to look 1t over we found two rusty Colts revolvers, and euns of modern construction. which have been bought on the battlefields in all countries, and properly rusted to sell to tourists. I showed dad that the revolver was unknown at the time of tbe hattie of Waterloo, and that every article he had bought was a fraud. the sabers having been made in America, before the war of the rebellion, and dad was mad, and gave the stuff to 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