Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27

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the palace and catch the king or queen
In the act. and take them by the neck
and hustle them to the tower, and
when king or queen got In the tower
they went out on the installment plan.
and after being thrown in the gutter
for the mob to recognize. and walk on
the bodies, they would bring them
back in the tower, and seal them up in
a pigeon hole for future generations
to cry over.
All my life have had In our house TO
look at n picture of beautiful Anne
Boleyn. and here stood right where her
head was cut of, and couldn't HELM
thinking Of how we In America got our
civilization from the descendants Of the
English people who cut her head on.
BY ginger. old chum. II made me hot.
I didn't care to look at the old armor. or
the crown jewels, which make you think
of a cut glass factory, but I reveled In the
scenes OF the beheading. never was
stuck much on kings and queens, but Il
seems to me II they had to murder them
they ought to have given 'em q show, and
let them fight for their lives, instead OF
getting into trap, like you would entice
q rat with cheese, and then cut their
heads of.
/ suppose II is right here that We in
herited the desire to lynch and burn
at the stake the negroes that commit
crime and won't confess at home. When
anything is born in the blood you can't
get rid Of 1t without taking a dose of
patriotism and purifying the blood, and
l advise you never to visit the Tower OF
London, unless you want to feel like
going out and killing some one that Is
tied up with rope
Hearing of these murders and seeing
the place where they were committed
does not give you an idea of fair play
and you don't feel like taking some one
of your size when you fight. but you get
to thinking that II you could catch q
cripple who couldn't defend himself you
would like to take baseball club and
maui the stuffing out of him. You be-
come imbued with the idea that II you
went to war you would not want to
stand up and fight fair, but that you
would like to get your enemy in bunch
and drop dynamite down on him from
balloon, and kill all in sight. and sail
away with an insane laugh.
Gee. but another day in this tower.
and would want to 60 home and MUIR
der ma, or the neighbors.
The only thing We have got in Amer
lea that compares with the Tower Of
London and its associates is the Lieut.
CERT sausage factory in Chicago, where
Leutgert got his wife into the factory,
murdered her, and is alleged to have
cut her up in pieces and made sausage
Of the meat, given the pieces with gris-
tie in to his dogs, boiled the bones until
they would run into the sewer, dissolved
the remnants in concentrated I've, and
sold the sausage to the lumber Jacks in
the pine woods.
expect Chicago will buy that sau-
sage factory and make show of 1t, as
London does the Tower, and you can 60
and see 1t, and feel that you are as full
Of modern history as am of ancient
history, here in London.
I could see that dad was getting ner-
vous every time a new beheading was
described to us, and I thought 1t was
time to wake him up. In going through
the room where the old armor was dis
played the beef eater told us who wore
the different pieces Of armor. and he
said at times the spirit of the dead came
back to the Tower and occupied the ar
NOR, and l noticed that dad SHE'D at
some Of the pieces Of armor, so when
we got right into the midst of 1t, and
there was armor on every side, and dad
and the beef eater were ahead Of me,
and dad was walking fast in order to
get out quick, / pushed over one of the
pieces, and 1t went crashing to the floor
and the noise was like boiler factory
exploding, and the dust Of centuries rose
up, and the noise echoed down the halls. |
Well, you'd died to see dad and the
beef eater. Dad turned pale and got |
down on his knees, and think he began
10 pray, II he knows how, and he trem- |
oled like leaf, and the beef eater got
behind a set of armor that Cromwell |
DR. some old duck used to wear, and said,
'Wot in the bloody ell is the matter |
with the h'armor?" and then a lot Of |
other beef eaters came, and they |
thought dad was the spirit of King |
John. and they stampeded. and finally
got dad to stop praying. or whatever
It was that he was doing. and led him
but, and when he got into the open air
he recovered and said, "'Ennery, hi
nave got to get out of Lunnon, don't
you know, because me cart is palpi-
.ating," and we went back to the 'otel,
o see If our invitation to visit King
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