| Show i v r n E D A 1 FLEAS A S AND N D ONIONS N s PECKS r I Li C K s BAD BADBOY TROUBLE T ROU B LE T H BAD RAD I BOY B OY ABROAD BOY BOY B OY 4 AND N 5 DIsi HS DAD DD D I IBY d cf BY GEORGE W PECK t td MADRID M ln Spam My dear deer Uncle You think thInk that we are are aret t hr liv our by coming to Spain SpaIn n after the Cuban uban war ar In which President Roose Roosevelt velt elt charged cared up San Sn Juan Juin hill bIll in the fa fate e of over thirty bloodthirsty Span lards and captured a the blockhouse on the summit of or the hill bill which was wa about as us a bigas bl as a and hold two platoons of ot in fa of ot twelve men inelL to the platoon hitoon without crowding and which closed th war after th thy havy ay had l I i the Spanish vessels els es I and ami aiu sunk unk them thern in Ii wet water and picked UI up the crews und and run them I through h clothes wringers er to dry tIn them Uh out but we W are ar aa ws safe aCe here as ss we Wt w would be on South Clark huk sir et in Chi Chiago ago aEo agoDo Do Lb you know when I r read lead n ad of ut that charge harge of our bur troops troop up San Juan Tuan hill h by our peerless u bear br hunter 1 I thought thou ht it was waa UI Uke the Che bottle battle of Get where heie ii hundreds of o thousands of men rn II fought fou ht on n each side and I d Roosevelt with Grant Sheridan Sherman Meade l Ade and Thomas and all that crowd but one day TRY I got gt talking with ith a y of the f cart in an j promptly it ly deserted after ater i Hy fillY day and reenlisted after he het hec t c r 3 L It And Went Out For Some Fresh Air had luul spent his money and he do doa a 1 thing to my toy idas of the th importance o Ji that battle battie He lie told me it was only ii i little h like driving in m a n api pi ket post poet po t and nd that there were wele not Spaniards enough there to hf have haYe a u roll rollan c all an not Hot so many Spanish S as aa ast there t h ore ele Were were if American newspaper neW IllEr cor roi correspond oa respond respondents enis on oi uri side aide HUM only a af af awe f c were wece killed killo l Mud antI wounded and that 1 dozen dozet soldiers in an army riny wagon null fluid have hac driven n up u San Sai all Juan hill hili with fire he crackers and und scared eard the Span Spen Spaniards tanh out of the country and UlI that a H of o a negro regiment r did pretty n ar nil all the shooting while our cr tr did lid the yelling and had their rii ph t 1 Urt urs s 4 taken caught raught in ill the act at qt but got ot his foot in n H t b by talking about t the blowing up Ull of th tho Maine and saucy Helley as tS though he h ha was a going to t get eten with the Span Spa but lie We found that every el S Sean San an ani i ird was ag as a s sorry orry for that accident as w e c were tI and KILl they would take fake oft off their j I Iha Kit ha tO when hn the M ine was waa SS ii UK 1111 look hk and I tell tt j j yoU vou the ti are an about as aa good 00 1 as you vou will find fluid anywhere where and I dad da has hat concluded to fall back bak on I Christopher Columbus Columbua for a steady stead diet dietor or of talk ease cause if it had not been bt t n for we w won W nt t have been discovered d Fo I ered ez fd to da day which might have hae a darn good thing for us But Butth I th t hO here her do no not noI recall recal the fact that there evet e Pt was a man name named I I Christopher cm eO and they dont dott what he ever el discovered or w here the country Count Js Ia lK that he sailed I away aay t u to unless they are educated ami a 11 familiar with ancient history and only oly once in Iii a It while hile will you Und thaI any anybody an body hod that Is educated The Tho children of America know more hout the th history I tor of Spain than the th Spanish children This country re rf reminds minds ninda you jou OU of a 1 J y on the Sta stag tage The I grandees in Ii their picturesque costumes though few fE W In number compared to the theT T are arc the whole thing and th people you ou see ee on the stage stag with the th gandees gland in ID peasant pea nt costume peddling oranges and fig figs you fin J Jer ere in the lifo lir of Spain looking up to t grandees i s though thou they the were vere gods gode Every Eer peasant p ant carries arries s a knife in some place about him and no two carry their toad stabbers in the same If ou ee a nan reach hi hj his finger under r his hi collar to scratch his neck the th c fiances are an his hi fingers touch the handle of fr his hi dagger dager and if he hitches up his ble rattle paste hia hie dagger er is ig there and if he pulls tulls up tap lila his hi trouser leg you calm cati bet your sour life his knife is right handy and if i you U have ba a any In y trouble you dont know w where here the I 1 18 from torn as a you I do lo about an lIl au American revolver when wh n ore pre of ot put pur reaches for hi his pistol 11 ke are re ITOUS I people on the Ul move mIt rno all AU the he tb time and amid it is If on emm account cf rf fleas ne Every J ry mat man woman and child thild contain more inure than a million fleas n as and andas as ate the they ant aut scratch all 11 the lie time they the I keep kf p on the th move moe hoping the will I jump off oft on somebody eite elc Ife When h n we WI I r came here h re we C were were fie less les but every person we wc have come ome near to seems to haie hae contributed some som fleas to us until now we are loaded landed down with th m 1 we e find in our cur room at the hotel hot a box of Insect powder po which is charged in with writh The king who is aboy a about 3 years y ars older thai I am ja je full ull of fleas I and Tie around from one place pla e to i another like Uk he be was shaking himself to i get rid of ot them He gets up in 11 Inthe the morning and goes out horseback riding ridin and Jumpy jum fences and rides up and anil I down the marble steps of QC the public pu lie bundi a I though thou h he wanted to make I Ithe the fleas nea feel in danger so they would l leave leac ave him Seems Scents Se to me if every pery man trian I kept as many dog logt as they do in Con eon Constantinople I the th lIens would take to the tIl dogs doga do but they the say a here that fleas nas will I leave leaie Ic c a dog and und get et on a t human being because they the like the hinell ninell of garlic gurli as lUll every Spaniard eats garlic a dozen dozea d zea times s a day They The are trying to teach dogs dog to eat t but no ct lag Ing in dog doJ I touch K it KWe We Ve have haul had to fill fiU up ur u on garlic In order to lie be I able to tc talk with the people cause dad got ot seasick the first day da here everybody smelled so Dad wanted a druggist to put up onions in capsules like iLke the they do quinine so he h hoUld could t take k nl arid not hot taste them TOM b t Tie make i kp the man under understand understand stand There le e ought to be b a n law against any an eating onions unless he is Ia wider under a death sentence But you can stand a n man the onion habit after you OU get et used U ed to it It is a woman a aI I beautiful woman one you would like to have hue take you on her lap lao la and pet petOU you OU that ought ou ht to know kho better bettel than to eat onions Gee but when you see a woman that is Jg so Sf beautiful it makes her ache to carry ary her beauty around and you get set near nar to her 11 t I and expect t to breathe braa the the odor ool of roses roes ro es nd violets it f mak s ou 01 when she he opens her to say Soft oft words Tf df f love Ion and andI there comes omet lo to your yur y mr nostrils the odor of or I onions Do you know kno nothing would make Blake me iu commit suicide so ro quick as US to tv inive a wife If who habitually loaded her herself herI self acif l with ith I Dud Dul was Avas w buying hiI some candy for me meat meat meat at a confectionery shop of a n beautiful Spanish St woman ami when he asked I how much it was vs as she ho h bent over oer toward him in the most bewitching manner I and 4 breathed in his face and said Qua is which meant four hits bits bit mister and amI he handed her a o 5 gold old piece and und went vent out doors for a n breath of fresh air nir and let her hr keep the change He said she was wel welcome el elcome come to the if she would not breathe toward him again Well Ven we e have lute taken in the town looked at t the cathedrals attended the theofr jons of the Cortex Cortez and the gam gain WHooSH c i i I 3 j I I rT The King Chewed His Piece First bling blin houses I saw the Ule people sell ll th the staple products 1 of f the which av al prunes tomato 11 nj ite le The people 10 do not Ot care hat happens ns as aslone lone lo Ion a se MR they the hf v a nv rt of wine witie In some mt me countries the question of existence tenc is J bread but in Spain it is wine Xo No Xon Noone one n is 5 so o twI H r they cannot t have liti Fe poor ilOr wine and with win nothing else is necessary ary hut but a pie e of ch cheese hO se and read bread helps help h ll the wine some iOnie though either could b boo be Jj pen d with In some HOmE wine ine women n and song n ar are all that is iI to live lin Here it wine vine chee ch e f onion We f wont went to S se time the th kir kii because he lie hei i iii such a JI youn o and amid dad thou thought ht it would encourage n e the tIme zuler ulel I to see an American statesman 81 I a t and and nd to mingle le lewith with an American boy M who could give him card ard and s p ules de and nd little casino and beat him bun at any n in me I made dad put on Oll a lot of badh es we t had col collected Collected in our tWIt town rhen rhen there heit welt wei werl conventions hid held h fd there therea when they were all pinned on dads dalls breast he looked like m an admiral There was Va a badge hadge of Modern MOl lod rn Wo dm one of th the Hardware association one of 0 the Wholesale Druggists one of or the Amalgamated Amal Association tion of or Railway Trainmen on one of the th Farmers Alliance one olle of the Butter I and Chees mens con one or of the State Guild and half hall a t dozen others in brass ba s bronze and tin tim on ln fl various colored color rib ril bons Say Sa do you kno when they ush us Into the throne room at the palace lalace and the little king kins who looked I k d like a student in hl the time high school w ith dys dyspepsia from over oyt study tudy and cake be bt b tween meals 8 aw mw W dad Jad he h thought he was the most distinguished d d American he had ever eer seen aen and he invited dad up beside him hi n on cn the throne and nd dad sat in the chair that the th que qu queen n will sit in when gets married d and andI I sat down on 01 a front seat and watched dad Dad Da had h U d read in the he papers that the boy bo king wanted to marry an Ameri Amen Amerian can an girl Irl who was the possessor of a lot lotof lotof of money sO o dad began to tell ten the king of girls in America that were more beautiful than luau any in time the tJI world an and i had hundreds of millions l of cold dol dot dollars lars Inns and an appetite for raw r w kings and that he could arrange a it n match fur for forthe the king kins kin that would pinke him hini ri r hi than any king kin on any an throne throB The Tue Th boy king was as becoming omin ested e and und I 1 guess dad would have hax hail had him married all right light If It th tb king kin had bad hadnot not seen s en me take lake out a n bag bap of or candy andy and begin to eat when wh nhe he ha said ld to me Come orne up here Bub give ghe mile some of that Gosh G sh but lUt I trembled like a leaf Jent but I 1 went right up the steps st IS of the tw throne and hint him the bag hag and amid said id Help Hep yourself Eu Bute Bulj Well Vell sir the queerest t timing thing hap bap happened I had two wo pieces I I es of candy f filled Iliad with cayenne ne pepper for fOl I April fool and Hie Ime handed the bag to the master mastt r of c a R big bi Span Spa Spaniard lard all t Ot over oer with lace lat si and ml 1 if it you will itt e me the th king kins kill sot got ot one pie lif of iU U tI cayenne De DeI Dej ep i Q r I j vJ j Bravo ravo Americana Americano candy and amid the spangled prime Irime minis minister ter tel got sot the other a ald d the king kins hIS piece first and ana he opened hJ hi month like a dog d g that has picked up m I hut hilt boiled eg egg and be m w out hi breath to cool his tongue tin uC and amid Whoosh and and sputtered PUl re red l land and then ts lIM prime tet he lie sot got ot his hl and amul he h yelled murder in lam Spanish SIR nish sin am amI I 1 the kit go C l d f LUt r tu j put JUt pu t hi 1 hands st and Slid hit a cramp I and the other map he tied himself Jr up tit Ii I II Iia I a double how bo knot and anti called d for foi and tIn time king sa Id hI he lie would ha VI VIto to KO go o to the chapel hAlkI and amI the h who were ere guarding the king kini took I away awn hard anti and red in fade face and dd a said id to me You hit poisoned the whole bunch of I heads and we had better beUer get et out ama anc jo so 0 we wont went the palace while f kings s retainers re iner w ny r Ming filling him i ter tr Well eU got 1 ot the t I out of him because we saw sa at the bull fight fI ht In the fhe th afternoon for awhile he h est box lO ther I ever ee t was outside of oC ofa freight train tram an anif if he h urea live to be as aft ole Old lda a Mr 11 Methuselah lab lah he will win always alwa 8 his Intel int vip viet lew with little The TIlt bull huh fight a much Bulls om omu mr in u the th ring mad a as wet hen hens au f fihE they v stick agens m tn them anti ana tho th thel bellow around and an the Spaniards s lod anti and nd hake shake 1 l rage t and aft n a bull has hits ripped a res of bov bo howes ei of a few hen a mart piar v r nJ ith ii 1 a sabre stabs the bull b l between t twel t t shoulders mimi and h he d and tr thE crowd cheers the thc ssi of the and they the bring in ill another bull mai us v Well VeIl sir sr dad came mighty finish at the bull fight When n the second bull cams nl ne ia in and ril d the th stomach put out of a blind horse and anti the bull was just charging a man who was a ato to stab it dad stand it any longer lon er and ami he h climbed right over OV I into the ring and he said Look aler yo heathen J l protest in the th name of th the American Humane society ci tY against this cruelty to animals and unless this I business husin 8 stops right rl ht here 1 I will ha have n ni e ethis i this phu e pulled and nd Well 11 sir you would of thought that bull would have toad Iud sens ens to see ee that dad s his friend but bit b tt he be probably t understand what dad was driving t Tor he made a rush U h for 01 dad daI da and da d started to run for the fence and the bull caught dad just like e dad wag a sitting n in a rocking chair and tossed him over oe the fence and dads pants on the bulls horns and dad dae landed In among am ng a lot of male and female grandees grandeas grand I and everybody yelled Bravo Brao Americano and the police wrapped a blanket around dads legs and arid were wore gong goig to take him hit him to th the I emergency but I claimed churned dad and took him the hotel Yours HENNERY Copyright 19 by Josepa R B 1 Facts About aan aanN New N W York Y World Japan 00 people more re than half h as a f United S tt J The word Mikado 0 signifies s some thing like the Sacred Gate or the Jh he St Porte 8 The name of th ell ik bJ ji h Mutsu ll U Hito HUo f I J Jw Jn Timp name n e of the empress ei press is O b Haru HaruI w I ring j t I name of or the n prince e is 18 Yosh YO hl H I M n areSs dr sS is te worn W nt at all ll court e eRIce Rice is lit the Ine common food for the com common common mon people e I Sixteen cents a Il day de IB Ia now nov god y for tor unskilled labor in i Jagan Ten years ago a o it was 6 cents i Janan has bas very er few millionaires s practically no multimillionaires 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