Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1913 — HIS SENSE OF SMELL KEEN [ARTICLE]

HIS SENSE OF SMELL KEEN

King George Detects the Odor of Onions When His Couriers Enter Room. London. —“Hawkins, you’ve bgeneav lng onions,” angrily exclaimed King Edward to his sergeant-footman one day at Biarritz, according to Edward VH’s motor mechanic, C. W. Stamper. Stamper confessed that the ser* geant-footman, the knight-courier and the postmaster lunched heartily on beefßteak and onions one day and soon afterward the king wanted to see the postmaster, so the courier, npmed Fehr, called the sergeant-footman, and the' king was proceeding to tell him, when he stopped short, looked at the man and then accused him of eating onions. “No, your majesty,” protested the courier. “Yes, you have. I’m sure you have. Send Mr. Hiley here at once and Mr. Fehr.” “Yes, your majesty.” The sergeant-footman withdrew and presently Postmaster Hiley was announced. The king called him to his side and was beginning to read to him a telegram he wanted him to dispatch when he buret out: “Hiley, you’ve been eating onions!" “No, your majesty," said the postmaster, instinctively recoiling. “Yes, you have; it’s disgraceful.” The courier then entered the room and approached very wearily, but his majesty’s sense of smell was keen, and all Fehr’s efforts to suppress the facts in the case were unavailing. The king looked up sharply, Bat back in his chair and groaned: “I’m damned if you haven’t been eating onions, tocf! ”