Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
isciple', sits petrified with amazement

disciple' sits petrifed with amazement
at request to give up the employment
of life time to preach an unknown
gospel to other men. Yet, over all is
the wonderful power Of inspiration ex-
pressed in the total absence Of any ex-
preston of opposition to the Masters
will! Conviction, surprise, and "IorL
show US the wayr are depicted in every
lineament of the ishermen's faces,
figures, attitude and gesture, and blend
in one harmonious design. Some of our
young travellers stood with very pensive
countenances by this carved group, and
were emotion, conviction, their CONVEX
sion to Roman Catholic object worship,
might have been an easy task.
From Antwerp we took the train for
Brussels, by way of Maligney. Wind
and weather favored us. The rural
scenes of that day, in Belgium, are not
likely to be forgotten by any of us. The
grand estates of wealthy old families,
with hedges of gigantic Lombardy pop
lars, under which nestled the gardens
of tenants, crowded with vegetables and
fruits, and yet in most perfect order.
The eheerfulness and industry of the
women and girls in field or garden, are
very striking, and agreeably so, in dis
tricts where nature seemed to smile on
the richest harvests one could imagine.
1t was only when we came to crowded
impoverished cities, THAI we found wo-
men, girls and dogs, bearing the bur
dens God intended for men and horses.
Our thirty-eight American women have
resolved TO ask for no more rights. Wo-
mems rights in Europe have quite salts
fled them; they will henceforth claim
the right of being part of ''the weaker
SEX"
At Mechlin a treat was in store for
us. Forty thousand people from Brus-
sells had come up to celebrate "All
Fools Day. as it falls in their calendar
but once in a century. The concourse
of people at the station was the most
interesting imaginable. Forty thou
sand people, good natured enough to
celebrate a blunder of their ancestors,
in mistaking the moonlight on gilded
dome for fire, and playing water on 1t
half the night, was something for us
Americans to witness. But the amuse-
ment OF our party was increased very
Unexpectedly. when the doors of the
railway carriages were eunceremoniously
pulled open, and in bundled the revel-
lers, regardless of consequences and our
cries of spas de place." ''complet," " and
half dozen other remonstrances. AT
least two passengers for every seat oc-
cupied the ears TO Brussels, and arriving
in the gay old city at sunset, we found
the streets throaged with its own inhab-
itants and peasartry in every costume
and style of vehicle that could be
named, laughing, dancing, blowing their
whistles and horns, and initiating all
the sounds that ature and art ever pro-
duced. But the ''forty Americans"
created '.siir" even in that whirl of
excitement. And it was a sight to be-
hold the crowd that blocked our entrance
to the hotel, as we filed out of the
riages two and two, and laughed in
spite of weariness and alarm, when stu
dents and soldiers lifted their hats rs
we passed, and blew a tremendous blast
of horns and trumpets after us when
we were inside the porte c0chere.
Wherever we go our hotel arrange
ments are made i'm advance, so we are
the terror of small parties. The mo-
ment the Loomis party enters station,
there is grand rush for the telegraph
office, to secure rooms at the hotels on
the route, but our leader smiles quietly
at this, for oar kilograms are always
two days in advance of us.
The city of Brussels is a mixture of
German neatness and solidity, and
French taste and gaiety. The hotel de
Vile was the grand attraction for many
of us, and we faithfully trudged up
something less than thousand stone
steps to the pyramidal tower, from
NHiCH We NltNtu lilc Htlu VI w dltIIot.
and the quaint old city itself with its
grand boulevards and gardens and
parks. The tapestries, four hundred
years old, that decorate the walls of
the reception halls and civil marriage
hall, attracted considerable attention,
but we had been prisoners in doors too
long on the steamer to be weaned from
the outdoor attractions that string of
carriages invited us to see. Our pro-
cessiOn moved all over the city, halting
only when the third best orchestra in
the world, began their evening concert
in the palace garden. Moonlight, music,
beer and flowers we enjoyed till mid
night, then hurried home to sleep till
we were called for an early start for
Cologne the next morning.