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A BELGIAN MILK CART.

The dogs of Belgium and Holland work
about as hard as the women, but if j we're
to be born in Belgium, and bad the choice
only between being a working dog or work
ing woman, / would choose the lot OF the dog
The dog gets rest when his cart stops tho
woman seems always busy. These dogs are
as rule of shaggy haired variety of
mongrel. They are strong and angular and
they pull their loads without growing Often
three or four are harnessed up together aud |
have seen nobby little two wheeled carts con-
tanning four heavy men pulled l'y three dogs
Many of the carts are small two wheeled
hand wagons, which have bar behind for
pushing, and this is manipulated by the
woman vegetable seller or peddler The dog
in this case is harnessed under the Fart and
he pulls away with all his might whenever
his mistress orders t5slyF
The milk of the Belgian cities is peddled
about by women in dog carts, aml your
average milk peddler is quite n picturesque
object. She wears the costume of the Belgian
peasant woman of the better class. with
a white cap covered with q straw poke bon
net, bright plaid shawl folded across her
bosom and tucked in at her waist, a long
dress and an apron. Her cap is fcarfully and
wonderfully made, and its wide eurlike flaps
fall down over the front of her shoulders /
She carries measure in her hand and hel
dog is always well satisfied to sit or lie down
when she stops for her customers. 433
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A Race Around the world.

The Rev James l., Hill, Of Lynn, sent from
that city in the same mail two postal cards so
stamped as to go In opposite directions ON a
race around the world tine was sent via
San Francisco to Japan and back by Brindisi
and Liverpool, and the other crossed first TO
England and SO around home by Japan and
San Francisco. Both travellers returned from
their long journey well worn and well
stamped. As the postafflce authorities have
prohibited the nld time method of getting
these curiosities it was necessary to arrange
to have the cards restarnpesl and refirected
by friend interested in the project at Kobe,
Japan. The card that went around the earth
from west to east made the cireuit eight days
quicker than the other and was e:ghty-five
days on the way. II the authorities had
bought elephants and hiresl special trains,
like the hero of Jules Verne's story, the postal
card might have saved five days and gone
aaround the world in eighty days n-B Boston
EFuvsn
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These Belgian peasants have among them
some very good looking girls, and when
young they make quite a pretty picture in their
Shaker-like bonnets and their Puritan like
caps / remember one, especially, whe had
evidently come into Antwerp with her father.
doubtless prosperous farlner, to do sonie
shopping She was about III aud her checks
had the dark, rosy tint common to these
people. who are ever favored by the bree2es
of the North sea- Her hair was black and
glossy. and it hung down in bangs over her
forehead, above two as gently beautiful soft
hazel eyes as have ever seen In any drawing
room. Her cap was of the wh:test. the rib
bons of her bonnet bright cardinal and
black plaid, and her bright red dress was
filed in with a square bosom of white plated
linen, a large loose collar was clasped Under
her chin by a big breastpin OF gold. and
fine gold chain suspended Jet cross over her
bosom Her lips were as red as those OF
Ruben's beauties In the Antwerp galleries.
and her form was as plump and round as THAI
of the models OF this great Belgian master.
Speaking Of Rubens, Antwerp was his home
for years, and 1t was here that he achieved
his greatness. The people of Belgium are
very proud of him, and there Is q great bronze
statue of him In the Place Veto. in Antwerp,
near the noted cathedral in which two of his
greatest pictures hang. They show you the
mansion which he built in the Place de Meir
and lead yoa to his summer house In the gar
den and to the yew tree under which he loved
to sit. They viii talk to you about bis eareel
and his art They win tell you that he was
learned man, and that his father intended
him for a lawyer; that be did not like the law
and went to painting How be studied IN
Italy. and how he came back here to make
Is fast as they were made. How be lived
like prince and worked like lnethodicaI
American man of business. How be colssid-
cred lis work worth $50 day in the bard
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BOAT INSPECTION.


Accidents have come fearfully near hap
pening more than once. It is necessary to
travel twenty four hours to complete tine
whole length and make repairs, sometimes
remaining in the aqueduct during that time
Once the engineer ordered the gate keeper at
Croton dam to let the water in at Il D. m.
The gate keeper misunderstood and flooded
the aqueduct at IL in the forenoon. 1t was
all the men could do to reach the nearest
manhole and climb up ths ladder before they
were borne down by the rushing tide The
water was already to their waists, and they
staggered while trying to keep their feet in
the tearing current. The GOODNESS and pluck
Of the engineer kept them from getting
panicky, and saved them.
The water is not always entirely drained
out of the aqueduct Then enough is left in,
about five feet, to row over the course in o
metallic boat. This is scarcely less dam
gerous than the other. The boat is easily
upset and sunk, and then for those who lose
their heads. as poor humanity is apt to do in
trying situations, there is the added danger
Of drowning. Fortunately only one life has
ever been lost in the great conduit
The aqueduct was finished in 1912 and cost,
without the reservoirs and distributing pipes,
&S5T5. .0Oa ~ 2laI4-2a
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SECTION OF AqUEDUcr lion and a half OF
people. . lra =" &
Three hundred and thirty-nine square miles
are included in the region drained by the
twenty three lakes. The lakes are emptied
into small streams, which mingle their waters.
The original source of the Croton river is the
waters of three springs in Putnam county.
These run out into three pretty little brooks.
The brooks unite in q sociable way near
Owentown, N. Y. and run along together,
and that is how the Croton gets its start.
Then Immediately afterward come into it the
waters of the twenty three lakes, and SO it be-
comes of sufficient Importance to furnish the
water supply of SO many people.
This means only the present supply. That
has been found inadequate, and new water
sheds have been built to take in yet other
lakes. A new aqueduct is in process of erec-
ton, too. It will be a year or two before it
is finished When it is, New York will have
a purer, nobler water supply than any city
since ancient Rome, except, perhaps, Glas-
cow
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they appeared to be prosperous fun-loving
as well as pious, set of fellows The priests
Of France also appear very comfortable in
form Their complications are fair and ftsy
and they ARE the bealthest looking class VI
the whol, French nation.
There is in Holland class of men half
secular. half religious, which exists, think.
In no other country. 1t is that Of the aen
spreckers or undcrtakers-m men who make it
business to announce the death OF persons to
their friends. The aensprecker is tall, ca
davcrous fellow. a skeleton dressed all in
black, with cooked bat black knee breeches
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OUTLET FROM RESERVOIR.


But the new aqueduct is not yet COM
pleted. This paper deals with the present or
old one. @
Croton river enters the Hudson at Teller's
point, forty miles above New York city.
Six miles above the mouth of the Croton
river, and thirty-five miles north of Central
park, the present aqueduct begins. Up near
Owentown is a great natural basin called
Croton lake, 1t holds 500, 600, 900 gallons of
water. At the southwestern end of this lake
q gigantic dam is built, and here the great
thirty-fve mile aqueduct starts The dam is
ESQ feet wide, and 45 feet high
The aqueduct trails across ravines, tunnels
through solid granite hills, and leaps high
over rivers. 1t crosses Harlem under the
floor of High Bridge in a huge pipe about
twenty three feet around. AT intervals of
every half mile it is pierced by pipe to ven
tilate it. In the first illustration such ven
tilator appears in cross section. s.-...,
In the second illustration the Central park
end Of the aqueduct is SEEN Here, thirty
feet underground, begin the forty eight inch
mains that conduct the water through the
city. This point is known as the pipe gallery.
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70 Indeed, there is something in sGladden's
heed and face that suggests that of Garfield.
Both were devotionally inclined, Glad
den studied theology and entered the Congre-
gational ministry, His first pastorate was
the State Street Congregational church,
Brooklyn. He also has had charge of
churches in Morrisania, N. Y, and in North
Adams, Mass, and i'll Springfield, Mass AT
length fate OF fancy took him to Columbus,
q. There he is at present, pastor of the First
Congregational church. ON Broad street. A
beautiful church it is, too, and his eongrega-
tian is made up of the most cultivated people
in the city Let US hope that things will not
be too fine and easy with him, lest he forget
somewhat the struggling masses for whom
his tongue and pen have ever worked so
bravely.
The wide awake preacher lives in the city
of Columbus in the plain, comfortable house
which appears herewith. g
His largest fame is as q writer He was
editor of The New York Independent for
four years. Since then he has contributed
essays to leading magazines and papers, and
published books a5o41
Some of his best known writings have ap-
peared in The Century Magazine. After
being printed here, they have been collected
and published in book form. Among these
papers are the following: "What Is the New
Theologyp @Three Dangers christianity
and Popular Amusement" "The Increase Of
Divorces" 4The Christian League of Con.
necticut;" aHurricane Reform;n sThe Use
and Abuse of Parties,n Family Religion
Professionalism in Italy, The literary style
is strikingly clear and pleasing.
is Write me. pray thee, then,
AS one who loves his fellow mau,
Gays Abou Ben Adhem. So with Gladden.
And, as in the poem.
ss Next night
The angel came with q great Weakening light,
And 10! Ben Adhem's name led all tue rest.
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with knee breaches,
black silk stockings
and slippers His
bat Is broad -t,rim-
med and hlact.
With q ribbon at
its back. and be has
u band of white
lie en- about h / 8
throat Some of
these priests in trav-
cling loop up their
gowns behind with
pins or buttons, so
that they appear to:
be wearing l,ustIes,
and are dressed
more like women
than i1ien. / saw
many Of them dur
ing my stay in the
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...- S.A"'' fOiA"AS young men = De Is
only " years old ARE so we'll known and
well liked 10y the eminent in his own
profession. But this isn't matter of won
ffer--to those who know Mr.. FofDan He
il not only as entertaining o companion ms
one's imagination could invent, but nlanifests
an old fashioned faithfulness in his friend
ships as delightful as it is rare in mortals
He began journalism as special correspond
ent of The Brooklyn Eagle from, San Fran
cisco and other points in the west in 1878
He has been a contributor to Halpes's Young
People ever since it began to live, is writer
for Harler's Weekly and st Nicholas, the
American Press association and stl,ei syn
dicates. He was for five years IN active
theatrical journalism, and kept IA clean
record and that is something no man ran do
who hasn't particularly good stuff in hin.
The managers and actors gave him genuine
respect because he was honest, courageous
and possessed of ability. He has direct
style in writing, and calls things by plain,
unvarnished names. He can be humol Gus
without being coarse, and graceful without
being weak. His talent for writing clIiI
drenas stories has made him famous in thas
line A series of these is now being issued II,
book form by the Harpers under the title Of
"Th0apsoHs Transformations. The stories
are really lessons in natural history made so
interesting that the juvenile reader never
realizes that he is learning anything by read.
ing them until he has learned it, In fact,
they are fascinating reading for grown per
sons, being full of humor and sly little dabs
of comment on human frailties, WHICH we all
recognize as true to life. e54
Mr. Forman. with G. A Byrne and Lean
der Richardson, started The Journalist in 1884,
and year later bought out bis partners,
and not only still lives. but tlourishes The
Journalist has no rivals. It is tie only paper
in existence entirely devoted to other papers
and writers, and it is likelier to grow in infiu
cllce than diminish. = cas- . t@s
Mr.. Forman is married His wife is o.
daughter of Harry Fem, the well known ar
tist and illustrator. He is SO happy u mar
ried man that he says he would get married
again if he could find another woman as good
as his wife. y Fs44 s. ,4ssst stss3
The editor of The Journalist isn't Her !.
cules. He is slight, not very tall, but wirg
and alert. Just the kind of man a bully q
wouldn't be o bit afraid of, but would be :
rather sorry to have picked a fuss with after
it was over. He has a fair, girlish com-a
plexion, hair somewhat after the shade Of
Wilkie Collins Miss Gwilt, and wears eye
glasses, but isn't bit of dude. sEzs8
- EBBoN OLIVER q
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-.-,--a : REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN..
Washington GLADDEN. is of New England
ancestry. His father was school teacher
in Massachusetts,, and very strict and puri-
tanical. He removed to Potts county, Pa,
and there Washington was born in February,
1886. The boy had no advantages, as the
world would look at it; he had every ad-
vantage in the true, large way Of looking at
things. He had health, a strong, lively
brain, and spirit full of hope and ambition.
He had, too, the priceless endowment of that
sunny good humor which will carry its pos
sessor over all the rough places in life as ON
wings @
Besides his poverty, he was very early left
fatherless There seemed nobody to help
him. His mother removed to farm near
Oswego, N. Y, soon after his fathers death.
The boy did farm work in summer and went
to the public school in winter. Many Of the
best and greatest men of America took their
rise in just that way, as barefoot farm lads.
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DEER LODGE, MONTANA DECEMBER 3, 1886.
goods to Arabia, Persia and India. Spain and
the fnf,iisitinn kilied il The old topgn in which

goads to Arabia, Persia and India Spain and
) thefnquisition killed it. The old town in which
its horrors Of persecution were perpetrated
stilistands near the liarbor, and during the
Spanish regime the best of its skilled workers
IN silk and wooden We're banished. They fed to
England and gave tho start to their industries
there. By 1880 the city had been reduced to
less than opt third of its size, and shortly after
Atlfisthe French got hold of it. Boraparte re-
sbnlS its quays and harbors. and had not
Waterloo prevented, would doubtless have
made it il great seaport > 1t is now one of the
hesf Fortified cities in the world, and its ram
Parts can bs. seen in coming into il ON every
side 1t is estimated that it would take an
army of 10000 to besiege it effectuaily, and
aiE Il s0 constructed that its environs could in
great part be laid under water in case OF
4 snefsssitya d ss. s } 8s s5a sE1sta3 III
& TIE railroads of both Holland and Belgium
: hatA very cheap fares, and those of Belgium
! areEthc cheapest in Europe. The rates are
AbeAt three cents per mile for first class, two
for third class travel. Almost all trains have
the three classes, and the second class COM
partments are good. The roadbeds of Bel
GUM are badly ballasted, and the rails SO
laid that there is much jolting. The smoking
cars Of Holland have little boxes on the win
dows i'll which to put the ashes OF your cigar
or pipe, and cigars are generally smoked.
The canals form the only railway fences Of
Holland, and in parts Of Belgium the rail
roads are fenced by hedges. You can 60 al.
most anywhere in Holland now by rail, and
the system OF Belgium is one of the most conf
plete in Europe. The, custom houses of both
countries arc very lenient, and bona fide
travellers have little trouble.
found very good hotels in both Holland
and Belgium, and that at "a rate of about S3
or 81 per day. A good hotel dinner in Hol-
land costs about 81 or Sl.5O, and . bedroom
from eighty cents upwards, according to the
floor Taking fees at picture galleries and
churches into account, one can travel here
. very comfortably ON from So to So day, and
these amounts can be materially reduced if
the traveller is willing to rough it and try tha
second class hotels AS far as the best accom-.
modations are concerned, they cost about us
much as in America. The only difference is,
our hotels lump the charges, and you know
beforehand what your bill will be. European
hotels charge you, item by item, for what you
get, and when you order the same things you
would order in an American hotel. the total
Is about the s;irne. S
4s. FRANK EEoRGE CSurENTER
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MUSICAL NOTES.

Patti begins her concerts in New York ON
Nov. 49,
Nine Nilsson is seriously i'll with bronchitis
in London, and her concert tour has been
abandoned
Mime. Patti is going to sing FIVE times be-
fore she leaves for Anerica~-five times for
the triAe of $4,000. r.r-E.ssJ :.rsq v4ey
A now opera, @Fausta, by Prince Bandini,
an Italian composer, has been produced with
great success at Milan. .5----. ,.......... r..
It is stated that Jennie Lind Goldschmidts
daughter viii shortly be heard from concert
platforms in the United States a' n
Lonstlale is said to be an amateur musical
composer, and he has written waltz which
will be introduced in one of the operas to be
given by his company.
,e Gilbert and Sulliyan's new opera viii be
ready fer production Christmas week. 1t
will be heard at the Fifth Avenue theatre,
New York, in January next = = 'f'z-
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WHAT SHALL WE DO?

What shall we do with this great love of ours
Now that we know our pathways must divide
1nls hvlng ftra that like flame devours
This wave that sweeps on like an angry tidef
Here, now, forevermore our lives must part
MY path leads there, and yours the other way.
what shall we do with our fond love, dear hearth
h grows heavier burden day by day
Hide it? In all earth's caverns void and vast
There are not depths enough to hide it. dear.
Not even the mighty storehouse OF the past
2 Could cover it from our own eyes, / fear
Drown 1t? Why, were the contents of each ocean
Merged into one great sea, too shallow then
Would be its waters to sink this emotion
So Deep it could not rise to life again
Burn it? In all the furnace flames below
1t would not in o thousand years expire;
Nay, it would thrive-expand- -exIllt and grow:
For from its very birth it fed on fire.
Starve it? Yes, yes, that is the only way
Give it no food of glance, or word, or sigh;
No memories, even, Of any bygone day, +
No crumbs of vain Tegrets-just let it die.
Starvation is painful DEATH long hours
OF gnawing hunger like the pangs of hell
And if We, too, die with this love of ours
Ii our hearts break-why, it is just as well.
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BELGIUM AND HOLLAND.
HOW THE WOMEN AND THE DOGS
WORK TOGETHER.
Sketches of Pretty Flemish EIaidens-The
Holland Priest and Dutch Death Crier.
Belgian Agriculture and sIanufacture.
Its Railroads and Hotels. 39 4 b1.
Especial Correspondence, .f

Especial Corrcspondence.1 ssF <5
ANTWERP, Oct. Is. 8
"A woman, q dog and q walnut tree Es st7
The mone you Eck em the better they BE- - q Z
This doggerel of the old saw seems to be
the rule in both Holland and Belgium.
Susan B. Anthony and Henry Bcrgh should
spend summer in the low countries of
northern Europe. Susan would go back
thanking her stars that American women
have as many rights as they have, and Henry
would applaud America as country noted
for its gentleness rather than for its cruelty
to animals. In Belgium and Holland the
dog and the woman seem to do more work
than the horse and the man. I saw here in
Antwerp to-day delicate woman of forty
years sitting on q stone pile in the brciling
sun breaking stone with heavy hammer
She was clad In cotton gown, and her small
feet were covered with heavy woolen clogs
Her head of brown hair, into which The silver
was creeping, was bare, and her sad face,
bronzed with the burning rays Of the sun.
was wrinkied and worm II was not a course
face, nor one judged that could not under
favorable circumstances have been refined
and loving. But the light was drowned out
of it by hard labor, and She did not
smile as she looked wearily up at me re
spending to question about the way You
may see women here and in Holland helping
dogs to pull carts, and sometimes they are
harnessed themselves in company with the
dogs. They carry great loads upon their
heads, and do all sorts of manual labor Not
many weeks ago there was scandal in
Europe as to the cruelties practised upon
them in their work in the coal mines and
see them digging i'll the fialds. loading hay,
and acting as the guards at the crossing of
railroads. Going from Belgium to Holland
at many OF the towns it was a woman who
raised and lowered the rail which shut or the
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From the farm young GLADDEN. gravitated
to the newspaper office. When only 18 years
old he was reporter on The Oswego Gazette.
But it occurred to him here that a young man
who had figure to cut in the world needed
more education than he had, as far as he had
got. He began to prepare himself for college,
therefore, spending his spare time and money
for this purpose. If the young men and girls
who must turn out early to work for their
living knew how much they could learn Just
by staying at home evenings and putting an
hour or two of spare time into intellectual
work, drawing, music, languages, mathe-
matics or science, there would be far more
successful people, and they would spring
from the ranks OF workingmen and women
as they ought to. -5..sa
GLADDEN. continued his studies, and entered
Williams college, Mass. That was the college
where Garfield was graduated, working his
way through as GLADDEN. did. During his
college course GLADDEN. was newspaper cor
respondent, writing letters for The Spring
field Republican and one Of the editors Of The
Williams Quarterly. ss1aCe a tE} 5,57ta
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volcano Dust as = Fertilizer.

Mr.. Pond, the government analyst Of New
Zealand, has proved by actual experiment
that the dust thrown out during the recent
volcanic eruptions is of highly feftilizing
kind. He obtained samples Of tile dust from
three different places. and sowed quantity
pf cioYer and grass seeds In each. The soil
was kept mDisteilcd with distilled water, 90
by the water used. In all eases the grawth
was almost as vigorous as Iii rich volcanic
soil. The rapid growth OF the plants and
their color show that the dust Is q benefit to
the soil On which " has fallen Cleveland
Leader. s.
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the plaintiff in the
great case in the su-
prene court of the
United States which
resulted in the celc-
brated anred Scott
d eci sion. Atan
early age Eugene's
mother died, and he
was sent to Ann
herst, Mass. and
placed in the care
Of .an aunt, Miss
French. He finished
his academic cduca-
tion at the age of
"a - 4 n 4