The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-12-03

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takers 10 carry the mourners have white
cherubs of bone or ivory OH their tops and
sides, and the doors are ornamentesi With
white skulls and crossbones.
Belgium is noted for tho excellence Of its
agriculture, and both it and Holland are one
vast park and garden. OF all Belgium only
one eighth is not cultivated, and it is said
there is no country in die world where farm
ing is so proftably carried on Riding
through the country you see ON every side of
you fiat fields loaded with the harvest. and
only separated from one another by the DIFF
ferent colors OF the crops contained in them
There are no fences and the roadways arr as
bard as asphalt and as smooth as boards
They are usually lined with trees, great for
est trees, straiglt and tall, and as old as the
century Here and thero stream cuts
through the vast patchwork plain of growing
crops and grass, and The banks of them are
also shaded 6y trees You see few cattle in
the fields, aud those which are allowed to
graze are kept by herdsrnel,. The farm
houses and barns are low-structured build.
ings, bllnched together and rnofeti with red
tiles or gray thutch. The people working in
the fiel,ls, men and women. are cheaply \
dressed, and the men wear caps and blue,
cotton, blouse-like shirts over their trousers
1t was Sunday when rode into Belgium
from Paris The ordinary week day occupa
tions went on as usual Men and women 1
were digging potatoes in the fields and had
ing hay Here was a gang repairing the
roadway, and at 3p. n, we passed arolling
mill, and ! saw an--army of pudders
naked to therwaist, labelling out the red hot
iron Along the streams people were bath
ing, and saw score after score of boys, clad
Ia the attire on Adam before the fall, prepar-
ing X, TAX. Sunday swim. The Sabbath
does not connt for much either here or in
France, and Sunday is In Paris the great
holiday of the week. 1t ID then that tlip
crowd on the l,ouleEards. is the thickest and
gayest; It is on Sunday that the races are Z,
held in the suburbs, and it is then that the
maddest and gayest of Partisan pleasures go
their merry immoral round, Sunday in
Englands cities Is fully as slow as il is in
those of America On the continent it is the
pleasure day of all the week.
Belgium is one of the greatest manufactur-
ing countries in Europe 1t makes excellent
iron and steel, and it is crowding the Irish
linen factors very closely. It is growing, too,
In industrial enterprise, and, next to Holland,
it has the largest ratio of industry per in
habitant of any nation of Europe Between d
1870 and 1880 it increased S275, 600. 900 in its
industrial and commercial interests, and its
increase during this time was fully 20 per
cent It is competing with England at all
s,,aat od,,.ntsssa ~ Io,ua. go ~ Iahn- sna
Ioroer ~ bo,,rs WAGES in Eno1and | -,,,e, oTe verv
law b,,t thos ~ Relo;,, !, arc ,,Iv about half
ss ,,,cb o,,d tsa 5aS : tTsa1Sya ho,,,.s Ior,o
Thasa psis.;a,,s I - ,,,.,a I;I'.t t,a T..a,ct 2;
tha;. a,, = ~; &C., t,a sa,,,a
fashion and Lowe - 81 e,,..;la ~ 4ha afas
and dr;nr tha;r soc;ah1a a e1sss ,.,;tl, tha;-
friends n Antwern and e B,,,sssis st ,vh;cb
a,s t t,vc le,est cj,ias ~ tha co,,9,.v ~,
sae many sobfs sS,;cI, remind van, ~ Par;s
Brussels the can;ta1 Of the eo,,ntry. ,,r;.les !,