The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-08-21

perfectly level, Dut tnorOughiy cultivated.
There seems TO be little burrows or drains
between the fields, with trees planted on
one or both sides Of them. These trees
are very tall, with few bran ches, and It
gives the country strange look
Brussels is beautiful city and the only
one have seen SO far that / would like to
live in. Their Court house, Palace Of Jus.
tice, they call 1t, is the most beautiful
thing I've ever seen. Il is called one of
the finest buildings in Europe. The streets
are wide and clean. Their parks are beau
tiful, and l saw more people who seemed
to have nothing to do except to sit in the
park and hear the band play, than you
could get out of Cleveland and Akron
together on work-day. Hundreds Of
people sat in front of the restaurants on
the sidewalk and drank wine and played
cards or dominoes. In Antwerp they sat
in the streets so that no team could pass,
but there didn't ever seem 10 be any, so 1t
made no difference. / suppose those
people do work sometime, but / don't
know when. One day l saw man pick
up piece of crust out of the gutter and
eat It, and concluded there was poverty
in Brussels as well as elsewhere. This man
walked fast and never stopped or | would
have given him franc to buy something
to eat. Things are very cheap there. One
day we went to Waterloo. We took the
train to Brain L'Alleird, the nearest r. R.
station IA miles), then rode on top OF q
coach two miles TO to the center, where
they have made an immense mound Of
earth with 2s ton or 2SO0 ton, I've for.
gotten which, lion on top, hired a guide
to show us just where the different troops
stood and where the different charges
were made; then we had dinner; rode
back to Brussels the whole thing had cost
us not quite a dollar piece. II was
cheaper than staying at home.
The field of Waterloo is a rolling plain,
now covered with grain. The mound in
the center is ascended by 227 steps. The
lion on top looks towards France, Our
guide said the French did not like It and
once planned TO blow itup. The different
farm houses held by the troops during
the battle still stand. From the mound
we could see the Court house at Brussels.
From Brussels we took an early train TO
Cologne, changed cars at Verviers; at
Herbestal the trunks were opened by the
custom house officers; il is the first Ger
man station. When we reached AK La
Chapelle, Lou and got of 70 see the
town. II rained so told a man with a
cab to take us TO the minister. The min
ster or church was built over 1000 years
ago. When we got there, they were hav.
ing service, that is the priests and choir
and about six people were. After the SER
vice a man In a red dress took MS around.
The oldest part of the building is ap eight
sided tower, the choir has been added
since. The chandelier was given BY
Fredrick Barbarossa. II holds candles
and looks like a wagon tire, 20 feet in di-
ameter. The doors and pulpit are very
old. In the gallery stands the marble
chair in which the German emperors for
centuries sat after they had been crowned
at the alter below, and received the oath
OF obedience from the electors. Otto the
great opened the grave Of Charles the
Great under this church, which he had
built and found him buried sitting up
right in his chair, with the crown on his
head and the scepter in his hand. Otto
put him into his cnffin and put this chair
where II now Is. II Is enclosed in chest
on marble platform. They had there in
one Of the chapels piece Of the cross, a
thorn from the crown. piece Of cloth In
which Chris, was wrapped, etc, etc. We
had no curiosity TO see them. When we
had seen the church all we wanted we
went out to find the Rathhaus which con.
tains the old Kaisersaal. In which the sew.
en- electors elected the emperor and where
the banquet was held after he was
crowned. This used to be the palace oI
Charles the Great; but little is left. Il
has burned out a number OF times and
been rebuilt. The man at the church
showed us how TO get there; Il was close
by and he went out into the street with
us. As soon as he was gone man dig.
ging in the street left his work ard said In
German, an show you where the castel
lian lives" He went ahead and rang the
bell and then went away before we could
even say, thank you. People told us be.
lore We came that nobody would evel
show US any politeness without a fee
We have not found 1t so. 0fien / would
like to give something II there was any
chance. But / am afraid sometimes
shall mistake the hotel proprietor for 1
waiter and give him cent or two. 1t !.
so funny. Well, this castellian showed
and explained the things to us and | wen
part way down the spiral stairs that con
meet the Raisersaal by asubterranean pas
sage with the church. The stairs are jus
as they we're 1000 years ago. / would
have liked TO go all the way, but il was 81
pitch dark. ~t ~,
From there We went ont to see -Ube o
the old Roman gates Of thecity. sessrs