Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
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Rrs FOR DOGS AND WOMEN.

CARTS FOR DOGS AND WOMEN.
The accompanying illustration is from a
| photograph of milk and market cart
drawn by dogs and women in Brussels. The
| city is full of these carts The women and
dogs draw them in from the country miles
away. They supply all the great markets
with vegetables, fruits and milk. The same
carts are used by men and boys in drawing
heavy loads-sometimes 1900 pounds.
The dogs seem to delight in their work.
At o'clock in the morning you will hear
them barking in the rears of the houses i'm
patient to get out in the street with their
carts, where they work happily till night.
Work makes them phenomenally strong,
and they learn to hate the idle dogs of the
aristoerats. If a patrician dog belonging to
King Leopold, or the Count of Flanders,
his brother, should stray into the market o
Sullivan would scramble a dude.
FOOD AND LABOR ON THE CONTINENT.
Prices for everything made by human
hands in Europe grow cheaper as you 60
east from London toward Asia. This is
because labor grows cheaper till we reach
China, where skilled mechanic gets 10
carpenters, brick masons and railroad en-
gineers, who earn from So to S. a day in
America, earn about 81 30 day in En-
gland, 81 25 in France, 81 in Belgium, 80
cents in Germany, 80 cents in Austria and
30 cents in Hungary. L saw men laying
brick for 40 cents per day in Vienna,
while women were carrying mortar up
a ladder to them for 20 cents per
day. A plain gray or checked woolen suit
of clothes, which costs ready made SIG in
New York, costs $12 IN England and
France, $40 in Belgium, So in Germany and
So in Austria and 81 in Hungary. That is,
meat, bread, sugar, coffee and all vegeta-
bles, cost from one-third to one-half more
there than in America. while plain clothing
is from one-third to one-halt cheaper than
in America.
In America wages are high and food is
cheap, and the two grow higher and cheaper
as you go west till you get beyond the Mis-
souri,, while in Europe wages are low and
food is dear, and keep growing lower and
dearer as you 60 east till you reach Asia,
where wages 60 to almost nothing.
SAME FOOD FOR MAN AND HORSE.
The high price Of food, especially meat, in
Europe compels the poor man to give up
meat and eat cereals. When he eats wheat
or rye he can live as cheaply as q horse.
The old slave in the South, who received
weekly three and half pounds of bacon
and all the meal, -four and molasses he
wanted for each member of his family, lived
like king compared to the average labor |
ing man in Europe. Our driver who drove
us from Wiesbaden to Schwalbock fed his |
horse on coarse rye bread and ate the same |
bread himself It seemed funny to see him |
cut off a big slice for his horse and then |
little one for himself
"You are very Democratic" said, "you
pnt yourself on an equality with your |
horse"
YES" he said, 1--WE eat the same bread, !
but sometimes get bit of bacon"
(Which gets the best treatment" I J
asked.
"Oh, the horse. When I am sick my
pay stops and I 60 hungry, but when the
horse is sick he gets rest and food"
"Don't you wish you were horse?''
"Yes, Master" he said, wearily. 'T
wish were."
In eastern Belgium two women we're har-
messed to canal boat. The owner of the
boat said: "They draw as we'll as horse,
and 1t don't cost 30 much to feed them"
A 81. LOUIS MAN AsToNIsHED.
Mr.. J. B. johnson, Of St. Louis, engaged