The Iola register., 1891-10-16

properly distributed, 10 Hiahe inoi0
/ than IL 900 persons. They are for the
most part inclosed within the walls OF
the church, piled solidly ten feet high
and two feet wide. Some odd hun
dreds. however, are incased in stone
sarcophagi, others are suspended from
the walls in glass cases, and yet 9TH
ers are arranged in tasteful frescoes
upon the ceiling or used to spell out
pious mottoes over the doors and win
dows. The artistic effect is very
pleasing indeed, but it is painful to
think of the Inconvenience all these
people will experience in getting
together when the last trump sounds.
But the living are more interesting
than the dead, and long after shall
lhave fol olgotton st. Ursula and her vir-
gins hope to remember the sight that
II saw the first morning was in Col
ogne. My room at the hotel fronted
on the great market square, and when
1 raised my curtain this morning L
found myself looking out upon ccres
and acres of people-men, women,
children and dogs! 1t was the coun-
try people, come in with their cart
loads of fruit and vegetables and all
sorts of produce which they were busy
selling to the ownsmen,-towns0on'-
en- would be more strictly accurate
who came here and bought their sup
plies at first hands instead of ordering
through their grocers. Under every
cart there WAS dog or team of dogs,
some quietly sleeping in their har-
ness, others straining against their
collars and barking in the most excit-
ed way. For the dogs work in Ger
many. 1 spoke in previous letter
of the common sight of women driving
cows. 1t is a much more common
sight to see women driving dogs, or
pulling with them. The dogs have a
collar and harness, the same as horses,
and it is surprising to see what loads
they can pull. Sometimes they are
hitched to a tongue, or a single dog
hitched in shafts, and driven with a
bride and lines. But quite as COLL
monty the driver, man or woman,
works in shafts in front, while the
dog is hitched to the axle and walks
under the cart. This arrangement
gives the dogs an excellent chance TO
shirk, but I never saw them do it,
and never saw them balk. They go
at half trot and pull for every pound
there is them. The common phrase,
working like a dog" used to have no
meaning for me; but it has now. So
L speak of the dogs as very essential
part of this congregation in the Col
ogne square. And the sight of them
and the noise of their barking, and
the sight of the people in their wood.
en- shoes and queer costumes and the
babel of their voices, were sights and
sounds that made the liveliest impres.
sion upon my imagination of any ]
have seen or heard for a long time.
~
Brussels is lesser Paris. The Par
isian tongue predominates, the Par.
isian cafe flourishes, and there are
beautiful boulevards, splendid parks,
long rows of white houses, profusely
ornamented public buildings, asphalt
paved streets, statues and monuments
without number,-reminding one OF
Paris on every hand. have walked
about through its brightly lighted
lstreets at night and driven around il
by day noting its beauty and richness
and air of evident prosperity, and
am not surprised that the Belgians
are proud of their capital city.
The first of the public buildings
toward which the visitor most natur
ally turns his footsteps, is of course
the City Hall. Although erected
nearly 500 years ago, 1t is doubtless
the most ornate structure that was
lever built for similar purpose in the
world. The architecture is Gothic
Throughout, and at every available
place, from foundation to pinnacle
from the mail-clad warrior who guards
the lower portal, to the Archange
Michael and the Dragon, who tipto'
from the top of the tower, $40 fee
above the pavement, there are finely
wrought statues of saints and soldiers
and statesmen, while the solid ston'
about them is carved into the mos
lfanciful and intricate ornaments
+ And this old Hotel de Vile has seer
plenty of history, and could tell stir
Lring stories if its stones had tongues
1t has seen Belgium given by mar
riage to Germany, by inheritance tt
lSpain, by war to France, by treaty t.
Austria, by war to France again, ant
finally by revolution made independ
ent. 1t was in this Hall that the
Duke of Alva, sent by his Spanish
master to exterminate the Protestant:
in the Netherlands, organized hi
Council of Blood" and vigorously sci
about doing what he was sent to do
1t was here, in the little square il
front of the Hall, that for hundreds o
years, criminals of all grades wer'
publicly executed. And it was here
in one of the principle rooms,-s
chamber perhaps 100 feet long by A