The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-15

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s.ru on the Fighting Ground.
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"%por1rrpAN, HOLLAND, Sept. 80, 1884,
Nc last letter was written from Brussels,
,hr CAPITAL Of Belgium, n city OF about
I,Ii million OF people, where VIC SO.
;orrocl, and from which We radiated to
on. poin, and another for nearly n week,
c,ming back to our quarters at the lilo.
,J De France every evening. For in
stance, we went IL day to the historic
tclI Of Waterloo andspentscverai hours
n, ,ba, most interesting point, about
,yclyc miles distant, and OIL another day
We vent TO the city OF Client where in
,he game year that Waterloo wasfought,
Henry Clay and his fellow commission.
crs negotiated tho terms OF ipoaco by
Midi our WAR OF 'l2n with Great
1,ri,lir was ended. Curiously enough,
4! yop mag happen to remember, peace
Was actually concluded prior to tho bat.
,r Of New Orleans between General
,igcsson and tho british, but as those
wrrc 10. the days OF either electric ca
IIcs or ocean g%rcyhounds" the fact was
mi known in time to prevent that bat
,r, After thus doing Brussels and that
rart OF Belgium We next journcyod to
Artgcrp. in the same country, and
spent several days there, taking in tho
cl,hcdmlg, museums or picture CALLER
les, lace factories las We had done in
lIT,.,clsl, zuological gardens, &C., and
then moved on to The Hague and to Am.
stcpiam, in this country OF Holland, and
are now here, after several days thus
ypcpt, back in Rotterdam, through
Which We passed without stopping OIL
our vat to The Hague and Amsterdam.
We ara here TO finish up Holland and
then take Il steamer for Harwich, in
Eu.and, distant across tho North Sea,
one hundred and !llirty-live miles.
OF course we cannot begin to tell You
in one letter what We have seen in this
round ui sight seeing. There is enough
\, rac. place iol Il letter. ii l only had
time 10 write it up. There certainly
was enough ut Waterloo for 4 very long
letter, and quite enough at Client and
the i.Uurlc= miraculous spring neal by
(which We also visited and enough ior
Il hull dozen lettera ut Antwerp, The
Hague, and thu great and strange city
Of Amsterdam.
ANCIENT HAGUE PRISON.
We saw enough in the ancient prison
Of The Hague, where they inflicted the
most horrible torture4 on human beings
,aat the mind OF man can conceive, for
ataie Of horrors Ia; surprising anything
that Edgar 4. Poe ever wrotn. Just to
!ErrrIy Gnumeratc the methods and the
Instruments OF torture would occupy
many line: in Il lettcc. There is, Tor in
stance, Il story to each one OF the cells
and 10 each one OF the cxcrnciating and
iagrRIOisty contrivcl methods OF tor
tufe that were shown and explained to
Us, and from which we were glad to
turn away Il. last in sheer safety and
disgust. How true it is that man has
been mere cruel 10 his own species, and
las more reason 10 dread his own
species, than all the beasts OF the field,
he woods and the jungle put together.
N@c@ The great masters were painting
the iaDaoGs and sacred and pathetic pic
tGigS that We saw, their fellow men,
utterly lailin: to catch any OF the spirit
ci peace on earth and good will to
men which they threw into their pic
lures, were busy breaking the bones,
stretching the tcndons, decorating the
flesh and punctrrins the nerves OF poor
humanity in dark and noisomc cells
where the light OF day nor q breath OF
pure air never camc. We saw, Tor in
stance, the still remaining blood OH the
walls, which men had drawn from their
veins and scrawlcd upon the walls
as 4 testimony for all time to come OF
WHIT they had undergone in the way OF
starvation and torture.
lu: enough on this subject. would
rather write oi plcasantrr sights and
more congcnial themes. | simply give
YOU a glance ut what We saw III wcari-
some detail. We said to the old guide,
VINO with q lantern conducted us
through the cells referred to, that we
Had heard and read OF these things be-
iiVFe, but had never conceived it posi-
ne mat it could all be wholly true.
A'ieF seeing what We saw at The Hague
We said 10 ourselves it is wonder that
'&"t the rainbow OF promise" was
not withdrawn from the skies in those
gays and a second flood sent to destroy
the world.
ny special object in this letter, in
WNicll have consumed so much space
D! way OF preface, is to tell you some
lhiNS OF our visit to Waterloo. / am
II u loss 10 know whether Waterloo is
rs much 10 other people rs has always
p'eh 10 my imagination. Ihave always
wondered how people could make the
1oHt OF Europe and come homo without
seeing Waterloo. 1t really amazed me
~ see atrayeicr at II hotel in Paris
VI had been at Brussels and yet had
Hot sWnG-yca, had not felt irresistablv
.iEellnd to 60 to Waterloo. But so It
WIS Waterloo to him was simply
r Tras the yellow primrose on the
'NeF brink was to Peter Bell:
y yellow primrose was to him
Ana nothing moro
WATERLOO.