The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-01-29

tie he lOuSn a moment later one OF
the party asked him how many bat
ties was that noted general in. -FoI:y''
was his prompt reply.
But there Is no doubt where Wat
erloo IS, and ! spent a day there. The
field is three miles from the village of
Waterloo. but Wellington had his
headquarters in that village and from
there wrote his dispatches. on the
field is an enormous carthcn mound
200 feet high and 1900 feet in cir
conference. 1t was built entirely ~
female labor. Several hundred women
were four years in raising il. They
carried the dirt in baskets and lcceiy-
ed eight cents per day for their work.
AT the top is a large bronze lion. You
descend the mound by 225 steps, ana
from the top the positions Of the arm
les can easily be seen. An elderly
EnSiishnlan (WhOse grandfather Was
in the fight twas on hand TO point out
and explain the whole thing. He APP
pears to take much pleasure in doing
so-but takes more pleasure in an
nexing your ash for his speech.
Nearby is u museum full Of dolefuI
reminders Of that fatal day-caps.
coats. guns, pistols, sabers, bullets,
cannon balls, bones, skulls, etc. in
cludlng NapoIeon's silver spurs
and brass coffee kettle. And
What was ii all for? Victor HUGO
who visited Hougomont farm years
1880 80 - w 62 IDilD E-
Arson, massacre, carnage; a stream
composed of English, French and Ger
ntan blood furiously mingled: d well
filled with corpses; the Nassau regi-
ment and the Brunswick regiment de
stroyed; DupIat killed: Blackman
killed; the English guards mutilated;
twenty French battalionS of the forty
composing Relies corps d~ecilnated;
three thousand men in his chateau
of Hougomont alone, sabred. gasncd,
b~utchered, shot and burnt-all TINS
thae & peasant may say to a traveller
a. til" present day, If YOU like To -stve
ne three francs, sir. | viii tell you
all about the battle of Waterloo
III.
Our Consul General at Brussels is
George Washington Roosevelt, Of
Pennsylvania, d frst cousin of the
President. and a splendid fellow he
is. He has all the dash. gallantry and
intelligence of Teddy and even
greater magnaminity. He has a lofty
opinion of the southern people. and
his praise of them is generous and
unstinted. He is a veteran Of the Civil
War, lost a leg at Gettysburg and still
carries in his body eleven bullets from
Southern guns. He showed me a gold
medal gwen him by Congress for
bravery on the battlefield. His tribute
70 southern soldiers was outspol1en
and undoubtedly sincere. After the
war he went South and married Il
Georgia lady. Speaking Of his mar
riaSe he used these words, Il de-
cided that the incest women in the
world lived south of Mason and
Dixon's line He has no children and
The President will heir his medal,
sword, etc. Col. Roosevelt has been
in the consular service t~wenty-ninc
years continuously. He writes well in
prose and verse, and let me see q witty
poem on Mr.. Cleveland and the Mug
umpS which so amused MI. CleVe-
land chat he sent for Col. Roosevelt
and told him that he could keep his
consular position.
Some of his conversation tickled
my state pride. Said he, I am
glad to meet a North Carolinian. [
have met them when it was not a
pleasure to do 50. but happily those
days are gone. The North Carolina
soldiers wee the best fighters in the
war, and the Northern army SO con-
sidered them. They always staid lon
ger" Col. Roosevelt facetiOusly re-
marked that the North Carolina sol
diers looked taller to the Northern
soldiers than any other people, and,
said he, lat the battle of Williams
burg the Tar Heels looked like they
were ten feet high and our boys
turned and ram In order to see
whether or not they were correct in
their opinion, he said they measured
the first North Carolina prisoner that
they captured and he was seven feet
and two inches tall. He said many
nice things about the Southern people
and their hospitality which | Will not
take space to repeat.
\ lawyer has a hard road to traVel
in Belgium. He is required to attend
law schools for six years before he
can get license to practice. For three
years after coming TO the bar he is
assigned to appear for poor people
Nyjthn1lt n foe 4 Aftal I hlspa .-plJ re he
court cannot assign him to do such
Wo~k.) AS a rule it takes ten years
before he can support himself by his
practice, making sixteen years before
he can get a living out of his profess
sion. And yet. in this city there are
S21 lawyers and all of them rich. But
they were rich when they took up
the law. a poor man can hardly be-
come q lawyer here.
The Belgian lawyers have an I'M
usually high cod of professional
ethics. They are not allowed to ad-
~vertise, not permitted to talk to clients
out of their offices Except at clients
home when sick.) No one is alloWcd
to bring a client to 4 lawyers office.
Law partnerships are not allowed and
the S21 lawyers here are all alone in
the practice. They regard the rela-
ton of attorney and client so strictly
confidential hat only one lawyer
should enjoy that relation towards u
client. There IS no Such thing here
as the damage suit lawyer with his
heaters and drummers working up
cases on 4 commission. For tn" least
violation of the rules q lawyer is
promptly disbarred. | Was privileged
to meet the counsel for the English
and American legations in Belgium,
Nr. q. &c Level. Of Brussels. He Is Il
Belgian but speaks English well. Last
year he visited America and Iectured
at Yale, cleveland and other places
on International law. Next April he
viii again visit our country and lee
turc before law schools in the South.
Il said no would be glad to lecture
in oar State. He makes ~ charge
whatever. He is a lawyer Of large
means and travels and lectures FOR
his own pleasure.
! paid q visit to the Palace Of JUS
ticc' in this city, in which twenty
seven different courts are held. The
building is Il gigantic structure which
cost $1,000 GOO and is made of mar
bic Of nearly every country in the
world. Many Of the doors are made
# American oak. Some of the courts
were in session and ] dropped in TO
witness a Belgian trial. In one room
tho divorce mill was unniD rapidJl
. and Grinding ont Stt,} T1tIpIC for