Show 1 j prance trance 1 THE B BURGUNDY U R virdi dil dri DISTRICT A dice dick c i of the new york daily times ilg has set sek se out on a journey towards italy in in a recent letter lil ill he says 1 I you ravel travel fast upon the tho lyons road and per arns sens a known to be timorous express po afar hear fear of in insecurity security fifty miles in sixty ini minutes was the onne trine mede made upon lohe one long st reth but then thenn the doork doore are locked at the bottom besides being latched at the handle so that they lieve wever never efly fly open there is A a resident guard at every mile occupying a stone two story hou house built by the railroad upon its own territory i there are four hundred mileson mi lesof rail rall fodi four hund hand hundred red mansions with their four hundred responsible ini int inmates nates for forthe ithe most part raising families and patches pitches the most serious accident that ever occurs occur sa is that an axletree gets pets hot and this adventure happened lo 10 us at dijon the burgundy oun coun try is picturesque and bold and of course excle i devoted to grapes the hill sides being i cultivated in terraces or stairways each ridge being about six feet high stacked up with infinite fi ante art and innumerable little stones thus thas offering a flat surface instead of a slope the soil thin and barren thus stays upon the hills and nourishes the vines instead of tumbling down into the sweeping valley odthe rhone we traver traversed sed sea bu burgundy at lightning speed litie Witie butil emed seemed impossible to ex exhaust haast the th evines viries and when we remembered that the crop liia hid this year been blasted by disease we lve could only ohly coffi compare pare the immensity of the waste to thesila the silt salt water of the sea not a drop of it fit to arink crink vines in tile the valle vaile valleys y 9 vines on the slopes vines on the hilltops hill tops vines clam clambering berin over house sides vines in invading what ought to be flower gardens and potato patches everything arunto vines and the vines run to naught such was the spectacle for six successive hours atthe at the rate of forty miles an hour but grape districts in in france at least are poor countries both in soil and people and the tile Burgund ians lans looked as 86 though they would be improved by the restora 1 tion odthe of the feudal system they certainly ebba not be worse than they are ill lii clad 11 ill 1 fd fod ill lodged and not educated at all their villages are as black and tia ila unwholesome wholesome to look at atas as a smoothed mezzotint otine men can hardly be dis idis from women their dress arld arid their occupation seem to be mainly the same 0 o neither man nor woman had yet heard of sebasto pol so it was useless as we stopped to ashfor the last dispatch di or offs latest bulletin it wis wag was out of the question to hope for news in in such a eo country there was nothing beyond vines vines consumed by the i |