Show airplane view of state bligh among B ju tile ho pastures was like a peas y ant lit in holiday garb of pule palo preen green with tile lie rivers veer and tied to tier girdle she was like a girl standing motionless ti looking upon the sil smooth looth countryside with the sea ben in tile the distance the sea toward which ever new blew fl a crisp breeze that ninde made bend tile the willows of her winding p paths writes douglas ainslie in london graphic to DIx Dir mude indeed there Is a also so applicable another the martyr and tier her history from the middle ages has had its full share of blood and iron ever since it was but a simple fortress built upon an eminence above the place where various rivulets unite to form tile the yer Y er in the thirteenth century guy tie de surrounded it with powerful ram parts and through nil the he centuries lint have followed from the period of the civil wars that rendered desolate the low countries in the fourteenth century to the he days when Ilant rantzau und turenne entered it lis as conquer conquerors org the lie city has been ono one of tile the delights of the low countries did not attempt resistance to the troops of the french revolution and it Is notable that whenever she bhe has been allowed some borne respite she has quickly resumed her pence peaceful ful commercial life I 1 people slow to take alarm tier population had bad tho the flemish phlegm and even when the mo began in 1014 it was looked upon a as ft R simple precautionary meris ure was not the neutrality of bel glum guaranteed by treaties signed by the plenipotentiaries of all the groat grent rowers biad not uila this neutrality been respected since what cause therefore was there for alarm such sach was the confidence in scraps of paper that when a certain individual took it himself to announce ger banys violation of the neutrality of tho the grond duchy of luxembourg on the second of august and to td prophesy tho the worst lie he was positively hissed and accused of propagating demoralizing news did not wish to believe la in tho the treachery of the germans er but events linsten hasten on news comes of the destruction of vise or of tho the resistance of liege and that Hn england gland respectful of international declared herself lier self for the allies white troupes of trembling fugitives who had escaped from the back anck of louvain ond the mas massacre of tongres dongres and Aers ellot came pouring into to vard safety and iho ho west in a state of pathetic desolation ruined beauties of the cit city Y hut but the ups and downs of the siege moge the false tranquillity rind the horrible awaken awakening trig must be sought bought elsewhere in print it will perhaps be interesting to glance rather at a few of the outstanding beauties of which have disappeared beneath it tile the blows of the beuto teutonic ale hammer tile the church of st nicholas Nichol fig NY was no perhaps tho the roost most remarkable of the monuments that had survived from ancient times it was built upon the elta BW of the chapel of the tenth century and its interior belled the c coin om tva modesty 0 of the exterior it contained the famous rood screen one of the marvels of belgium the screen was remarkable owing to the enormous number of leaves flowers fruits and even of minute insects with which tho the ancient sculptor had been at infinite pains to adorn adom it this prodigious labor lasting over many years was accomplished ly by a single ingle artist whose name alone it ahna no come oma down to us from the sixteenth century jenn jean bartet the old Begu inhabited by women who were riot not nuns and forming a lay order which they might leave at will was a touching relle relic or of the lie post past it used to stand jn in the middle of the hp town surrounded with high wall crouching there ns its though from modesty A low door afforded nn an entrance to the gross brass plot around which were grouped the lie little houses at the further end stood a chapel whose low root mid alamp walls seemed exactly to suit by renson reason of its very humidity these good souls la in the evening of their life dwelling do bo peacefully there under tho the mild rule of their patron saint bagne Favor lt place of artists yes alx ignudo was the younger sister of tier her neighbor bruges offering to tired tire eyes a like prospect of preen green and leafy surprises along its seclent quays unlike bruges was wac never discovered by the fashionable crowd tho the same old north and boman bridges the bridge of the and r nd ot v tho the allee alice which spanned the krekel krcuser book beek wore were never trod by feet hunting tram from one table choto to another the alm brilin burghers burg heni of had crossed ross end and re crossed them in the liard hard frost of winter or in tho the golden eolden even eve nin nines of autumn when the sun crime came to dle die nold prodigious magic of light I 1 tho the charm of made especial to artists and the parisian leon casse I 1 was wai one of its most fervent admirers ile he loft left every ery summer to plunge again into the hie inspiration which came to him from the old walls peopled old memories and it Is largely thanks to him that Is still living for us though I 1 many of his finest pictures have alas been hcan destroyed by the fury of tho the hun monday market tiny day was the most animated of tile tho week on that day aa ans alert nt at dawn roused from its customary custor onry repose the afie good vi women omen of of woumen doumen of caes kerle kerke the jovial dealers from ron ilou lers and drovers front from cypres ypres and furnes shouted their broad jolas jokes fit at one another as they tacy pressed on to the the butter butler market presented just before the war mir a spectacle as stirring and as picturesque us ns it had presented for centuries and with little difference |