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Show KIM? 11s m A letter from Leonol T Read, sou of Cyrus Read of this city, who Is now in Liege, Belgium, on a mission, has Just been received and shows that the young man is getting along very nicely nice-ly in the country noted lor its rugs and rabbits. Writing to lii.s brother and sisters the young man .says in part: "I suiipo.se you wpuld like to know a little of what is going on over here It is very different lu this country than at home tho people are so much c'ilTerent. It Is nothing to see the woman performing the same kind of labor as the men. Women are commonly com-monly engaged in cleaning the ctrects, hauling coal and driving delivery de-livery wagons. "People do not use as many horses as we do, but those they do use are gteat large ones, as large as the blp gest that you see In Ogden The small work Is done by flogs. Two dots will be hitched to a cart filled with coal and it seems a shame to permit their pulling and tugging at so great a load "Yesterday we went out to see and eat with some of the saints. We had to go about 10 miles to reach their place and I tell you it got tiresome, tire-some, and it was not altogether satisfactory to find when we got there only a little soup arid bread and cheese for dinner. They seldom have butter on the table. Bnt let me say that It lasted good Just the name. I have been fill'ng up like a pig nnd have gained ten pounds tince I left home If l keen on at this rate I will be fat before I return. |