The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, July 11, 1913, Image 2
r rv"pwrwr mm v J?T-- 1- f r4 y B &l f' if fy J l THROUGH A LAND OF CANALS Xejvjwsj ROM Antwerp to Rotterdam is loss than three hours by the rnllB, tiut on tho little steamer wlilch crawlB through tho crooks, canalH mid taken of Zealand It Is a full day Como, steep yournolf In sober lux ury In an ntmosphero of self-respect and much peaco mid dampness Tho steamer starts In tho cold half dawn with nil tho Antwerp stretch of rivor lights burning an ornngo yellow Aftor two bourn of tonic shivering you nen thu Htm across h Hat und fertile land, a big red huh which you may look at without blinking Thero Ih n mighty river flowing full nnd broad be twoeii low bnnkH with flcnttored trcos. You glide Into canalH lined to tho water's edgo with grass mid btitlerctipB, enlivened with groups of flshora in trou norH of tho strangost cutH, who Btand chatting with tho keepers of tho locks and drinking healths In ichnappH. Tho trousorH aro bloomnrn, not unllko tho knlrk ors of tho fair whou full built (Hpeaklng of thu knlckcrB), nnd thoy wear round knit caps of vivid greon. OthorB, more sober, wear bomb-Bbaped caB quottCH of o rati go volvet ouibroldered with black silk Jttv&rMZ) awy. jirzteiY -sfflrJwSST m timtwzmmw1 ;in immmmmu. mmmtwmRrmm&mm (WmL JrrTsJZ&A n n Q JaS---g . L dry with bath lowel- BTl;-j!-H7T. r.TT-rr. ryffKrf r ''' ""ffPWHiWil Tll sloping Btono BBBB?i Ag'r"'' Itf.JiLvTHHIBl ',,,eB nre mopped ev- BBJSJ flfey ',: j,'i. iiBMillBr' MuMBnBU' cry norning between KMi 81 ffiBHMHMMHMHnJTllTff! PNIMmV 7 and 0 o'clock. Tiled J ijSWiife VGKD& TJUK.ia&mtBJ&r Tho captain promised breakfast In five min utes. That yaB an hour und twonty mlnutcB ago.. Tho second cabin paBBengors aro drinking gin. Tho captain nnyB tho brcnkfaBt only waits for Bomo cow to bo milked near a lock. Tho boat Is still in a canal between high banks, which thrust on tho vlow tho ankles of tho vll lago glilu who stand along tho odgo nnd look down philosophically, knitting; for tliolr skirts aro very boll-Bljapod. Tho village glrlB nro all houottoB ngainst tho Bky. Then n ono-horso gig, with yellow whools and a greon box, flits by iiiyBtorlously and disappears behind tho rldgo. And tboro Ih nothing more. Ah, yes, it ralno. Tho Bleamor crawjB thtough tho canal, Imped ed by the locks nnd dams. Hero is nnothor Dutch girl, She la standing on tho bank above our henda ns wo doscond, a Dutch girl In n white dturched porcalo cap, cream-colored korchlof crossed upon her breast, with a black bodlco, a .blue skirt, wooden shoes and blue stockings. Tho boat is iti a narrow river onco again, with mconory grcon and clean, with awoot offocts of light tn thia peculiar air n milky, velvety light near a comic opera villago, Morn village girls, thu milk and blush rosa blondos of Zealand, with their silky masses of palu gulden hair, Immacu lately clean. Thoy look so solid, tight and tidy, do those little Dutch girls in tholr stiff bodices, Out in tho open Ooestor Slcelt, three miles Across, tho yellow brownish water scarcely mnrka Itself against tho banks of yollow grcon, low dlkos, with long, long lines of trees, whoso roots assist to hold tho soil togothor. ' Wo hug tho edge. Along the bank thoro 'coughs and snorts a dinky little ancient auto mobile. As It 11 earn we see It U conducted by n pretty girl in white. Shu looks llko a brldo! Tho villagers run out, rejoicing. Who la shu? "What Is it? What Is ho? Mystory. Wo Btcam onward. Now, thoro aro always those lung lines of trace that stand llko a grim regiment to dofuat tho floods of tho encroaching nuu It 1b tho Vordronkcn I-nnd, where thousands polished villages nnd towns and all tho country ulde tn 1532, when a dlku burBt. Thero Is a short Canal do Keotuu At a vlllngo whom tho captain atops to got Ills hair cut it fair bumbont girl sella ua schnapps. Then tho little stcamor qultn thu subdivisions of tho Scholdo, meandorB through tho mazes of tho WaaB, comes through tho Krammor nnd tho Vol feoruk to tho wtdo Hollandsch Dlep, which has tough water and looks almost liko tho sea. Onco this bay was land, but long ago, In 1421, a tldnl Avnvo wiped out a hundred market towns and vil lages, and upward of 100,000 pooplo porlshod, and tho water stayed, Then Boon It 1b tho Httlo Dorocho Kll, a very narrow Btroam (whoro tho Prlnco of Orangu was drownod in 1711), which takes us to tho broad and lovoty Morwcdo, a doublo rlvor, whoro tho windmills of tho landscape and tho buBy villages proclaim tho land of Holland ono baa read of. Now 'it is raining. , Dort, or Dordrecht is tho first lino town. It is tho cleanest land! Tho very cows aro scrubbed down with soap and rubbed 'roofs of a soft red rlso like llowcra umld tht foliage of tho trees; thatched roofs of a dove tint go slop ing down cIobo to the ground aB If they would slip oft thu cosy houses Just ns tho dove-colored shawl slips off the shoulders of a Quaker girl If thero bo any left who wear dove-colored ahttwls. I am thinking of Philadelphia nnd Pcnn's Manor. Hero there nre villages that do not know the railway nnd tholr daughters do not know tho modern fashions. A village girl buys one lino gown nnd it will InsJ her fifteen yenrs. Do you thing she la not ust as nice beneath It? Those girls apuro no cxpenBO on their best gowns. Thoy have lonl linen nnd real laco and lino silk stockings if they choose' to wear them, and each girl has a gold helmet, which Is worth from $00 to $300. It begins to rain. This helmet Is a thin and aupplo shell of gold which snugly fits tho head. Sometimes It la flcoqp-ahuped to lot tho back hnlr bo colled tn a knot, Bomotlmes they plait their back hair In two long qucuoB, which hang down before tho enrs on ench sldo of the fnco; but tho gold helmet must bo always there, though It bo only seen to shlmmor In tho sunlight through tho meshes of n kind of night-cap, nUo fitting snugly, which may bo of linen or of lnre, In which cnao it has ruffles. Ench girl has her gold helmet, evon thoao who go to service up In Rotttrdam, though when thoy grow sophisticated, citified and shame-faced thoy first put on city bonnetB over their gold hel mets and whlto nightcaps nnd then Inter on lock up tholr caps and helmets in tholr bureaus and take to smart pink cotton pilnts for gowns and wenr coquettish rutllos of gauzy tulle on their 1 heads, for nil tho world liko London chamber maids. These holnjots, horned on each Bide of the forehead with long twisted prongs of gold and dating back to whon tho Germanic trlbea were struggling with tho nomnjis, nre, together with tho bomb-shnped skirts, noon bound to disappear and flguro only, like the pensnnt costume of tho north of Franco, In chnrlty bazaars ou city girls Instead of country girls, who aro nbandonlng thorn for flimsy trash thren yenrs behind the current-mode, Tho air is Bultry, llko n gentle steaming In tho laboring noonday buii. CloudB rising nbove cloude around tho whole horizon meet nt the zenith llko a dome. Thoro Is no end of peaceful hamlets, protty, tidy, busy. Wo stop for the captain to make an afternoon call. Small girls pass In procession bearing tu lips Whoro to What for? Mystery. Wo Btoam on. And thero Is nothing more. Tho river widens nnd the windmills and tho Bnwmllls give place to shipping. Then the squat Bplroa of a city full of Httlo unartlBtlc churchoa show thomsolvoB, and wo approach tho seventh commercial port of Europe. Thu captain says It looks like rain. From boozy Delglnn Antwerp to Dutch Rotter dam and Its mild thoroughfares Is all tho dls tnnco 'from tho continental system to our Amer ican respoctablllty. The town la Puritan. Tho glrla look at you with straight oyea, as Innocent of coquetry aa lnmba; thoy nro not llko French glrla walking with their mnmmnB. casting down tholr oyos consciously. Would n French girl play lAlfl 2f AI1I c Tftmii HEAD OF A NEW DEPARTMENT Charles J. Brand, chief of tho newly created division of markets under tho agricultural department's new rural organization service, has the Job of attempting to better market condi tions, and thereby reduce tho cost of living. His work will bo educational and ho will endeavor to create a high standard In packing and shipping food products to prevent waatc. Co-operative markets for the producers will bo tried and everything will be done to better tho quality of tho produce and to make its cost lower by estab lishing n standard method of market ing. Tho possibilities of tho plan nre largo and will Involve questions ol highway and railroad transportation. It is understood that country commu nities will be urged to co-opernto as largely as they can In selling their products. It Is understood tho plan is ultimately to go further afield than marketing, for tho development of tho agricultural community Is Interlaced with the social development of tho com munity In such a way that the officials think that one cannot be considered without conslderlrg tho other. Mr. Drand was born in Minnesota in 1870, ia a graduate of the university of that stato and is by profession a botanist and agriculturist. HjjSin 'i$2N' ? PROTECTOR OF AMERICAN BIRDS Copenhagen or other promiscuous kissing games? Hero thoy kiss nil the afternoon, as innocent as little billing birds. Thoy kiss In the rnln; and It rains often. In speaking of tho handsome quays they call tho Hoompies (more like a park than any ordi nary waterfront), the guidebook says that visitors may enter and Inspect tho vessels without ob jection provided thoy do not get in the way of tho work In hand Wo did not enter and inspect, but I can well believe we might have dotie so. Wo did walk Innocently Into the garden of tho most aristocratic club of Rotterdam and mingled freely wjth the smnrt set who were holding tulip competition, where the heroine was a blonde, blue-eyed, fourteen-yoar-old girl who had grown an apple greon vnrloty! Wo were only mado awaro of our position when Ave drank curacao nnd bitters offered by a waiter In blue broad cloth nnd a yellow vest, who refused to tako pur money, we not being club members. Rotterdom Is so airy, open, bright, so shady, tlowery nnd well wntered that Us citizens may sing. Cannls aro everywhere, nnd the canals are beautiful. Thoy glvo a park-like look to all tho 8troots, bordered by lawns, garnished by shrubs nnd trees and tulips. And tho citizens, from out tholr kitchen windows or their parlor windows, whon thoy hnve company for dinner, hook up frcafl fish In profusion, which adds a labor-saving oloment to their blltho freedom. Should a list bo mado of continental cities which havo no great Bights, no monuments, no rulna, no collections in n word, no treadmill tourist round the town of Rotterdam would tako a placo of honor in It, although she has n marl tlnlo museum, a picture gallery and a statue of Hrasmus. In tho market you enn mnko a study of tho bodlcos nnd headgear of tho peasants. Catching tho Dutch taste for still Hfo you may muse on symphonies of color In tho produce. Hero are tho tlsh stalls, whoro all tht shades of white silver white, bluo wllto, white shaded with bronzo green, whlto with metallic reflections unite In a clear scale of harmony. Hero all tho tints of green are heaped together In the vegetables, molodloiiBly nccompnnlod by tho fragrance of tho flowers, which sing together with tile fruits in tho moat diverse color tones. Though Rotterdam Is a great port and an lm ' portant manufacturing center, my best Impres sions of tho pleasant city are connected with n cafe chmitnnt, a park, the markets and tho resl denlittl streets. The great manufactures aro ship building, tobacco factories, sugar refinories and mnny groat distilleries, especially of glna nnd Dutch llquours. Tho moro Important articles of commerce aro coffee, sugar, tobacco, rlco and BpIceB. It Is tho sovonth port of Europe. Again and again the vUlon of a well-known and beloved city rises up before tho writer's docllo Imagination and affects him to tho point of tears tho city of Philadelphia, Pa., which, I seo. must bo a faithful moving picture today of whnt Now York was in 1750. U is the city of homes par excellence, and it rosomblea Rotterdam, nnd Rot terdam rescmblca It. Tho wenrlod tourist seek ing for n anug rotront In which to rnlao a beard will find Rotterdam n second Philadelphia. And looking from tho watch towor of St. Law renco'a church, down on tho trnnqull panoramn; on tho rlvor and tho suburbs, on tho red ,brlck housea and tho streets bo straight nnd self-ro-spectlng, where tho chlldron piny jackatones on tho front doorsteps, and their big slstora piny bull In tho ring and kiss tho boys on tho sldo wnlk; to look down, I say, on tho slow but yel low trolleys whoso faint jingle rlsos as from some secure blnmoless nnd fruitful shcop field; to ad mire the ainoko of mnnufactorlos, and pollco wng ona taking drunken factory hands to Jail, ho will cry, "It Is Philadelphia PhHadolphla, for tbo out sldo of the plattor !b so clcaul" V Dr William T. Hornaday, director of the Now York Zoological park, ap peared In Washington a few days ago before tho scnato committee to ask tho congress of tho United States to stop the activities of the American people In tho extermination of birds for millinery purposes. On tho day of his return to this city he told the writer that fully 100 spe cies of the most beautiful and curious birds of tho world, aro now being ex terminated to meet tho demands for plumes, feathers nnd skins to use on women's hats. He called attention to such salient facts as these: The number of wild birds annually consumed by the feather trade Is so enormous as to challenge tho Imagi nation. Tho whole world Is under tribute. No species is spared for sentimental reasons. And tho most cautlful and most curious species are tho ones in tho greatest danger of extermination. For tnstanco, tho exquisite birds of paradise aro being exterminated ally before our eyes, and tho extermination of a species Is a crime, greater and lesser birds of paradise and the Jobl bird of paradise aro nearly extinct. fSSv liter Tho now IS NOT A MENACING FORCE Twenty-live years ago, on Juno 15, 1S88, tho sudden death of the German Emperor Frederick, after 100 days ol reign, brought to tho throne of tho German empire his son Wllhelm II., only twenty-nlno years old, and looked upon as an autocratic and impulsive youth wrapped up heart nnd soul in military matters and thirsting for military glory. When, soon after his accession, he broko with Bismarck, the Iron chancellor, making it per fectly clear that ho Intended to bo sole master in Germany, the appre hensions a3 to what hl3 reign might, bring became graver and moro wide spread. Within his own domlntona and abroad Wllhelm was considered a menacing force a potential war lord. Now, 25 yeard later, ho id acclaimed everywhere aa the greateat factor for peace that our time can show. It was he, wo hear, who again and again throw tho weight of hla dominating personality, backed by tho greatest military organization In tho world nn organization built up by himself Into the balance for peace whenever war cloudB gathered over Europe. And, on every hand, this is enthusiastically acknowledged by his con temporaries. In this twenty-fifth year of his rule eminent men hero andi abroad are Intoning a chorus of pralsa to him as the great peace lord of tho' world. ' In spite of all its ostentation, Germany ia working aplendidly and is moving forward with the best in science and art and economics and law. Herein, too, tho emperor with hla. Incessant energy represents the noblest impulses of the populur feeling. ENGLAND'S PEACE ADVOCATE One thing European statesmen and writers, aro agreed upon is tn giving tho Brltiah minister for foreign af fairs the credit of winding up tho Balkan war nnd In preserving tho grcntly threatened pence of tho re- innlmlor nt EurOBC Slgnor E. Emanuel, a noted Italian diplomat and writer, for Instance says: "It wns n stroko of good for tune for tho Liberal party aa boon as It returned to nower to bo able to entrust the direction of foreign policy to Sir Edward Grey, who during the South African war had separated him self from tho party and avowed him Belt an Imperialist. Ills LlberalUm was enlightened tampered by a sonse of reality aud rospect for tho spirit of tho race. Quietly, without any shock, ho was ablo to take up and develop tho work of Lord Lnnsdowno when the advent of the Liberals to power had caused a fear lest tho foreign policy of tho United Kingdom might undergo an abrupt and radical change. From the outsut of his career as minister ho was able, naturally and with Innate facility, to find tho Juat path, nnd this reassured all those, within the diplomatic world and without, who fenred that tho assumption of power by the Radlcnls might be fatal to Eng land's prestlgo and iutctesta." Straightforwardness, In tho opinion of Slgnor Emanuel, 1b tho word which, better than any other, necounte for the success or "thia exceptional Btateaman." His program has been, "Make now friendships without ienouuc lug the old ones," and he has faith in its realization. h '".I.- f w stl ' . ) ' . A r : i ttf- T .1-3 ' w ? in I Iri 1! N i