The Red Cloud chief., 1880-01-01
An ABROAD.
From uoados Tn ~si~nna-The Trip Throagh
Holland Life ir the Austrian Capital

HOLLAND sars fh ~ @t
Correspondence san Fr-aci-oo Chr"aioT
was ferriei over from the English
a; Iiarwich to the Dutch coast nj
Rotterdam in 10 hours. and every thing
was changed. English was no longer
spoken. the streets were all canals. ear
riayes seemed abolished. the women
wore spiral twists Of wire. projecting
from their ears and great gold ar silver
plates on the slde of their heals. ever.
thing seemed adoai, aud they had four
kinds of cheese for breakfast. This was
my frs, visit Ia any foreign land. Ny
tongue was no lOnarr If am Use in con
versation. A horrid alarm seizci me
that I might get into the wrong train
and be carried OF Ia Russia insiea! oi
Vienna, whittier I wanted Ia 90. |
found an interpreter NJ the railway STA
ton who said hc spoke English. lie
never fairly proved il Ia mc. but | stuck
Ia him as docs the straw to b drown
ing man. | host my wits in part, aud ap-
Piled ~ him once in every five minute,
for a pow Srt ut directions a. to the
right tifiie for starting and the right
train IA start i'm. Let M condemn
me until they have landed in Holland
and tried the Dutch language. AZ each
Interview the interpreter made me =
loud speech. which could be heard over
the entire station, which concentrated
all eyes upon me, and ended invariably
with the remark, 81 gives yon CUTE di-
reckshuns. / calls you all right Then
I would sink off into Il corner, feeling
very ~apprchen,ivo If being carried off
Ia Russia, ard continually emerging Ia
harass the interpreter who said he spoke
English. At last | "a placed in 4 car.
Every body was smoking. Some
smoked pipes, some cigars. by the
windows were little boxes 10 knock the
c~igar-ashes in. More people got i'll with
pipes, canes and umbrellas. l saw one
iIollander with three ano and two
umbrellas, all packed in one bundle.
Another had three umbrellas and two
canes. At last we rolled of. ] looked
out and saw long reaches If coast, sand
hills, and al d-plains. Then we shot
through
VAST MEADOW,
intersected ut regular intervals with
wide bitches. | saw low, red-roofcd
houses; men cutting hay in water up to
| their knees; little boats tied near by tn
carry them home, and long roads, or
| rather dikes, lined on either side by
trees. This was all IF Holland. The
train stopped. We were hustled out,
bag and baggage, into a cuStom-llou>e
The uniforms had changed; the money
had changed the language had changed,
and the customs had changed. They
looked into our sachcls, chalked them
into our trunks and chalkcd them
talked IA language full of ''oons and
- oops - and .'oofs," and having rather
| a soft, mclodious accent. Then VT were
bundled-cancs, umbrellas, pipes, cigars,
trunks, and sachels-once more into
the train. Officials poked their heads
through the side windows. They de-
manded our tickets. They took them
They were gone with them sometimes
for hours. They punched and punched
them, and tore off coupon after coupon
Another stop. Another custom-housc.
Another Nation. Another language
! Another set of soldiers and
customs officers. Another uniform,
Another change in the currency, and
this about every six hours. This l.
travelling through Europe. In twenty
four hours | had the wrecks of four diff
ferent c~urrcncies in my pockets. There
were HAPPENINGS, krcutzcrs, pfennlSS.
little coppcrs. biz coppcrs, whitcwashed
coppers, of which IT took a handful tt
buy a glass of beer, or else they cheated
me abominably. Every thing about
was military, stiff, ramrodish, cpaulet
ed, bayoneted, beltcd and sabcrcd
Every mile of the road WAS watched b!
a sentry in Il box, who came out aS thu
train passed, and presented his signal
flag rs a soldier presents arms ant
sometimes the sentry was a woman Ii
short, rotund pctticoats and a rount
glazed hat. And still we sped through
Europe, through Saxony, through Prus
sia, through Duchies, and pocket-hing
doms and old Elc%ctorates, and all tho
absurd little divisions in which they par
eel out, or used to parcel out, their land
And still they smoked and smoked ant
got in with long pipes, cane and nm
brcllas, and numbered out with long
pipes and umbrellas until the Iulcl
ssconn and "oof" commenced, giving
place to the German '.ich' and ''ocht.'
1T WAS NIGHT!
II came morning, | looked out. Thi,
was the second day of travel. a
that we were getting further east. IN,
square church-towers of Lutheran Hol
land had given place To Catholic cathe
dral spires. We flew past great crosse:
and huge images of the cruciiixion
These in time were replaced by domes,
minarets, and something bespeaking al
approach to Oriental architecture. We
were in Austria. Night still, and w,
were approaching Vienna. Passau ant
Linn are passed. The last coupon ha'
been torn from my ticket. sit drcadine
the immediate future. am to be soor
turned out of the car-turned out in the
babel of a great railway station in ;
foreign city: another new city. a new
nation, n new language, another new
custom-house, new uniforms, and new
money. | feel completely at their mercy
The car slowly stops. We are in Vienna
An hour passed m How / passed
through it all l 4 barely recollect
! Il was kotiId SiiliuS oh H. tiuAn "eANs"r
for events. / was weary with trying
to talk German and getting no n t.
understand me. The other passenger:
had all gone. Belted and sabered
officials approached me. Probabl,
they knew my trouble. l was placed,
trunk and all, in q cab and sent off.
The cab rolled a long way and finally
drew up at a hotel. They could speak
all languages at this hotel. Habit been
Plato himself, or Moses. they would
have understood him. The landlord,
or director, spoke English l could un.
derstand. Much of the English spoken
by interpreters on the Continent is not
homemade. 1t isa spurious article. an
unsuccessful counterfeit of the genuine.
Myself and trunk were taken off: / was
put to bed exhausted: l slept in Aus
tria. Morning. 1 awoke. l drew the
curtain and looked in the street. II
seemed a masquerade. Life and cos
tune, all were new. Soldiers clad il
the white tunics Of the Austrian line
went past banging little kettle-drums
Hungarian soldiers in braided jackets
and blue tights, displaying shapely legs
rifiemen in gray. with plumed wide