The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
Market.Day in Alkmaar.

he very air seemed teeming with
.hSses. They looked like great golden
spies, or rather between . very large
spHe and a small pumpkin. They are
ver1 elastic and slippery too, when new,
denly suffering from nervous excite
me3, judging from the state of "quiver"
thehll seemed to be in. The market
placl was filed with great high wagon.
load of them, and frantic peasants
tossing them down to the porters, who
wer{ "shying' them madly about here
and here, to and fro, until it looked like
somsinsane jugglery practice. 1t was
no jQe to walk calmly about during
thesdmaneuvres; there was q tolerable
chane of q stray shot with one of these
balls II concentrated Indigestion. Fatal
error % try and dodge them. Sure TO be
hit. Keep your course, and the pitchers
and Users allow for you and rational
amount of Roadway. But of course they
can Ipt allow for eccentric lodging.
Thereis much demented shouting, and
seemingly absurd amount of hand.
shaking. This is apt to mislead the
stranger. 1t is no merely sentimental
meeting or parting, but the usual cement.
ing CLASP of a final bargain. The
cheeseSgo merrily by, piled high ON
hand-bsrrows, to the great weigh-house
to be sealed. The porters are race
apart. 1t is no small job to carry about
three orfour hundred-weight of dodgy
and shifless balls, piled up on a hand
barrow without spilling them. The
porters have curious scuffiing, sham
bling way of gliding over the ground.
The arms are outspread, partly for
balance, partly to ward off colliderS
Every scale in the weigh-house is painted
some Distinguishing color, or arrange
ment of colOrS, and each set of porters
have painted hats and badges of the
corresponding tint; and as there are
many scales. so does it come to pass that
the whole scene looks like wild revel
of all the most positive and crude colorS
out of the rainbow. The barrow is slung
across the shoulders by straps, and as
they do not touch their ham s to it to
steady it, the slightest conclusion is
enough to brins down the slippery
pyramid with a run.
We saw a snail and needless boy
manage to run full tilt against pair of
these carriers, AMI every golden sphere
of bounding cheese went flying to the
four winds. The unhappy urchin was
not cuffed nor even vilified, nor did they
speak unkindly of his parents; the crowd
simply paused in mad career, and set to
work to pursue ard bring back the fugi-
tives, and no one seemed to think HIM
self or herself too busy or too grand to
lend an obliging hand to restore them,
or even the obliging apron or coat sleeve
topolish off the dust from the grimmed
surface before they helped to pile them
back on the barrow. The unlucky boy
seemed to be, rather sympathized with,
and even a mild sort OF martyr. l was
surprised that nobody kissed him. We
noticed that children are invariably
'.made much Of in the way of kindness
and indulgent treatment all over Hol-
land. When we found the cheese carni-
val rather pail upon US we sought other
scenes, but it was difficult to get entirely
away from it; something would turn up
to show how deep and wide its interests
were in Alkmaar. Along the quays
were numbers of vessels loading with all
sorts of it to all parts of the globe, wher
ever the least scrap Of digestion remains
intact. The quaint oil warehouses along
the docks had nearly all stone tablets.
showing that for two hundred years OF
so they had identified themselves with
this one industry. From the upper sto-
ries of these cheeseries were long wooden
cutters leading to the ships in dock, and
along these troughs trickled a never
ceasing rill of the ripened and matured
article, now a brillian. crimson-the final
tint it comes to when ready for the far
off dyspeptic.-Georgs II. Bouyhton, in
Harper'S Magazine.