Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-12-29
The Dykes of Holland.

A certain Jealous dame is said to
have once attempted to sweep the
ocean away with broom. The
Dutch have been wiser than this.
They are slow and deliberate people.
Desperation may use brooms, lbut
deliberation prefers clay and solid
masonry. So, slowly and deli per-
ately, the dykes, those great hill-like
walls of cement and stone, have risen
to breast the buffeting waves. And
the funny part of it is,they are so
skillfully slanted and paved on the
outside with fiat stones that the
efforts of the humping waves to beat
them down only make them all the
firmer.
These Holland dykes are among
the wonders of the world. | cannot
say for how many miles they sire ch
along the coast, and throughout the
interior: but you may be sure that
wherever a dyke is necessary to KEEP
back the encroaching waters, therf it
is. Otherwise, nothing would be
there-at least, nothing in the form
of land nothing but fearful lllps-
tration of the principal law of Ay-
drostatics Water always seeks hts
level
Sometimes the dykes, however
carefully built, will " spring a-leak,"
and if not attended to at once, terrible
results are sure to follow. In threa%
ened places guards are stationed at
intervals, and steady watch is kept
up night and day. AT the first signal
of danger, every Dutchman within
hearing Of the startling bell is ready
to rush to the rescue. When the
weak spot is discovered, what do you
think is used to meet the emergency ?
What, but straw-everywhere else
considered the most helpless of all
things in water! Yet straw, in the
hands of the Dutch, has will of its
own. Woven into huge mats and
securely pressed against the embank-
ment, it defies even a rushing tide,
eager to sweep over the country.
These dykes form almost the only
perfectly dry land to be seen from
the ocean side. They are high and
wide, with fine carriage-roads on top,
sometimes lined with buildings and
trees. Lying on one side of them
and nearly on level with the edge,
is the sea, lake, canal, or river, as
the case may be; on the other, the
fat fields stretching dample along at
their base, so that cottage roofs
sometimes are lower than the shining
line of water. Frogs squatting on
the shore can take quite a bird's-eye
view of the landscape and little fish
wriggle their tails higher than the
UPS vi OllC hllIOh0 11OloCo
look complacently down upon the
bell-towers and men in skiffs and
canal boats sometimes know when
they are passing their friend Dirk's
cottage only by seeing the smoke from
its chimney; or perhaps by the cart
wheel that he has perched upon the
peak of its overhanging matched
roof, in the hope that some stork
will build her nest there, and so
bring good luck.-.St. Nicholas.
I wished 1 dead, after suffering several
years with the Leucorrhna, and no doubt would
have been, only lady induced me to try Sulphur
Bitters. Now am well. Three bottles cured me.
Mrs.. Copps, Newport, II T.
Wouldst thou have thy flesh obey
thy spirit? Then let thy spirit obey
thy God. Thou must be governed
that thou mayst govern.
A dyspeptic,s argument is a growl, and that
growl marks the limit of argument with him. The
best way to get him to try a medicine would be to
advise against t-but notice how different his tone
after using Burdock Blood Bitters.
81 have suffered with dyspepsia for the last two
years. Not long ago 1 commenced taking B. B. B.
am now on the second bottle and 1 feel like
q. kNOA.
II Sherwood Ave, Binghamton, n. "
Repeated tests with uniform prove the
fact that Burdock Blood Bitters will cure dyspep
STA. The reason is plain, it tones the stomach to
natural action and keeps the sluiee ways of the
system free from cloggng impurities.
81 have been troubled with dyspepsia and heart
disease for nine years, and found no relief until
tried Burdock Blood Bitters. Now am well after
taking two bottles. MRS. ETTIE FRAZIER,
Browne, Mich"