Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-06-20

they have q monarchy and o queen.
Possibly when the little girl grows out
OF short dresses, and gets more used 70
all this adulation and sycophancy, she
may come to really enjoy 1t, and thank
kind Providence for calling upon her
to sit as figure head OF this country,
whose record as the great Dutch repub-
lie Is amongst the highest and grandest
in human annals. It must be good
deal harder for bright, active child to
play queen than sedate, grown-up wo-
man. Perhaps the latter Is more sus-
ceptible to the wiles Of flattery, and can
the more easily give credence to the
stories which It Is somebody's duty al
ways TO tell, and royalty's duty always
to believe. And why should not the
grown.up child get as much pleasure
out OF seeing her photographs displayed
in shop windows, and her youthful face
land they never put wrinkles on coins)
as an imprint on the peoples money, as
the little girl? And I'm sure the Dutch
guilder was never graced with sweet
er face than that OF the youthful queen
to whose health and happiness hogs
heads OF beer and barrels OF wine were
drunk in old Amsterdam to-day.
But there were other children, too
who took part in the performance lust
closed, and this country retains that
good old-fashiOned trait and for which
It has been proverbial ever since the
Dutch took Holland" of having more
children to the quarter section than
any other country in the world. Five
thousand Of them stood up before the
queen and joined their voices with
about that many brass bands and other
instruments OF noise, in singing some
verses have before me, but which you
would not understand bit better than
the Dutchman did nv discourse to him
this morning upon the star spangled
banner and the farmers alliance. One
OF the verses on the program begins
"Waar de blanke top der duinen,
Schittert in den zonnegloed,"
aud winds up in Dutch.
Verify the Dutch are q provident,
liberty loving and happy people. All
these traits are reflected by such crowds
as have mingled in to-day and in the
one got lost in the other night at the
big circus on q church holiday In Rot
extraordinarily dressed and well
fed: mindful OF the rights OF others and
which only liberty-respecting people
have and bright faced and jolly.
OF their country and its vast system
OF dykes and canals; of their constant
and intelligent fight with the restless
sea: OF their splendid agriculture and
fruitful tillage; their most perfect sys-
tenn OF drainage and irrigation; their
dairy and fax products, and how they
get the largest yield Of seed or fibre, as
the case may be; their fine schools and
museums of art; their cities built upon
poles driven in the soft mud and dykes
upon ouicksand and morass, and many
other things that make the Dutch and
their country most interesting and in
structive, I would like to write about
were / newspaper man, and were 1t,
therefore, my business to tell more than
I knew, and to explain what ! do not
understand. But do know that I've
seen q big crowd to-day, and that like
the Dutch people better than their IAN
guage; the Il Q erial in their clothes
better than the fit; their drinks better
than their cooking; their country better
than their weather; their pretty little
queen better than I should crusty
Dutch king, and like the memories
and grandeur OF their glorious old re-
public, when the love OF freedom drove
out the Spaniard and Won Tromp swept
the sea with broom at his masthead
better than either. w. l.. r.