Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-04-17

been convenient in the days of 1S47,
when there was car fare and steam
boat fare and canalboat fare to pay.
Faith without works is dead, besides,
you can't buy horses and wagons with
faith. The cash is better AS long
as they had plenty of gold they also
had plenty of friends. Gold speaks a
universal language No country is so
savage that the people cannot distin-
guish the color of gold dollar.
You will notice that the religious
colonies that have been started the
world over. | mean especially the
country over, and emphatically in Iowa,
they never selected poor, thin soiled.
yellow knobbed territory where it
would be hard to raise white beans.
They have always selected land as
rich as the richest. They mixed corn
raising and religion very admirably in
Iowa.
The president was also religious
leader or preacher. He is called
Dominic Scholte, which means preach
er and more. it means teacher. In
August, 1S47. they landed at point
where there had been erected pole
and single nailed to the top. On
the single was inscribed, the single
word "Pella. The preachers little
daughter Said where is PelIa? '
They were in the midst of the broad
prairie, with no houses, and no rail
road to transport material into the in
terror. But there We're about 700
brave, determined spirits who had not
been afraid to risk the perils of
journey into an unknown country, and
little were they dismayed by the rig
ors of home building with winter com
ing in a raw country where not only
the scattered Inhabitants We're strange
but the language as well.
They set out to make temporary
dwellings for the winter They lived
in dugouts with broad roofs. There
was a sawmill in the neighborhood.
They had some hard times, but like
all new settlers in a new country.
they were sociable and neighborly and
time sped swiftly, and the old settlers
to this day think that there are no
times just like the days when I'VE
were boys and girls
In the spring the farmers went to
work with a will, and although they
had much to learn the soil was so adj
mirably adapted to farming that they
raised good crops, in spite of them
selves, and being thrifty and frugal
and industrious they have never suf-
fered in material things from the first
winter. They farm much the same
as the native farmer, although there
are still, after more than half a cen
fury, some of the relics Of the Faith
erland visible about their farms.
For the purpose Of seeing as many
Of the Hollanders as possible. I at
tended Fourth Of July celebration
at Pella. That is the center of the
settlement, which is about forty miles
long and eight to ten miles in width.
They have bought all the natives out,
that is all who were not Hollanders,
for they themselves are mostly natives
now. Comparatively few of the set
tiers now are foreign born.
Pella is the metropolis of the Hol-
land country. The settlement, al
though large one, centers at the
town. 1t is oddly laid out. It does
not have the appearance of an Amer
lean town, although the people are in
tensely American. In the middle of
the town is large park called Gar
den Square. 1t contains four or five
acres and is kept pretty as a picture.
Business houses are built around Gar
den Square. but not all houses on
the Square" are business houses, for
there are number of residences right
on the main street.
If a person were blindfolded and set
down in Pella and his eyes opened he
would realize that he was in a pecu-
liar town. The architecture is not
thoroughly American. The houses
usually occupy larger plat of ground
than is commonly the case in country
town, even. a plat is generally an
acre, and sometimes even more It
is partly because Pella is settled up
by retired farmers, as so many towns
in the West are. and partly because
of the Holland custom Of having a
patch Of ground to farm. All the lots
are fenced carefully and the yards are
planted full of fruit trees and flowers
Of an old style that reminds one Of the
pictures Of a town in Holland. The
Dutch are noted as frugal people, and
it is nowhere shown more than in
their houseyards.
Around every house is perfect will
derness of trees and shrubbery and
vines, so that if the Children of Israel
should get lost in it, one can imagine
how it would take them forty years
to find their way out.
And 1 would not have you to under
stand that it looks unsightly either,
but on the other hand it is pretty and
picturesque as can be. The homes
are as neat and as clean as new
pin. On a hot day the groves of fruit
trees around their Holland homes do
not look at all uninviting, [ assure
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