The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15

| lege for dra awing teachers as well as oth- CTS for training. There are also night schools for the working classes. indus l trial schools for the women and in Am
 sterdam there is school for the training
 of lady chemists.
 In the Fine Arts Academy at The Hague there are eight different courses attended by about 500 students and other art schools in Amsterdam and else where.
 The Dutch have housekeeping schools for girls, schools for butter making. fruit growing. horse doctorlng and horseshoe ing. and, in short, schools for almost cv- | crything under the sun. Lectures on az ricnlture are given to the farmers at the | expense of the Government. and in Utrecht the night schools have classes for | carpenters, bricklayers, stone cutters goldGmiths, sculptors, painters and lith-
 oGraphers.
 Holland has also schools for the train
 ing of boys who expect to erter the Gov
 ernment service and especially the ser l vice of the colories. In these schools the I Languages of Sumatra Java and others | of the East Indies are taught. The boys | learn all about the chief religions of the natives they study their laws. their prej- l udiCes and customs so that when they | are sent out to govern them they are a ble
 to do so intelligently. I doubt. in fact, whether any Government service Is so
 well educated and SO efficient as that of the Dutch East Indies.
 Take. for instance. a retired Javanese
 official who was with me during this trip
 to Delfshaven. As we were riding back to Rotterdam he told me that he spoke German. French and English as we'll as the Dutch. and that he could write and speak two of the languages of Java. He had to pass an examination in these Ian- guages before he was sent out to the East Indies and this is the case with every man who represents Holland in her Asi- atic colonies
 A Dutch Venice.
 I like Rotterdam. It is one of the quaintest cities of Europe, and at the same time the most business-like. It Is somewhat like Venice. but more like Ven ice was in the middle ages. in the height of its prosperity. Almost the whole city Is quay or dock. It is cut up by ca nals, which lead in and out through the Maas, and one wanders through street after street of tall. lean buildings. fnd- ing harges, launches and sailing boats almost everywhere.
 Along the Boompjes and in the islands Of the Maas are enormous ships of every description. and in the canals smaller vessels abound. Venice is a town of gondolas Rotterdam Is one of business craft, There are no carts In Venice. The town boasts that 1t has not a COW nor a horse in it. Rotterdam is filled with wag- ons, carts and drays of all kinds. There are street cars and carriages.
 The canals have big dra whridges and swinging bridges, and when you are walk ing or driving along you frequently find yourself suddenly in front of a blank wall of boards twenty feet high. The whole street, car track and all, has noise- leSsly risen in front of you to let a string Of boats or harges pass through the canal over which you are going. Some of the bridges swing upon pvots, others divide | in the middle and rise upward. Others are stationary or suspension bridges, in passing which the smokestacks, masts | and spars of the harges swing back upon hinges as they go through.
 Rotterdam's Broat Jay.
 The traffic is by no means confined to | the water. There are more carts and | drays than there are boats and the streets | are crowded with men carrying burdens, end with dogs and women and boys haul l Ing carts. Come with me to Hoogstraat | and take look al the Broadway of Rot | terdam. This Is the chief business street | and 1t goes through the heart of the | city. It is not more than thirty feet wide | and it's tall four and fve-story houses | lean across from side to side as though | drunk and about to embrace
 Take stand in one of the doorways l and watch the cabs and carriages, the big | wagons and the little carts which jam | themselves this way and that. There | comes hay peddler in a cap, blue smock | and clogs. He has a cartload of grass with two dogs harnessed in front of the i axle. He pushes and they strain and | pull as they run, barking. along. Be- | hind comes hareheaded woman with | a green wheelharrow filled with vegeta- hles. and bread peddler follows, drag | gtng long box upon wheels
 Where the Dogs Work.
 Further up the street are more dog carts | and at every cart the dog does all or | half the work Indeed, l never knew | what the expression work lige a dog" meant until l came here. Loads big | enough for an American horse are pulled | by Dutch dogs. There comes one now. | dragging a cart full or beer bottles, which | its master is delivering to his customers as he passes their doors There Is an other behind pulling a load of salt. and | others pass every few moments dragging carloads of milk
 Odd Dutch Costumes.
 Now turn your eyes from the dogs to