The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-12
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- TRIP - nFo0catd ana W0Sh OUc
May See When There-Peaceful as
New England and Not Widely Differ
ent From What We See In Our Own
country--Products Of This Central
African state-A White Mans coun-
try-Rich Ia Minerals, but Farming
Country Too-A Short Visit to ia
naiea.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY
MARX BENNITTl
a gardener was digging up minutes
on the great floral clock as | went up
the slope toward the PaIaee Of Agri-
culture It took him full ten minutes
to dig up one minute. It looked to me
like throwing away time. You can pass
the time with almost anybody here at
the beautiful floral clock. These are
the most wonderful hours you can
think Of full Of color and fragrance
and summer garden Joyousness. Time
goes swiftly too, The long hand trav-
els five feet a minute The gardener
told me Of a man who got On the min
ute hand when they were testing the
clock and was whirled into the twenty
second century, 4. D., before he got
OFF He was in sad plight, being 50
far in advance Of the age; but BY a
happy thought, they put him on the
Ferris wheel ana whlrled him back. l
had heard this story before, but was
reluctant TO believe 1t till the gardener
mentioned it
Believe not that your inner eye
Can ever ia just measure try
The worth OF hours as they go BY.
These hours are very expensive. as
the weeds get into them just as they
do in some hours Of ours land 1t fl a
constant battle to get the best result
from each hour. one hand Is seventy
five feet long and the other d little
shorter, but of course that does not
mean shorter hours. Each weighs more
than a ton 1t Is 112 feet from 3 TO 8
o'clock, radial measurement While
this timepieee is never short Of hands,
it has many d strike This is where
we have the biggest time at the expo
sition.
If you were going to Rhodesia in the
Palace Of Agriculture you would enter
the main north portal, turn to your
right and walk few PAGES to the west
ward. If You were going to Rhodesia
in South, or, more near by, Central, Az
RIGA you would take steamer to Beira,
town Of Portuguese East Africa.
From Beifa you would take train for
700 miles. as far as from st Louis
to Buffalo, riding half the distance
through Portuguese East Africa and
the remainder in southeastern Rhode
STA to Salisbury. You would pass
through what is now most peaceful
country, as picturesque as any part Of
the world You would sec great for
ests and plains, broad valleys and swift
rivers. deep canyons and high noun
tains, country toward which emigra-
ton will direct its course for decades
to come
The revelations which come to the
visitor who stops thoughtfully to ex-
anime the exhibit which Alfred Brom-
witch has Installed from faroff Rhodesia
are such as to excite ones further In
terest. For the present the vast coun-
try is under the administration of the
British East African company. but in
time it Will become self governing
British colony, taking rank with the
great slsterhood OF jewels that make
up King Edwards glorious crown
was more interested in the feeble
efforts Of the natives In manufacture
than fin what the white man has done,
for in the native work we see a kind Of
Ingenuity that brings no credit what
ever to the white man. For example,
here is a native grain bag from Rhode
sia made by skinning whole section
of tree Of its flexible sap bark, slid
Ing 1t off and sewing up one end. Any
white man who would make bag by
that laborious process. and very poor
bag, too, would be set down as d fool,
while 1t is highly commendable In the
natives, who had no cloth and did not
know how to make It. In some parts
the natives produce a little woven ma
terial. Here is a dress for a female.
1t Is perhaps fifteen inches square, with
fringe at the bottom--a mere apron Of
coarse fiber A broad leayed flbrous
plant is grown easily here which sup
plies material for cordage A cabin GOV
cred with this fiber is part Of the
Rhodesia exhibit
You would scarcely protest II some
one were to tell you that these photo
graphs OF Rhodeslan towns were those
Of New England villages 200 years
old. White houses amid trees, strag
Cling suburbs and pastoral quiet and
peacefulness these are in the pictures
given us by the camera Of southern
Rhodesla
Mountain ranges are higher, perhaps
hut the scenery may easily be dupli
Gated in many parts Of the United
States. Still it Is not scenery that
Rhodesia aims to show, but rather
that 1t Ii a country OF rare opportuni
ties and untold possibilities for those
who seek wider field than has been
their lot Rhodesia shows that Il IS
white mans country. having climate
and soil for white mans foods and