The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-22

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Though Eidam, on the Zuyder$ zee
gives its name to those rose red spheres
we knosy as Dutch cheeses, which
IRE instinctively associated with I n
I digestion. yet it is $Adkmaar. In north
ern Holland, that conduces to the wees=
n IL Importance Of this edible of COM
3merce, as any one who has exer$stood3
in the quaint old market place upon ~
Friday, and about the hour of noon.
will have speedily come to understand
For the Dutch cheese producer. in-S
deed, all roads" may be said to lead
to Alknanr. likewise all Waterways
and there are many them Thithels
come the cheeses by rail. by cart AMI
4 by boat, You stumble over them inside
the station as you. aliEht from IKE
train; they dispute the right OF way be
tween the rows of narrow, many col
ored and curiously gabled houses they
stand in solid stacks upon the landing
tages-heaped up Ike cannon balls In
readiness for an immediate bonbard77
nlent and, If 'twere not lbelols5 to
breathe slught savorng of dlsrespect 70
u friendly country's national comesti-=3
bic. as deadly. possibly. also to an IN =
accustomed stomach as their lead en-
prototypes.
But. be that as it may, the cheese
market is q rare good sISht&in quaint
fNT1F{E
and his rroIIw come in to drive their
bargain ut the weigh hoouse With the
wholesale agents from far ana nesIr-
and every hosiery does its own brisk
trade with both parties. Across those
rounded bridges peculiar to Holland
come shoals of peasant folk II pic
turesque> attire. Who does not 5knoSv
by now the dress With its glorious cap
aud golden .'corlzscrew ornaments; the
pride Of many u generation. nak1ns
pretty faces doubly bewitching ana
lending some subtle attraction to even
the hardest featured dame we'll up IA
years? On they come-clatter, CHATTER.
clatter voluble with their cultural Il u
ency we somehow feel we ought to S11l--
ClerStand because of its confuSingty
familiar sound, but It's very kinshlr to
German sends us astray. and we listen
ana listen Iii lie JslISoki ttAtou L41SSS
weigh hoouse becomes more hope
less tumble of sounds than Eevei.#to our
ears. and we content ourselves with
turning our attention to the building
itself. It stands where it's richly paint
ed facad e can be seen clearly reelected
in thccooI smooth waters of the mel Ssh==
boring canal. a dignlfied old pile, buiit
in 1861. with an especial eye TO the
growing Importance of Dutch cheeses.
4AlkInaa1- having III that year received
its right to weigh" from William CT
FO.anGe and thus every cheese char
ing hands from that date onward hay
ing pissed from the producer to the
dealeracross the AlLmaar scales. The
present ones. by the way. which have
hung in their place since 1852. were
made in Amsterdam at cost of sos
guilders and having conscientiously
performed their duties without hitch
ever since. certainly speak volumes for
the work manship of 200 andsodd years
ago.
Though the little town Is thronSed
from earliest morn with orderly
crowds of heavy Hollanders. it is not
until the musical chimes within the
all important weigh hoouse turret have
signifcd the hour of noon by breaking
forth In melody, generally from some
well known comic opera. that the &C
tual business of the day begins al
though, ..unoficially.'' both parties to
the coming transactions have proba bly,
already taken time by the forelock
over a glass of hollands in some inn
on the maarkt. Now. however the
cum bersome ware is carried within
doors. the time honored ceremony is
gone through and the ticket Stating
the correct weight Of each given, after
which act the money changes hands
1t is study in temperament this
weigh hoouse scene in the little Dutch
town. NO hurry skurry'' mars the
calm Of the place or disturbs the phleg-
matte, pipe sucking individuals pri-
marily interested in the transactions
here going forward The cheese alone
seems riotous and inclined to wholesale
decentralization. with a mind to roll
hither and thither, possibly resulting
from some ..subconscious memory of
cows. green meadows and buttercups
and dfsinc!ina ton to coming bondage
upon the prosaic shelves Of some pro.
vision dealer.
If So we honor the last kicks flu
tile though they be. for accustomed
hands soon pounce upon and gather
up the stock, of which each single
cheese weighs from two to six kilos