The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-06-25

Sioux Falls, well known by his fire.
! quent visits to Scotland, who is
now travelling through Europe,
sends US the following interesting
letter from Switzerland
Zurich, switzerland, June /, 1905,
With kindest greetings to our friends:
Landing at Cherbourg we went
direct to Paris. Never to me has Par
is seemed 50 beautiful, Respondent in
her deep spring yerdure the magnifi-
cent horse-chestnuts in. the Tuilleries
and Champs E1ysees, blooming in pro-
fusion, vieing only with those in the
Bots de Boulogne. Perhaps the most
striking feature of Paris today is the
incredible number of automobiles seen
in the streets and avenues, and consid-
ering the speed with (which they are
driven the skill and deXterity shown
by the chautfeurs is phenomenal.
There seems to be no speed limit and
yet accidents are rare. Tie conjecture
of a keen observer was that no fewer
than Is, 200 passed by a certain point
on the Rue de Rivoli in ten hours, and
| do not think he overestimated the
number. At principal centers they
swarm like bees. AS an auto enthusi-
asst could but note the superiority of
the brakes on the French cars, for
from great speed the auto can be stop
ped almost instantly. Auto-taxime-
tiers are nearly as common as horse-tax-
meters, and their number is rapidly
increasing.
The clinics with the exception of the
Rothschild Hospital are about the
same as on my former visits. This one
is the finest Though not the largest)
eye-hospital it has been my pleasure to
visit. The great DR.. T1usseau operates
here and incredible as it may seem he
removes a cataract. using only one in
strument-a cataract knife-and per-
forms the operation with great rapid
ity. This perhaps is of interest to my
doctor friends only, but as to galleries,
~cathedrals and general points of inter
est to the tourist Mrs. Stevenson is the
authority rather than myself as she is
doing" them thoroughly, while with
me they are a side issue.
The little touches of peasant life we
have seen in France, Belgium, Hol-
land and especially in the Schwarz-
valid, (Black Forest), of Germany have
been most interesting. Among which
were the Normandy maids in their
white bonnets, the quaint fisher folk
Of Molendam and the Isle of Marken,
the of Alsace Lorraine who
wear instead of hats the immense AL
satan bows, and the people of the
Black Forest in their picturesque cos
tunes formed a perfect Kaleidoscope of
color Oh Sunday in procession to
church.
We have seen innumerable land
scapes long familiar to us through pic
lures; Millet peasant scenes in real life
and in their natural environment and
the Dutch landscapes with their black
and white cattle and always the wind
mill, The charming simplicity of all
was most pleasing.
AS every one knows a great part of
Holland lies below the sea level. Over
many of the finest fields o ftoday waves
once rolled. The ocean bed slopes
gradually, and as the tide would go out
the people would watch their opportu-
nifty and build dykes out into the shall
low water. The remaining water
would be pumped out and this new
land secured. Some of these dykes are
forty feet thick and twenty-three feet
high. A commo saying in Holland
is: "God made the heavens and the
earth but forgot Holland so we made
it ourselves Before leaving Holland
| nus not forget the innumerable ca
nails and the great fields of blooming
tulips.
Brussels is the Paris Of Belgium.
Having been favored by Il letter from
Dr.. Sulzer of the Rothschild Hospital
III Paris to DIR. Gallemerts of the Hos
pltal st. Jean in Brussels I received
many courtesies which otherwise might
not have been extended to me. Though
my first visit TO Belgium [ was very
much pleased with the clinics In
the most interesting one visit
ed was in Utrecht.
From the Hague we visited the Ia
NOUS resort of ~Schevening, a great
beach covered with wicker
chairs and bathing wagons.
After visiting Amsterdam and en-
we left Holland travelling by
rail to Cologne, from whence we went
Meinz by boat on the Rhine, the
beauties and legends of which have so
often been told. One of the most pic
turesque parts of the whole Rhine is
atlRolandsack and the Drachenfy Is
tWo crags crowned BY ruined overs i
oue on each side of the river and be-
tween which lies the beautiful green