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loaded with fruit. In. a motor ride yes
terday I went by field after field Of
bright yellow carrots just pulled. their
green tops pointing one way and the
yellow tubers another. There were
patches of potatoes just dug and Of
great turnips that looked like so many
white billiard balls on the brown choco-
late SOIL"
TN our ride across country we pass
! through cities at every few miles. All
Of the Dutch towns are well built. well
paved and well kept. Every street Is
as clean as a pin; the windows crystal
and the brass knobs are shining like
gold. The streets are almost all paved
with bricks. which is true also of the
roadways throughout the country. Just
now new buildings are going up in all
of the cities. Amsterdam has some
large quarters built by the municipality
for the laboring classes. and ! see new
apartment houses of two and three
stories and new factories in all Of the
centers. Dwelling houses face the
street with steps that come out on the
sidewalk.
Rotterdam has the highest house in
the country. 1t is known as the Amer
ican skyscrap per and is actually seven
stories high. 1t is built of porcelain tiles
and stands upon piles. Amsterdam has
the Queens Palace. the foundation of
which is 1850 piles. and there are SO
many other buildings there supported
that way that the town really roosts
on tree trunks.
Most interesting features to me
are the Judas glasses mirrors
about as big as sheet of note
paper hung to the wall just outside
the windows, SO that one can sit
within and see all who pass up and
down the street. These mirrors are
usually at such an angle that they
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BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
UTRECHT. Holland

UTRECHT. f1olldnu.
~ HIS is film of Holland after
grim yisaged War hath
smoothed its wrnkled front"
Il and the people have put on the
cloak Of normalcy. For the past week
Or so, I have been flying over the brick
roads that gridiron this beautiful king
dom, my car racing side by side with the
multitudinous bicycles that here take the
place of the American fiivver; now high
above the fields riding upon the embank-
ments that uphold the larger canals filled
with barges; and now down inside the
dykes that wall the great polders. the
former lakes and swamps that these
thrifty Dutch have turned into gardens
as fertile as Eden.
have ridden through the gorgeous
fields Of Harlem, where the earth
laughs in flowers more splendid than
Solomon in his glory. and from where
each year more than fifty million pounds
Of tulips, daffodils and other bulbs go to
England and the United States. Since
the war the Dutch have been competing
with the greenhouses of Brussels. Pa rs
and London. and they now send out
flowers by airplane. reaching those cities
each morning il time for sale side by
side with the blossoms clipped from the
gardens hard by
/ have visited the wideawake city OF
Amsterdam, the financial center. 4 huge
spider web of canals walled with one
hundred thousand houses built upon
piles, which in settling have leaned this
way and that, so that the quaint old
town seems TO have gone on Il crazy
drunk in its richness.
I have explored the wide waterways
of Rotterdam, the gateway to the Rhine
the Mas and the Scheldt. where the
huge ocean liners come to anchor in the
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secretary birds, walking about in
different places on the grassy plain.
There was one ostrich about half
mile 20 the left that had been squat
ted ever since we came into sight.
AS she stood up [ could see through
my glasses that she had many little
ones with her.
There was a small donga Cor valel
to the right with fringe of bushes
along it. / tied my mule and told
Sinlba to make a wide circle and
gradually work her toward the
donga. L went down the back side OF
the hill and crept along the donga
without her seeing me.
She was keeping her eye on Simba.
When she got fairly close [ ran out.
taking her by surprise. She ran away
and the little ones all skulked.
Nearly all had their heads under
the grass while their bodies were in
them up and had good look at them
then went on 10 camp.
The next day we started for Nairobi
and returned in two days less than it
took us to come.
1t would be difficult for me 10 de-
scribe the feeling of relaxation that
came over me as I returned to civiliza
ton. The little stone bungalows
along the road looked like mansions
and the broad, level road was a con-
trast indeed to the rough, winding.
stony trail that I had followed for so
many days. 1t seemed good to be
home again, and ! was glad it was
| over, but in the years that followed
"reminiscences of this group continued
to pass through my mind, and, as ]
think, of it now, l would not take
thousands for those experiences
fCopyriCht, 1928
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mirrors are common in Belgium,
and also in France and Germany.
They are sometimes called Judas
eyes"
The pictures Of the people of Hol-
land sent to America give many
wrong ideas to She man on the
street. He has the impression that
it takes a whole bolt Of cloth to
make a pair Of Dutch trousers, and
that all the men wear short jackets
and their footgear is clogs. The
truth is that tho Dutch Of the cities,
men and women, dress just as we
do, and they are so like Us that an
Amsterdam or Hague crowd dropped
down in New York would not be out Of
place. The people are, 1 should say,
almost a head taller than the Bel
gians or French. The men are big
boned and husky, and the women
especially large and fine looking,
many Of them being handsome rather
than pretty. The people look capa-
BILE and are very Intelligent.
The Dutch universities have al
ways been famous and there are
| now more than one million pupils in
the public schools. The children are
| manly. and the boys and girls run
about together and seem to enjoy
one another. Young men and young
women make mo bones Of going
along arm in arm through the
| streets, and a common sight is a
beau on r bicycle with a loving
! hand on the shoulder of his sweet
heart who rides on another wheel
| by his side. Women are admitted to
every profession, and the Dutch
| feminist movement Is we'll advanced
THE quaint characters shown in
l. the advertisement Of Holland
and pictured SO widely in all travel
! books are confined largely to the
! fishing villages along the ocean and
| in the islands of the Zuider Zee.
I have visited most OF these places
during my stay. Each village has
it's own costumes. and a common
head dress is the helmet of thin
beaten silver or gold that fits over
the hair and comes out to the front
! of the ears. To this. in some dis
tricts. are added gold corkscrews
or spirals that fasten the lace CAP
on each side of the eyes, and alsl
| high collars Of coral beads and great
+, silver or gold brooches at the neck
and sometimes at the waist. They
| are very similar to the headgear
| have described in the story Of my
| trip from Antwerp TO Rotterdam
| Along the Zuider Zee the girls wear
short and very full skirts commit
| half way down the calf below
! which are wooden stockings and
| great wooden shoes. The skirts are
often several in number, reminding g
| one of the song in Miss Hook OF
Holland";
Il have one little petty from
| Peter
And another little petty from John
And another bright yellow
| From some other fellow
And one that 1 haven't got on
AS to clogs, they are worn very
generally by both the poor and we'll
to-do people outside of the cities.
bought pair the other day fo
40 cents and expect to take then
home to use as flower pots. The.
are made of light wood cut out b.
carpenter. and whitened will
chalk. These Dutch tell me thai
clogs are warmer than boots, an,
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had often heard of laughing
hyenas, but this is the only one l
ever heard laugh. The morning fol-
lowing we were up early to inspect
the traps, looking at the near camp
first.
The trap was gone. AS we had at
tached large bushes for drags to each
of the traps, it was easy to follow
and we soon found a large striped
hyena in it.
This, I believe, was the one we had
heard laugh, but he soon found it
was no laughing matter.
Another Of the traps was gone.
We followed the trail left for about
zoo yards, when we came upon very
large leopard. ] gave him one shot
just back of the shoulder with my
light rife, which settled him.
set the trap again that night and
caught another leopard. Both were
very good specimens.
Soon afterward we moved south for
five days into the Guolomie hills,
camping the last night by little
stream used by some natives for irri-
eating.
We camped under some large trees
between two Of their fields, and that
night I was awakened by some one
beating on tin pans on each side of
my tent. .
/ thought the natives that owned
the shambas or garden patches were
wrought up by our presence and were
beating the pans as a warning for
us to leave, but the next morning
Simba explained to me that they were
doing this to frighten away small
bucks that would otherwise eat up
their entire crop Of peas and beans.
This explanation was a great re-
lief to me, as I had decided it was
moving day.
It was at this camp that I expected
to kill a greater kudu. I hunted hard
for Axe days and saw only cows and
younr bulls, but one morning Simba
and I rode out before it was light
enough to see and just at sunrise,
two miles from camp, we came across
a bunch of six or eight kudu cows.
AS we stood looking at them on
this occasion another bunch of twelve
or fifteen came into view much nearer
and to the right. All started to run
ming.
In the midst Of this lot was big
bull. His horns appeared to be si1
feet in length and were so heavy thai
his head nodded up and down al
every jump. He was not over two
hundred yards away and running
broadAide.
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had a variety of interesting
~ experiences. among which
was the killing of my first buffalo.
We were near a part of the Guaso
Nyrio. when one day Hymeasie, one
of my guides. told me he had seen
many fresh buffalo tracks all along
the river bed on the way down. ]
called Simba, my gun-bearer and we
went TO look for them.
There had been many buffaloes
watering in the river just the night
before He climbed the top Of a
large hill and / began looking for
them with my glasses.
At length ] saw dark object in
the shade Of a tree about one-fourth
of mile across the stream. ] could
not make out what it was, but Simba
took the glasses and at once said it
was a herd of buffaloes: so we waded
across the stream and began to stalk
them.
1t was my first experience with
buffaloes and I knew'that only bulls
could legally be shot.
After crossing the river we discov-
cred a spring under steep bank. sur
rounded by black mud.
d
high on the left and we walked along
this until suddenly a huge black
animal arose out Of the mud and
tore past us. l never saw anything
get over the ground more rapidly.
The only way he could get out was
past us. The distance between US
and the animal was not more than
ten or twelve feet and as he raced
by / was bewildered for moment, I
thought it was a buffalo, but was not
quite sure; neither was l sure whether
| or not it was a male.
! But Simba began to shout: Buff
! falo. Shoot, Bwana. Shoot. Big
bull."
! had the presence of mind to note
that when the buffalo crossed to the
other side of the river he would have
twenty yards to climb up very steep
| bank and L felt this would be my
opportunity to make a sure shot it l
| waited.
| Simba shouted, danced and pointed
and could not understand why did
| not shoot.
| Then the bull was about halfway
up the bank. the steepness of which
| slowed him down almost to a walk,
| took aim and fired.
One shot was enough. He fell
down and rolled to the edge of the
water He had wonderful pair of
horns, eighteen inches across the
| web, almost concealing his eyes.
| THE next morning I found leopard
l. tracks around. After first build
! ing a strong fence of thorn bush
| around the body. with openings in ii
just large enough for a leopard to
enter, set traps nearby and in the
openings:
J. Soon after dark we heard hyenaa
howling all around camp and one oi
Them laughed like a. a.hystericaLwoman
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sense that has characterized her fam
ily She is greatly beloved by the
people, and, at the time of her birth.
celebra tions took place throughout
Holland and in the Dutch colonies
Even now we have villages named
Juliana in the United States. At the
same time many eulogistic articles
about the princess were published
the most taking of them all being
little poem in an American news
paper which read:
The Holland folk are tickled much
Because they've got Princess Dutch
A brand-new, blue-eyed baby girl
To keep their loyal hearts awbiri;
An heiress for their little throne
| That they can call their very own,
Who soon will rule them as she likes.
! As little Princess OF the Dikes.
! And for her name
This very same
is chrstened by her subjects tru"
AS Juliana, Julans. Juliana Lon.
/ O Juliana Lou.
| We dof our caps 10 YOU.
| princess fair
You truly air,
o Juliana Lou.
Some day you'll come into your psce
| As ruler Of the Holland race;
| And as a queen, serenely calm:
You'll rule oer giddy Amsterdam.
And Rotterdam,
And Rotterdam.
And all the other dams there be
Along the bcauteous damson sea
And you walk your regal ways
May all your sauce be H0llandase:
And may you never a crutch
! Because somebody's beat the Dutch;
But rule serene,
| happy queen
Your days all through
| Juliana. Juliana, Julian ma Lou;
o Juliana Lon.
| We doff our caps to you.
| princess fair
You truly air.
| o Juliana Lon
| Carpenters World Travels. Copyright, 1873
l Frank G. Carpenter
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| show the front door. and unwelcome
callers can therefore be spotted and
the servant told to say that the
, hostess is not at home These Judas
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BI Err SHELLEY.

~ y one expedition, on which
was the only white man, /
had a variety of interesting
~ experiences. among which
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-11-28
North Redwood
Opens New School
ONE OF FINEST OF TWO-ROOM
BUILDINGS NOW BIG ASSET
OF VILLAGE.

Monday of last week the pupils and
teacher of the North Redwood school
moved into the new building which
replaces the one destroyed by fire
last spring The new building is ono
of the best of its kind in this section
of the state and is the cause of con-
siderable justifable pride on the part
of the residents of North Redwood.
While only one teacher is employed
there at present, the school is planned
for two rooms and the prospects for
having to open the other room with
in the near future are very good.
The main floor of the building is
arranged into two large class rooms,
cloak rooms, library and teachers
room. In the basement are the manu-
al training room, a playroom and an
auditorium. The building is entirely
modern and also fireproof. The build
ing was constructed by Contractor W.
L. Hardy of Redwood Falls from
plans drawn by Architect A. G.
Plagens of New Ulm. The pupils are
delighted with their new home and the
school prospects for North Redwood
are most auspicious. Miss Beryl
Whitaker is the present teacher.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-11-28
DR.. Brands Party
in Bad Accident
THREE IN HOSPITAL AS RESULT
OF COLLISION NEAR GROTON,
S. d. LAST THURSDAY.

DIR. and Mrs. w. A. Brand and Miss
Betty Krause are now confined to the
Eitel Hospital in Minneapolis as a
result of an unpreventable automo-
bile accident on Thursday of last
week. Miss Ann Wester, the fourth
member of the party was uninjured
except for few minor injuries. The
accident happened near Groton, S. D..
where the party had been spending
several days hunting.
Mrs. Brand who was at the wheel
at the time the accident happened.
was the most severely injured. Both
of her arms are broken at the wrists
and one of them is also fractured
above the wrist. She also sustained
severe chest injuries which will keep
her in the hospital for the next sew
eral weeks. DIR. Brand was thrown
against the telephone pole with which
the car collided and sustained dis
located collar bone and serious head
and body bruises. He will remain at
the hospital about two weeks unless
there are complications. Miss Krause's
ankle was badly sprained and her back
wrenched very painfully. Miss West
er sustained several slight bruises and
a considerable nerve shock. In COM
pany with Mrs. Brand and Miss
Krause, Miss Wester went to Mime
apolis from Groton Saturday, DIR.
Brand coming to Redwood Falls to
attend to some necessary business
matters before going to the hospital
Sunday night
Continued on Page 81
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-11-28
DR.. Ross Speaks
to Parent-TeaChers
MRS. REYNOLDS. MRS. FOBES
AND MISS ATCHERSON ALSO
TALK AT MON. EVE. MEETING.

The largest number of schoo
patrons ever present at meeting soi
the Redwood Falls Parent Teacher;
Association attended the meeting hello
at the high school Monday evening
almost three hundred persons being
present. The program was most
excellent one and every one present
felt well repaid for having attended
This week is Education Week and
the members of Melvin Daskam Post
had asked DIR. A. w. Ross to represent
them at this meeting and to speak in
the interests of education. He made
a strong appeal both for education
as necessity for one hundred pei
cent Americanism and also for the
erection of the proposed new school,
building as one way in which Red
wood Falls shall measure up to her
responsibility in this respect. DR.
Ross contends that the best cannot
be expected of the Board Of Education
nor of faculty members unless they
are provided with proper quarters and
suitable working equipment. Dr.
Ross epitomized many of the argu-
ments for the new building using,
among other information Chief Cor
belts statement concerning the pre-
sent building as a fire menace. He
talked briefly on the taxation, the rent
now paid for the armory for physical
training purposes, repair bills for the
old building, the need of an oppor-
tunity room, increased state aid, etc.,
making strong and unanswerable
plea for the erection of new build
ing.
Other very interesting talks were
given; Mrs. B. j. Reynolds had as
her topic the Physical Welfare of
Our Children subject which she
treated very constructively. Miss
Atcherson talked on the Social Activi-
ties Of the High School Age from the
school viewpoint, giving some inter-
esting information as to what the
schools do to satisfy the young peo-
pies craving for a social time, and
Mrs. C. A. Fobes talked on the social
activities in the home making a plea
for simplicity of social activities and
an understanding sympathy for the
social instincts of young people. The
talks were preceded by q short busi-
ness meeting and by q physical ex-
ercise by Sixth Grade pupils directed
Continued on Page 81
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-11-28

nothing was known about the modern
methods of scientific farming. Corn
brought up here from the more
southern states was an uncertain crop
at bestss swing to the late springs and
early falls 1t was general belief
among the farmers that only the
tame grasses such as timothy and
clover could be grown. Without corn
and with very little in the way of
hay, Redwood County beef could not
compete with the better grade beet
sold on the market from other states.
Nor could dairying balm much head
way. What was true of Redwood
County was true of all the sections
of the state under process of develop
ment
five cows. A fews herds were gather
ed and shipped annually from this
section to the western plains and
ranges for grazing. Horses were
raised for time and sold for a fair
profit in the Northwestern Markets
principally in the cities. There was
little incentive for the extensive rails
ing of cattle under such disadvant-
ages and the market for horses fail
ed to hold up. Then came the large
increase in corn acreage, resulting
from the discovery that corn, when
the proper varieties of seed were sown,
would give an enormous return and
the finding of other corn products
which would grow and develop pro-
fusely here. This in turn brought
about the development of dairying on
large scale which resulted in the
putting of a great impetus in the
stockraising as regards the produc-
tion of cattle.
Today In Redwood County.
Today Redwood County has 49,703
cattle with a very small per centage
Continued on last page)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-11-28
Bond Issue Carries 7Uo to
One in Tuesdays Election
City Votes $l75.00OO0 Bonds for Grade And Junior High
School Building SO Votes CAST 572 For
And 25o Against Bonds

That the citizens of Redwood Falls
feel the necessity for modern and
safe school building was clearly prov
ed in the special election held Tues
day, November 9th, for the purpose
of voting bonds to the amount of
SIZE, 100000. Although the vote cast
was somewhat small considering the
voting population of the school dis
trict, the votes for the bonds outnum-
Der the contrary vote more than two
to one. A total of eight hundred and
thirty-one votes was cast, five hundred
seventy-two for and two hundred fif-
ty-nine against the bond issue.
The city has now put herself upon
record as ready to build schoolhouse
which shall be freproof, planned with
a view to the best in sanitation, light
ing and other requirements for the
good health of attending pupils, and
large enough to care for the natural
growth of the city for many, many
years to come. While it is not the
intention of the Board of Education
to build snowy or extravagant build
ing, the plans provided for the new
building include many of the best fea-
lures of modern school buildings and
all the features necessary for build
ing which shall be acceptable to a
city like Redwood Falls. While it is
too soon to plan for Junior College
before the erection of the new build
ing is completed, this building will
make it possible to have two, years of
college work without further expendi-
ture for room or equipment. With
the new building it is possible for Red
wood Falls to become the educational
centre for this section.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-11-28
Fair Society
Reflects Board
DIRECTORS AUTHORIZED TO EN-
LARGE GRANDsTAND AND
BUILD POULTRY BUILDING.

That stockholders in the Redwood
County Agricultural Society have
every confidence in the Board of
Directors was shown at the annual
meeting last Tuesday. The meeting
was held in the afternoon at the Com
mercial Club rooms with an average
attendance.
Reports from the President, Secre-
tary and Treasurer were read and
approved, these reports showing that
the past year had been a very sue
cessful one and that the Society was
able, out of the proceeds Of the last
fair, to considerably reduce its indebt-
edness. After the adoption of the
reports the same board of directors
was reelected, and this board later
organized by reelecting the same Of
ficers. These officers are President
F. G. Hubbard, vice president George
Phillips, secretary w. A. Hauck and
treasurer C. A. Luscher. The other
members of the Board are Peter Nc
Kay, C. C. Croker, M. w. Dennistoun,
A. p. Rams and Thos. Hoskins
Considerable discussion of county
fair problems followed the regular
business meetluS AmOHS THESE pIO-
blems are the necessity for more
grandstand capacity and for arrange
ments for the reservation of seats.
More suitable quarters for the hous-
ing of the splendid poultry exhibit
are also necessary and the stockhold-
ers are anxious that both of these
problems shall be solved before the
1924 fair If possible. The confidence
the members of the Society have IN
the Board was shown when they au-
thorized the Board to use its own
judgment on the solution of these pro-
blems, expending such funds as are
necessary. The Board was also COM
mended for its action in changing the
sales pavilion into dance hall which
was one of the most successful fea-
lures Of the recent fair.