Show DYKES OP HOLLAND certain zealous dame is said to I 1 ive once attempt d to sweep the ocean away with a broom hie dutch have wiser than this ahey are slow and deliberate people desperation may use brooms but deliberation pro fers clay and solid bo slowly and deliberately alie dykes those great liitt like walls of cement and stone h ire i sen to breast alie buffeting and alie funny part of 11 is they are so skillfully slanted and waved on the outside with hat stones that the efforts of the thumping waves te beat down only make U ern ill the firmer chose holland dykes are among the wonders of the rm I 1 cannot say farllow many miles they cli along alie coast and throughout writes mary maples dodge in S las but you may be sure thai wherever d dyke is necessary to keep back the encroaching waters it Is otherwise nothing would be here at kast not ing in the fairn of land nothing but a fe irful illustration of the law of hydrostatics water alws seeks its level the dykes lio wever care fully built will spring a leake and it not attended to at once terrible results are sure to follow iu threatened places guards are stationed at intervals and a steady watch Is kept up eight and dav at the first signal of danger eairy dutchman within healing of the start ling bell is ready to rush to the aln the weak spot is discovered what do ou tl ink is used to meet the emergency but straw every where else considered the most helpless of all things in water I 1 et straw in alie hands of 11 e dutch has a will of bovin into huge gnats and securely pressed against the embank ment it defies eian tie rushing tide ager to sweep over alie country iheke dykes form almost alie only perfectly dry 1 md to be seen from the in side 1 hey are high and wide w lah fine carriage reads on top some times lined with buildings and trebe lying on one side of tl em and nearly on a level with the bilge Is alie sea lake u al er rn er as tl e IM in ly be on 11 e ell er tl e fl it stretching dampy aloi s tt so that cot go as anro lower than tit fill g line of w atar 1 bogs squat kingon tl oilcan eie view of tl u and little fisli wiggle 11 or tails bugl er than aie tois of tit willows near by horses look comi I 1 dow n ui on alie bell towers and men in ud aaili boats know when they are lassing tl air dirk coinage ot ly ly stefi g the smoke from its ct amney the cartwheel that be has i cral ed upon alie peak ot its overhanging 11 arched roof in the hoi e that some stork will build her net tl bic and so bring gool lucki |