THE DUTCH MILLER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2135, 9 March 1908, Page 1

THE DUTCH MILLER.

"Signalling by Windmill,” is. the subject of an interesting article in the ; (January Windsor. The contributor says -. — «■ ■ . u; . ■ “Small wonder that a Dutch miller lores his mill with a deep and enduring love, for it is part and parcel of his whole life. Its sails were triumphantly trimmed to announce to the neighbors the interesting information that he had made his entry into the world as a babe. “His childhood was spent beneath its shade, and in and about the milllie worked as a lad until the eventful day upon which the sails were gaily decorated with flags, and the mill itself re-echoed with the sounds of rejoicing in. honor of his wedding. Then came the inevitable time when ho himself took his father’s place and became master miller. “The birth of his own children — in fact, every event of importance in the miller’s none too eventful life—was chronicled by the sails that drive the antiquated wooden machinery, the, groaning and creaking of which is‘ music to his ears as it grinds out his daily bread. Day in and day out the mill toils complaihirigly but persistently oil, until finally the sails are sorrowfully set in the form of a. cross to notify to the world at large the fact that, tho miller himself has passed away,’ and that his son reigns in his stead.” 7, ~