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states from their biggest taxpayers and
most prominent men, The second cham
ber corresponding to our House Of Repre-
sentatives, Is elected by the people; 1t has
just twice as many members as the senate
All male citizens over twenty-five years of
age can vote for members of the lower
house, provided they can show positive
signs of capacity and well being. The
qrunkard, the loafer and the good for moth
ing can have no voice in this government
Every voter must pay more or less state
taxes. or he must, be "a householder or
renter. or boat holder or renter, or he
must have an annual salary of a little more
than hundred dollars a year, or have
small amount of government bonds or some
deposits in the savings banks. There are GER
tain professions whose members have the
right to vote but this right Is always found
ed on capacity and ability to make or spend
money. Last year, these rules We're so ex-
ercised that onlyHa little more than fifty
per cent of the male citizens of age COM
prised the electoral body.
Officials Have Low Salaries.
1t is considered great honor to be
member of the Dutch congress, and as far
as 1 can see the congressman get little
more than honor out of it. The senators
receive about 81 a day while they are In
session, and the representatives have $500
a year and their travelling expenses. The
senators are elected for nine years and the
elections are so arranged that one-third of
the body goes out every three years. Inc
representatives are elected for four years.
The queen can dissolve both chambers at
will.
The chief executive part Of the govern
ment is the queen, with her cabinet. The
queen is rather a figure head, the cabinet
doing the work This has eight members,
much after the fashion Of President Roose-
velts cabinet save that here there is a
minister of public works and commerce, in
Guiding the waterstaat, and minister OF
the colonies. Each of the members of the
cabinet gets $1,000 a year.
Dutch Burgomasters.
You have all heard of the burgomasters
They have part in nearly every Dutch
story, and the usual idea of them is that
they are old fellows in long coats full PAN
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about her the guns were shrieking now.
The rattle of the grapeshot, the screaming
of the shell, the crashing roar of cannon
filled the morning with hideous sound. But
above all the noise in some strange way
her faculties were SO attuned that she
caught and heard that faint, desperate
struggle for breath on the narrow bed be-
fore her. For five minutes, perhaps, IT con-
tinued, growing fainter and fainter, and
then it just stopped. Thank God!
In spite Of the clamor outside, the room
seemed strangely silent. She could hear
her heart beat, or was it about to stop.
too?
WAR, war;" she gasped out brokenly at
last, wringing her hands and writing in
the old mans arms, land 1 wished it!
welcomed it! With other women cheered
them on. Now we are paid. Oh. my boy.
my boy. My little brother. the last onei
War. war! And he is out there!"
Oh, Peyton, Peyton, what power had you
over this woman's heart that even at this
moment she could think Of you? She drop
ped upon her knees by the bed and seized
the lifeless hand Of her brother and laid
her forehead upon 1t, .murmuring again and
again, as ii she could not get away from
the idea, WAR war!
"Ah, my dear. war is terrible said the
old doctor, tenderly smoothing her hair as
1t swept the cover and then drawing her
gently away. But there on the bed is
peace at last. Thank God for It'll"
They were not allowed to cherish their
grief alone or for long, however. for as
through the casemate door. The casemate
was in the curtain which was protected by
the water battery and was probably the
safest place in the fort. For that reason
they had turned 1t into a hospital. The
men who entered 1t bore on rude stretch
err frightfully injured soldier, who had
been terribly torn by an exploding shell.
And there were other wounded and dying
also that followed hard upon the first in
that hour of battle AS she thought OF
that afterward they proved the salvation
Of the woman. They gave her something
to do Her mind was Keeling under the
shock. but she gave herself to the wound
ed, and that distracted her from her grief.
She did not forget-no. never that-but in
serving others she found strength to bear
her own burden. There were so few who
could be spared to look after the wounded,
and she and DR.. Bampney rendered good
service to the surgeon and his assistants.
But when the battle was over and the.
strain relaxed she had to take cognizance
again Of that small boyish figure under
the white sheet covering 1t from head to
foot. while she wondered dimly II Boyd
Peyton. too. had been sacrificed to the in
satiable war god that ruled the land
Go be continued Monday)
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Sitting Strangers.

tne rising sun presently leaped through
the open door, flooding the casemate. DR.,
Bampney rose and put out the lamp. AfYer
aWhiie beam fell across the bed whereon
tne boy lay. 1t was broad daylight now
and there came to. him one of those rare
moments OF comparative ease. He opened
his eyes and saw the light on the wall
~; morning, he murmured; mo better"
Ihere was sudden fierce rattle OF drums
outside, the shrilling of a trumpet. Tne
peaceful silence of that summer morning
was broken by hurried commands, the rush
OF many feet shouts and cries; the creak OF
prepared for action, which filled the room
with dreadful note Of preparation
:. WHAT'S that call?" he whispered hoarse-
growing tire he ersd his o voice
up at last. They are casting loose the
guns! / must go to the ramparts. DutyP'
He actually lifted himself on his hands
ana rose IN his bed; For a second they
Then he fell slowly back on the bed, a
helpless look on his face, whittier than the
linen Of the pillows
II cannot!" he gasped Unless. God
Something had happened The effort had
caused a sudden internal hemorrhage. He
was bleeding to death; he would be gone
In hve minutes or less. There was no mis-
taking !; at,o that look. DR.. Bsampney had seen
vined it. He was dying. The end was at
hand. The woman seized his hand, looking
at him. He did not speak.
Two sudden flashes as of vivid lightning
out of the clear sky of that morning daz-
zfed the vision They seemed to come from
directly overhead. They were followed in
stantly by decorating crash appalling in
it's terrific volume. The two shells fired
by the Tecumseh had burst above the cita-
del. The air was filled with smoke and
flying iron.
tits war; the boy cried suddenly, his
voice as full and strong as il he were in
health: II must go-the dag
But 1t was no use; the last flicker Of his
vitality had gone into his will. He fell back
again and began that awful struggle for
breath which those who die of internal
hemorrhages from gunshot wounds must
undergo.
He was past all speech now as he lay on
his pillow, his head thrown back. with his
mouth wide open, drinking air. The girl
dropped his hand. rose and stood over him,
her hands stretched out to him. Only the
arm Of the cid clergyman kept her from
falling across the bed. 1t seemed to her
afterward that she heard his voice coming
from far away. murmuring broken words
Of consolation and prayer. But then she
was only conscious of the deathly figure
writhing before her. Over her head and
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The State Runs the Railroads.
the wooden ship, while the solid shot from
the Hartford rebounded harmlessly from
the iron sides of the TenneSSea

the wooden ship, while the solid shot from
the Hartford rebounded harmlessly from
the iron sides Of the Tennessee.
Shot and shell were coming in from all
sides on the Hartford, still within range Of
the fort, and so rapidly were her own guns
served that she looked like ship on fire.
A CHASTITY procession of wounded men was
being sent to the cockpit, and the decks
were covered with dead men weltering in
their blood. The carnage was fearful.
Meanwhile, inspired by the example of the
admiral, the Brooklyn got her head around
at last and, followed by the Richmond and
the Pensacola and the others, rushed des-
perately for the torpedo line, the captains
thinking to go to a noble death with their
admiral Owing to their anxiety and hurry
the regular order was abandoned, and the
ships passed up as they could, sheets of
flame and smoke pouring from their broad
sides upon the fort. Some Of the ships
passed perilously near the shoals in the
confusion. At one time the Richmond had
less than a foot of water under her keel
AS Farragut passed out Of range Of the
fort and the Hartford got out into open
water he cast loose the Metacomet and
turned his broadsides upon the gunboats,
which, being utterly unable to cope with
such heavy ship, fled incontinently, pur-
sued by Jouett at full speed. AS the other
ships came up they followed the example
of the first pair, and the confederate f1ottlla
was holly chased by The Union gunboats.
Meanwhile Buchanan on the Tennessee
ran down the fleet. He tried to ram one
ship after another, but without success,
while he himself was lightly rammed by
the Monongahela. Into each one. however,
as he passed her he poured his terrible
broadsides, Indifferent to the return fire
from the heaviest guns they carried.
The tremendous broadsides OF the great
ships in the lead had kept down the fire
Of the fort. but when the vessels Of less
gun power came swinging by the confed-
crates returned to their positions, Furnishing
them severely. The last one in the process
sion, the rear ship. Of the feet. was the
Oneida. Except the Brooklyn and the
Hartford she suffered more than any other,
beset both by the Tennessee and the for.
A shell from the fort exploded her boiler,
killing or wounding every man in the fire
room, leaving her helpless, while another
from the Tennessee took off the arm of
her commanding officer. Her consort. how
ever, and the drifting tide finally carried
her past the fort and up to the rest Of the
fleet. The Selma was captured by the
Metacomet. The Gaines was wrecked by
shells. beached and burned. The Morgan
succeeded IN gaining the protection of the
fort, whittier the Tennessee presently join
ed her.
At half after o'clock the Hartford an
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lively low, the total Of direct ana indirect
taxes averaging something like SO per


taxes averaging something like SO per
head.
Holland runs its own railroads, its tele-
graphs and telephones, and 1t makes money
paratively low cost. The state railway re-
ceipts are steadily increasing. They We're
more than twenty-three million guilders
last year, the most they had ever been up
to that time and one-third more than they
were in 1880. Our postal service runs be-
hind every year; the Dutch make about
three million guiiders year out Of theirs.
They are losing a little on the telegraph
service. but they send messages for one
half of the American charges, and the ser
vice Is fully as good as ours. You can
send a telegram of ten words anywhere in
Holland for ten cents and for each adda-
tional word you will pay about six-tenths
of cent. A five-word dispatch to Great
Britain costs only twenty cents and one to
the United States costs forty cents and up
wards per word.
The telephone rates are equally low. Ev-
cry city has a good service with the wires
on steel towers one hundred feet high SO
that they rise far above the houses. l see
them erecting such. poles here in The
Hague. They come in sections and look
much like the towers of enormous wind
mills.
A Tariff Against American Goods.
The Dutch government officials are OBJ
jecting to our tariff on their exports. They
sell us from ten to fifteen million dollars
worth of goods every year, and would sell
a great deal more were it not for our i'm
port duties. Holland is practically free
trade country, duties being imposed for
revenue only and the result is that our
wheat, Indian corn, flour, lard, tallow.
leather and a lot Of other things come in
free. We sell the Dutch almost ten times as
much as they sell US and they think there
should be reciprocity. There is talk among
the members of the states general of plac-
ing an import tax upon our wheat and
flour but our consul general al Rotterdam
tells me there is no danger of such meas
ure passing. Said he:
Holland cannot possibly raise enough
to feed her own people and the Dutch will
not tolerate any tax on breadstuffs which
must be paid by themselves. AS it Is now
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QUEEN OF HOLLAND
All About Wilhelmina and
Her Royal Husband.
A DEVOTED COUPLE
SHE IS FAR MORE POPULAR
THAN THE PRINCE.
Her Income and How She Spends It
How the Country is Governed .
AT The Hague.
Copyright, 1908, by Frank C. caffpenter)

Copyright, 1908, by Frank G. Carpenter)
THE HAGUE.
Does the Dutch queen love her husband?
There is no doubt of 1t!
She just dotes on him!
At least this is what learn at The Hague.
/ have had confidential talks with several
members of the court. They say her
majesty and her royal spouse are living
together in the most lovely way and that
their honeymoon is not yet on the Wane.
They tell me that the stories to the con-
trary came from the nebulous outpourings
Of drunken coachman whom the queen
had discharged This man went to Amster-
dam and while in his cups sought revenge
for his dismissal by pouring these scandal
Gus lies into a reporters ears. I am as
sured that Prince Heinrich has not ILL
treated the queen, and that, on the con-
trary, he loves her and she loves him. the
two in private billing and cooling like turtle
doves.
L also learn that the prince is a little too
stiff to suit the Dutch. There is nothing of
the mixer or hand-shaker about him. He
is nervous and not at all demonstrative in
public. The Dutch do not understand him
and they rather think he puts on airs.
1 was talking the other night with man
who was present at the coronation cere-
monies at Amsterdam. Said he:
II was not far from the queen during
several of the receptions and l had good
chance to study both her and her husband.
The queen was lovely and the people went
wild over her. They would have done the
same over the prince had he unbent a
little and gone one-third of the way to meet
them AS 1t was he sat beside his spouse
as stiff as one of the statues in the court
outside and looked about with a frozen
smile. Her majesty now ard then glanced
proudly and lovingly at him, but he did not
respond with one affectionate look. A for
eign consul said to me at the time:
THAT man must be made of wood. W hy
don't he show his feelings. If he would
only throw his arms about the queen and
kiss her right here in the crowd, the Dutch,
stolid as they are, would cheer him and
like him. g.
The Dutch Love the Queen.
It is wonderful how these people love
their queen. They speak of her as Our
Child" and will not tolerate anything said
against her. The newspapers do not even
gossip about her majesty, as is common in
the other capitals of Europe. At the same
time the queen has all the elements of
popularity. She looks not unlike Mrs.
Cleveland when she was IN the White
House. She is of about the same height
and has the same personal magnetism. She
can adapt herself to any crowd and knows
Just how to do the proper thing at the
proper time During one of her recent
to the consular corps, including the Ameri-
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chored above the middle ground, followed
in succession as they arrived by the other
ships Of the fleet. The passage had been
made, but at a heavy cost in shattered
ships, a lost monitor and dead and dying
men.
What we have done, admiral said
Drayton, has been well done. but 1t
counts nothing so long as the Tennessee
rides yonder beneath the fort"
Il know It," returned the admiral, land
as soon as the men have had their break
fast am going for her."
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QUEENS FAvoR1TE RESIDE NcE-PA1AcE IN THE WOODS

itants are among the richest Of Europe,
and the queen has big income. The gov
eminent allows her $4,000 year for ex-
penses and she has in addition $4,000 to
keep up her palaces. She has also a big
fortune of her own, much of which was ac-
quired by King William 1 IN his vast en-
terprises to increase the commerce of the
Netherlands, and some of which came from
her uncle, Prince Henry of Holland. Prince
Henry died leaving a will in which he left
his estates to his wife, but this will disap-
peared, as the story goes, and the queens
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Hotel porter-"Are you a guest of the
house?''
.Growells-"Not me. I pay two prices for
every blamed thing I get here. Chicago
News.
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can consul. With the representatives of
Germany, England and the other monarchi-
cal countries she was stiff and dgnified as
became the queen, but when she greeted
Consul Hill she changed into woman of
the people, putting herself on our demo-
cratic footing. Il am very glad to see you,'
she said with a cordial smile.
A Well-Educated Woman.
The queen addressed Consul Hill in Eng
lish Her majesty speaks English, French,
German and Italian. She is well educated,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-21
A Frank Assurance.

The Star-"Didnt, you think was really
il?"
The Soubrette-"Why, of course! I never
suspected you of actingv'
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there are import taxes on our tobacco
amounting to about IA cents a pound
taxes on preserved meats and fruits Of
cents per pound, and on oils Of about Il
cents per hundredweight."
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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falcons, short vests and quaint hats, with
pipes in their ,mouths a yard long. 1t is
supposed that they preside over the cities
or villages rather than the country dis
tricts The real burgomaster of today is
more likely young man of thirty or forty
than one Of sixty or seventy, and II ne be-
longs to one of the cities his dress is such
that it would not look out of place in any
city of the United States Indeed the better
class of citizens dress the same here as
they do at home, the old Dutch costumes
being confined to the country. The burso-
masters are appointed by the queen, al
which they govern, They do not make the
laws but merely aid in carrying-them out.
Eleven Hundred Communes.s r.
The real local government of Holland Is
much the same as that of the United
States The country is divided up into
communes or local districts according to
population Sometimes commune will be
only part of city, like one Of our city
wards, or it may be village and again it
may be a village and country combined.
There are eleven hundred such communes
here, each of which has its own council
elected by it's citizens. These councils have
to do with certain classes OF taxes. They
issue licenses and levy petty dues They
regulate the streets and roads, and for the
uses Of the commune can add to the taxes
of chimneys or the number of servants
man has as well as to the many other
things for which the Dutch are taxed.
There are also provincial or state coun-
ellis. Holland has eleven provinces and
each province has its own representative
body which deals. with matters relating to
it. Thus you have in Holland a congress
much like our national congress, a set Of
provincial assemblies much like our state
legislatures, and a set Of communes much
like our counties or city councils-all elect
ed by the people. Indeed the government is
almost republican.
The State Runs the Railroads.
AS far as can learn Holland is very well
governed. You find perfect order every
where. There are no beggars and few poor
houses. vagabondage is treated as a crime,
and persons SO convicted are placed in some
Of the state work establishments. There
are no poor taxes, and such poor as there
are are chiefly relieved by the various
charitable societies. Taxes are compare
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Life is a school. with board and lodging
extra.-Life.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-07-23

bany. ". Y. as assistant secretary Of
war to succeed Colonel William Carey
Sanger, resigned.
The appointment was agreed upon
finally at a conference between the
president and Secretary Root. It has
been in contemplation for some time.
as II has been known that Secretary
Sanger desired to retire from the war
department on account ~ the III health
OF Mrs. Sanger His resignation vas
placed IN the hands Of the president
10 be accepted as soon az convenient.
General oliver has had a military
career OF distinction. He served in
the civil war as volunteer officer,
and subsequently served az an officer
OF the regular army establishment
in both the infantry and cavalry
branches.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-07-23
DISLIKES MISSIONARIES.
ktnu men~'ek Would Rather Ha~S
rhsm Remain outside His
boundary Lines.

King Meualek, the native Tnler ~
Abvssinia, never fauc4ed Christianity y
or those who anheavor "a propa gate &.
saws an exchange He = Of the opinion
that the orthodox faith is good enough
for his subjects, and therefore those
who 20 thither with the object OF
spreading the doctrines ot the Roman
Cath nlic OF Protestant church think 70
advisable 20 say that their sole object
il TO convert Hebrews and pagaus.
T'his vas What Swedish missionary
recently said when Mene.ek, before
whom he vas summoned, inquired ~
10 the object Of his visit When "a
heard il the ruler asked:
What countries we're you obhge't o"
cross Il order to come here"
Germany, Egypt and the Soudan,
replied the missionary.
And we're you not able ~ And N
Germany any Hebrews whom you
might nave convert ed ." asked Meme
lex.
The missionary was obliged 'o admit
that he mad seen many Hebrews N Ger
rnauv
swell" said MeueleiS, first convert
the Hebrews and pagaus in Germany
ard hen come here and convert US
M hour later the disappointed mis-
siouary was being conducted TO he
frontier by Abvssinisu soldiers.
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DARK DAYS FOR COTTON WILLS
Predicted That Speculation Means
3o,0Oo, GOO Idle spindles-

Charlotte, n. c.. July l3,-GeorZe
p. Hiss, president OF the American
Cotton Manufacturers' Association,
said that probably by September the
number OF idle spindles dependent
upon American cotton would reach
80 900 900
When il Is considered that about
90. 900, 900 of the 125, 900 900 spindles
in the entire world are dependent upon
American cotton, the Importance OF
this statement can be realized. II
means that approximately 500. 900 peo-
pie will be thrown out Of employment
and that counting ar average OF $50
u the spindle, 5000. 900 900 OF capital
will be temporarily die.
The deplorabie condition is due &c
gambling said Mr. HISS. The sitlia'
t,on is an abnormal one, and there
would never be any occasion for its
existence II II were not for the Jug.
Cling that is going on in the cotton
market. It is not the high price OF cot.
ton that hurts the trade, but the ab'
sence of a fixed standard OF valne.
The price does not stay UP or dow
lcrg-ennugh snr the trade TO become
adjusted To the situation"
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Floods in Germany.

Berlin. July 1.-THE highest hoods
known in the region for Many years
are reported from Sllesil Nearly the
whole Jown OF Truppau was under
water for many hours. The crops OF
the entire district have been Destroy
ed and traffic at several points on the
Schaenbreen-Tropp Railway Is in
terrupted owing to the destruction of
bridges and embankments. In the
Sudeten valley all the villages we're
flooded SO rapidly that 80 Of the tnhabi-
tants were unable 70 escape IN time
ami perished. Fifty houses were de-
sthoyed. Terrible hail storms have
devastated the country along the low
er Rhine The damage to the wine
crop is incalcuIable. Several persons
were lGlled by lightning.