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To Deport H0llander
Who Arrived Armed

New York. February 1S.-Johannan
Coolen, who arrived here today on the
steamship Lapland, with a loaded re-
volver and $1,000 in his pocket. will re-
turn to Holland on the same ship to
answer a charge of misappropriation of
Il $4,000 trust fund. He was detained
at Ellis Island at the request OF the
Dutch consul and after a hearing be-
fore special board Of inquiry was or
dered excluded.
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JOHN SCHRANK SENT
TO INSANE ASYLUM

Fond Du Lac, Wis, February IS.
John SchranlS, who attempted to assas-
sinate Theodore Roosevelt at Milwau-
kee two years ago and who has been
confined at the Northern Wisconsin hos
pital for the insane at Oshkosh since
his trial, today was transferred to the
hospital for criminal insane at Wau-
pun
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Inspecting Tariffs

Admission. February 1S.-tSpechl)---J.
+. Keith chief travelling traiff inspec-
tor of the Southern Railway company.
was I'm Admission Tuesday inspecting tho
tariffs on file at the local offices or
the Southern His headquarters are In
Atlanta.
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BATH GIVEN CIRCE
PROVES EXPENSIVE

Bridgeport, Conn, February ia
bath given to the statue Of Circe in
The home of Miss Florence Mathews of
Norwalk, by Mrs. Ellen McIllhony, a
Domestic in November. 1912, proves to
have been an expensive luxury, for a
jury assessed damages of $3.50 in ia
vor of Mrs. McIllhony today. She was
hurt when Circe fell on her.
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BIRMINGHAM CHOICE
EUFAULA BANKERS
Would Have Regional Re-
serve Bank in Magic City
ATLANTA COMES NEXT
Central of Georgia Completing I'M
provements on E. & o. Branch.
Successful Sunday School
Campaign

Eufaula, February R-(SpeciaL) )-Bir-
mingham Is the first choice of local bank
ers and business men for the location of
the reserve bank for this region. they
believing that Alabama is entitled by the
logic of the situation to regional bank
at the Magic City, which is styled here
as elsewhere the metropolis of the
south" and destined to become one of
the greatest cities in the county Eufaula
would Have easy access to Birmingham,
especially If the mail service between
here and the Magic City is improved At
present the mail service between this city
and Atlanta is slightly better, and If Bir-
mingham is not to have the regional
bank, the second choice of local men
would be the Georgia capital.
The Central of Georgia railroad has put
a work train and large force of men to
finish the improvements that have been
made for the past year or more on the di-
vision between Eufaula and Ozark, dis
tanee of 50 miles. Practically all wooden
trestles have been eliminated by the con-
struction of concrete culverts, which are
to be covered within the next few weeks
by dirt. The roadbed has also been inn
proved by new ties and regarding and the
entire division is now in better condition
than it has been for many years.
The Sunday school campaign which has
been carried on in Barbour county for
the past eight days was unusually sue
cessful, according to w. d. billiard of
Mathews, and Mrs. S. p. Moore of Bir-
mingham, representatives of the Alabama
Sunday school association. who assisted
local workers over the county in the work
of the week.
There is an unusual demand for money,
not only to handle the current business in
Eufaula, but for improvements of many
kind, as is evidenced by the calls being
made upon the four building and loan
associations of the city.
self favors that plan, or a better one,
If such can be found.
SO when Senator Clark attacks Mr.
Underwood-as he thinks-he is really at
tacking the President ana his Secre-
tary of Agriculture, who originated the
Underwood substitute. When this fact
becomes generally known. as it will in
Arkansas, Mr.. Clark will probably find
that he has picked up a live wire.
How Clark Stands
II is evident that the Arkansas states
man desired to offset his weil-known rep
utation as reactionary by proposing d
very progressive and radical measure
His record in Congress has decided
trend in the opposite direction. He was
the lone democrat in the Senate who
voted against the resolution providing for
the direct election of United States sem
ators. Furthermore, he was considered
an ally of Senator Nelson w. Aldrich
when the Rhole Island statesman was
the leader of the republicans in the Sen.
ate.
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TAX NOTICE.

LAST CALL!
PAY YOUR TAXES BEFORE MARCH
TO SAVE YOURSELF COURT COST.
p. ID. BOWERS, r. G.
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Sam Green was elected member of
the city school board to succeed EN-
nett Mathews. resigned The enroll
ment of the city school has gone 200
above last years enrolment Another
teacher has been employed
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strange to see q policeman marching ul and down the street in the heat Of the afternoon with a great knapsaclS on his back.
 Speaking of the police, they have the custom here, common in all South American cities. of whistling every haif hour or so throughout the Night They have shrill whistles. which they DION loud and long. waking the light sleeper and warning the Burglar or thief as to just where they are.
 Much of the mercantile business Of Chile is done by foreigners. The full- blooded Spaniard looks down upon trade and he is content to have the half-breed and the man from outside do his merchandising for him. Tine big business is mainly in the hands Of foreigners. and some of the largest fortunes of the country are held Ey families with European names. The Chilean minister to Great Britain is Augustin Edwards He owns the Mar- ourio. the leading newspaper of the country, and has millions in farms and stocks of one kind and another Among other prominent names are the F'os-' ters, the Walkers and Rogers One of
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By c. F. MARKELL

ramparts with their half-emptied meats tel of a power that was cnce sombre, defiant and impresnable.
 Then the town has it's historical and romantic atmosphere. for here are memories of those counts and coun- tesses of Holland, here lived zacharias tne inventor of the telescope and mi- croscope whose first instrument is here extant, and here dwelt Father Cats. the humorist. poet and philoso- uhcr,~ whose writings will endure until the end of time and here are living memories of Admiral de Ruyter. the iooI of the Dutch and who was native Of the Island of Walcheren.
 There is but one feature which de- tracts from the romance and dream life of the place and that is the language which seems barbarous to foreign ears. Many of these relics of the mast are preserved in the Zeeuwsch Genoot- schap der Wetenschappen (pronounce it if you cam and even the old abbey which the natives call Abdyt. has d beautiful set of silvery chimes rendered humble by such outlandish name as Gekke Bette tFoolish Betty) It disturbs no little ones reveries to stroll down the Spanjardstraat and read such signs as the Kuiperspoort tCoopers Gate), Koeport Cow Gate), Bonte Olyolen tcheckered oil milD
 
 den Zonpe Golden Sun) and many others equally as queer. One might as well be in a comm unity or deaf mutes as to be compelled to ask his way by using such sentence as Mag If | vragen hoe ga ilS mar?
 It was just o'clock in the morning when I entered Middleburg, and it chanced to be upon a market day. The sight was one ever to be remembered. The country folk were in town early, and the women were bonny and buxom. Their costumes. though extremely odd were quite picturesque and decidedly hecom- ing. You can always tell Wacheren woman by her hat. for it Is fashioned of the very finest straw and adorned with streamers of wide white ribbon: beneath this she wears a mutch which is a closely fitting lace cap surmounted by real gold bands for the Dutch peasant never wears sham jewelry. Suspended from this gold band just above the temples are krullen which are gold ornaments somewhat re- sembling cockscrews and embossed with a tiny pearl drop.
 Not a few women were to be seen with a solid gold band covering the entire fore head The bodices were invariably black with short sleeves which often fit so tightly as to cause the arm to swell and have all the appearance of bursting. Evi- dently our modern styles of low-cut dresses are not in advance of those worn centuries ago by the Holland women, for the present Dutch styles have not changed in hundreds of years; however, 'kerchief is always worn under 1t, but of such thin texture as to allow the high ly colored plastron to be seen beneath It. 1t Is said that the Walcheren womer wear the same petticoat night and day
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of Chile is being largely increased by the employment of women. They are making their way into the government of- fees. They clerk in the postoffices, they act as cashiers in the mercantile es- tablishments. and they sell goods in the large department stores that have recent ly been established in Santiago. In the latter places female clerks are paid sal aries of $20 a month with a commission on their sales, which in some cases runs the salary to as high as 500 per month. The chief objection to such positions is that the holder loses caste among her friends by taking them Women have been so secluded in Chile that the people have not yet become accustomed to their fighting the battle of life for themselves. Nice girls never go out alone in the even ings, and even in the day time those of the better classes are seldom seen on the street without some older woman is with them. When young girl goes to school she is usually accompanied by servant or by her father or mother, and some one is sent to bring her back home. The
 positions of secretary and cashier rank higher than those of the clerks, but most
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esting to an extreme degree But there is weli-founded suspicion that Marken Is maintained as commercial enterprise for the entertainment of visitors that it's men, women and children don their quaint garbs for the express purpose of beine photographed by tourists for a compensa- ton: that the housewives observe their sefupulously clean interiors for the de- lectation of visitors and that the model dairies which are exhibited as paragons of sanitation methods are ds greatly re- moved from the dairies of every-day life as the Darlor is from the kitchen
 Then one rushes to Tho Hague to view the pictures of the Mauritzhaus, the peace palace and the beach of Scheve- ningen all of which are objects of intense lnierest but they are not Holland ex- clesively and characteristically. Finally Rotterdam is visited with naught to inn press the stranger save it's stupendous bridges which here span tie river ana Iicland is considered to have been "done" exhaustvely and profitably.
 II is only but on market days that the country folk are to be seen in the cities with their gold head gear. their flowing skirts, their wooden shoes and their com panioning dog carts and the country folk constitute the chief charm of Holland
 in the smaller town and provincial centers one sees the peasantry in all iis glories and in many instances be- holds specimens of architecture far s@fpassing in beauty. sublimity and iinpressiveness. anything of the kind to be found in the larger cities for which these provincial capitals have HOW fallen into significance politically and commercially the time was when they were the metropolies of glorious. powerful and influential communities and their citizens builded town houses. palaces, abbeys that were the pride, the marvel and the delight of the world
 II has been my good fortune to have traYersed Holland from one end to the other travelling by rail- automobile and canal boat for days at a time, and I am compelled to unhesitatingly indorse the claim of Middleburg as being the most quaint. the most impressive and the most charming spot in all the Netherlands. It is situated upon the island of Walcheren and in its con- temptation one recalls the statement of Heroditus relative to figures being imprisoned and preserved in columns of amber for here one beholds trans fixed in immobile rigidity all the rush, the commercial life. the political ac- tivity and the social atmosphere that obtained when men thought and acted SO differently from these of our pres cut era. The soft tones of the tapes tries bespeak with quic<ening tongue the beauty of equipment and the quiet dignity of the ancient interiors; the laced pigskin backs of the councillors chairs and their pewter ink and bounce pots proclaim the majesty of legis1a- tive and judicial functions; the superb stadthause accentuates pride that once broozed no opposing; the restful- ness of the abbey declares the supre- macy of the church and the broken
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classes of the people look asSance at the girl who works for living.
 doubt whether the young business woman is as safe in Chile as she is In our country. The fact that she works out at all subjects her to the danger of liberties on the part of the other sex The white slave trade exists to an even greater extent than in the United States. and l am told that there Is a large class of girls who are by no means good as they should be. The social evil is li- censed in the cities. and everything is supposed to be under a rigid inspection. The Spanish custom of preventing the boys and girls from having anything to do with one another on the social level of purity and virtue drives the young men to the demi-monde for their social conpan- ions, and it defeats the end 1t hopes to gain.
 Moreover, if young man calls upon a young woman half dozen times, and spends the evening with her in the pres ence of the family. he is thought to have serious intentions of marriage, and the father. uncle aunt straightway de-
 
 If he then says that he does not want to get married. he is told that his fur ther visits are not desired. The bear act which means the standing out on the streets in front of your sweetheart S house and casting sheep's eyes at her as she looks down from the balcony, is fast going out of use, although it is still the custom in some other of the Latin-Amer ican countries, and notably in Mexico and Central America. Nevertheless, in the aristocratic classes a family would have to be In financial straits before it would think of allowing it's daughter to clerk in store. For this reasin the fe- male clerks are sometimes sneered at as 'rotos' by the others of their sex who prefer to starve at home.
 In order to understand social con- ditions here 1t must be remembered that the country is one of classes Chile has always had its artistocrats, it's middle class and it's common people. The last does the work of the coun- try and it is generally known by the term Inquilino. The aristocrats are the descendants of the Spaniards and more especially of the patriots among them, that had to do with freeing Chile from the yoke of Spain. These men are the controlling influences of the country. They have the fat offices and own nearly all of the property. Some have stock in the nitrate and other mines and not a few are engaged in the var ious industries. Many of them are rich farmers. and it is from them that come the heads of universities and the chief doctors and lawyers. The most of the aristocrats are men of fine education. They are the progressive element of the country. They are proud of Chile and are intensely patriotic. They are not afraid to fight for their rights, and
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until some cuts now sell for 20 cents and more a pound, and bread milk. vegeta- bles and fruits are higher than they have ever been in the past. House rents are rising Here in Santiago ordinary dwell ings are bringing from $So to $2Oo month, and nearly every one is denounc- ing the greed of his landlord.
 The most of the common people live in what we would call two-fanily houses The buildings are low on account of the earthquakes, and many of them have only two floors. The first story apart ments bring the most money, as from such departments one can get out the quicked. There are no bis flat buildings here. The highest houses have only four or five stories and skyscrapers are yet to be built.
 The very poor live in what are called cites These are little tenenents of one story, built in blocks. Each tenement has two rooms, one at the front and the oth- CT at the back. The only window is at the front. There are no heating nor bathing arrangements and the water has to be carried in from outside. Such an apartment will rent for from 80 to s7 per month, and if 1t is in a good oea- ton and of little better construction il may bring sl5 or S20. Many such build ing are owned by the church, and others by rich Chilenos, who get most of their incomes from their rents The capitalists like these small houses because the rent is always paid in advance, and the in- terest on the investment IS high. The church is one of the great real estate owners of Santiago. It has all kinds of property from tenements to palaces and from individual stores to great business blocks. A large part of the property on the Plaza des Arnas, in the very heart of Santiago, belongs to 1t, and it owns buildings of all kinds scattered here and there through the city.
 The prices of labor in Chile are rising. but they are still far below those of the United States The average salary of a clerk in store is equal to from S30 to sso of our money. BoolSkeepers get about s6o a month, stenographers s49 or $50, and f they are foreigners they may receive
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and team of ladies, the proceeds going towards a girls orphanase says Tit Bits The sSeriff of Nottingham and A. o. Jones, the Notts captain. off'ciated as umpires. The veterans whose collective ages amounted to oyer s,j years showed their vallantry by sending in the ladies to bat after winning the tess. The old fashioned lob constituted their bowling. Private Corner, formerly of the Thirty fourth Foot took eight wickets for 5s runs. Tine ladies were all dismissed for loG, Miss HiclSling being top scorer with 2i The veterans lost by .S runs Privata Matthew Holland Nottingham.s sole sur vivor of the famous Balaclava charge. hatted with bat of his own make. fully as wide as the wicket, but Miss Hickliny bowlcd him with a curly one" for q "duck
 Another curious match of odd sides. which caused a great deal of amnsement at the time, was played between the one-armed and one-legged pensioners of Greenwich hospital. The one-armed cricketers proved the victors in the end About the same time six unmarried ladies' played q match against six married ones. which gave rise to large number of bets. The single ladies were victorious in tn.s ca-r.
 cricket match played in Ssrno,, ~s- = time ago. with 100 men on eaen ..-s. lasted three months. but much more re- markablc was r9a .ch at Avnnda.e park. Galveston. which first to last covered e3 years. The two teams met every June and played until q single wicket had fallen Stumps were then drawn and the game resumed year later
 The Prince of Wales theatrical com pany played cricket match in which the famous comedian. afr Arthur Rob- erts, took part. When called upon to conduct his own defense he produced his own special bat. which proved just wide allowed to pass. A traight ball was sent. allowed to pass. A straight ball wa sent' which Arthur blocked, and to the amaze : ment of his partner proceeded to run and continued to run until the felders declared Host ball" Then -Gentleman Joe produced the ball from a receptacle in his bat fitted with d trap-door, The heather Chinee must loo,, to his laurels when he proposes to play with Arthur 2obertsI
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kindly whispers and told me stories Weird. mel@.eholv and joyous of a time when life was worth the, living and ehivalry walked the boards
 thought of that noblest of beasts, tic Lion of the Netherlands, the cyrn- bol of noble people; | marked him in the grandeur of his struggle, swim ming for his life eontending amid fear ful odds against the grandees of Spain. striving to keep his head above the cngulfing waves and we'll meriting his legend Lucter ct emerge.
 Then strolied about among the be- jeweled be-capped and be-petticoated throng where the women were living an- tques with bonnets of driven snow and cheeks that reflected the softness of tone in the old brick fronts. the quaintness of outline in the high. rapid gables and the impressive effect of the hour-glass designs depicted in red and black and Ilack and white upon the broad board shutters which had not yet been opened to the commercial world All was so old so odd and so enchanting. Every man that l met wore gold rings in his ears and high hat, with d brim just an inch in width it's nap ruffled by contin- ted brushing in the wrong direction. His colored necktie was held in place by gold button of filigree work and from his vest pocket peered the indispensable silver to- bacco box. An elegantly fashioned smoke pipe case and a straight knife with a most artistically carved handle completed his personal equipment. l was impressed with the urequaled variety and pictur- esuueness Of my surroundings, the clean Lness. brightness and color of everything with which I came in contact. the fresh and bracing breezes and the glorious un- interrupted dome of sky which my en- Nironment presented. Then it was that I fully realized that while Middleburg is Dutch to the marrow in sentiment it is ttalf-Spanish in temperament. for it dis plays more than any other town in The Netherlands the lingering influence of spanish occupation.
 The houses of Holland are peculiar. 'hey are generally narrow and construct ed or brick with the joints painted white Most of them are self-contained as th., custom of living in flats is unknown to tho Dutchman Frequently the beams
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gre made to project from the gables 1
 De used Tor the hoisting of goods \ wares to the lofts which are convert hito magazines. The windows of q ground floor are usually of abnorm N ample dimensions and are kept SCI pulousiy polished. which is d eharacterI tic Of the Hollanders of all classes. many of the cellar doors one sees sieI readins wafei and fire for sale meal ins that boiling water and red-hot tlI are there sold to the poor. All of Il drug stores and chemists shops bear tI sign of Turks or Moors head. which Ehown as Gaper The windmlls whil are so numerous are used for grinda I ccrn, saving timber, cutting tobacco a] ma nufaeturins paper. but their most iil portant function Is to pump the supd huous water from the low ground to Il canals. which conduct it to the sea.
 The canal and the dyke are peculiai Iiollandish There is a large canal ru
 ming through Middleburg and it is tru wonderful how the Dutch have masterl water and made it their slave They hal driven it back from the land which thd wished to occupy and they make the md thorough use of this element for tram portation for irrigation, for cleansii purposes and even as a means of defens as by opening any of the dyes the el tire country may be submerged and 1 invading enemy swept to death. The q nal at Middleburg travels water lev Eigh above the surrounding country al when one views from a distance the lit water craft moving along against the six. line. he obtains the effect and impre sion of a mirage. Here is also possib the largest dyke in all Holland, for shou il break the entire island of Walehert would in a few minutes be below the SCI Near by are to he seen several lare mounds of grass covered earth which al said to have been constructed many cel turies ago tO provide refuge for Il people in case the sea should bres through the dykes. It appears to me thi naught but prolonged proximity of per for have stood upon the inside of tn dyke and listened to the sea poundii upon the outside of the barrier many fe above my Lead and then it was that
 fully realized the bravery of these peop and appreciated the significance of the symbol, the Lion of The Netherlands