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i. i i W . i J , iilli in . abroad Mr. C. Y. TUleU Sketches , Tcoplo Ha Moc ts in tho Places He Visits and a Tour of the Continent. the iRottwdam. Auz. Hello! "WTio Is that far in front on the'teft side of .the train as we epeed along to wards Amsterdam beckoning ,4o us as if to hurry us forward lest we tniss eelBi eonvetfsincT And -what giant la that turning handspring for . somebody amusenwrnt the edg-e of the horizon far on. the other eiaei Qh, i forgot, Kre are 4n Holland at last an hoe ara nothing; ut rlnd- mUls. . Look. here la a fine tot of black ana white apottd cowa Just feck from country fair -where no doubt they took the prUe f or ; their fcauty and enormous else! No, I see . ttiem lit hundred on both sides as - we fly aJong tin track and 1 am again rnlndd that I am In Holland and these are the faxaoua Holstela cattle. But aee, here cornea a boat ; rigm through fleM, seeming to elide along on the pound 4telt No, I am In Holland now and I tee a I draw near that this la one of the ttwwsands of canal? that Intersect the wWoia coun try nd form the pathways of the people .flHed with water to their very . edges and furnishing euch wonder fully easy method of transportation. These were aome of the eights that purst upon ua aa we got our first ' viewa of, the home of the real Dutch. We eeera to have left he (hill country for rood, aa the surface of the earth la aa flat aa a floor aa far aa Che eye can reach, I guess the railroads of this country cost about as little as . anywhere in the world, for they re quire no grading, no tunneling. The houses are nearly all of brick and present an exceedingly nat appear ance. Cattle raising la the chief In dustry and It would delight the hearts of the Mecklenburg farmers if "they could look at one of Wiese scores of 1 pastures on the roadside, covered with .. Mn An4 AHm4 tt.(f.H rnmra a nf the same color and fcred, the .least - of which would attract attention and v win admiration at home. The fences " are made of water and the gates are little bridges over wWdh the cattle are let out or Into" the pasture. They pay a great deal of attention to the culture of the graas, for I; notlcad them scattering manure over it In many placea as thickly as we put It on our little two-by-four front yards la Charlotte. . ' , - CJTY OF AM8TERDAM. i , Atnaterdaon Is a ptace of much Im portance and exceedingly attractive to a stranger on account of the strange things t9 sees in and around the city. Th people themselves are here as everywhere the first objects of Inter est, and I was truly deljg-hted to ses on the streets o many men and wo men who looked real "Dutchy," the ' Identical kind you laugh at in the pic ture books. The men have that monkey-IIke face wnn side wniakers or chin whiskers and rarely ever have any upper teeth. The women wear that peculiar (head-dress consisting of a. bright metal band which goes around the back of the head and enda Just behind the eyes, wfoere there ' Is attached some bright-colored metal immn mxiA this bund la fitted over queer shaped white lace cap sur- . mounted by an odd-Tooking black cap. We first visited the house where Rembrandt.' the great painter, onos lived and then we saw the Walling Tower, where in old times the women .wtt to weep when their husbands and 4overs put out to sea, each of the latter no doubt having stored ; away In his vessel many Jugs of beer and kicking up his heels at ; the thought of the high old time he would have when he got out of si flit of land. We vlsltrd the diamond cut ters and had them explain to -us how thy take the stone as It comes frvn the mine in South Afrk'a and polish it untH it Is ready to adorn my lady's throat or finger. , ' J THE STATE OHl'ROtl. 1 I went Into the Dome, the Vcate -church, where the queen too the oath of ofthe. They call it now the New Church," but they toll you that it ku begun In HOS and finished in 14i. The contrast between t'hli House or wor.?nip or m-' iuic in formed and the gorgeous Cathedral of the Roman Catholics is tttartllnjr. Here were cold stone floor, ruujfh aiil poorly Jointed. Walls wei v.-hi is washed and windows filled with plain colored glsas. There was the nign pulpit about ten feet above the con gregatlon covered by a canopy-like tap. Here were all sort of fenced -oft plsfor the -different claases of peo ple to alt-for cla distinctions seem to be rigidly observed notwlthatand lng their great simplicity. I suppose a man would feel out of place at : na'ihtnar tir litilnji ha had on a lack "coat and a hlsh standing collar. And what a queer language they have! a sort of mixture of the Ger- ,tnan and English and a sprinkling of the old Nome tongue. For instance, on the door of the railroad car they ipoet a notice, "to not open "until the train stops," which Is In their words, -"Xlct openen voor trlen stllstaat." How droll! Then they will throw In Norwegian J In a most ludicrous j way. Instead of being i-stmned to call a'sllversrnith "ZUversmld" they call him a "J5llvermidr1J." A Wight young lady says they put these J's In to ' tnaka Jays of us EnglUh and I guess you will think she ts right if , yoa try to pronounce one. - ISLAND OF MARK EN. nt the moat Interesting Tart of i Olir stay In Amsterdam was our vialt to the Wand of Markcn 1n the'Zuy- lr Zee, Wa started in one of those . caaal boats and had to duck our vhads every few minute to keep from r being wiped off by the low bridges at the interjection of The atreets. I wlah you could have seen the skipper that carried us across the sea to the fs ' land, f If you ian imaglife the late Grat Springs wearing, very bsggy bloomers tied at tfhe knee and a Jaunty .tight-fitting Jacket, you will get some Idea of the eomlcail ap pearance of o-ur skipper for he was tall and lank, when puiwa up at the triand iteelf. I felt as though I had been sailing through ether , and had tended 'on the moon, for eurHy - nothing like these people can be seen anywhere on this glrbe. I suppose there are about SCO Inhabitants in the villages. They hsva to atreets, foot paths. The , children swarmed around. aU wearing wooden shoes and queer costume. Most s 11 of the people .wear these wooden shoe, which are never carried inside the house; but are kicked off Just as they enter the door. Many f the houses ere over a hundred years old and have about s few of the comforts of life t Xurslng Wothcra Snd Bfalarla. Ths 014 Standard . GROVES' TASTELES3 CWU. TONIC drives nut malaria and builds up ths sys t 1." " for" grown" ptopVlndnilP frt, SOc. ' ' . , ' as possible. They alc'op in plif lf-like places cut in the wall and have the rudest Of cooking appliances. The costume of the women, I wild not un dertake to describe, except to saythat It is odd and hideous. They axo all lisher-folk and catwh floundtfts and herring for market, -' The pleasure of the -visit was much' marred by the fact that owing to the constant In flux of strangers and the frequent grffta of many, these natives have be come beggars and allow.. their-.; 'chil dren to beg. Every house is open to the Inspection of the public, but you are expected to. drop into an open outstretched hand a few pennies be fore you retire. It la wonderful how they Shave preserved their pristine manners of life, and some are eo cruel as to say that the whole Island is owned toy a -New England Tankee, who pays these people to live &H this way and makes of It source of reve nue, but this Is one Yankee story I do not believe, i TRIP TO THE HAGtlE. ' The trip from ; Arnaterdam to The Hague waa full of tntereat giving us another opportunity to see the coun try life of the Dutch to great ad vantage windmills, . canals, cattle, dog irarts and all. ' At one place on th Journey I noticed that there were four highways running parallel for a ion; distance, all used to the toest advantage, via. railroad track, trolley line, macadamised .road . and canal. Holland is the paradise of bicyclists and the publlo highways literally swarm with them, the ladles riding as much as they did In Charlotte ten years ago. Amsterdam is -the capital of the Netherlands, hut The Hague is the centre ot Its official life, as the queen makes her regular home here. We could tell that we were in an atmos phere of court llfe soon a we left the train. Here wo saw the "tonlest" people we had met men with silk hats and "Jim swinger" and ladles in fine carriages looking as . though they were Just returning from a call on' one of the ladies-Jn-waJUng. ' The peace conference i In session here now, but on fortunately was not sitting during the time we remained. We saw the bulldlna; in which it is held, and also the palace called the "House in the Woods" and went into the room In It where the-first peace conference was held. ' The flags of all nations are flying, and our faces flushed with pride as we -walked un der the Stars and Stripes and realized that'our own country is represented by that great lawyer, Joseph H. Choate, who never casts discredit on any eaiuse foe espouses. ; OLD DUTCH CHURCH. Sunday morning we went to the old Dutch church and found the drollest aervice you can imagine, but exceedingly impressive withal. It had a plainness and freedom from ritual about It that would have don good to the heart of a Seceder of fifty years ago. There were ugly un carpeted plank floors in the aisles and great boxed-uip .pews elevated two feet above the floor. As we walked In we saw two pleasant -looking old ladles etandlng 1n the alles, who I at flret suppoeed were unable to get seats, but what was imy astonishment when one of t'hem took charge of us and showed us into a pew and I then realised thait they were Women ush ers, Thy had no ichoir In the church, but a hlg organ led them in wthat was tuly congregational sing ing every song being a ipsailm sung in a plaintive wailing, h&rk-frrwn-the-toimibs air. I noticed a devout wor shiper come in while t)he niinlsteT was reading a mlection from the Bible and he flrat stood with bowed mm. 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At this point a solemn-faced old elder in full dress' evening Suit got down; a bag with a wooden handle eight feet long and "proceeded to -'Take up a coHec tioa and the way he managed that long )polo-l)ke handle so as not to swine any one on: thi head was a marvel of dexterity rand a result mo doubt ot long training. Her he preacher began .to talk again and I thought at first that, after Methodist fashion, he was exhorting the people during the collection in order to stim ulate liherality, but I soon realised that this was merely the second, and, as Jt proved,, the lonsr dJvls!on of his sermon, which went on. - for nearly 30 minutes more,, ; During : all this time,; the old elder was "rateingf" the collection, presently, there came be hind him a young man also In full evening dress, wearing black ' gloves, and he also was taking up a ;ollec tlon, following rtslvt after the elder. Myl two collectlona at one service: they must he Methodists after am 'Everybody was prepared for it though and rvhipped In" on both rounds ex cept myself, who was taken unawares the second time. ;; One f the lady ushers seeing, I suppose, that I had contributed but ones brought a box to me twt the end Of the service and I restored myself to ? good standing in the Dutch church by dropping some thing, Jn. I noticed one old deacon- looking fellow sitting bolt 4 upright with his tall beaver hat on, appar ently chewing tohaoro vigorously dur ing h entire aervice. Altogether It was the most unique religious service I ever attended. . - -" INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE. I afro: -went in ona hour'a time lit erally from the prison to tihe palace. In the old prison I found many in teresting relics of the days of the bloody Duke of Alva all th instru ments; of torture that the cruelty of man oould devise, from, ah thunvb- stretchjng machin used to extort confessions in the days of the Span ish inquisition to the guillotine, which have the jmpiint of the axe on the wooden block where ith heads were severed from the bodies. The guide showed u the roam where the vic tims were starved to death which by the ingenuity of the devil himself was placed so near the kitchen that the odor of the savory viands could 'fill the nostrils and torture the soul of the starving man. There -was one dungeon with a reddish picture on the wall, which -they told us had been painted by a prisoner with his own blood. , i I was glad to hurry away from this place to the palace of Queen Wllhelm- Ina. Here again Dutch simplicity was so much in evidence as to make even an American smile, for instead of ap- t..ro i i . j svenu-. 1 - i . ; 1 . n i, I v ( : ; f'"'i t ii .hctr.it t foiia l a -all open court, wlta a s-.ature of William the in front of which wai the ! i 1 1 1 i'iel t'.lf nt, mod est residence of the much be loved sovereign of the , Nether lands. It Is not to be compared with the "White House at Washington. Upon entering the palace 1 was re quired to register In a book, giving my name and addrcsy. There was al so a column having at the top the word "quallte." I took this to mean that I was called upon te say whether I "was an aristocrat or a plebeian, but as all the other Americana who had registered ahead of me except ona man from Texas) had left this line blank. I followed suit and thus saved myself the ordeal of deciding a very embarrassing question. I shall not describe the palace. We saw many attractive and beautiful rooms into which the keeper told us with evident pleasure "the Queen herself comes." I looked with most ; Interest at the room in wrhich she was married to that fellow who has. I believe, turned out tq be right much of a disappoint ment to the Dutch people, to say noth ing of what the Queen, thinks on that subject . We were shown many of her bridal presents, gifts from the crown heads, I wish my wife could have seen them, as she loves so dearly to look at bridal presents. We passed an old hand organ in ft hallway and some asked what It was. "Oh." said the keeper, ""that was a gift to the Queen from her fatherswhen she was a llttla gIrl.M. v it seems that on her th ; birthday, the late King said to herys ""Daughteri; what shall I give you?n. 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