HOLLAND AS A
BUFFER STATI
Cover a Sea Gate For or
Against England or Germany.
CONTROLS RIVER SCHELDT.
Neutrality Was Guaranteed by Treaty
In 1870 Question Revived When
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland Mar
ried a German Prince In 1901 A
German May Become Holland's King.
Controversy In 1910 and 1911 Over
Holland's Coast Defenses Alleged
Meddling by Germany to Thwart
England.
T
HAT the kaiser should be so
prompt to make a move on
(jlermany's northwestern fron
tier when about to antagonize
France and Jreat Britain could sur
prise no one who has followed up the
drift in Kurope for the last few years
It has txH'n hinted that Germany could
should give -them to Germany. They
should seek (the Hollanders) to have
their state made a part of the Ger
manic confederation.
Fortified to Aid Germany?
Back in 1870. when the war broke
out between France and Prussia, there
was a momentary fear that either
power might disregard treaties of
neutrality for the sake of military ad
vantage. The British foreign ollice up
proacbed both Ielliuereuts on the sub
Ject. and both consented to sign treaties
pledging themselves to hold Belgian
territory inviolable.
The guarantee was honorably ob
served by both sides, and the question
of Belgium's status in case of war was
never thought of again until the gov
eminent of Holland took the resolu
tion of fortifying its sea coast about
the beginning of 1910. This movement
was said to have been the result of
pressure from the kaiser, who feared
an invasion of Holland by England
threatening Germany with a flank at
tack. The Dutch project included the
construction of forts at Flashing strong
enough to stop the navigation of the
Scheldt in case of war. Belgium at
once became panic stricken, and the
powers opposed to Germany opened
I heir eyes to a new situation.
Temporary Defeat of German Hopes.
In l'Jll the coast defense bill failed
in the Dutch states general. Thi
FREAK NEWS ITEMS.
Curious and Odd Happenings Throughout
the Country.
Lem Hutchins, of New York,
is in bed with a smooth face and
a sprained hip. Lem read some
where that whiskers were insan
itary, and forthwith, without
consulting Miranda, walked to
the village barber shop and had
a quarter section of alfalfa re
moved. Lem meandered home
in the moonlight, feeling like a
picked hen, and sneaked to bed
i without awakening Miranda. She
awoke at dawn and noticed an
; unfamiliar face on the pillow be
; side her. vigorously placed
her feet in the middle of Lem's
back and followed this up with a
kick that rolled Lem downstairs.
Then she threw him over the
fence, where he lay until he told
a neighbor who he was.
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Some time during the month
of June Mr. Gold Cheatham, who
lives alout three miles west of
Greenville, Ala., gathered his
oats and put them in his barn.
The hens liked the looks of the
oats as nests and laid some eggs
there. About three weeks later
Mr. Cheatham heard some bid
dies in the oats and on investiga
tion found that out of seven eggs
laid in the oats four had hatched,
incubated by the oats and with
out the aid of a hen at all. The
orphans were taken out of the
incubator and cared for and are
doing as well as if they had been
hatched by a hen.
TIMELY PHOTOS FROM HOLLAND.
The top photo shows the nome of the war minister of Holland, at in.
Hague, where important conferences are being held The lower one is a vie'
In the heart of the city of Rotterdam, one of the chief cities of the kingdom
Charles Walker, colored, of
Wilmington, recently resumed
work on a two-story dwelling,
on Second street, between Daw
son and Wright, which he start
ed seven years ago. The build
ing is to cost $2,000. The chim
neys and a portion of the frame
work were constructed seven
years ago, when the owner's fi
nancial condition made it neces
sary for him to stop further
building. Not until now have
his finances improved to the point
where he felt justified in resump
tion of-work on the "structure.
He sec j red a building permit
when the work was first started
and was required to yet obtain
another before resuming where
he had left off because of the
long time that had elapsed.
afford to take great chances in order
to bold the mouths of the river Rhine.
This she might do by controlling both
Holland and Relgiuin. and to control
either would strengthen her situation
on the coast closest to England.
The importance to Germany, in the
event of her wishing to branch into
world politics, of the mouth of the
Scheldt has been considered many
timet within the century Attention
was called to It when in 1901 the reign
ing queen of Holland married a prince
of a German house.
German King Possible.
The matter of the royal succession in
Holland is one of vital importance.
Accoiding to the present provision, the
succession is in the direct male line or
fa ilii: 'fiat the female line. Should
there i.,- :.o legal heir the sovereign or
la'!,,unM f. o' it tin- sovereign is deftd
p;ii ii.iiii;-..r :ilon-. ih to name a succes
sor, the number of the members of
parliament being doubled for the occa
sion. These peculiar conditions were
brought about through the marriage of
Queen Wilhelmina with Duke Ilenry
of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. for the lat
ter, being in the line of succession,
gives to Germany the preponderant
chance for gaining a foothold in the
country.
Amazing German Proposal.
In 1911 a German engineer issued a
pamphlet in which he argued for the
Importance of Holland's absorption by
Germany as a protection against Eng
land. Said he: "The absolute incorpo
ration of Holland Into the German em
pire is the only guarantee of the con
tinued maintenance of her colonial pos
sessions. The English hydra could not
then gtretch its tentacles toward the
Islands of the Sonde. If we were in
Holland we would have within our
reach the head of that Insatiable hy
drawithin our reach in the sense that
In the actual state of science the mari
time situation of England does not
longer constitute an absolute guaran
tee. The Prussian's foot on the head
of the hydra will suffice that the long
tentacles will finally drop their prey.
In a word, we should have a door of
attack against England."
All thl3 meant that, in order to save
her colonies from the English, Holland
scheme. Involving $40,000,000 expendi
ture for the renewal of the coast de
fenses, including the fortification of
Flushing, at the mouth of the river
Scheldt, caused much comment in the
European press. Some regarded it as
the result of Germany's pressure tu
secure the coast against Great Britain
in the event of a war between that
country and Germany. The fact thai
the bill made no provision for the de
fense of the eastern frontier was re
garded as significant The Dutch for
eign minister, however, dented any in
terference in Dutch internal affairs on
the part of any foreign power. The
bill finally passed in 1)1.
The fortification planned would have
converted Flushing into something
very much akin to a second Gibraltar
in point of military and naval Impor
tance. In fact, the extraordinary defense
(essness of the eastern boundaries of
the Netherlands goes far to confirm the
lelief that the kaiser has some sort
of secret understanding with the Dutch
crown which is equivalent to an of
fensive and defensive alliance.
Holland's Relation to Belgium.
During these discussions of the situa
tion of the Ixw Countries as buffer
states the impartial observer could
but come to the conclusion that Hoi
land and Belgium politically belong
together. Said one writer in 1912:
"Good sense as well as inevitable
necessities should bring these two peo
pies together again Their mentality
is widely apart, but their national life
requires their union. Last year (1911).
when Belgium prepared in haste very
late indeed to resist the threatened
violation of her territory by German
nrmies, Holland furnished troops for
her eastern frontier, mined bridges
and prolonged the period of instruction
of her reservists in view of the danger
Never was t.he solidarity of the two
countries more apparent."
This crisis refers to the dispute be
tween France and (iermany over Mo
rocco, when not only riolland and Bel
gium, but England also, prepared for
joint action to defend the Low Coun
tries from threatened invasion by Ger
many as the first step in a blow against
France.
Theree-legged chickens have
almost ceased to be a novelty in
Lee county. It doesn't take any
special kind or size of egg to
hatch them, either; but , three
legged chickens generally have
for their foreparents two- legged
chickens of good stock. Wilbur
Godfrey, of Lee county, has a
three-legged chicken and his
chickens are of good stock. Some
three-legged chickens use their
third leg as an ornament; Wil
bur's chicken has its third leg
because it has use for it, proba
bly to walk on when the other
two get tired. If you don't be
lieve in three-legged chickens,
better go and take unto yourself
a look.
Mr. I. C. Clements, of Dur
ham, was exhibiting a freak of
nature in the shape of a thirteen
headed cabbage. For heads this
cabbage of the Route Six man
has anything that has ever been
shown in these parts beat a block.
Men have made money out of
two-headed calves and four-legged
chickens, but so far as na
ture exhibiting herself in a prank
ish mood is concerned, none of
them had anything on this many
headed cabbage. There is one
big and well formed head, which
serves as a center. Then below
this there are twelve other much
smaller, but perfectly formed
heads, which grow out from the
same stalk. Durham Herald.
G. H. Glark, agent of the D.
& W. Railway, tells of a freak of
nature such as we have never
heard of before. He had a hen
to hatch a setting of eggs last
week, and among the chicks was
one possessing four legs, four
wingi and two necks, the two
necks coming together at the
base of the head. The chick had
no body at all and died soon after
being hatched. Leakesville Courier.
One hundred and fifteen dol
lars for griddlecakes for break
fast is the record price Mrs. Fan
nie Llewellyn, of Milltown. Put
nam county. New York, had to
pay to-day, when her three-year-old
daughter, Elsie, tampered
with a roll of bills. Mrs. Lle
wellyn left the roll and two half
dollars wrapped in paper under
a lamp on the dining room table.
Elsie played with them and
shoved them into a bag of waste
paper kept for kindling fires, un
known to the mother. When
Mrs. Llewellyn made a fire she
stuffed the bag of papers into the
stove and unwittingly used the
money to cook the griddlecakes.
When she removed the lamp to
set the table she missed the bills.
After a long search she found
the burned fragments and two
badly disfigured silver coins in
the stove grate.
Among the unfrenzied finan
ciers of the wild and wooly west,
E. R. Dewitt, of Snowflake,
Ariz., will rank as Al, copper
bottomed and copper-fastened.
He has a contract with the post
office department for carrying
parcel post matter from Holbrook
to Snowflake, 30 miles, for $1.60
per 100 pounds. The postage on
parcels is $1.08 per 100 pounds.
Mr. Dewitt needed a lot of rolled
barley. He bought five tons of
the Mesa Milling Compay and
shipped it from Mesa to Snow-
flake in 200 Sacks of 50 pounds
each. For railroad transporta
tion of this barley from Mesa to
Holbrook, a distance of several
hundred miles, and team trans
portation from Holbrook to Snow
flake, 30 miles, he paid the Unit
ed States government $108, and
the United States government
paid him for carrying it the 30
miles $160. He received $52
more than he paid for transpor
ta.or , Jle got his-UOO sacks ' of
rolled bailey carried for nothing
and obtained $52 besides.
Other states have prisoners
working in "honor squads" on
roads or employ them in peniten-
tiary shops, but it remained for
Ohio to establish a model factory
system for convicts. This plant
going full blast to-day, is not
within the penitentiary walls.
It is at a little place called Goble,
a few miles from Columbus.
There 70 prisoners work six hours
a week making bricks. No guards
stand by to see that they do not
escape. They are alone except
for 10 skilled brick makers, all
employed by the State, who di
rect the work.
It has been hot at Harrisburg,
111. When a local restaurant pro
prietor opened his ice box to get
two eggs for an order he was
startled to hear the cheep of a
chicken, which he found had
picked through its shell in the re
frigerator. The chick was soon
out and "oing well.
Zena, Zula, Zabulon, Zolen, Zu
laski, Zftt, Zeally are the names
a Rutherford county father gave
his children.
Had Narrow Escape.
Raeford, N. C, Aug. 27.-Du-ring
a, severe electrical storm
Monday night, Mr. C. P. Wil
liams' dwelling house was struck
by lightning and almost demol
ished. Several of the family
were severely shocked. One boy
about twelve years old was un
conscious for several hours and
very little hope was entertained
for his recovery, but at this time
he is slowly recovering.
Every piece of furniture in the
house was broken. The bed on
which Mr. Williams was steeping
was torn all to pieces.
It is strange ,how any of the
family escaped death.
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This 30th day of July, 1914. .
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Executor of the Last Will and Testa
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