Show T I 1 fg G SS A dutch town of nil all towns in Hol holland laud I 1 think cafter after seeing e i eing about fifty middleburg about abou t the tile most peculiarly representative P and dutch it has in it the most charming examples exam plea of architecture and co costume sturno that thavone th atone one could wish to see it is qua and original clean 0 lo 10 o a deaice and not too dead lead and gone in fact on a pi market rat dabit tl it asfor for mhd boeing Wo eing about as s lively and ard stirring a place as one could happen on oil and they do say that ou on i the tho occasion ot of I 1 the annual heri kannee neg e which lash about it week the great marketplace market place at night when the fun is wildest is no faint hint of those far more ancient ami aud more nether regions so much of art ir h 3 it here that they talk of the tile p past t one for six months and prepare for the nest next one the rest of the year in 11 passing along some of the silent well swept quays under cinder t tho io tall trees tr beio oue ope is i struck by the tile n number of well todo todo to do do in cn stately residences I 1 tile homes of the descendants of the st merchant merch princes who made their fortunes hero here when middleburg had a enni merea to boat of abere were no finer docks and in in all ill alie c country bat batalas bd talas alas fickle commerce om merce one fine title day lay fl found other harbor harbors the bi big ships sailed away one by ono into the Ft eternal ernal whither and aud came caine back no more the docks and bw baina his took on oil the scum in of id idleness lenese busy adi grew silent and the half hulks bulks rotted where they stood tid the fate ofin any once thriving towns jant middelburg Tidd elburg was only sleeping it wad was a very long rip van there ris still strong life spine where dormant it energy III and I 1 d action again i Y i taff if N i bome some fifteen years ago when its old neighbor and rival Flueh f ng nig b began e gan its splendid P bendid new harbors and docks and station ta tib I 1 high agh hopes were held that the new tife life blood let into flushing would revive the entire island of Wal Walche cheren middelburg bur shook its itself self to together ether for the long looked for return return of prosperity new docks canal canals and basins were made big enough to float the vast commerce sho to bee see again bustling lust ling about her long ion deser deserted teil quays but sad end t to say after much outa lay jay q 0 money and labor after grand opening ceremonies cere ironies and inucci ker icer mess messing ilig coy commerce came not to a great extent to gladden tho the souls of the good burghers cither of flushing Flus big gr or abid Middelburg del burg letus say rather that for I 1 many 11 any years it did pot pol come just lately thero there is a better she chov v of showing at both places timo time was when this same edelburg ati was tho the i cst est proudest and most powerful city in the netherlands its most pro prosperous timea were during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries when all al the wines of france and antl spain that came not only for tho entire country but for towns along w g the rhino far into germany Ger nany had first to pay duty bere exist exia still many relics relies of this powerful there is still till the Roue where tho the wine wine galleons gal leons of kotien dis gorged their cargoes cargoes and andl their heavy tow to duties duties the wool staplers of england and ana scotland had bad also rich and powerful houses here and st et veere near by under tho the pro lection buthe tuko duke of burgundy who married a daughter of james 1 L of scot scotland a nd 11 Bou BouG onTON lITOV in ill harpers Har peeS Xay magazine azile ifor for august 4 I 1 |