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10 THE TRUTH ABOUT BELGIUM BY BRAND WHITLOCK ON an evening late tn the month of I May, 1914. we were dining at the German legation. We had arisen from the long table and gone up to the salons and as we stood about waiting fhr the coffee I found myself beside Mr. von -Below-Sales-K*. who said to me with a sigh; ••Well, thank God. it’s over now." He spoke no doubt in the sense of intimacy that was somehow ours be cause vt had come at about the same time to Brussels where we knew no one. not even each other; the fact was some what a bond, the only one. between us. 1 could quite understand the relief he fhlt. the relief of the host who has done his duty. I bad the same sensation myself in my capacity of guest. ••Yes." I said. "Its over at last-” "We can be tourists now.” he went on. -go where we please, do what we , please. “ ■'Where are you going." I asked. "Oh. I don’t know, anywhere, to be free, to get away Take a trip some where. And you?" “To the country ” And 1 thought of Bois Fleuri. waiting for me there that night, in the dismal Tain that made the Quartier Leopold so dreary and emphasized that expression of vag-ue sadness it always wears, even when the sun lights up its block of au stere bouses. My heart was lighter for an instant in the thought of the coun try. the noble forest. Kavenstein. with its golf links and the red roofs of lit tle Tervueren While my thoughts played with the pleasant anticipations of vacation, my colleague left me standing there, to greeet A dog. a German dachshund that Just then came wriggling into the sa lon. as delighted to be admitted to the company as the company was to have ft come; there is perhaps nothing a.- efflctent as a dog. even one of those dachshunds, to entertain the guests of a formal dinner. The dog was gambol ing about and writhing ecstatically on the floor, thumping it with its tail, and the guests exclaimed over it. and spoke to it in French, though doubtless Ger man was the only language it under stood. ami flattered it with endearing epithets. Oh. le gentll petit tmt-ton! . . . Quel amour de chien! . . . Qu*il eat charmant, n’est-ce pas? . . . Ici. son vieu! jfOh. the pretty little bow-wow! w hat a love of a dog’ How charming ho is, isn't he? Come here, old fellow)! The deg accepted all their compli ments with a dog’s frank love of flat tery; the salon was enlivened with talk, with exclamation®, with laughter; the footmen were serving the coffee and the cigarettes, apd. able again to leave his guests. Mr. von Below came ha'-k to me. w e were standing by a table in the comer of the room and from among the- oh jets <Tart. the various trinkets. the signed photographs in sil ver frames, with which it was loaded, hr drew forward a silver bowl that he used as a cendrier (ash receiver). As I dropped the ash of my cigarette into it. I noticed that it was pierced on one side near the rim by a perfectly round hole, the jagged edges of which were thrust inward: plainly a bullet hole; doubtless it had a history. T asked him. "Yes. a bullet hole.” he said. "In China, it stood on my desk, and one day during the riots a bullet came through the window and went right through it." Several of the guests pressed up to see; such a bowl with its jagged bullet hole and a history was an excellent sub ject for conversation; the German min ister had to recount the circumstances several times. •1 have never had a post." he said, "where there has not been trouble; in •Turkey It was the revolution, in China it was the Boxers; I am a bird of ill omen." (”J9 suis un otseau de manvats au gurs") - He laughed, standing there very erect and tall and distinguished with his •pointed black moustache, raising his cigarette delicately to his lips with a wide and elegant gesture while the guests purred about, examined the sil ver bowL thrust their fingers into the bullet hole. "But new," he went on. "I have the most tranquil post in Europe; nothing can happen in Brussels." And we all fell to celebrating the peace, the calm, the repose of the love -T> W. the roost charming city in Eu- T think we all felt the relief that the -end of the season brought us. for Mr. Won Belew's was the last of the long •urte.-: of dinners and formal functions of the winter There were only a few xnora momects to be got over; then the ♦oocnen would wheel in the service of <he tea. and discreetly whisper "la voi iture est avancee” (the carriage Is ca.ll and we could go. . . And then. *Bots Pfleuri and the links at Raven- Cetn, and the long MS of the novel I id so long wished to write! I went over to where Prince Kowda jcheff. oar Russian colleague, was stand ing by a great red curtain at the en trance to the adjotnlng y’ -. peering with that sharp, cyflira’ ut at a wo-d that had strippe his last ■ltesion; it was alwavs asure to | SELF DEFENSE OEFEAT BACKACHE AID KIDNEY TROUBLE WTTH ANURIC. Many in this wetion, as otae- -w'Dere. have suffered from rteunsoani l /Mwi kidney trcahie and have found Ar. uric to be the moat «ni i —rfni remedy <o overcome these punful and danger was ailments. The lucky people are those who have suffered, but who are now well because they heeded Nature's warning signal in time to corvee: their trouble with that wonderful new discovery of Dr. Pierce’s ra ,ed ’•Anuric." Yon shonkl promptly heed these warnings, some of which are spells. bcw-kache, irregularity of the nrine or the painful twinges of rheuma tism. sciatica or lumbago. To delay may make possible the dangerous forms of kidney disease, such as Bright’s disease, diabetes or stone in the bladder. To overcome these distressing rondi - * tions yon should take plenty of exercise tn the open air. avoid a heavy meat diet, drink freely of water and at each meal take Dr. Pierce’s Anuric Tablets <double strength). You will, in a short tnae. find that you are one of the firm indorsers of An-u-ric. as are many of your neighbors. Send Dr. V. M. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Mr. for a trial package. Targe pkg. fiOc. Syiacadga, Ar a.—"l have used the Anuric Tablets for the kidneys and they surely did give good results. I have also need the c Plea»- ant Pellets ’ for the liver and they have done me a great deal of good. I can rwinuneod Doctor Pierce’s medicine A/ 3K as migbtv fine.” —G. A. Ragkdalk. Atkkks. Ga_—"l had been emnpiarntng with my back for 10 years and had tried a Kd many remedies. Os course. I was completely down but ft was very pain ful through my spine. I tried Anuric and found complete relief. Now I can lift JOO lbs. acd over, where before I couid Bcaj~»- up wb«i I stoop'd to tie my • ■ -1 “ \\\ .... TZ-,, BRAND WHITLOCK L M I p,r c,. \ _ ■ I I -- / th ■■■' *' • K « . fe J EVERY ISSUE of The . Semi-Weekly Journal will BgMk’uigLQ carry a new installment of c/'trsS' iHßStlßli® X \ *•** Brand Whitlock’s ‘ "The Tirui»PT rifV \ Truth About Belgium." WHITLOCK. There have been many ©khoto t* stories written about Ger- kaxsis VFWiNG man atrocities in Belgium, but Whitlocks story in The vaul v WWWfe Zs X d ...Z. Semi-Weekly Journal is the only official narrative of ‘ ---NE-c what actually happened in ■ ■ 1 ■ 1— Belgium under German rule. * l c—• -w- Wl L.SUIIBt" '"? .‘M •- * > :V -•■■* ■' ' • ?:?’ *1 r , M ijjSAa IK®? S’ Z ff. mt r ® ‘ *’■ -1 ■' X inurir- '*■ Its- • V The Royal Palace at Brussels, Now a Hospital. with Prince KoadachefT. Neil has had him at the dinner table, he was so good at heart tn his Russian way. and his Incorrigible pessimism was so de lightful But near by, in the great hall, one of the German secretaries of lega tion was recounting the history of an enormous oil painting of the kaiser that hung over the staircase; the history was neither important nor interesting, but since the portrait was of the kaiser, the secretary adopted the courtier's tone in speaking of it, and I could like the young Belgian who. glancing up at the theatrical figure in its bald and too vivid colors and squintng at the light, said. •H sennit permis de dira n*est-ce pas. que contuse art, la peinture n’est pas fa mense?" ("One Is permitted to say, tent one. that as art. the picture is not great?") But then Mr von Belew was said to be a man of sapert taste; he played the piano well, and had a knowledge of all the arts. Under him the German legation would be immensely improved; he had already set out a new formal garden; he would enhance the already widening German influence in Belgium; his din ners thaf spring had been excellent; the Bourgogne we had just had for dinner, for instance, was the famous Chateau- Chose-1873. 11. It had been a brilliant and a crowded -ason, even if its beginnings had been ov.ched by the shadow of the mourning or the Countess; of Flanders, the moth r of the king, from which the court was ■«t emerging. The two salons bleus, with which the season at Brussels be ts. had been given at the I“alais and ' quern’s garden party with which ends, in the summer palace at Laeken. - it that year, destined to be so tragic •i Belgian history and in the history of • -ankind. had been distinguished by vents of unusual social interest; there -lad been the special mission from the cw Chinese republic, the visit of the \iner and queer of Denmark. and then •ater in the fatal summer, the visit r he lord mayor of Ixindon. who in -r.bes and golden chains came riding— .it least from* the Gare du Nord to the lace— in his ancient coach with his heel eators and all the civic pomp of M Jxindon town And these events had aughing echoes and brilliant reflections n the Quartier Leopold, which never • perhaps had been so gaj. It is the quar ter sacred from time if not Immemorial, at least what would be immemorial in most of our cities, to the aristocracy and lies west of the boulevards of the “upper town,** as that part of the efty was called when T came to the throne, and with its solid blocks of stately houses, it extends now eastward almost to the Cinquantenalre So has aristocracy flourished. Joseph Conrad. tn one of hte stories, refers to those booses ss having given the teapressloa THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I<s, 1918. of “whitened sepulchres," and the quar tier does wear, indeed, an aspect of vague melancholy, un peu triste (a lit tle gloomy), with its monotonous fa cades of gray or white, or case au lait, that have away of scowling gloomily in the rain that drops down so easily from the low gray northern skies; the houses seem always to be closed, and the persionnes (Venetian blinds) drawn, as though their owners were not at home. Perhaps it is because they are not at home to everybody, though when one x>f the great doors is opened with a great clatter of chains, by an impassive butler, and one is once within, one at tributes the external aspect to the re serve that one finds characterising everything within, surcharging even the calm atmosphere. Through these great doors in other days carriages rolled as motor cars roll in ours, or as they did roll until the Germans came, and at the other end of the porte cochere which pierces the house like a tunnel, one has a bright glimpse of those lovely gardens where so much of the intimate life of Brussels is passed. For the Bruxellois knows the charm of formal gardens, the mystery of high walls with the lavender blossoms of wistaria vines or the bloom of a peach bough falling over them in spring, just as, from long intercourse with V*rance, he knows the beauty of the subdu»d> colors and the exquisite lines of the furniture that was made in the time of the Louis. | The Inner doors of those old mansions i have a sense of exclusion and intimacy that enhances their boupitant y once one is admitted to it; they give into ' stately halls, with a wide staircase ieading up to the great salons with their lofty ceflings and their heavily curtained wiruiows the 1 street, and Che espion (spy! to tell who stands at the door without, a device that might have relieved Horace of ' the bore Crnspinuis. and delivered Emer son out of dangers of those awful dev actsuors of the day who djvell in every land. The old house, there on the cor j ner of the Rue Belliard and the Rue do Treves, that was the American le gation, did very well for the ordinary times of peace, though it. was hardly | prepared for those extraordinary times then lurking in the dark future, when tt. was to be daily crowded with the victims 01 tragedies ttvat even Joseph Conrad could not have imagined, and !to become the strange stage of events that are now part of the history of the fit.n.r. the charming, rlhe tragic land. 1 There was little hint or tfjose tragedies in the bright spring that came so early jin that fateful year. It all seems like ; a dream now, from some dim land of I youth, and in another day when we ' were all young and the world was otherwise How long ago, those din ners at the varkrns ministers, at Mr. Dsslgrrmns first aB. where an Ameri- can lady, whose husband had just been ordered home, glancing down the long table brilliant with its napery, its flowers, its plate, the uniforms and toilettes of the women about it, and the flashing jewels, sighed and whis pered to me; ”1 hate to leave it all!” We were all soon to leave it and we did not know, and the master of the house was to be among the first not only to go into exile, while the Germans came to pillage his wine cel lars and carouse in the very dining hall, but to hurry on into that longer, darker, exile where myriads have since been hurried. (Continued tn Next Issue.) Wife of Rome Barber Gains a Rich Estate By Decision of Court ROME, Ga., Feb. IS— Mrs. Myrtle Wade Burton, wife of a Rome barber, becomes possessor of an estate valued at more than twenty thousand dollars by- a decision of the supreme court an nounced today. Although never formally adopted, she had made her home with the late Avery i Dunham, of Rome, for ten years after he took her from the orphans’ home at Hapeville, when she was aged eight Blood kinsmen of Dunham fought the girl's claim, he having left no will, but the courts here decided in her favor and the decision was affirmed on appeal I to the state's highest tribunal. Eight British Craft Hunting Submarines Sunk by Destroyers LONDON. Feb. 15—Eight British ! craft which were hunting submarines have been sunk by a raiding flotilla of I enemy destroyers, it is announced of . ficially. After having sunk these vessels, sev 'en of which were .“drifters” and one a ' trawler, tlie enemy destroyers returned . rapidly northward before they could be engaged. The destroyer raid took place in the Straits of Dover, the official an nouncement states. Reichstrat Member Arrested AMSTERDAM, Feb. !«. Von Ber tolini, member of the reichstrat. from South Tyrol, has been arrested in Trent, in connection with alleged widespread Italian espionage plots, according to copies of the Tageblatt received here today- 'PHONE OPEHSTOB HSKS MOBEiN FOR 550,0M,008 Rousselot Poses as Emissary of Spanish King—Negotia tions Actually Opened N7CW YORK, Feb. 16.—How a sls a week telephone operator, posing as ; ‘Tils excellency, the Marquis Edmond ! Rousselot di Castillot, confidential rep : resentative of his maje«ty, King Alfon- ■so XIII of Spain." opened i with the banking house of J. I’. Morgan & Co. for a loan of $50,000,000 to Spain, ; and by promising that Spain would en i ter the war on the side of the entente allies, brought the state department j into the matter, was revealed in the | federal court here today when three Ln- I dictments were returned against Ed ; mond Rousselot, under the espionage ' law. Rousselot was pressing his plan for I the loan when cfhance caused his arrest on another charge, and his castle in Spann quickly toppled. William Pierson Hamilton, of the Morgan house, was foreman of the ; grand jury which returned the indict ; ments, and was familiar with the en tire transaction because he was the member of the firm to whom the mat | ter was entrusted. When the subject of the loan was broached to the bank by Rousselot. who had been properly introduced by W. E. D. Stokes, of New York City, the bank immediately communicated with Sec retary Lansing, who oposed the loan to the Spanish government through an in dividual. and suggested that it be taken Jup through the regular government ■ channels. Rousselot objected to this j method of procedure, explaining that i the loan was to be made personally to ! King Alfonso, and It was because of I this secret arrangement he could prom ' ise that Spain was to join the entente allies. The negotiations were still under I way, and Mr. Hamilton had the mat ter under consideration, when Rousse lot, about three weeks ago. was arrest ed on the charge of falsely represent ing himself as “Count Rousselot. a French diplomat here on a secret mis sion.” and being unable to obtain bail I was sent to jail. This led to inquiry | and the whole affair was laid before I the grand jury. Ten Million Dollars,ls Revolving Fund for Purchase of Nitrate (Bpectal Dispatch to The Journal.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—1 t Is learn i ed today that by an amendment added ;to the agricultural appropriation bill, I through the activities of Senators Hoke j smith, of Georgia, and E. D. Smith, of j South Carolina, an ample supply of ni trogen will be furnished by thekgovern ment at cost to farmers needing it The original bill carried an appropria tion of $10,000,000, which was to be used for the of nitrogen produced in Chile. According to its terms, the nitrogen was to be sold at cost to farm ers and the fund turned back into the treasury. The amendment put on the agricultural appropriation bill makes this $10,000,000 a revolving fund to be used by the secretary of agriculture when the nitrogen has been sold which is first purchased by the fund. The funds derived from the sale will under the amendment be again used for the purchase of nitrogen and so on con tinuously, thereby making the amount of nitrogen to be furnished to the farmers not simply the amount which could first be purchased by $10,000,000, but an amount continuously provided for by the continued use of the $10,000,000 as col lections from sales furnish funds. Our “Home Beautiful” Collection MM? WIHK iwlF^ s JG&s->u • ? _ v ,-‘O * V«' X ( ~ ' .t| J nlanted In the fall or spring, and will make good growth, p-oducing many pretty ' nese shrubs and trees ma? right time to’plant for your locality, shrubs are carefully packed flowers the first season. 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Shells, full of deadly poison, are now ready for shipment from America, auid General Pershing’s urgent request for poison gas plants, both in America and France, has been granted by the house appropriations committee. These two plants will cost about $10,000,000. Experts will be sent to the plant in France to watch carefuly for any new gas that may prove more deadly, and to be ready to meet any emergency. The American plant will be designed to turn out a great number of the gas shells, while the plant in France will be for experiments. Testifying before the committee. Col onel E. J. W. Ragsdale, in charge of this work, stated that it is often nec essary to change the whole gas program by the discovery of some new poison. "No phase of trench warfare is open to such sudden shifts as gas warfare. For instance, the mustard gas used by the Germans completely changed the program.” he said. 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