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Z By Brand Whitlock zzzz zz
(Continued from Last Issue)
It seems like a dream, we say. ir
our despair of giving a real sense of tne
| unreality of some very real event, and
I suppose that what leads one to say that
j aside from one’s inability to give
dearness to a rather vague thought, is
the fact that such light, gay. inconse
quential. natural and human things are
! impossible In our world any more since
!it entered upon this long and endless
night and the terrible reality of its
i nightmare; they are events that belong
‘ to a world so changed now that it can
never be the same again. And yet there
is a succession of scenes that live vivid
in the memory: I can even recall with
perfect distinctiveness phrases that
were uttered, phrases of not the least
: importance, apropos of nothing at all —
the old habit of memory fn which ar
rangements of words have away of im
bedding themselves. For instance, that
night at the Lamberts, when the baron
ess in a kind of haughty beauty was
■ moving among her guests, with emer
alds flashing in her hair; Madame Gul
- entered the salon with her two
pretty daughters; they were all in
white and might have been taken for
sisters, a charming sight—and Count
John d’Oultremon stopping before them
saying, in hts direct deliberate way:
"Bonsoir. Madame. Comment se porte
votre nombreuse famine?” (“Good eve
ning. madame. How is all the family?”)
I can see the fashionable cohue
<crowd) that thronged the salons of the
Prince Charles de Ligne’s house there
I on the Avenue des Arts, in those famous
soirees that began at 11 o’clock; the old
I prince is leading Nell out to the dining
■ room and the handsome Prince Georges
de Ligne is talking to the Countess
Bottaro-Costa . . . And the old Prince
Charles is dead, and the Baroness Lam
bert is dead, and the Count John d’Oul
tremont is a prisoner in Germany—they
I nserf to call him “le beau d’Oultremont”
I in hts youth when he was an officer in.
, the Guides—and the young Prince
i Georges de Ligne is deal, killed at
I Winghe St. Georges, and the great
' salons hung in red and the old house
: in the Avenue des Arts arc closed and
■ dark. ....
And again that afternoon at Wit-
■ touck's; Debussy is playing the piano,
his finger nails had an odd way of
striking the counter of the piano as he
• played; and there was an actress from
'le Comedie Francaise. une diseuse (an
elocutionist), down from Parts for the
day, who stood and recited while De-
■ bussy played: she had a voice as sweet
i as falling rain.
I have a vision of the Marquis of
Vilaloar standing beside the Prince
Napoleon, near the’ great palms of a
’fountain in the conservatory of Prince
Ernest de Ligne’s house in the Rue
Montoyer, looking on the world he esti
mated to a nicety by every one of its
various standards; the Princess Clemen
tine is there, ladies are making’sweep
ing courtesies before her, and gentle
men with orders on their hearts are kiss
ing her hand. .
And then the ball at the palace and
the dancers under the brilliant chande
liers. the jewels and the gleam of white
shoulders, and the gold lace of the of
ficers of the guides, their trousers of
cherry red. and old generals whose
breasts were heavy with orders, and
suddenly the king—in black evening
dress, his arm. in a black silk sling, the
result of a fall from a vicious horse in
| the Foret de Soignes the other day.
And then there was the opera, every
• night if one cared to go. at the Theater
Royal de la Monnaie; all the old operas.
' and "The Ring of the Niebelungen,”
sung by a German company from *the
opera at Dresden, with German thor
oughness. not a line cut —and Wagner
needs a blue pencil. Every one dined
during the long entr’acte in the restau
rant de la Monnaie. and a bugler would
blow the Siegfried motif to announce
the curtain. Then "Parsifal.” a score
of times, in French, and "Electra.” and
"Salome,” with Richard Straus himself
conducting and the audience gone wild,
standing up and shouting its enthusi-
■ astic bravos. T-s Monnaie is the soul
of the city; it was in this very theater,
at a performance of "La Muette de
Portici.” that the revolution in 18"*>
burst forth. Every one goes, the men
keeping on their opera hats until the
curtain goes up. standing and sweeping
the ioges with their glasses, and the
royal box to see if the little queen, who
is very fond of music, is there, or across
at the Bourgmestre’s box to see if M.
Max had come, and this until the con
ductor appears, bows, taps with his
• baton, and the lights slowly die away
‘ into darkness, and stillness falls and
• one enters into that other world whose
harmonies arc so impossible to this that
man has so stupidly arranged for hirn-
| self.
There was, of course, the theater:
jevery week the company from the
Comedie Francaise came to "Le Parc;”
Kraus that spring was playing “Servir,”
the play whose terrible climax was so
soon to be reproduced on a titanic scale
with the whole vast theater of Europe
as its stage: while at la Gallerie Max
Dearly was playing "Mon Rebe,” the
French adaptation of "Baby Mine.” In
which for us there was a double amuse-
I merit in the inaccurate adaptation of a
1 Chicago scene to the French stage.
Indeed there was the suggestion of
i the theater in the whole series of events
that made that season memorable. Not
that it was theatrical in its effect, much
less in intention, but it provided a suc
cession of tableaux known to our west
ern world only through the theater, as
when the special Chinese mission was
received at the Hotel de Ville or in the
! first moments of the dinner de gal la
I given by the king to the new Brazilian
1 minister and the new American minister
—the vast hall, the waiting guests, and
I the brilliant group of officers at the
i great double doors, the sudden cry "Le
Roil” ■and the doors swinging open and
, the king standing there.
And then there was the queen s gar
' den party a: the summer palace at
Laaken. 1n those vast conservatories,
i with their masses of soaring green and
towering palms and the heavy odor ot
strange flowers. The garden party
•' usually marks the close of the official
| season. it is given in May. when the
I flowers without as well as the flowers
within the royal gardens are all in
bloom, but since it is apt to rain on
any day in Belgium, the party with its
reception to the diplomatic corps is
always given in the royal conserva
tories.
But there was another event in that
year that succeeded the garden party—
i the visit of the king and queen of
Denmark. The festivities of that week
began with the reception King Christian
heid for the diplomatic corps at the
palace, his tall form in the scarlet ••oat,
giving him the air of an officer of the
i English Life Guards. There was the
review of the Belgian army, with a
■ pavilion for the two queens, and a tri-
Ibune for the diplomatic corps at the
Rond Point of the Avenue Tervueren;
a day of heat and clouds of dust raised
'by the marching infantry. the lovable
i Belgian dogs dutifully trundling their
j mitrailleuse behind them, the rumbling
i guns o." the artillery, and the guides
i and lancers galloping in review before
j the two kings, side by side on their
1’ chargers with their staffs behind them;
while military bands played and trurn-
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918.
pets blared and drums rolled, and all
Brussels turned out to see and to
chber.
There was. too. the reception given
by the municipality at the Hotel de
Ville: we wore all assembled in the an
cient Salle Gothique hung about with
the old tapestries, under the Spanish
flags that have depended from that
oaken ceiling since the time of the
Spanish domination. The Bourgmestre
Max, svelte, pale, with hts prominent
eyes, his pointed blonde beard, his curl
ing moustaches, wearing the uniform
and the scarlet sash of the bourg
rnestre, delivers. in his exquisite
French, an address of welcome, to which
the king of Denmark responds. There
is a quartet to play and Crolzti is there
to sing and there are two premieres
danseuses from the Monnaie. The di
vertissement over, the throng drifted
along the corridors to the splendid
chamber of the bourgmestre. the king
and queen signed in the Livre d'Or. the
golden book of the city, and then we
went out on th© balcony to see the
royal party drive away.
Down there below us, the grand pal
ace, the most beautiful square In the
world, lay under our eyes; directly
across from us the Maison du Roi. with
its gilded facade; all about the houses
of the ancient guilds and overhead that
lovely spire whereon a golden St. Michel
stands triumphant over the dragon he
has slain. Close to the walls on all the
four sides of the square are massed the
delegates from all the old corporations,
all the syndicates, all the societies of
Brussels, their silken banners mingled
in a mass of red and green and blue and
gold. Their bearers stand silent, mo
tionless, waiting for the royal families,
and the empty square is spread before
them. We stand on the narrow stone
balcony and gaze down. The historical
implications of the place impose on one
the respect of Silence. There in that
square there had been the jousts of the
knights of the cloth of gold; there had
been held the old fetes of the com
munes; there the old trade guilds had
fought out their fierce quarrels, the
queux (scoundrels) had assembled there,
and there Edmont and’Hojjne were be
headed. Charles V had ridden there in
poinp and the Duke of Alva, had stalked
across those very stones; there the can
non balls of VUlefroi had wrought their
havoc, and it was all as it is today,
those four gilded facades, that beautiful
spire soaring aloft, on that morning
when some man coming into the square
from the rue des Harengs related the
news of the discovery of America, to be
told no doubt that such a thing could
not lie. The centuries had rolled over
it. and loft it unchanged in its beauty
and as wt stood there looking down, th©
modern world faded away. .. . Out
from the portiere below us rode four
heralds, slowly, with stately tread of
their caparisoned horses, they rode into
tha center of the square, lifted their
long trumpets to their lips, hold them
pointing upward at a graceful angle and
blew a long fanfare, and, turning slowly
around, blew to the four quarters of the
square. And then out from the portiere
there rolled a coach of state, of red and
gold, with coachmen and footmen in red
liveries and powdered wigs, and then an
other coach of state and another, six tn*
all. with the kings and the queens and
the princes and the ’lords and ladies in
waiting, and while the trumpets of the j
heralds blow they rolled slowly around
the grand palace in the light that fell
from a sky of mother of pearl in the
mild spring evening. The dark mass of
! the delegates of the societies all around
I the square lifted their silken banners of
i crimson and gold and cried;
"Vivent les rois!” (“Long live the
; kings!”)
Slowly around the square they drove.
' and drove around again, and turning
! into the narrow rue de la Colline, they
i rolled away as though it had been Cin
i derella and her suite. . . . The light ;
i touched the gilt on the facades once
more, then slowly faded front a sky that
glowed above the house of the corpora
tion of the brewers. . . .
Down In the court of the Hotel de
Ville there was a startling sound, the
chauffeurs were tuning up their mo
tors. and wo drove back into modern |
i times, back into the twentieth cen-|
tury—and home to dinner.
One more scene remains to be sketch
ed; that summer evening in the little
I theater in the palace at Laeken. It is
a tiny theater, where perhaps two hun
• drod might find seats. Talma once acted
there, and one evening resting from his
imperial labors, Napoleon conmmanded ,
1 a performance in honor of Mario Louise, i
: It has been seldom opened since .and i
had not been used for years; the queen I
had had ft restored for this event, and
with her own exquisite taste had herself
arranged the entertainment that was
given. The king and queen of Denmark
' and the king and queen of the Belgians
and the three royal children, wriggling
uncomfortably and leaning against their
mother, occupied the royal box. An
English duke and duchess were present
and the ministers and the ladies of
the diplomatic corps were in the little
circle of loges; in the stalls were the
! members of the king's and queen’s
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i households. Heide sang and Ysaye play
! ed. And then the. second act of Or
-1 pheus was presented, Ysaye conducting.
The stage opened out into the con
servatories, whose thick purple shadows
in the warm summer night afforded
such an Elysian scene as no stage di
rector could have contrived. And with
such a setting, to such an audience, in
that miniature theater the company
from la Monnaie rendered Gluck's ro
mantic music. The ballet from La Mon
naie was present and there si one strain
from the sweetly sad and stately’ mu
sic of that classic dance that must al
ways recall that warm and pregnant
night, the shadowy dancers in their
gauze, the shades whence Eurydice was
not to be wooed back to a world like
this. Whenever that strain comes sud
denly to memory, as strains of music
will, it comes as a synthesis of all that
is lovely and sweet and evanescent, the
motif that expresses the personality of
the lovely and the gracious and courag
eous woman who chose it as an offering
to her guests.
(Continued in Next Issue.)
Copyright, by Brand Wbitlock, 1918,
under the title "Memories of Belgium
Under the German Occupation.” All
rights reserved. Copyrighted in Great
Britain. Canada and Australia. All
rights reserved for France, Belgium.
Holland, Italy, Spain. Russia and the
Scandinavian countries.
FLIER WKHffITS
HOW HE FELLED BOCHE
German Aviator Sent Down
After He Had Beaten
Frenchman
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 19—The
story of how two American youths. Wil
liam Wellman aged twenty-one years,
and Corporal Thomas Hitchcock, aged
seventeen, of Long Island. N. Y., both
members of the LaFayette escadrille,
brought down a German aviator who had
previously downed a French airman in
attack over the trenches in France,
was given by Wellman in a letter re
ceived today by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Wellman, of this city. Well
man and Hitchcock, it was announced
last week, have been decorated for
bringing down three German machines
in six weeks
In hts letter Wellman said that he
and a French aviator, named Miot, went
up after a German two-seated maehi«e.
"I got to just 4,000 meters,” Wellman
says, "and the Boche dead ahead com
ing toward me when I saw Miot make
his first and last attack. He dived at
the biplane Boche and one of his wings
snapped off. imagine, dad, he was just
perhaps fifty yards from, me and I saw
the poor boy drop into a spin and not
come out of Ft until he hit the ground.
“Well, by this tilne Tommy Hitchcock,
the other American with me here, had
arrived on the scene and together we
tackled the Boche. First, Tommy div
ing from above, and coming up under
neath him and then shooting when as
near as possible, then I repeating the
performance.
"He (the Boche) was descending all
the time and finally at 2,000 meters his
engine must have given out, for hts
propeller stopped. The rest of the way ,
he had to volplane and, believe me, dad,
we gave it to him in great style. Also
they were a couple of gamesters, for (
they were shooting at us all the time.
"To make a long story short, the
Boche smashed just between the trench
and as Tommy and I had followed him
down to the ground, wc started a lot
of fun in the trenches. We were not
touched, but the machines got it pretty
badly.”
Teutons Have Strength
For General Offensive
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Official dis
patches, received here today said the
strength of the Teutonic armies on the
Italian front is sufficient to permit the
central powers to undertake offensive
operations simultaneously on the west
ern front from the North sea to the
Adriatic and prevent the allies from
transferring troops from one part of
the front to the other.
After failure of their attacks against
the Italian Velbella positions, the dis
patches said, the Austrians are repair
ing and consolidating their lines. The
Teutons maintain unaltered their forces
on the Asiago plateau and around Mount
Grappa, but several German battalions
have been withdrawn and Hungarian
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ALLIES PRIMED FOR
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German War Machine Ready
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BY WILLIAM raiLIT SIMMS
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Feb. 20. —America, watch
the west front!
Civilization is on the threshold of the
most colossal battle of all time. The
German offensive is expected momen
tarily.
With every gill of fighting blood
Germany has left, with every belt and
nut of its war machinery in hand; with
every ounce of strength of every kind
behind them Hindenburg and Luden
dorff may hurl all into a finish fight.
For Hohenzollernism, this may be the
critical hour.
The Germans will use tanks, like the
British, for the first time. Some of
these will be equipped with mortars,
others with machine guns. They will
move almost four miles an hour.
The enemy is counting largely on gas.
It is not likely its bombardment will
last long. The infantry will be driven
forward with unprecedented ferocity—
I German fashion —after a few hours of
intense shelling.
All pieces from trench mortars to
42-centimeter guns will smash against
the British. The attack probably will
| center in the Cambrai region, although
! synchronized blows are expected all
along the front.
The Germans probably will play their
i trench mortars on the barbed wire en
: tanglements and front support trenches.
■ They will use their heavy guns on bat-
■ tery positions, rear guards, railways,
j suspected concentrations and rear ap-
I proaches generally.
A heavy percentage of gas shells will
[be used everywhere. High explosives
will be used e.gainst works. Then, in
endless waves, the Gerpians will be
driven like cattle through the holes
they hope to have torn.
Like sharpers doping the workout of
race horses, the German officers are
telling their men the wildest stories of
the infallibility of the scheme. Never
theless the troops are doubtful.
Impressions, outlined in my Swiss dis
patches are borne out by statements
made here by prisoners—unfulfilled
Pan-German promises of peace, plus the
certainty of defeat as soon as America'
adds the full weight of its force, mean
time Germany must do or die now. The
Germans will undoubtedly fight like
tigers.
The whole future of the world probab
ly will be decided. The Britons and
their allies know this and will act ac
cordingly. .
35 Men Made 11l by .
Eating Com Beef Hash
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Rumors
that a large number of men had been
poisoned at the Norfolk naval training
station were cleared up today by a re
port from Captain Dayton, the command
ing officer, that thirty-five of his force
were made slightly ill recently by eat
ing corned beef hash. He said there
was no evidence of poison or other for
eign substance in the hash, and that
most of the men wore back at work.
Passage of Rail Bill
Expected This Week
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.--Passage
this week of the railroad conntrol bill
was virtually assured late today when
the senate agreed to start voting on the
first amendment Thursday. Although no
agreement was reached as to final vote
on the bill, leaders thought it would fol
low late Thursday afternoon.
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i homing pigeons for the signal corps
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By LIVE ELEVATOR VIE
0. C. Mercer, at Moultrie
Plant, Is Hurled Down
Shaft to Death
MOULTRIE. Ga.. Feb. 20—G. C. Mer
cer. Jr., was killed and J. A. Edmundson,
B. Hardwick and Will Jones were injur
ed. the latter two dangerously, by a live
wire in an elevator at Swift and com,
pany's plant here this morning.
Mercer was the first victim of the
wire. He wws on the top floor, and, the
elevator boy not being on the job.
sought to act in that capacity himself
long enough to reach the ground. Just
as he touched the cable, he was thrown
to the bottom of the elexator pit, being
almost instantly killed.
At short intervals the other three
men, all on different floors also tried to
use the elevator and as each of them
caught hold of the cable they were
burled away with great violence. Jones
being thrown down the shaft falling a
distance of two floors.
e Lungs Are
Weakened By
Hard (’olds
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Two Box Elder*. (Ash
leaved Maple). Fine, rapid
growing ornamental trees,
with handsome light green
foliage, greenish yellow
bark, and a spreading head.
Succeeds everywhere and is
not effected by drought.
Grows 20 to 80 feet high.
One Spirea. The handsom
est shrub that blooms. The
long, slender branches are
so loaded with flowers In
the spring, they droop to
the ground, giving the ap
pearance of a fountain of
white flowers. 8 to 10 feet
high. Foliage yellow In
fall.
One Cornua Florida. (White
Flowering Dogwood). The
white flowers, borne in ear-'/* V
1 y spring, are 2to 4 Inches k 1
- icross, and remain many
weeks. Foliage become A- 1
brilliant In autumn. P. ,
bark and berries make : k
pleasing sight In winter. 'J'' x-''
Z Ona xanthorrhlsa. (Yellow
Root). Dwarf, spreading
with bright yellow roots
A .nd branches. Dainty, deep
y indented, fern-like leaves
make a delightful appear
ance throughout the year.
, Drooping purple flowers.
One Shus Glabra. Grows
10 to 15 feet high, with open
5 rown and compound leaves.
® rlowers in July, In creamy
panicles, followed by crim
son fruits, which remain
all winter.
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TO ALL WOMEN
WHOARE ILL
This Woman Recommends
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iIE
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Two Flowering Catalpas.
(Catalpa Speciosai. Very
hardy, with heart-shaped
leaves, measuring 6
inches across. Beans in
mense clusters of fragrant
white flowers, tinged with
purpl®- Blooms in June,
and rivals the flowering
shrubs.
One Spice Bush. (Taurus 1
Benzoin). In early spring. '
before the leaves appear y
every branch is covered •
with fragrant yellow flow c
ers. The bright red ber m
ries which follow, remali ♦,
through the winter. Leaves, \
turn bright yellow in the
fait
One Amanda mttcj**
(False Indigo). Grows sto
10 feet high and forms a
large spreading bush, with
compound leaves. Slender
spikes of deep violet-blue
flowers are borne In sum
mer. Red and gold In au
tumn. t
Two Boses of Sharon.
Beautiful shrubs of rapid
growth, making the most
gorgeous show of large,
brightly colored, double
flowers, which remain all
fall. Grows 12 feet high.
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from any functional
disturbance, as it
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doctor’s medicine.
Since taking it I
have a fine healthy
baby girl and have ■
gainedin health and
strength. My hus
band and I both
praise your med
icine to all suffering
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