Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Oct 1914, p. 9

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e Daily British ° < Nan The early records of the Belgian capital, which is now in the hands of the Germans are rather meagre, al though .it was mentioned in history as far back as the tenth century. About that time Charles, brother of King Lothaire of France and grand son of Charlemagne, who had been raised to the Duchy of Lower Lor raine by the Emperor Otho II of Germany built a castle close to the church of St. Grey, and began a reign over that part of the country His rule, however, was a short one for on attempting to im the French throne after the death of his brother, Charles was captured and gent to prison at Orleans, where he died a short time later. .One of his daughters married Lambert, the Count of Louvain, and after the de " parture of his father-in-law, this nobleman appropriated Brussels which explains why Louvain and not Brussels was the first capital of the country, In those days when a man became a ruler, he surrounded the city with a wall and Lambert was the first man to build a wall about' Brussels. This wall was pierced by seven gates, Seven aristo- cratie families secured the privilege of building castles inside and eaoh assumed the custody of the gate nearest its abode. In this way there was protection from the raids of robber knights In the eleventh century the provi- rion of security from robbers en couraged manufacture and the weav- ing industry soon furnished the basis of public prosperity an in dustry which still afforas employ- ment for a large number of persons About the year 1 5 Brussels receiv ed Its first character of enfranchise ment which gave the citizens right of choosing sheriffs and juror: There was much dis the | (SSELS SS 7 O20 OF ° CBE Bower rl v7 TE oe a" 2 Le per Siri ed ussion over this | great "freedom" and in the midst of | these discussions John I of Brabant, | came to reign over the people. This ruler was one of the really splendid figures of the feudal ages--a pobt, knight errant and songster as well as a wise, considerate ruler. His court became the resort for Trouba dours and he and his sister, Mary, who later became the Queen of France, frequently took part in the competitions of the minstrels. As a knight errant he was victorious in seventy tourneys, His wars while expensive to the residents, gained | them extra privileges. Then came John II and John IIL, the latter dy- ing in 1365, During the reigns of the three Johns, Brussels had been growing in importance and several of the magnificent churches that have come down to the present da: were already in. ghe course of von struction, The city was assumiug an impes- ng appearance by the erection of many buildings by people who were | seeking thé safety of a walled city and soon Brussels numbered its in MADE MYSTERIOUS HOLE, Zeppelin Petrol Supply Near London. London, Oct. 21.---A now" exciting the people of Great Missendden. In July of 1913 stran gers, all foreigners, began boring op erations in am out-of-the-way spot, two miles from Great Missenden, It "was reported that they were bor ing for oil. After three months, the operation ceased; A tower like derrick, two sheds and fence were rempved and the bore hole filled up. The field has twice been sloughed since. I ioughed the villagers started digging on the spot, but found no es The difficulty is that nobody knows just where the bore hole was made. It does not seem to be a gun platform, but il ia believed a huge subterranean petrol tank was thus constructed, fokming a depot for sup plies for Zeppelins. It is within thirty miles of London. The petrol believed to have been brought in in npoent-looking six-inch pipes. It is understood the war office has the mystery 'under consideration. Suspected mystery wooden a situation resulting Vietor FEmman In view of the from the war Ki ! nel has signed a decree reducing the import duties on cereals during the period from Oet. 21st to March 21st, 1915. 4 Five thousand dollars were cabled by the American Red Cross to Can- ton, China, to aid flood and famine | ufferers. \ Found a Friend in Dr. Chase His Medicines Proven Effective, and Always Kept at Hand in This Home Mrs. Chas. Lovell, Agassiz, B.C., writes: "1 feel it my duty to tell you what a great friend Dr. Chase's medicines have been to myself! and family. I cannot praise his medi- cines too highly, and Dr. Chase's name is a household word in our home. Well, quite a number of years ago I sent to you for a sample box of Dr. Chase's Ointment for protruding piles, and, having used the sample and found relief, I sent to a neigh- boring town for four boxes, and I am compl cured. rf used Dr. Chase's Kid- ney-Liver Pills for constipation, and. after using , I am completely cured of this dreadful disease. I am the mother of ten children, of whom nine are living, and when seven of my children were all very bad with : cough, caught 3 the wid le of a severe winter, used Dr. 's Syrup of Linseed and Tur ne, ind they were all cured be wi was Er Sa eT re 50,000. ITI Ivan the dau her hushand | habitants at quescen ghter of John and € KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1914 Ee Comguered" Oa SE 5 g 0% : J 4 1 g Se Dwlree or ero tie --l nominating his of of the more at the wall than at the public, the Pight buildings and did little damage, Af- neces | and for several 'years the situation {gave the Belgians considerable anx liety. Finally in 1900 Prinee Albert | married the Princess Elizabeth, of | Bavaria. The birth of a son to the {couple a year later assured suc | sion in the line Two yea later another son was born and a few years daughter came to 1909 Prince Albert in throne on the death of Leopold II, and Belgium new era different Albert is af {and just before the war' his | hobby was wireless telegraphy | queen 8 especially male a the family In herited the | his Uncle ook on a Totally King ago 0 uncle | { from his | | great The in the interested | charity and her ministeritig to | wounded soldiers has been one | the bright spots of the terribie wal | which is devastating Europe She | femained at her post in the hospital at 'Antwerp until it was considered | best for her to go to England, where { she is at present with her childre a. studious nature | of e------ PAGES 9 TO 12 Library, 600,000 volumes of printed" books, 30,000 valuable manuscripts, some of which are beautifully illus- f trated with miniatures of the old Flemish school and a collection of | more than 100,000 engravings. One | of the most valuable of 'these is one 1418, showing the Virgin and the angel. | There is also a gallery of modern | paintings connected with the royal | library, The city is musical and the royal j conservatory has an interesting col- | lection of the various musical instru- | ments from the 16th century down { | done in | to the present time. Students from all over the world study at the Brus- conservatory and when the war broke out a number of Americans who were students fled to England. The palace of Justice is one of the most Imposing buildings of the city, and was completed in 1883 at the cost of about nine million dollars. The area of the building is 270,000 1 ¢ proclaimed the King of Spain's people Netheria such had pope's Wenceslas | that tir must | nearly | complete the still 'pierced isted who decided were reigning at the wall] require. iry to The great wall Seve historic down to ne, en a qu « irged, nained rier work by the 10re or if Waterlco arles V. did he improved 2 city and of sanitation fine Cour des irrounding be a re true religion Again a cently Brussels flourished | weaving industry was and for a time all went i 1 1635 Marshall Villeroi appeared on I of Anderlecht wi 60,000 men and began n at less well, Ch when for the 7 the army | bombard the city His object I 111 to abandon eat | who was on the point of surrender. | Villeroi carrded the dav a of | houses were desiroyed. Brussels not rise from its ruins until after the war of the Spanish Succession. In 1731 the city suffered from a fire which destroyed the beautiful nitlace of the Netherlands. During this much heights the water of established as to compel 'Willi Bailies, the siege of Na Courtyard the pre val palace n Alva and $ when Brussels was the introductory incidents. On Ist, 1668, Alva: caused sixteen Bel gian noblemen to be executed and the next day several others shared | fire many famous Rubens picture their f The history of these | were lost, and the Arehduches frightful scenes, however, is.too well | Marie Christine barely escaped with {nown repetition here, suf-} her life. Marshal Saxe fired en the ice to sa) five y s later Re | i re ET a A ---- TTER HATRED, | VERY FEW AMPUTATIONS. rr -- | Fresh Outbursts of Tirades Against | Britain. 21. ondon $4,000 came stormy dic )anish period Inquisition | of the the scene ate i to need I that 1 GERMANS Modern Projectile Doés Not Usually | Sliver Bones, j. Paris, Oct. 21.1 { Debate says that during the { month after the first arrival The im* | wounded at the Vichy hospital, where outburst | the most important operations. are is the damage done to German ships performed; the average of the opera jStarad at Adtwerp immediately he- ' L:on3 Ce 20 per Jay out of S000 fore the avacuation. The , cases treated. Jf these six hundrec \nzeiger that rane al operations no more than tén were wet but demands she | #nputations, and among the ten acting always dnd | Were some of single fingers aud part on the same principle. It of fingers only. Two legs, one arm 1st clear fo every ' 8nd one wrist were all the serious (German can be no peace amputations that proved necessary | and no rest us on earth until we at this al. tion of am.) have had a inal and Salislactory set. putations in comparison with wound- | tlement with this "nation of Pritons. ed of proceeding wars | For the present, however, must |... first; by the difference in the ef- ope and wish that our arty leaders fects of modern ' projectiles, hich | will continue to conduct the war have hot 5 do bola ney to pro- against England both on land and nye es De bil 9 bro sea mith the utmost scrupulonsness, oe Th lize i and cleaner po and that our measures -he dictated thdn ¥ormerls 12 the second place exclusively by. the necessity of put- surgical sciefice has progressed and ting an ond to this vile piracy. It is wounds that would have seemingly towards "England that our eves and required the amputation of a mem-| ull our thoughts must be «constantly ber forty years ago are now treated directed, and we must not rest nor | with a view to saving it. | cease fighting until England 'e | trievaply involved sn the defeat of. hes vhite, yellow and black confedaraty The Voolsche Zeitung describes the destruction, of German vessels as a symptom .of the impotent rage o! the British, and declares that Ger- many's sole aim must be "to force England out of our way, to be firm as iron against all her protensions, and to enlighten the outside world in all that concerns Germany." The Voolsche Zeitung in another is- sue Meclares that when the war is ov- er Germgnyw will do little trading witk Fngland and France, so that she and the United States will dom- inate the wekld's markets. It urges German business men to bear this in mind, and go direct all their energies towards finding means. of working with America, but also of keeping up with 'her, | Des | first ol Londor now oi me Oet vachng the Berlin he Journal bear papers evidence the Ger- i increasing of Great Britain mediate cause of this fresh tirades | | | against | declares this shall reply hy everywhere it that | | over loss, | | declares mt he "there for we ig There is less sickness in the French army after two months on the battlefield than in time of peace, due to the efficiency and prepared ness of the military health service, according to Professor Eamond De- orme, medical inspector-general of he army and a member of the Acad Romy of Medicine. Since the begin- ning of the war he has been on_an official mission of inspection of field and other hospitals where the French wounded have been treated. "He astablished in the first place," says he Figaro, "that sanitary conditions pin our army are .perféct. During this war the number of cases of gick- ness Is less than in time of peace." * When Scot Meets Scot. The lady was the owner of a small shop, writes, the London Telé- graph, and her squire acquired the nabit of seeing her home, and carry- ing the cash bag that contained the day's = takings. It was generally aeavy. "You must be doin™ weel," re- marked the gentleman, frequently. "Oh, ay," the lady would reply, "it's a guid bit business." But she did not disclose that be- sides the moderate drawings, the bag contained the counter weights. The canny lover only discovered that fact after marriage. SAD DAY FOR GERMANY. Already Hinted She Will Lack Food in Winter. London, Oct. 21.--It is learned irom a reliable awthority, who has ust arrived from Berlin, that Ger- many ' will feel the pinch of hunger this Winter. So much was frankly confessed 'toy my informer by a high army officer, who knows 'the situa- tion thoroughly. In the course of a discussion of the problem: of feeding the Belgians this officer said that jermany would do her utmost to give the Belgians supplies, but was in duty hound to feed her own popu- lation first. If the Germans were hungry Belgians must come after wards, When asked in if" Ger many would actually F. E.'Vogel, New York, formerly of Henry Seigel & Co., and indicted for iraud and larceny, died suddenly ; on Monday night. =o | CASTORIA officer reiterated his statement with For Infants and Children. emphasis. . P is! reason it is considered The Kind You Have Always Bought certain that Germany any proposal for fee : the Bel. Boats the. pf ™ | | i i eity in February, 1746, but he aimed | and { courage ig accounted | the fa cut | and » 1 with the Hague this Brussels was under French ule for three years Then refractoriness the galling yoke of the Austrian ernors, bi finally a Bétter: state of affairs was introduced by the mild rile of Maria Theresa and her s'ad tholder, Duke Charles, of Lorraine After the French Revolution and the First Empire Belgium was united came under gov- | 1815 in one 'monarchy with Holland Brussels alternated as the seat of the general and the residence o king The revolution wt ke out in Brussels in 1830 ended the separation of Belgium Holland and on July 21st, 1831, the new King of Belgium, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Cotha "entered: the opey in state. The constitution provided that the crown was to be vested in the mals lite to the perpetual exclusion females, but in the event of failure for a time les rd of WILL HELP INDIANS. courage Them to Hunt. Otte 21 Indians, ur buying Oct The northern to the cessation of the Hudson Bay and posts, have been deprived usual means of 3 owing fo the war the ' the world are practi ally he usual advances made Indians are this winter wit] with the result that many Indians face starvation The government will the ndians with ammunition, and twin wire for snares, 'and "will them to hunt for food of fur. Provincial gov have been induced to relax game laws so as to extend the for the shooting of caribou and food animals ing ellion their ey of markets closed the to t of the supply I on nr tead gt ments eason eer, or birds. We do not contemplate any real ardship among the Indians this a8 a result of these precau said Duncan Campbell Scott, minister of Indian 'affairs -------------- HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES, { Lists Verify Report Battalions Were Wiped Out. Oct. 21.--A despatch to News from London, the Daily Says: published 'in the German clearly indicate that the the British and French claims o male heirs the king was to have | | Fur Buying Checked by War -- En- | | livelihood, | held, moose, | Rotterdam | "The latest lists of the casualties papers | troops that | they rid wiped out wholerbattalions | of Germans is absolutely true serve infantry regiment No. 17 in _one battalion 800 men wounde! apart from the dead, and in another battalion of the same regiment were-killed at the battle of Marne No. 69 is said to have an unassess Re 740 the lost | Reserve infantry regiment | able loss, and such words as "innum- | erable losses" and "tremendous number of dead and wounded" fol low the names of several regiments "These .phrases are full of signifi- | cance when it is remembered that | the Germans have not hesitated to | publish local lists of dead running into six columns, GERMANY IS CALLOUS. Belgian Famine Is Her People's Own Fault. London, Oct. 21--The Daily. Maii says: 'We understand that the Uni- ted Statés government is elabora- ting a scheme for the immediaté* ro- lief of the population of Belgium The German authorities, when sounded as fo what measures. they would he willing to adopt to allevi- ate the awful distress, are stated to have replied that they could do nothing, and that if there was not food in Belgium, it was the peo- ple's own fault." Mr. corn cutter at band caught in Sherman, . while operating a Delta, had his righ the i machinery and all mang | | | i | {so § bel | | | By t I hr ni ¢ with consent (parliament). y one one y re and three son born to h 1 when he was less than on. econd "The a strange fatality it 1 time 'that 'nt might arise for Leapold the first a widower .when he came to the although and 8 im Second, succeeded rei the me Th uni cou Lec gned nearly meantime t 2 son, ree daughter on, 11d not ppold's forty-five third Leopold II married who died in had but under the inher death then he s it. Count of Flanders, fon on out ed only Prince Albert to prevent the | British Gunnery H len and were having marr CONFIDENCE JUSTIFIED, arwich,, o in The ified British two daughters. Baldwin Baldwin died suddenly in 1891 ied. n royal family from extinction | Vastly The Enemy's, Eng., n destroy ng four ¢ said | emmy, eet have superior to y torpedoes, of two Une up \t to the German vessels and | truck etrated about in diameter bye to whic the of one time during the con 1 British destroyer found her ' four vater line, making a hole about four | This was tffhe nly | son, gunnery erman_ destroyers. | lishing the noise *n remarkable and | action, that who, it is said, discharged gev- th these the Cham of Lord beautiful now the guest from her , which Curzon home occupied mgn army officers Brussels has long been regarded as one of the beauty spots of Europe and is often called the little "Paris" on account of its likeness to the French capital in its gay outdoor life, and its plen- did. boulevards It an art"centre many of the worlds famous paint ings are housed in its galleries, among them a large collection of the remarkable Menling pictures The art of sculpture too pursued at Bry ls with great success, espec * they \ially in the 19th century. The scudp- "he throne at tors have been particularly happy in reverted to the | reproducing the 17th century wood who had two carving in ecclesiastical subjects. A The two | large building known as The Palace Albert, | of Beautiful Arts, was erected in with-| 1875 and enlarged in 1852, for the There remain | purpose of housing arts many kinds, i Bruss xile Brus Cer an in € square feet, fear oc was an $ Uy such ar co-Roman style has twice mary one daughter The elde ment 01 structure voar the and In Leopold his father years son died and had | his tenth year | is as 'well, and payment.s It is reported was and that business in on as usual. Let us Is true for the city tried in past centu and of | | Royal | i | me---- de! = | 4 {damage | they may rom the ed = | York and other ports per : turday night. out be said pattle vessels emerged unscath Superior t practically French Consul at 21. A humorous occurrence pence | the British destroyers has heen | Tagement is worth vessels |=hip's pet monkey, on one of during the en- I'he Oct New York, Oct. recording evidently not re and seuery, of "the became terrifipd. He flew into | the galley 'and' climbed on the top { shelf There he hastily hig | fish and hid until firing ceased of . our ran, French consul cousulate. Goiran is ral Francois oiran, { of the @&n selected a bs Lenancy aschini fizzled Vessels Lor- simply British spent saucepan himself I has They also army | the French next Havre Very Rev. Dean Michael venerable pastor of St. | Oswego, N.Y., lies!seriously | parish | been in constant Barry, Paul's church, ill jat the Physicians have attendance. German money is quotéd at discount in Holland her and above the the stern feet m : residence. i cent that took Brussels without firing a shot considerably exceeding that of St. Peter's at Rome. huge massive structure is 550 feet long and-560 feet wide. The The Grae- been adhered to with an admixture of rococo treat- Above the main body of the building rises another surrounded while the summit of the formed into a dome with a gilded crown at the top 400 feet above the rectangular with columns whole is the Germans the city is going hope the report has been sorely ries and now that the Belgians have. become a. of no little prominence built up a capital like Brussels wit its fine homes, splendid business sec- tion and charming boulevards, sure- ly it deserves to be allowed to go its way In peace---at least where busi- ness affairs are concerned. an e h CALLED TO THE COLORS. New York Or. dered to Report. 21.--France summoned to the colors He: has Goi- here, and Paul Pierre- Moraschina; -an-attache of the a son of Gene former minister war in France, and holds a 'lieu- in the French reserves. served Mor- the sail with expect to Saturday on La Touraine for It was stated at the French consul- ate that 6,000 French reservists had sailed from New Orleans, Quebpo, New up to last Sa- a \ No Alum-- No Dyspepsia Look to the food. Eat heartily of hot breads, hot biscuit, hot cakes, made light and tasty with' Royal Baking Powder, and snap your fingers at dyspepsia. It is the tasty, ap- petizing food that aids digestion. | : There is a quality in Royal Baking Powder coming from the purity, wholesomeness and fitness of its ingredients, which promotes di- gestion. Food raised by it will not distress. 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