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BELGIANS FLEEING AND ADVANCING
VISE DEVASTATED BY THE INVADING GERMANS
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When the Belgians retired to Antwerp many houses In the suburbs were burned in order to clear the land
front of the fortifications. At the left a soldier Is seen setting fire to a cottage with a lighted broom.
BRIDGE ACROSS THE MEUSE DESTROYED BY BELGIANS "
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Some of the American Rod Cross nurses ready to sail on tho steamer Red
Cross for service on the battlefields of Europe. In front are Mary Francis
Kellor, May A. Brownell and Anna L. Rentlngor. At tho roar, Mary E. Glad
win, Helen Scott Hay (In charge), Lucy Mlnnegerodo and Mary F. Farley.
WHY THE WAR WORRIES
Fire Insurance companies all over
this country are now In great fear of a
big fire, because of the situation in
'which the war places them. In every
city and town the companies are send
ing out stern warnings to policy hold
ers, advising them to ezerclso extraor
dinary precautions to guard against
fires.
A costly conflagration might bank
rupt tho fire Insurance companies and
of Tlrlemont fleeing for llfo from tho rapidly advancing Germans, carrying tholr
Above, Belgian Infantry In column formation screened by artillery under tho trees
ine uermans at Juaeien.
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of tho Germans the Belgians destroyed this steel and concreto bridge across
was made at groat risk, as an order had been Issued to Bhoot photographers
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FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES
perhaps, by straining all their r
sources, they could not pay the claims
against them.
The reason why the war in Europe
Is worrying Are Insurance managers Is
that It has paralysed stock trading.
Stock exchanges all over the world
are closed and tho market Is entirely
out of business.
The funds of the insurance compa
nies are invested In securities and it
In
American and English refugees flee
ing from Franco in a cattle car. They
wero glad to obtain oven that crude
transportation.
London. A Wlllesden shopkeeper
Is disposing of a stock of small silk
German flags by offering them as
"pipe cleanera; four a penny."
would bo utterly impossible, under
;onuufc couuiuons, ror tno companies
to tnrn over their stocks and bonds to
raiser-ready money to pay flro claims.
Their wecurlty holdings at tho moment
are wolih In many cases not much
more than the paper on which they are
engraved.
It Is genoraL'y known that the insur
ance companies ar enabled to do busl
nesu by investing the money paid in
for policies. By banking tho money,
or by loaning It at imaH interest, the
companies could pot W their loaiaj.
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a mass of ruins.
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This Is tho steamer Rod Cross, formerly the Hamburg, whoso sailing from New York with American Rod Cross
nurses and surgeons was delayed by protests of tho English and French consuls because some of tho croW were
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for loyal German women AUSTRIAN SHARPSHOOTERS HOLD BACK SERBS
This ring of the German Order of
the Iron Cross is being bestowed upon
many of tho loyal women of Germany
who contribute to tho kaiser's war
fund, William following tho examplo
sot by his grandfather in 1870.
Paris. In the fighting at Dleuzo It
is declared the GermanB signaled for
a masked battery to open flro on the
French by having a military band
play Chopin's Funeral March.
HOW THE POLES IN RUSSIA LOST THEIR FREEDOM
Thero are today approximately ZOOi
000 Poles in tho German and Austrian
armies, and 400,000 Poles under arms
for Russia who are opposing them.
Military experts point out the pos
sibility that tho czar was aiming to
alienate the Polish soldiers of Russia's
enemies when he Issued his recent
proclamation, promising autonomy
for the ancient kingdom of Poland.
Poland disappeared u an Inde
pendent and Integral state la ltlt
stout resistances to the German troops
Into troublo while maneuvering for an
OF THE RED CROSS DELAYED
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Austrian sharpshooters along tho
the Servian troops.
when the first partition of the king
dom was effected between Russia,
Austria and Prtula, There was a
second partition la 1793 and the third
and last partition occurred In 17&B.
The division of the Polish kingdom
among tho three powers was re
arranged by the congress of Vienna
la 1816. In the rearrangnmsnt the
tare of Prtunla tad Austria were
tfttseed and the grasd duohy of War
mw ynt added te the Ruseltn em.
they left It In tho condition hero shown
advantageous position.
Danubo river checking tho advanco of
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plre. This grand duohy of "Warsawi
was absolutely autonomous and lnde-i
pendent of Russia, the only bond of
union being personal, the same mon
arch being the sorerelgn of each,
state. In 1881 the Poles, alleging)
abuses by Rujwi, arete in rebellion
and were crushed utterly by the cxan.
Their constitution was taken away,,
their parliament abolished, their'
army added to that of Russia and the
Russian language was substituted for
Polish and made compulsory. AllJ
post yere filled t? Russian
BEST HOUSING OF WORKMEN
Subject to Which City Planners Are
Qlvlng Deserved and Increas
ing Attention.
Work dono in uncomfortable sur
roundings and under mental protest
Is poor work, and work dono under
unhealthful conditions Is likely to bo
of a still lower order. Therefore, tho
big manufacturer has given his earn
est attention to tho housing of hla
plant. Hesldes laying his plans for
tho greatest floor space, lowest coat
and hlgheBt efficiency of arrangement,
ho has kept tho health and well belnc
of his employes In mind In tho erec
tion of factory buildings. This hao
paid him argo returns In dollars and
cents.
Despite tho decided advantage of a
healthy, contented force of operatives,
however, there Is still a largo claso off
manufacturers In tills country who
persist In regarding their worklngmon
as machines, to bo run as cheaply as
posslblo with tho least poBBlblo atten
tion. They forget that tho machlno la
not an Inspired thing, that Its output
of a certain quality of work Is known
nnd that It either can or cannot coma
up to this known output; whllo, on
tho othor hand, tho output of the em
ploye throughout tho year can be, at
boHt, aproxlmated, and, In ill health
or when 111 at ease, tho employe may
fall far short of his best, both In qual
ity and amount of work done, without
bringing tho notlco of his omployor or
next superior upon him.
The humanitarian factory Is merely
n mattor of education.
It 1b not only a thing to bo wished
for by Bontlmental well wlshera oC
tho race, but it Is good business for
tho individual and good economy ana
hotter politics for society. Foremoat
engaged in tho work of educating the
backward manufacturer is the United
States department of labor, aided by a
legion of writers, Boclologlsts and la
bor organizations. Hy process of com
petition even tho sweatshop must suc
cumb boforo tho sanitary factory.
Frederic -J, HaBkin.
HOW FINE BUILDINGS HELP
Best Possible Form of Advertising
Some Examples Given Us by
the Old World.
Everybody will talk about frow
York's circular courthouse. Immedi
ately this building will pay for ItsolC
In tho dol'lght It will furlHh that city
and In tho Interest it will create out
side of it.
Whllo St. Mark's square was not
constructed as an advertisement, it
has taken thousands of travelers to
Venice.
Tho RlngstnrBHo, that mntchlosB cir
cular thoroughfare, attracts tho whole
world to Vienna.
I Bupposo that everybody In Italy
walked to Homo In tho old days to see
tho Coliseum, nnd If anyone In Greece
failed to visit the Acropolis ho was no
patriot.
As Boon as ono lands In India onu
hears tho praises of tho Taj Mahal.
A beautiful building does not cost
much more than a monstrosity.
It doesn't pro Hit a town to do a big
thing in a little ' way. Philadelphia
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Care of City's Shade Trees.
Too much credit cannot bo given
tho atreet tree committees of tho park
commission for tho energy and intol
llgenco with which it has cnterodMpon
its taHk of caring for tho shade trees
In tho city streets, says tho Philadel
phia Ledger. Tho story of what hn&
been accomplished with little money
is told not alone In tho atntlstlca.oC
trees sprayed and protected, but lit
tho actual condition of tho trees in all
parts of tho city and In tho conspicu
ous reduction in tho number and rav
ages of the caterpillar. This la a
form of improvement In actual civic
conditions, material and esthetic, that
cannot bo measured In tlguros, yot is
bo distinct an addition to tho beauty
and comfort of the city streets that
tho fullest co-operation should bo af
forded tho committee both by city
councils und by the individual proper
ty owners, and especially by tho own
ers of trees on the Bldowalks.
Wireless Control of Fog Quns.
A system of wireless control thut is
now boing applied successfully at sev
eral points in Scotland seems to have
solved tho problem of distant control
of acetylene fog guns located at points
difllcult of access, and provides a
means by which a number of such in
stallations may be operated from ono
wireless station without tho nocessity
for visiting tho different signals, ex
cept for making ropairo and replen
ishing tho supply of gas, a Popular
Mechanics writer Bays. Tho gun au
tomatically feeds und fires Itself at
regular intervals until stopped or un
til tho supply of acetylene runs out,
and tho wireless control simply pro
vides a means of starting It when
thero is a fog and stopping It when the
fog clears, without going near the sig
nal. Furthermore, the wlroless appa
ratus 1b so arranged and tuned that it
Is not interefered with by tho more
powerful waves that may bo sont out
by passing ships or by other wireless
stations.
Maglo for Rust Spots.
To removo rust spots on bathtubs
and basins and dUcoloratlons in toilet
dubUis and sinks apply muriatic acid
with a mop. Ab soon aa tho discolora
tion Is removed the add should ia
thoroughly rinsed off with clear water
The aeld works like maglo; it Is al
most inetantaceova In Its effect and
the labor of terubeteg Is saved.
Arksntae Leade In Oil Stones.
Arkansas produces the greater pari
of the natural oil stones of this qc-uu-