Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-11-06

NAVY-Four dreadnoughts, eigh
cruisers, thirteen protected
thirty-five destroyers, eighty
marines.
with explosives. Antwerp fears the as
sault from the sky more than any
thing else -.on earth. She has had
taste of its quality. The runaways in
the street ran with their heads pain
fully tilted over their shoulders.
All agree that the city proper was
damaged very little in a material way
by the bombardment. Only the SUI
burbs were greatly hurt The Germans
explained this when they entered.
Antwerp Is now @ German CITY,"
said they. why should be destroy it 2"
Crazed With Fear.
People were frantic with fear. Ono
man walked into garage and took
from 1t handsome. high-powered
modern car. AS he inched his way
through the streaming streets a man
stopped him.
,,,,; rI'li buy y your M car" he cried. What
The thief named what he thought
he could get, which was practically
the original cost of the car. The man
from the street leaped into 1t. His
wife and children and q friend or two
climbed in the tonneau. Two miles
further on the car broke down: hope
lessly. They leaped to the ground and
as push 1t to one side of the road.
Look. papa" said the mans young
est son. You have forgotten your map
case"
He mechanically put the map case
under his arm and hurried on. Half
a mile further he threw it away be-
cause 1t encountered him. Then It
came to him that q man who walks
out Of stricken city does not carry
a map case with him. And yet that was
indubitably his own case. His name
was on the cover. He had bought his
own car from the thief. -
Why didn't you drive your ear out
OF the city, instead Of running away
on foot?" he was asked.
ITO get to my garage would have
been forced to 80 into an AREA whore
afraid" @ s5
Any price at all was paid for any
thing that could walk or be driven.
An old horse, worth under normal
conditions just what his hide would
bring. was sold for 5000. Those who
had money found its sole worth war
to help them away from that" flaming,
sight OF values. Days afterward they
had not regained their monetary
sense: ran across a woman in Middel-
burg. In her handbag she had per-
haps a double handful Of the nickel
coins peculiar to Belgium. Round
holes had been bored through their
centers, and the Belgians string them.
francs worth to string.
This Is all have" said she. "A
week ago my husband and I were
rich. So suddenly came the order to
leave the city that did not have a
gutlder In the house. SO broke open
saved"
She was quite calm and composed
about it It seemed to me that the lit
tie boy lacked something of her phil
full Of nickel coins rather wistfully.
Another woman in Middelburg had a
handful of American silver. She came
into store to get it changed. The
store keeper did not know tho rate of
exchange.
What does it matter?" she asked
indifferently. II am being fed and I
floor. Pay what rate you will.'
In Antwerp she had been tho own
er Of a de1icatessen store, and. above
all others, owners of delicatessen
stores are alive to the value Of frao-
tional parts Of money. -
Refugees Happy by Contrast.
Perhaps It was because the refugees
were stili dazed that they seemed
quito happy and composed. They COM
mented on, this themselves. =.
Il did not see q tear or hear = COM
frontier" said the tall Belgian. 1--WE
were 50 happy to be SAFE"
There were but two exceptions to
this. in my own experience. A man
walked through Flushing's streets,
bent under the weight of an Immense
pack. It must have contained every
stiver's worth he< owned. He could
pound. Behind him came three little
children. One Of them may have been
four years old-a. rosy, round-faced,
fat little chap In q pilots cap and
blue Jacket and little blue shirt. Long
golden >curls hung down upon his
shoulders. On either side walked a
somewhat larger child, to whose hands
tensity and conviction, that I have sell
dom heard equalled. A,.t @E So q
1t was easy to guess at the story.
Somewhere the mother had been sep
arated from her little brood. She was
alive-she certainly had been alive
but . little while before-for the we'll
kept plumpness Of that ululating In
FAINT proved II. Tho father had all he
could do to carry their household
plundsr. The two flanking kiddies
were the elders Of the family, but too
small and lightly framed to carry that
lusty,youth In the pilot cap. I've often
wondered how many miles those fat
little legs trudged that day. And. I've
wondered IL the lost mother was ever
found. M
She probably was. Along every road
that leads from Belgium to Holland
one saw; here and there little groups,
their backs turned upon. the team
way, casing at something with an odd
steadfastness. When you came to them
you found they were reading the mo-
tices posted upon a wall or tree or
post:
"Pierre-Your;w wife passed this way.
She EM beiwaitinS for you at Roosen-5
|! Thasf u III frea rem 4Srinx':of thsss.
-pathsl1o little postsrs-thSsS blSsc6
upon . trail Of tears. An one walks
;AlonAs sthsl read and. ASninAs thApA no
ltloSs ono sobSs6F = stA1t, 3. 6ssi;ss
names appear On thsm over ana over.
Tho heart-shaken father may track
down his loved ones by them. Every
station. every church. every ere.
r. A.