Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-21
Sturdy People Of Little Belgium
Fighting for Beloved Rulers
Resistance Which Has Surprised the World Comes From q Nation
United and Happy Under Excellent Rule.

1905, and his beautiful young Queen.
No country in Europe had had q
Crown Prince more, popular with his
people. As long az he was Prince
he had shown q deep love Of science,
interest in workers, confidence In the
commercial expansion of his country
general ideas of great interest to the
hearts of the Belgions. He was the
first Belgian King now to enter up
on the throne with q deep-rOoted
sentiment of sympathy and encour-
agement for the working classes.
No less popular With the people Of
Belgium was the Queen, one of the
youngest, vet n of the most seri-
Gus, of European royalty. Beautiful
and charming, her chief attraction
seems to be a hazy, enhancing air
of friendly motherliness that seems ,
to radiate in the vicinity Of her at
tractive personality. Like her hus-
band, she, too, has taken a guardian
interest in the affairs of the poor of
her nation. A few years ago she a
actually overcome by typhoid fever
contracted as a price of her devotion
to sick-visiting among the poor. Much
Of her soft blond hair had to be cut
off in the consequence OF, this illness,
and the curls she wearsfisll: over her
head to cover the deficiency have set
the fashion in Belgium for this mode
of couture.
Like her husband the pretty queen
is also a lover of sports. She is an
excellent rider, a good cyclist, and q
daring automobilist, She has a
bright, sunny disposition and posses.
SEES a great deal of tact. She is an
accomplished musician, and mistress
of the violin. She is the Imesher Of
three beautiful little children,a Such
a woman is the mother Of the Belgian
nation, which is now rallying around
her hearthstone.
Both King and Queen have the lit
tie nation Of Belgium as staunch sup
porters behind their back. The king.
who had extricated the nation from
its entangled difficulty down in the
Congo, who had laid plans to rescue
Belgian shipping from their German
neighbor, who had come as a media
tor between Clerical and Socialist,
who had infused a new spirit into the
army of Belgium, and who had stood
ready BY the helm Of his people when
the storm Of the Moroccan crisis,
three years ago, was threatening his
borders-the king is now once again
called forth to take a stand, In. the
cockpit" of Europe and hold the
walls Of his kingdom from the forces
of his a%ggressors.
Because Of the inevitable helpless
ness of Belgium, it's lot has been
hard. The fear of impending war has
added greatly to the national aggra-
walton. But the friendly aid OF the
great power across the English chan
mel, and the prospect Of assistance Of
their neighbor to the west, has al
ways relieved them when the appari-
ton Of the marching armies of the
Kaiser doomed on the horizon beyond
their Eastern borders.
And now the apparition has come.
On the third of this month the he'll
NETS Of the German troopers first
showed above the barriers Of the vii
lagos across the Belgian border, and
on the next day the Germans had al
ready reached the advanced post of
the Belgians, east of the forts, sur
rounding the supposedly impregnable
Liege. On the fifth, the men of the
Kaiser made their first attack upon
the Notifications, but a stout resist
ance was met coming from the sturdy
burghers who lad not forgotten the
precedent of their fathers.
With the bravery of the old War.
looms, the fighters flocked around
the standard of Albert, the man Of
peace, but prepared to fight the ene-
mics of war.-New York Post.