Show 0 pit toi gaj W D ANTWERP A LATTER DAY ATHENS A antwerp where the united states athletes athle teg performed so notably in the I 1 1020 games wa was europe hamburg Flam burc of the tile sixteenth nth century and the athena athens of the seventeenth this city compel american admiration by if its binl power vomer to come back crushed by wars in economic bane bans and eions of its people antwerp always has risen again figures tell the etory story population r 0 pul atlon in IMS 1508 twenty bears purs later on only IY 55 1 I rum ISOO to 1850 the population almost douakil to its DOW in it IWI 1101 a hundred thousand more mere added ue germans Ger roana callo in october 1014 2914 the v ve fals that 1 issel in an annl I 1 out of its alne harbor in 1905 market ia tn in ln cro canse no of r aure than W cent since aw 01 not ol t it antwerp is a er n boom town it IA 1 at least 15 coutur laitur tes les old and during that time its etory story la Is one of struL struggle gle agal against nt repented tra edles 1 auen 1 en ti tie e et germans rulan invaded tho tile cit its noble DOW down domn on just one more thou though h infinitely more cruel ilo allow of the sort it lind find I 1 wi en recil ving since tile 11 1111 11 lip P ii gem nepolion Nn polion some aay i ay Cb charles arle 1 bomparti com partI this totter to melilla ince if its I cilente forms a network of 0 stone embr old ry against tile lie sky that tan I 1 lo 10 e seen from the tint fint country and from the tile m in lin deheldt long before any other building in antwerp Is 14 visible BY IWO hundred ships came and vent ment from liar bor in a day and two thousand thou and wagon magon loads load i of merchandise usually entered its gatea Y ali fortion bust busl ness houses mere eru represented there its own meri princes dwelt in al most regal amid vils material wealth tl able ble N arki 0 of 1 rt ere crul J in the cites museum were mere mens of tta its glorious school palli paintings tings by van dyck the Ten lers masaya Jorda ert jan an eck and rubens though the la last at named was better represented in tile cathedral by his masterpiece the descent from the cross and two other noted works in the were relics of f that elbert hubbard of tho the middle ages christophe I 1 lantin whose p arwe res 8 product was as no less distinctive cheh heretic pamphlets were strode struck off than when devout religious works were printed and embossed during the religious disturb aces of the mid sixteenth century the cathedral then considered second only to st pter peter a at rome was pillaged by the iconoclasts its images and pi pictures its magnificent vases its GO 60 at altars and its grent organ considered the finest of its time bec ee burned or broken by the torch toh bear ng vandals white vashel rashel wall reminded rera laded awen bieth century tourists of these depredations other chuche chu chil che clies were ravaged at that time but what antwerp suffer el ed then wai compared to the horrors of the spanish fury in ISTO 1576 when that latter day nero the duke of alva and his council of blood began a reign of 0 terror which sav av agery scarcely conid could surpass ts T tying ing wealthy citizens to horses tails he be krould drag them miles to I 1 trial I 1 antwerp suffered suffer eil grievously from this debauch of hangings quartering 4 headings beheadings b and butcheries but cherles in three deys days 8 of her men women and children were ere slain plain burned or drown dron od d hundred hun dreda of the fine marble homes destroyed and the bivalent of mil tall llona ilona of dollars worth 01 0 property wrecked it v mas as seven years later that the doughty citizens of antwerp made mada abort short shrift of the duke of anjou s plotting against flemish liberty when the duke end and his men overcame the rieu lh h euard guard of n drawbridge and 3 W of 0 f the duke dakes troops rushed in to tak take e the city fought urt with their oven shovels and citizen citizens grabbed arque buses te s and chewed coins into shape to load them FINLAND WHERE WOMEN WON VOTE BY HELPING SETTLE A STRIKE victory for woman in the united states adda interest rt to the ex per lences of 0 haland where women won v on the franchido franch lie by their part in qui etina labor troubles similar to those which now assail abo tb united 11 states state L incidentally finland was as one of the firma portions of the th old ru kuslan islan empire to et tet up a constitutional gov govro rn ment the advent and progress of suffrage in finland Is in described in a conil comi nuni cation to the national geographic society by baroness aletta korff horff as follows from an educational point of view the women momen of finland have been very for fortunate as there ae e miny excellent eve ellent schools for girls and la u mi n bt b r of to 0 o educational throughout the country which A prepare students etu dents for the university girls were admIt admitted tid tn to the university la in 1378 1878 and ur til the war intervened r t her bev not only attend til ec tut but ti oi k part in all of university life they participated in all the he cel celebration brat lons and festivities and were members of the various club clubs anil and student organizations in which bich they were ere on a footing of perfect equality with the men and frequently were elected to various official offic fal position positions after they were mere graduated from one of the bevi eevi eral schools or from the university there were many branches of ak work ork open to them Il having thus such an in excellent foundation to build upon it lt small wonder that the comans nomans oman a movement soon found mav ciaci active supporters in ism if tie e diet had accord accorded tl the municipal ote to women living in the country and la in 1872 to women II 11 vice living in the towns all ot of whom were also given the right to be elected mem bars or of certain local self governing bodies in 1000 the women nomen social democrats ocra ts I 1 included the suffrage in their program but the special spec jai activity for the began only in the year 1004 although althou eh in 1897 1807 a u petition had been officially presented to the diet at the request of the finnish woman in 9 aso clatl n tin the reason why so little was done in direct furtherance of the cause of omin ige between N ameen the 5 bears ears concluded qu o 0 page seven it if you analyze yoa a conduit conduct at the cad end of tc the day and disco dirner ter youve youe been ob absolutely truthful halt half the time vr v r ave average ie pretty fair every town contains a certain num nurn ber of men who live livo better than the average and hose source sources of income nobody can find out jut who remembers rem embere the oil as 35 bor ligac lio ac boadt it i j hit he aoa per cent in deport mette the reason a good many married sona biow they are miana miar gatej ted ill pe per be 4 cause they would hav have been no matter ulion hom they d barriel nar rieL GEOGRAPHY G continued from page nix six ISO and 1904 1004 la Is that just at aba finland was pt passing issing through a bevera political crisis after the outbreak of the october revolution to in russia 1006 a strike was declared in finland and id several of the members of the central committee elected by y a mas mass meeting to manage tho the details det of the strike were omen the first action taken by oia ess cittee was to close all the liquor shops saloons and barrooms bar rooms and to organize a volunteer police force to keep order after the second day the markets were reopened and the strikers were ere not allou allowed pd to cut off oft the water a supply in short the strike was managed in a most orderly and terna tic way and no outrages of any sort were mere committed FUTURE OF SYRIA AFFECTS CIVILIZED WORLD more afore and more frequently the spotlight swings to syria the syrians declared their country independent and u chose I 1 rince belal as king fels reigned a few day days the french set up a temporary government and now fetson seeks restoration arlas 81 future concerns the entire world for it la Is coming into its own on as a result of new railways which make it once more a link land in history a chain explaining the significance of recent bents a communication by owen williams says syria clota the rast east end of the mediterranean and Is bounded on the borth by the taurus mountains the I 1 A woman of syria syrian and arabian de deserts wats limit further s to the east eyd south bit dit in connection with ith world commerce it hae has aleays been alty re toted wed to the fertile valle of the nile nite and the twin mesopotamia rivers and tte its commercial life lie of tot tomorrow cannot be divorced from that of tamla irala ti the future of syria upon the development of t a ports and upon who controls these strategic centers of postles and commerce Alex andretto and haifa attain noir importance as a the dardanelles Darda nellen nelles ore are internationalized and fr free passage pa open to all nation nn tlona cuts across enthat hat germany aas forg ing ln a as a berlin to route all bat but of hah berneen NN nl ian and a few miles aboe sh marra ie Is now complete this re new line of from alex andretta part 1 aleppo to the rier at Jern blua blus connecting the eld old est routes of international commerce also nepa rotes two important lingual groups for durkish Is generally apok k en to the north of the rally and arable arabic to the south I 1 whatever ATiat ever political adjustment to I 1 made between england ant an t brance ranee italy and greece arabia and syris mecca and liberal beirut zionist and greek orthodox Christ christaan lan and ana and druse the line of 0 division the and arabic tongues will be for language differences as well na alime of race exema pro fUDd effect oa cc pau nautical life in the lefant to 1 the tn hub et of me th arro bon gum 4 UM every ma way uny that reaches oat out to bremen baku boknam nol chara burma buma or Bloem fon feln uie the central region of the world Vell test land landmass mass achieves new sit lg aside from it iti truro anc gul u a trade route syria will 1 I find its it great beet t future an a in an agricultural nation and bai has extensive exten elTe regions which caa can be toad made to produce large crom RUMANIA PAWN OF MANY rumania which hag has attracted atteo blon recently because bemuse of the visit vis it of prince carol to this country has ha been a center of european war storms for R I 1 thousand ho u annd years peter the great once P established a protectorate oer the rumanians and catherine the great later a plan for the annexation of thier territory to russia rearing fearing that euch such territorial might be D n men inen nee to her austria persua AM catherine fineto to abandon that plan Itu manta as we ue now know it was formed from moldavia Vold avla and Wal lachIn tn in ISAI previously th these pall ties tie had been under r buzer alent fol losing austria A a protest st ilissa annexing them A it being 1 guaranteed by the pov per ers chich v aich agreed to the union I 1 ion of th tb i principalities folio follo I 1 in nt T ute crimean war rumanians Rum antans chose an amy a my officer col alexander curza as their ruler ilia ills title w mas as alexander john I 1 prince of rumania A hen seven years later the element in power at bucharest decided for a change of rulers there were few for malit les invading the princea bed room by night lenders leaders of the group presen presented tim a certificate of abdication to be signed and then bundled him IQ in a car cartilage carri ilage ope and ani put him aboard an ex preps for paris parts the count of flanders brother to kins king leopold I apold of belgium was chosen b by a provi provisional lonal government the powers especially austria protested and prince charles carol who bad had been an nn officer in the prussian army waa ann substituted ile wt set about fre ree j ing the country from the of turkey when the hnis turkish storm clouda ope in 1875 charl charles sought to have the guarantee gia gua rantee matee the neutrality of humania ile failed then an agreement was reached with russia rus ils under its terms bursian soldier wre wire to I 1 inne me free rat passage sage through rumania while hile russia was to respect tho the rl blits its and defend the integrity of humania when the war began rumania promptly declared herself independent of turkey AR A the war went on russia sta needed help badly and finally R ku u mania responded to repeated repented appe appeals is under prince carni rumanian and allied albed gained n decisive but costly victory before plevna rumanian free freer flom lom was recognized tn in the of sim san stefano and tt it furthermore aa stipulated tet that rumania was to ret pet the swampy country known an lying between the lie danube where here it flows to the north and the black spa russia russin uns to have bess arabea territory claimed by rumania and in part occupied by her rumania protested bitterly agal exchange of 0 picturesque Ressa Bes sarabia rabla for the ugly region russia threatened to disarm Il the Ru rumanian mandan anny army and prince carol pluckily pluck lly responded that his army be de but it never would be disarmed the bluso treaty of san stefano wae as overt overturned umed by the con grea 1 of berlin but aim alm in Rese arabia rabla mas not dented denied thus rumania Rum nola after helping russia in her plight came out of the war with less than she had when hen she neat ent in CANADA MAY ADOPT AN ESKIMO INDUSTRY conversion of the arctic and ruts u arctic regions of canada into a rein deer meat producing area Is being considered by the Canad laL lill government and 1 Is being widely discussed throughout the dominion A to the national Nat lonal geographic society recalls that reindeer akere ere not indigenous to alaska and tells the me Interest interesting frig story of introduction there the story of the inception Incept lou and growth of the reindeer enterprise ba in alaska to Is very and Is 1 not generally known mrs eay tie the writ writer a during an extended extin ded trip of 0 inspection 1 of the missionary station stations and slid government schools in n IBM 1809 dr abel don jackcon Jack aon then gentil agent ot of education in AWL waa was with jbf tact fact that the natives in arctic and aal alaska were ere rapidly krins their sources of food epply doctor jackson now tbt that unless something was done at once the atilt ed states would brive to choose tween feeding the WOOD 20 and ani more nn inn titis tives or letting thern them starve to death the me same mosa which covered so many thousands of miles of the plains of arctic siberia was seen everywhere in aladics 8 the tame reindeer was practically the ame mme animal ae as the wild caribou cf alaska AI aca changed by bo ing domesticated for centuries urles on his return to the united in 1891 1801 doctor jackon jackson asked congress cong reea tor for an appropriation to provide the ow money for importing a few rew deer congress con cress was not convinced of the wisdom ot of each such action but several at rate persons were so interested tret they placed 2 at doctor jacksom a disposal to begin the be to farat deer were brought over ever that year it lags as not lone long before the government realized the importune importance of the inov now and in ISM IM app roosted the am mus al to lo coal embade laae the work wart later the appropriation waa was in I 1 wad wl by IWO 2600 ameant aill t to on am AW A W |