Photo and copyright b}' B. W. Kilburn 

 CATACOMBS IN WARSAW 



In Poland and other countries large structures are built to take the place of subter- 

 ranean catacombs. At Panama the Chinese have one of these structures, and at Cartago, 

 Costa Rica, the earthquake of a few years ago demolished one of them. There is nearly 

 always an attractive colonnade where relatives and friends of the departed may gather. 



of their works. The workmen are 

 searched almost as carefully as the men 

 who work in the diamond mines in South 

 Africa. 



AUSTRIA AND HI;r POLES 



Austria has never treated her Poles as 

 the Russians and the Prussians have 

 treated theirs. Where those countries 

 have sought to destroy the spirit of Po- 

 lish nationalism, holding it to be a per- 

 petual menace to Russian and Prussian 

 institutions, Austria has proceeded upoti 

 the theory that this spirit, carefully di- 

 rected, becomes more a source of strength 

 to the government than a source of weak- 

 ness. So the Poles of Austria are as free 

 to sing their national songs as the people 

 of our own South are free to sing Dixie. 



They are as much at liberty to glorify 

 their past and to speak their native 

 tongue as though they were free and in- 

 dependent. Except that they must pay 

 their taxes to Austria and serve in Aus- 

 tria's army, they are practically self-gov- 

 erning. 



And well may this be, for all the world 

 knows that it was Sobieski and his fel- 

 low-Poles who saved Vienna and rescued 

 Europe from the Turks. 



Not only does Austria allow her Poles 

 local self-government, but she also gives 

 them representation in the Austrian 

 Reichsrath. The result has been a com- 

 parative degree of satisfactory relations' 

 iDetween the Poles and the Austrians ; so 

 much so, in fact, that the Russian and 

 German Poles have for years felt rather 



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