Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, September 16, 1920, Image 4

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WARSAW: THE PARIS OF POLAND f t No other people, in ali the world's history, has borne oppression so bravely apd gloriously as the Poles, except the Jews; nnd Warsaw, whereMhe*. "Russians had to keep a garrison of 200,000 troops to overawe a city of 900)000 people," is to Polund what t*rla {o tn VrnnoA Tndeed the vlvncity, the gayety arid the quick wit of Warsaw's people are a constant reminder of Paris; as well as those deeper likenesses 1 which spring from Warsaw's ascendancy In the letters, the arts and the sociul graces. Ail this, too, fn a city where the aiost gruesome tragedies have stalked. As recently as the years of our own Civil war the Russian array mowed ' down thousands of men and v^omen as they knelt In the snow, singing their national anthem. Deportations ore an Id story in Warsaw, every effort at nationalisation was followed by slaughter, and hundreds marched the long trail to Siberian exile. But Polnnd's spirit meanwhile, became a synonym for the indomitable^ The success of the Russification of Poland has been described as the process of keeping 12.000,000 Poles pinned to Russia-by bayonets.. Politically nonexistent, for even Polnnd's name was ^XTtllllCixl from nil nfli/.ln I lii.nnln.. ??? ords, the pre-war Warsaw vied with world capitals In science, particularly medicine, in manufacturing, 1n trade \ and in literature. Though Warsaw betrayed none of the primness characteristic of Russian cities, reminders of her by-gone glories and tragedies were to he found even before the World war restored her autocracy. In the Lazienki gardens Is a monument to John Sobieski, who stemmed the advance of the Turks in Europe, a figure as picturesque as I'aderewskl who now sees his land a barrier to bolshevism's westward spread. It was in i 1683 that a Turkish force hnd thrown itself In crescent formation around VI- , enna. The encnmpment was no less i threatening because It resembled a cir- i cos rather than a siege, with Its herds < ?f camels, and luxurious tents with haths and parrots within and foun- i tains without. ] Mighty events often hinge on slen- i der circumstances. Sobieski hesitated because Leopold, Austria's emperor, i ~i*eIe?rne?ltb?rtB''S dor had written 'to Louis XIV., who rather hoped for the worst for Austria, "Don't trouble yourself, Sobieski Is too fat to sit on a horse and light." Tim man" ?* * ' - * ? -v utuu iuuc him i'iinrj;rr into the thick of the tight, helping hew his 1 way to where the Turkish grand viz- 1 irr stood, and after the battle handed oe of that dignitary's stirrups to an 1 ide, with the command, "Take it to ' the queen and tell her that he to whom ' tt belonged is defeated and slain." 1 ' HOW ANTS CAN HINDER 1 AIRPLANES Ants have assumed a new role In ' Africa?fhnt of enemies of aviation. , Reports %from surveyors of the proposed air route from Rhodesia to Capetown say that ant hills have interfered seriously with the placing of Prodromes. To understand this phenomenon one must understand how ubiquitous Is the ant In South Africa, writes William Morton Wheeler to the National Geographic society. He continues: "Ants are to be found everywhere, from the arctic regions to the tropics, froms timber line on the loftiest mountains to the shifting sands of the dunes and seashores, and from the dampest forests to the driest deserts. Not only do they outnumber in individuals all other terrestrial animals, but their colonies even in very circumscribed localities often defy enumeru- [ non. i "One subfamily of the nnts. the ^ Doryllnne, embracing the wonderful driver nnts of Africa and the legionary ants of the American "tropics, are high- , ly carnivorous, hut nevertheless succeed in forming immense colonies, often of hundreds of thousands of individuals. This they accomplish by re- , Mnquishing tie sedentary habits so characteristic of *he great majority of ants. They keep moving In ,long files through the jungles, capturing or klllfng nil the insects they encounter, and ven overrunning dwellings, nnd, in their search for cockroaches nnd other vermin, driving out the human in- , habitants. "From time to time these strange ants bivouac fpr the night' or for a ( few days in some hole in the ground, or under a tree, but soon continue their predatory march. Evidently Ihey are ahle to remain carnivorous, ond at the same time to develop large colonies, only because they are fiomadle nnd can thus draw their food sup v*y from n largo area. ^Certain Individuals, the 'repletes' of i % the colony refrain from leaving the ] SYDNEY'S FUTl X V . Sydney, about the aire of Cleveland er Detroit, Is the largest city In the eastern hemisphere south of the equator and is destined soon to reach a population of l,ofc),000. It has a magnificent harbor, ranking with the harbors of New York city, Rio Janeiro find Hoogkong. among the flaest In the world. More than 200 Ass of watsr front are available, ? y ; ( ' % r i jAaieifinaik nest and foraging for food and be- i>?* come converted Into flagons by die- M! tending the crop to ouch enormous dl- It raensions that the abdomen looks like or a transparent bead. In this condition they hang by#thelr claws from the roof of the nest chamber and thenceforth tb spend all their lives' receiving liquid ha food from the tongues of the foraging m< ants, storing It In their crops and re-v on gurglyjtlng It to hungry individuals when/'the .liquid food supply outside the nest becomes Inadequate. "This Is, of course, apt to be the J case periodically jn dry regions, t so that we findythe tra^ llouey. unts only In deserts Use those of the southwestern states, northern Meilco, South Af- en rlca and central Australia." * , a. . ** " * * TACNA AND ARlCAr SIA- ?,t< ' MESE TWINS OF tie GEOGRAPHY th< C01 Tnnnti nn?l A ? ?MvMH uiiu ai iva-j A tit? wuruN lire fast becoming as inseparable ns the' 8''' Gold D\ist Twins, thi* Dolly Sisters, oq un Mutt and Jeff. *. ft* 1 T,ii. * * W' The regions forty p tertrltprlnl bone an of contention among Chile, Peru and 14 Bolivia. The provincA of Tacnn. coin* posed of the departjuent -of Tacna and ni Arlca, Is shown on maps made In Chile ^ us the northernmost province of that country, and on# maps made In Peru Al as the southernmost province of Peru, borddtd on the north by the Ijlo Saina ,nnd on the east by Bolivia. ] Its broad uplands are rich in nitrate, pit and on the Bay of Arlca, at the ter- eoi minus of one railroad lending to La Jei Paz und the interior of Bolivia, nnd Tu of another running to ports to the bet south, the delightful city of Arlca Ts tic situated, giving the. possessor of the territory n great ndvnntnge In South cin American atfnlrs from both political ids nng commercial standpoints.. Here Is tin ample reason why these two South de< American republics want It, nnd why gty Bolivia hopcg* tliut. In the adjustment, Go she will have an outlet to the sea nc- tin corded her. fr?i The trouble over this region arose 3 originally from the fact that, in the tin days of the early Spanish settlers, the Mi country was so vast that a few hun- tin dred square ndtw more or less made sei no difference in the affairs of the col- Ch ony, and when the colonies organized Kti themselves Into' republics they still am were too busy with their infernal prob- bul lems to bother about where their Tu boundaries begamand where they end- ltu ed. " Thjs condition was true not only thf of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, hut oir most - loo of the other South American reputes. Ca us indicated by tire numerous bound- the ary questions which have been in dls- a> j pute during the last decade. He So matters drifted until the middle plx of the njneteenth century, when guuno oia and nitrate wer?> discovered in tjtls 1st formerly ignored region. The guano sto alone was then hastily estimated as we worth $20,000,000, not to mention the 1 nitrate. What friends could be ex- wll pected to remain friendly with Such no a mountain of dollars between them? sqi Since that time the Peru-Chlle-Bollvia 1 story has been one of-controversies, Mu Lrea^jea, co^nter-clun^es and plebl- nat THE MAIL MAN: COURIER < OF CIVILIZATION J ex< Did it ever occur to you that your city letter carrier, your village post- an) master or your rural route carrier has cju n past? ,)V He is the agent hy which the long * j arm of Uncle Sam taps your shoulder ? one, two, maybe three times a day, yet of he Is so unobtrusive that you probably roj' ilo not know him half so well as most* other agents of your government, the ^ school teacher or the policeman, for f j example. su, Rut he not only Is an essential, but tju, a historic figure. The history of the j)U| postal service and its employees ex- |,js tends to the days of the Romans when s(u the earliest known means of transmit- an( ting a messpge was by c#icier. These nn< admirable organizers, the Koinuns, <gej mnrL'otl hv o "unot" - !'? ? >?c m rond where the relay of one runner by tov another was effected; thus they named our system long before it was born. The first letter post seems to have I SI existed in the Hnnse towns in the thirteenth century in order to fnclil- fit tate relations between the merchants I of the various members of the Ilonsentlc League. The Rrltlsh post%offlce had its he- ^ ginning in the ^sixteenth century, nnd the our own colonial methods of handling hip mall were Inherited from our Rrltlsh hn> forefathers. Long'before the people but hrtd any means of exchanging either str' personal or offlclal letters, the king bad has established a system of conveying his the personal messages nnd offlclal doeu- he ments by royal messengers. In the tec reign of King John that petulant mon- n*t arch paid put a large sum for a postal tire sefvic? nnd charged It to the house- ren hold nnd wardrobe accounts. Messen- cm gers who were thus entrusted with cov matters of stnte had to be above sub- tile plclon. They went the whole dis- urn tnnee and were paid accprdlng to the length and danger of their Journeys. her In 1088 New England proposed to I'oi the British sovereign tlint a postofflce 1 system lie established in the colonies, the as it was "so useful and absolutely of necessary." His majesty paid no at- ele tentlon to the plea, but Klchnrd Fair- /Tea banks, In the sume year, set up nn gre office in Boston to receive letters from 20,( ships. He undertook to deliver the foil letters received und charged a penny 10,t frfr each letter. He nlso received mail, ab< for out-going ships, but no one was un< forced to send mail through his office, sqt A thrilling story of the devotion of gre mail men to their duties Is that of the sld pony express, the tlrst rapid transit Ity innii line across the 1.066 miles of ten prairie, desert, snow-capped mountain Fal # JRE ASSURED ? ed much of wnlch Is occupied by public Darks and private residences, though { ultimately available for commerce If at 1 required. The founders of the city fro ifrlsely provided for an abundance of Art J pen space, now utilized In parks and thl Dubllc grounds, with a multitude of ex- um rellent roadways and beautiful trees, faj Flower beds are everywhere. De- , in tached houses are the rule. As in bet ' ^ ' '' r- ' * .. - ^ 'M... Jl aks, and alkali wastes between tlie Issoutl- river and the Pacific coast, was Inaugurated early in ldOO in tier that the West might be kept >re closely in touch with the North view of the trouble brewing from b slavery question, and. though it d an existence of only sixteen nths* it made the East and West ly ten doys apart at a time of crisis. . j The date of starting was to be trch 20, 1800, aiW Forts Kearney, ramie, Bridger, Great Salt Lake ty, Camp Floyd, Carson City, the ashoe Sliver mines,% Placervllle and crameato were to be the points of livery of mall. In St. Joseph; Mo., ger and excited crowds gathered the streets to see the first courier, ? wiry, twenty-year-old Johnnie Frey, ? hip dashed away on his Jet black ' ?ed for the first lap of the race of sh,- blood and determination against i desolate spaces of an unpeopled untry. These riders were clad in buckskin irts, ordinary trousers, high boots d soft slouch hats, anil were armed til sheath knives, Colt's revolvers 1 d Spencer carbines. The best time 1 ?y made across ^he trackless waste m In piirrvlnw I ~ v... j p, a iroiurni UII1VUI11 O itigural speech to San Francisco? fen days add seventeen hours. 1 , * DRIANOPLE: A WEATHER .VANE OF EMPIRES Entry *of Greek troops Into Adrlnno Is an event In secular history fuirly npnruble to the Investiture of rusaleiu by Alleuby's army, for this rkislj city has for nearly 2,000 years mi a weatliervune' of world polts. The rebuilding of the ancient Thran town of Hadrian, who gave It i name, signalized a high .point in ? power .of the Roman empire. The eline of Home was foreshadowed lie two centuries later when the tlis defeated Yalens there and made dr first break through the Roman ntler. > S'ext Adrlanople was the setting for Turk's advent Into Europe. There irad I. established himself, planned ? capture of Constantinople. 4?and it out expeditions to subdue various ristian peoples. For u time the ropenn capita^ of the sultans, Adriuple was relegated to be tie chief ^ Iwark of % Constantinople. There ar rk first met Sluv, and there the ssians finally forced their way to f Black sea ny a treaty which also1 ? sened the Turkish hold on the ucusus and compelled recognition of ( Independence of Greece. Adrlanople is on tlie Maritza?' bras of Grecian legend, wiiere Orsus was dismembered by the Thrun women; also celebrated, under its er name, In. Bulgarian song and ry. It is 137 miles by rail north- A st of Constantinople. |[ Today the city wears Its past glory I :h a sort of shabby gentility, with' I pretension of prosperity but less . I tnlor than the usual Turkish city. I t possesses the grave of the first G irad, or Amurath, who was assaasi- f ieu in an vent arrer ng uaa r"?ek | ''KOSOVO. 'r^1 I mosque bearing the name of Sul i Balezid recalls that monarch, I ose. first official act was to order the 9] cutlon of his brother, who was first oroun ruler to call himself sultan 1 1 whose conquests finally tVere eked when he -wus taken prisouer f Tainerlune. tut the architectural masterpiece of ? rinnople Is the Selliuleh, product a Greek tribute-hoy's genius, and Ic of the reign of Selim II, the Louis f ' of Turkey. 'enrly the Turks would seize a cer- | n njtmher of sons of their Christian | ijeets, and In Slnan they found I y had acquired a skilled bridge ^ lder. They allowed him to follow bent, and the Shalizndeh at Conntlnopfh, the Suleiman at Stftmhoul I the third famed mosque at Adrl>ple were given to posterity. The Ie itnieh stands upon the highest hill Adrlanople und four lofty minarets rer far above a massive dome. EEL AFFECTED BY FIRE / lures Gathered by the United States lureaju of Standards Reveal Stability of Structure. ?OTue interesting figures relating to behavior of structural steel at the ;h temperature of ordinary fires H re been given by the-United States 1] eau of standards. Naturally, the ? ength of steel at high temperatures p i a very important bearing upon I ( stability of a structure wlilch ntay | sunjecteq to nre. Wltltout nn.v pro- p tlve covering, steel columns fnll | er only 10 or 15 minutes of expos- ^ > to temperatures such as nre ?j died In ordinary fires. Resistance |L i he greatly lncren?ed by the use of |j? erings of brick, concrete, plnster, >, etc., to such an extent, that cplns so protected nre ttnafTected after |f| eral hours' exposure to Intense |||i it, says the New York Evening |& L'ests have been made to determine compression strength of specimens structural steel when heated in an ctrlc furnace to temi>eratures corpondlng to dull red heat (1,100 de es Fahrenheit) and loaded up to Wj 100 pounds per square Inch. It was wl. ind that structural steel loaded to ' D00 pounds per square Inch falls at ? >ut 1,075 degrees Fahrenheit, and ler a load of 20,000 pounds per lare Inch failure octfurrf >nt 925 de- , es Fnhrenhelt. For practlcul con- * orations, however, the limit of htll- j may be regarded as reached at |nft iperatures of about 130 degrees hrenheit below those given above. er cities of Australasia, a verv Ke share of the population Is locat t1( In suburbs, with abundant room.' * Rule to Attain Old Age. tlr George Reld said: "I have-aimed . health and happiness, and when eon11 ted by a formidable obstacle I have : it tried to knock it over; falling In ' s, to get around It; If not to get ^ jer it; and If vthese maneuvers led I have been content to lie* down ^ Its grateful shade, lauding it aa a fl_ lutlful blessing in dlegula?,^ . ? < . V , . ' . . - * ifcAeSMflMHWiBti. .1 ' ' SxsS^M^Pi American soldiers from the nrn >rt Pochaliontns. Some of the bride dldren, children of their former enei w Building H jSwBSro The Chicago Housing* assoclatlor initios which had nowhere to live oi id the tenant pays rental of about & (St. Polish Women Figl iff BBJH|^SHRp^W^^y.*'' V,i$y : Sf-'J^I^H ' V SkI^P^$m#* ^*^"^2 This photograph, sent front Wnrpnv that city, sltows memhers of the I iped to defend tlteir city, laving the On Their Way to v V .. % \ IBR The wife and three children of Cur llliani N. Haskell as director of near 10 have sailed to Join him In Tiflls, G WORTH KNOWING Vnclent Romans used gold dust to vder their hulr. ^ new Belfjlan law prohibits the nufacture, snle or keeplnj? In stock tno nnnfo Inlncr vthnunhnnifl >**auuc9 \,uuim?u..?5 uu, , | G RICE SURPLUS IN CHINA >,000,000 Worth of Brain 8tored in On* City; American Buyers Hold Back. Tongkong-?Hongkong has been eked with rice bought > for export 1 held for a rise in prices even dur; the rice shortage, which has bene serious In some cities of southern Ina and other parts of the Orient, the manager of a big commercial n ha|e estimated that there was Jk - vB^9 i.v of occupation with'tlieir Germun brides s were war widows and some of tlie soidic inles. omes for the Chicago v 1 has undertaken u great social ex pe rimer ring to tlie house shortage in that city. ' 15 a month which is applied on the punch: ?? ? biters Enjoy a Rest ^ r after the bolshevik! started the drive li, ,enlon of Polish Women, fighters who tlr feet after a hard day's march. Help Armenians p in >t. Ernest A. Yarrow, successor to Col. | j enst relief activities In the Chu casus, ii eorgln. There are mqre motors for hire than private cars in Japan. Mexico Is now exporting oil at the rotn K# lOO AAit % ?w imrrt'is annually. 0| During a recent morning fog about IN .' 00 tons of solid matter was deposited W on Londc~ A: nore than $10,000,000 worth of Saigon In "long" rice stored In Hongkong. tt Recently the price fell rapidly and J' dealers and exporters found them- ** selves loaded up with rice while the banks were pressing for the payment \ of bills. Japfth was not able to bay owing to the tightness of her money of market, and It was stated that Amer- th lea, ordinarily one of the largest buy- a< ers of rice In this market, has ceased ni to purchase because she had obtained Si a sufficient supply. * Si There were food riots In Shanghai p< - -- - * - me With Them jiwine The r i nrrlvInK In New York on the trims- world ai ;r bridegrooms brought back, ns step- up the 1 erally th ; . lows, wfc _ _ _ nient ant Homeless c"y Si upon wli mmhhmmhhmhmmmmhmwmi^ securely some, ti enough \ life, and country it In the erection of ninny homes for fcnfrig 'm The homes nre of brick, two stories. lse price. The house Is sold ut exact REASO Advanta WINS PRIZE FOR HAIR From Mrs. Lottie Shanks, who won first !^ree. 1)1 rize in a "liair" competition at Be- threi ondsey, England. This is the second h'l me she has won a first prize for her ng tresses. ye* COIIH folk, Vj Grand 1 OLDEST WEST POINTER w Va now opi can be /?&'mercury i ^ ^ R^llons ltrlR. Oen. Horntlo Gibson, 93 yenrs City M, ,1 *K? ? !.!?-* It ?? - - * - " ? ' " ... me uiiirm iiviiik urauuaie ??r est colcvra r>int, and his daughter, Mrs. George tlon adc \ Wallace. He Is president of the of gove, ztec Club of 1847 next Ap i the latter part of June owing to le high prices of rice there. On y\ R.n in? 29 there was only a four days' lnvolv n| ipply of rice available in Shanghai, y vivid na Vhere the Dead Kxoeed the Living. i^ysTt Wilmington, O.?Wilmington's city he says, ! the dead has a greater population thought an Wilmington's city of the living. then the cording to cetyms figures. There the Arg< tj 5.071 sleeping the long sleep in tiger Grove cemetery while Uncle T lrn'n enumerators counted only &.0ST Texas >raons living in the town. nf p^eni w- . DMEra ym m -LPSSj N SMALL TOWN BEST ny Advantage* Compared ta Hurry and Bustle Inflicted on City Dweller. sot think that where a man i anything to do with his proas progression is hereditary j not caused by environment, i correspondent of the Pittaispatoh. The idea that a boy to the city to acquire fame ling a thing of the past, for f this world are beginning to thut progression may mean incs HJlinmr fhnm n?n?w./?.nl?-? ?o~ w?.0 kiiviu-yiv/^i cooi\m : the soil as well as progreepolltics. iiost progressive men in the re the men who go to make ittle towns, for they are gene steady, reliable, sensible fel10 do not pine for the excited the glare of a life m a big nail town men are the rock lch this great country is most built. They are the wholes *ue-blue scouts, who are big to live the simple, little town I their quiet nerves hold our balnnced. The city man Is a f nerves compared with the m the village. His days are i dodging automobiles In the hurrying from place to place, beat the other fellow at inakey, and after a day of being Jump" he goes to the theater i not get home until morning, sleeps five hours and Is ready irougli the same performance Little Town Man goes to bed "ter an evening at the movie > Is ready to get up and begin The "country .Take" Is no person to be laughed at, but 1 to be envied, and many of test so-cnlled progressives are ck to the "simple-life." NS FOR OWNING HOME gea Are Many, Quite Apart the Economic One Declares an Eastern Writer. are many upsetting clrcnmIn the world, against which mership Is a sort of Insurance, not owned my home last fall, by any chance been thrown he old Inndlord, It would have ery serious job to find what I In the present market. I have len and women to put In weeks earch. Houses are often sold ;'8 head. Estates have to be All kinds of tilings happen, your small boy disturbs the , who in turn makes it dlae for you. Bach possibilities to rest by actual ownership. Hiiit U rrrTNerr llifes to She* i what an assurance it to to' iat you cannot be disturbed i Is your castle. uch reasons as these, quite [>m the economic ones, I bellere inn of settled habits should own house, and that this 1a >d a time ns any to proceed to ppy realization.--Robert I.lnirlen In Boston Herald. ' Many City Managers. I States now has about 190 lagers. The number Is growilly, and e*ty managership has ihllshed itself as a profession, if these malingers has adstep by step from the job of j a small city in Michigan to charge of city matters in ', la., at n salary of $8,000 n "his Is the only instance of omotlons thus far recorded, e city managers have been adit least once. ighest salary the profession as minds Is $12,000, puld by Nori. Dayton and Akron, 0? Lipids, Mich., and Wheeling, are among the larger cities 'rating under city manager Earthworms in Lawns. itAsmo (A .?.! > ?uihm in inn n? nun KurueiiH poisoned with bichloride of poison. Make a stock soladissolving one ounce in two of water. To use. dilute two f the stock solution in .r?0 galwater and In the evening this over about a thousand eet of lawn. The ground e moist when this is done. The vill come out during the night never go back. Bichloride of (corrosive sublimate) is a wison and therefore must be efully. re Reserve of Grass Seed. l good plan altvays to have a supply of grass seed on hand when needed, for bare spots >enr throughout the year. If Is light and subject to injury :>ugl?t, white clover should be It mats together in a short >vidirig a closer woven blnuket nt the evaporation of water ? soil and is considered a better of drought than many of ses. It Is easily started. iwi vxiwi ?uw api my*. do'Springs nt b special eleeipted the city mnnager form rnment, ta become effective ril, It Is announced. Casua Belli. Irish case of a domestic riot t much Injury to person and , a witness In the course of a rratlve swore as follows: "He me. 'Is that your father?' And o him, 'It is me father.' And 'It Is well you told me, for I he was an ould gorilly.' and fight began, me lord."?From onaut. exas Rich In Peanuts. produces $20,000,000 wertk its a year.