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WARSAW: THE PARIS OF POLAND N(( otj?.r In all the world's , u'rv |uts Ihii'iii' oppression so brave iVand gloriously ??s tin- Poles, except h . .lows ; uud Warsaw, wlwro the uR^innji hud to keep a garrison of axuxxi troops (O overawe a city of ^000 people," Is to Poland what "is is to France. Indeed Hie vivacity, the gaycty and the quick wit of Warsaw'n people are i cviistuiit reminder of Paris; an well ,< those deeper likenesses wHleli [ ri?g from Warsaw's ascendancy In ibe letters, the arts and tlio social paivs. All tills, too, In a city whore the most gruesome tragedies have stalked. X? recently ?* tho years of our . own ^ir war rlie Russian army mowed down thousands of men and women i, (he.v knelt In the snow, singing tholr national anthem. Deportations are an old story in Warsaw, every effort at ictloiiali/Rtloii was followed by ?lighter, and hundreds marched the long trail to Siberian exile. But Poland's spirit meanwhile, be rtni,. a synonym for the Indomitable. The sucecss of the Russiflcatlon ot' Po lind litis been described as tho process of keeping 12.000,000 Poles pinned to Russia l>.v bayonets. Politically non ' existent, for even Poland's rianie was #i|?0tn;ed from all official Russian rec ords. i lie pre-war Warsaw vied with irorid eaplials In science, particularly DiiMlicine, In manufacturing. In trade iml in literature. : Thouijli Warsaw betrayed none of the grlmness characteristic of Russian cities, reminders of her by-gone glories mil tragedies were to be found even lipfnre the World war restored her an tetracy. In the Laxiciiki gardens Is a .monu ment to John Kohleskl, who stemmed the ad van ee of the Turks in Eu rope, n figure as picturesque as Raderewskl who now sees his land a barrier to bol nhevistn's westward spread. It was in 1(58.> that a Turkish force had thrown itself in orescent formation around Vi enna. The encampment was no less ifiieatening because it resembled a fir ms rather than a siege, with Its herds of camels, and luxurious tents with baths and parrots within and foun tains without. Mighty events often hinge on slen der circumstances. Sobieski hesitated kmuse Leopold, Austria's emperor, first declined to address him as "Your Majesty." Rut Sobieskl's hesi tation. Is said to have vanished when he learned that the French ambassa dor had written to I/Ouls XIV., who rather hoped for the worst for Aus tria. "Don't trouble yourself, Sobieskl Is too fat to nit on a horse and fight." The "fat man" rode his charger Into the thick of the tight, helping hew his way to where the Turkish grand viz ier stood, and after the battle handed one of that dignitary's stirrups to ah aide. with the command, "Take tt to the queen and tell her that he to whom it fcclonged is defeated and slain." HOW ANTS CAN HINDER AIRPLANES Ants have assumed a new role In j Africa? that of enemies of aviation. Report* from surveyors of the pro lH>se?l air route from Rhodesia to Cape town say that ant hills have. Inter fered seriously with the placing: of aerodrome. To understand this phenomenon one umlerstand how ubiquitous Is the ?nt In South Africa, writes WlllUm Morton Wheeler to the National Oeo cra phii- noclety. He continues: "Ants are to he found everywhere, from the nrrtlo regions to the tropics, 'roins timber line on the loftiest moun tains to ;he shifting sands of the dunes aiwl seashores, and from the dampest forests to the driest deserts. only do they outnumber In lndl* rMuah all other terrestrial animals, but their colonies even in very ctrcum *erlhe<i lAciUities often defy enumera tion. "On* subfamily of the anta. the Dory | 'imo. embracing the wonderful l'r,v'>r ants of Africa arul the legionary ants (,f (j,,, American tropics, sre hlgh i aniivorous, but nevertheless cuc* r,A*l in forming immpn<>e colonies, #ft *n of Imndreds of thousands of Indl- I T d?m K This they accomplish by re- j ,ri<VtfMuitg the sedentary habits so . > srnotf.| istic of the grent majority of I Thov keep moving In long flies lirr,tigli tin. jungles, capturing or kill* rf all the Inserts they encounter, snd overrunning dwellings, and, in ? heir search for cockroaches and oth- I "r vermiti driving out the human In- i "?Mian** | titne to time these strange | ]n'* l'lvr> ;n, for jjl(, night or for a . ?*w days if, jiome hole In the ground, j "r under m tree, hut soon Continue j ?Mr f>r?(inrory inarch. Kvldently ire ahie to remain carnivorous, 1 ,r:^ *' :1.m *Hm<. time to develop large ! " ^ 'inlv because they ore nomtd' r * and <-?/, thus draw thetr food sup ?' v fT0?- )nT(,p ares. j f-rtain individuals, the 'reputes' of j colony refrain from lesvlAf tbs ie*t And foraging for food. Had be ?om?' convt>ni*4j Into fturgoim by dl* umk|iiij4 tblO flop to Mich enoi mous ill nH'iisitnis i hut (he nbdamcm look# Ilk? a I rttiispii ive ? I?ent? In *4 hi* ponilltlQtt they hung by daws front the rooi of the nest chamber andihem'cfurth sp?nd all their Uvea rtnviviug liquid food from the tongues of the foraging, /tills, >it ftv lit I li?*t r rrops ntul if gurtfttttiliig It to hungry Individual* when the liquid foot! supply ouulde the host becomes inadequate. "This Ih, of course, tupl to he the. case periodically (n dry rcgV>ns, 40 (hut we llnd the true honey ant# only In deserts like those of the southwest ern states, northern Mexico, South Af rfcn and central Australia." ? ?- ?' , TACNA ANO ARICA': SIA MESF. TWINS OF GEOGRAPHY Tat' na tux! Arlca ! The words are fast becoming as inseparable as the Oold I Hist Twins, the Dolly Sisters, or Mutt and Jeff. The regloiis form a territorial hone of contention among Chile, Peru mid Bolivia. The province of Tucna. coin* posed of the department of Taoua ami Arlca, Is shown on maps made In Chile as the northernmost province of that country, and on< map* made In Peru as the southernmost province of Peru, bordered on the, north by the lito Sanui and on the east by Bollvlo. Ha broad uplands are rich in nitrate, and on the Bay of Arlca, at the ter minus of one railroad leading to La Paz and tlfe Interior of Bolivia, and 4>f another running to ports to the south, the delightful city of Arlca fa situated, giving the possessor of the territory a great advantage in South American alfalrs from both political and commercial standpoints. Here la ample reason why these two South American republics want it, and why Bolivia liopes that, In the adjustment, she will have an outlet to the sea ac corded her. The trouble over this region arose originally from the fact that, in the days of the early Spanish settlers, the country was so vast that a few hun dred square miles more or less niade no difference In the affairs of the col ony, and when the colonies organized themselves Into republics they still were too busy with their Internal prob lems to bother about where their boundaries began and where they end ed. This condition wus true not only of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, but of most of the other South American republics, as Indicated by the numerous boundr ary questions which have been in dis pute during the last decade. So matters drifted until the middle of the nineteenth century, when guano and nitrate were discovered In this formerly ignored region. The guano alone was then; hastily estimated 11s worth $20,000,000, not to mention the nitrate. Whit friends could be ex pected to remain friendly with Such a mountain of dollars between them? Since that time the Peru-Chlle-Bollvla story has been one of controversies, treaties, counter-charges and plebi scites never taken. THE MAIL MAN: COURIER OF CIVILIZATION Did It ever occur to you that your city letter carrier, your village post master or your rural route carrier has a past? He Is the agent by which the long arm of Uncle Sam taps your shoulder one, two, maybe three times a day, yet he Is so unobtrusive that you probably do not knUw hlni half so well as most other agents of your government, the school teacher or the policeman, for example. But he uot ouly Is an essential, but a historic figure. The history of the postal service and Its employees ex tends to the days of the Romans when the earliest known means of transmit ting a message was by c#jrier. These admirable organizers, the Roman*, marked by a "post" the place In the road where the relay of one runner by another was effected ; thus they named our system lon#r before It was bom The first, letter post seems to have existed In the HanSe towns In the thirteenth century In order to facili tate relations between the merchants of the various members of the Han seatlc League. The British post office had its be ginning In the sixteenth century, and our own colonial methods of handling mall were inherited from our British forefathers. I^ong before the people had any means of exchanging either personal or official letters, the klrvghnd established a system of conveying his personal messages and official do<^i ments by royal messengers. In the reign of King John that pefulant mon arch paid out n large sum for a postal service and charged it to the house hold and wardrobe accounts. Messen gers who were thus entrusted with mailers of state had to be above sus picion. They went I lie whole di* tance and were paid according to the length and danger of their Journeys. In 1638 New Kngland pro|>osed to the British sovereign that h postoffice system be established In the colonle'%. hiv it was "so useful and absolutely neewssry." His majenty paid no at tention to the plea. but Klrhard Fair banks. In t^e same year, set up an office in Boaton to receive letters from ships, lie undertook ro deliver the letter* received and charged a penny for encli letter. He siso received mall for out -going siifps but no one forccd t?i ?end mall through hi* office A thrlillmr stnry of the devotion of mall men ?? their dtilie* Is <lmf of the pon> f first rapid transit mall Mn<- rrcri -? *h?< I JV'W miles o" pTMlrls, <|e<M*i*i. ?o*m mountain peak*, and alkali waste* bftWCW tM Missouri river and the Pacific coast. It was Inaugurated curly In 'iWO lu order that the NVest might be kept more closely In touch wll h the North in yI(*\v of the trouble brewing from the slavery question. uud. though 11 Uad an exUtence of only sixteen inontha, it iiiihu- tin- Kait and Wwt only ten days apart at a tliue of crista. The date of martin# vvfts to be March 26, 1S0<?. Vtnd Forts Kearney. Lararalo. Bridger, Oreil Salt i.akc City, Caiup Floyd, ('arson t'lty. the Washoe Silver iftluua. Pla? ervljle and Xacrameuto were to he tin* points of delivery of mail. Id St, . i . ? - * 1 ? * 1 . eager and excited crowds anthered In the streets to 'sec -the first courier, the wiry, twenty-year old .fohhitfw Frisy, as lie dashed hu.(,\ wit h1*. jet black steed for the first lap ot the race of flesh, blood and determination the desolate spines of tin uiipe?fllk'd < ountry. . These. riders weryTelad In buckskin shirts, ordinary trousers,' high hoots and soft sloueh liatk. and were armed with sheath knives, Colt's revolvers and Spencer varblnes. The host time they made across the trackless wasU* was In carry log President Lincoln's Inaugural speech to San Francisco? seven days and seventeen hours. ADRIANOPLE: A WEATHER VANE OF EMPIRES Kntry of Greek troops Into Adriano ple Is an event In secular history fairly comparable to the Investiture o Jerusalem by AUonby's army. for Uils Turkish city has for nearly years been a weathervane of world pull tics. The rebuilding of the ancient Thra clan town of Hadrian, who gave it his name, signalized a high point lu the power of the Roman empire, lhe decline of Home was foreshadowed some two centuries later wheu the Goths defeated Valens there and made their first break through the Koman frontier. Next Adrianople was the setting for the Turk's adveut into Europe. There Murad I. established himself, planned the capture of Constantinople, and sent out expeditions to subdue various Christian peoples. For a time the European capital of the sultans. Adil anople was relegated to be the chief bulwark of Constantinople. There Turk first met Slav, and there the Russians finally forced their way to the Black sea by a treaty which also loosened the Turkish hold on the Caucasus and compelled recognition of the Independence of Greece. cAdrlauople is on the Marltza? . Hebrus of Grecian legend, where Or- i pheus was dismembered by the Thni clan women; also celebrated, under Its j later name, In Bulgarian son? and | story. It Is 137 miles by rail north ( west of Constantinople. j Todav the city wears Its past glory , with a sort of shabby gentility, with j no pretension of prosperity but less . squalor than the usual Turkish city. | It possesses the grave of the first Murad, or Amurath, who wc? assassi nated in his tent after he had van quished an army of Christian allies on the-ffeld of ISossovo. A mosque bearing the name of Sul tan Balezld recalls that monarch, whose first official act was to order the execution of his brother, who was first Ottoman ruler to call himself sultan nnd whose conquests finally were checked when he was taken prisoner by Tamerlane. But lhe architectural masterpiece of Adrianople Is the Sellmleh. product of a <3 reek tribute-boy's genius, and relic of the reign of Sellm II. the I^ouls XV of Turkey. Yearly the Turks would seize a cer tain number of sons of their Christian subjects, ami In Slnan they found they had acquired a skilled bridge 'bulider. They allowed him to follow his bent, and the Shahzadeh at Con stantinople, the Suleiman at Stamboul and the third famed mosque at Adri anople were given to posterity. The Sellmleh stands upon the highest hill in Adrianople and four lofty minarets tower far above a massive dome. STEEL AFFECTED BY FIRE Figures Gathered by the United States Bureau of Standarde Re^al Ma blllty of Structure. Soiup interesting figure* relating to the behavior of structural steel at the high temperature of ordinary flreS have been given by the United States bureau of standards. Naturally, tbe strength of steel at high temj>eratures has a very Important bearing upon the stability of a structure which may be subjected to tire. Without -any pro tective cov>*r1ng. steel columns fall after only 10 or 15 minutes of expos ure to temperatures such as are reached in ordinary fires. Resistance can be greatly increased by the use of coverings of brick, concrete, plaster, tile, etc., to such no extent that col umns so protected are unaffected after several hours' exposure to Intense heat, says the NeW York Evening I'ost. Tefits have been made to determine the eomprenslon strength of specimens of structural steel when heated In an electric furnace to temperatures cor responding to dull red heat (1,100 de grees Fahrenheit) and loaded up to 20,000 pounds per square Inch. It was found that structural steel loaded to 10,000 pounds per square Inch falls at about 1.075 degrees Fahrenheit, and ifnder a load of 20,000 pounds per square inch failure occurs at 025 de grees Fahrenheit. For practical con siders r Ions, however, the limit of util- ! ity ma? tie regarded as readied at ! temperatures of about 130 degrees Fahrenheit below those given above NoUte of lmm# of Capital .Stock. Notice i* borot?y given that a inwt. in* of the atocklioUlers of Tlw Hank of Hotbuue, will be heM In ti?e office (if thf Jt. ink of lift 1mm*. at luthuue, x. < \ ou loth ?iay of October at tmjhro o\ lti< k, noon, for Mm purpose of ooti siderinx a resolution to iucreuNe the amount of the capital stock of said hank from fifteen thousand dollars to r?<niv flto thousand l><?llara, J. C. iM?"kei\ t 'ashler. Betjbinn<v U? ? Sept. H?t It, 1020. FINE OFFICE POSITIONS ; Paying splenitbl .salary* nh? recorded oyt'iy (lay at our employment tnircau. We (*uu fill only uiio fourth of the posl tl?Mis listed. , If you wtlut V pdfttloil with a bank ov a hi^li class business 'house \v here future advancement is asHured. pre pa vo now by taking our business course, We guarantee m>sttioiiK as soon as stud fin m a iv t'itUM to tak<* them. l?or imr t tenia rx. writ*. . Draughon's Columbia, S. (?, COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. ? MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN St HUCER STS. 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