The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 15, 1920, Image 9
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."
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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.
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