White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-10-03
WARSAW RIVALS PARIS.

mo other people, in all the worlds
history, has borne oppression so brave
" and g~loriously as the Poles, ex-
cept the Jews; and Warsaw, where
the Russians had TO keep a garrison
Of 100000 troops to veraw a city
Of 100000 people, Is to Poland what
Paris is to France" says a bulletin
Of the National Geographic society
concerning the present focal center
of world attention.
"Indeed, the vivacity, the gayety,
and the quick wit of Warsaw's peo-
pie is a constant reminder of Paris ;
as well as those deeper licensees
which spring from Warsaw's ascend
ancy in the letters. the arts, and the
social graces.
"All this, too, in a city where the
most gruesome tragedies have stalk
ed. As recently as the years of U
own Civil wal the Russian army
moved down thousands Of men and
women as they knelt in the snow,
singing their national anthem. De-
portations are an old story in War
saw; every effort at naturalization
was followed by slaughter, and hun
dreds marched the long trail to 81
berian exile.
/, Pinned by 5ayonets.
But Poland's spirit, meanwhile, be-
came a synonym for the indomitable.
The success of the classification Of
Poland has been described as the proc
ess of keeping 100000 Poles
pinned to Russia by bayonets. Po-
litically non-existent, for even Po-
land's name was expurged from all
official Russian records, the prewar
Warsaw We'd with world capitals in
science, particularly medicine. in "a
u%facturing, in trade, and In litera-
fure.
Though Warsaw betrayed none Of
the grimness characteristic of Rus
sian cities, reminders of her bygone
gl0ries and tragedies were to be
found even before the World war re-
stored her autocracy.
"In the Lazienki Gardens Is a mon-
ument to John Sobieski, who stemmed
the advance Of the Turks In Europe,
a figure as picturesque as Paderew-
ski, who now sees his land a barrier
to b~olshevism's westward spread. Il
In 1883 that a Turkish force had
thrown itself into crescent formation
around Vienna. The encampment
nc less threatening because II
resembled a circus rather than q
Siege, with its herds Of camels, and
luxurious tents with baths and par
r6ts within and fountains without.
mighty events often hinge on slen-
der circumstances. Sobieski hesitated
because Leopold. Austria's emperor.
nrst declined to address him as His
Majesty But Sobieski's hesitation
Is said to have vanished when he
learned that the French ambassador
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 fight The
fat man rode his charger into the
thick of the fight, helping hewe his
way to where the Turkish grand vizier
stood, and after the battle handed
M of that dignitary's stirrups to an
aide, with the command, Take 1t to
the queen aud tell her that he to
whom 1t belonged is defeated and
slain
Origin Of Vienna Roll.
''The sublime often Is strangely
blended with the inconsequential.
They will tell you this story, with
much detail, In Warsaw; while the
Vienna visitor formerly was sure to
hear about a little coffee house on the
Grahen that was kept by a de-
scendant of a brave Polish boy who
carried through the Turkish lines to
Sobieski's headquarters an urgent
call for his city's succor He was
rewarded with permission to open the
first coffee house In Vienna, and there
originated, in Jest at the defeated
enemy's formation. the crescent
shaped bun, known around the world
as the Vienna roll.
"Of such deeds OF heroism. pictur-
esque anecdote. and frequent calam-
ity, is Poland's history composed.
"Other cities have lost their po-
litical importance, and held their
heads high because Of a proud past,
but Warsaw, prosecuted as II was,
has a highly important economic pres.
ent. In normal times 1t was the ge.
ographical center Of Europe. the 70
cal point for rail- shipments from Rus.
sia and Asia to western Europe even
though the actual western terminus
on the Vistula gave 1t a place on
Europe's inland waterways compar-
able to that of st. Louis on the Miss
issippi. Its output of shoes, metal
articles, and cotton makes its prod
uct sound like that Of a busy New
England city. and Its long commercial
arm even reached out to drop half
a million dollars worth Of beet sugar
Into America In those different days
before 1914.
Numerous castles of the old Pc
fish nobility were converted into mu'
nicipal Offices by the Russians. War.
saw takes pride in its theaters. that
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