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Show a Wee BEAVER NEWS COUNTY a ar THE WORLD'S GREAT EVENTS NEARBY Off the Beaten Path to Un- & Company.) . Gustavus Adolphus CONFLICT that involved nine nations, lasted for three decades, killed a king, worried an emperor to death, puta total check on ail German progress and industry, and bred any— than cruelty barbarous more event in many centuries—such, In a nutshell, was the famous “Thirty Years’ war.” Like most horrors of fits sort and time, it had {ts origin in In endured from’ religious disputes. 1618 to 1648. : ; The war had its beginning between the Protestant states of northern Germany and Austria. Within a few years it had extended until it in- cluded, on one side, Austria, Spain, south Germany and France, and the Protestant countries of Europe on the other. In 1618 Bohemia threw off imperial authority. The North German states had formed a union, and this union took Bohemia’s part. Together they drove the imperial troops from Bohemia and invaded Austria up to the very gates of Vienna, There famine and bad weather forced them to halt and turn back. The king of Bohemia became emperor of Germany under the title of Ferdinand II. The Bohemians hated him and asked the Elector Frederick V to rule them. Frederick was already kead of the Union and was sonin-law of James I of England. Ferdinand made short work of his pretensions, for he utterly routed him at Wissemberg, November 8, 1620, and at the same time crushed out ‘Protestantism in Bohemia, ~ But the Union quickly recovered. With money donated by England,. an army from Holland, and with King Christian IV of Denmark for ally, they again took the field. But the imperlal general, Wallenstein, beat them at Dessau, in 1626; while his assoc!- ate, General Tilly, overcame King Christian and drove him back to his own territory. Wallenstein continued his conquests, annexing the land of Denmark’s Mecklenburg. allies, and sweeping on to the Raltic. ‘There the coast towns held out bravely against him, and he was superseded by ‘Tilly. The latter besieged Magdeburg, capltal of Saxony, and, after seven months’ fighting, took it. The most horrible butchery followed the capture of the city. Gustavus Adolphus,.king of Sweden, had won for himseif the title ‘‘The Lion of the North.” He had raised Sweden to a world power and had revolutionized successfully her warfare. invaded He Denmark, had Po- Jand and, Russia, and his pame was a terror to Sweden’s foes. Now in his lot with the Union; he cast and, with the .avowed purpose of protecting Protestantism in Germany, landed a Swedish army on the Pomeranian coast, June 24, 1630. He was not wholly disinterested in this invasion. He also desired to impede Austria’s growing power and to establish Swedish territory on the Baltic coast. In his plan to check Austria he was secretly aided by France. No sooner had Gustavus Adolphus landed than he began to make his dominant presence felt. He defeated Tilly, near Leipsic, and, everywhere victorious, advanced on the lower Palatinate and. the. Rhine towns. Tilly again opposed him in 1632, near the River Lech. “The Lion of the North” defeated and killed him and advanced on Munich. Wallenstein, with a mighty army, confronted him near Nuremburg and succeeded in re- pulsing him. Gustavus retired Saxony. «Wallenstein followed into him. The armies met at Lutzen, November 6, 1632, in a great battle. The Swedes won a decisive victory, but at fearful cost for the gallant Gustavus Adolphus was killed, Yet the death of this empire-changtng general.and king had the effect of maddening, instead of disheartening, his troops. Hot for vengeance, the Swedes swept onward, rivaling the Austrians themselves in barbarity. They laid waste all- Bavaria. Wallenstein was assassinated, but the emperor sent an army against the Swedes, beating them at Nordlingen, September 6, 1634. After this setback, the German Union was quite ready for peace; but the Swedes would not hear of such a thing. They felt their slain king was not yet avenged. They devastated Saxony and Thuringia, defeated a German army at Breitenfeld. then thrashed Christian of Denmark, who had gone over to the emperor’s side. ‘They followed up these successes by winning victories over two more imperial armies. France and England had by this time been drawn into the war as Sweden’s allies, and Saxony and Ba-. varia were once more successfully invaded. The allies swept all before them. Ferdinand II was dead ahd his successor was only too eager’ to make terms of peace with the all-conquering invaders. So, in 1648, ended the Thirty Years’ war, and the sorely distressed German states rested, exhausted and im: - poverished, from their long struggle. The plain people were chief sufferers. Literature, art, industry—civilization itself—were set back throughout al) Germany, Barbarism, heavy taxes, stoppage of every refining and higher influence, devastation of entire prov: inces and wholesale slaughter of help- jess. noncombatants had . ehief features of the struggle heen the Ay MARY, GRAHAM: BONNER ALLIE BAA’S SPRINGTIME Allie Baa sat room wondering. in a corner of ‘ Here it was springtime Drink Plenty of Water and Take] Glass of Salts Before Breakfast Occasionally, s and Things usual Placec Pe By T. T. MAXEY the - » WNU olnsisccaciliaeaceameeeen Service lot of drugs that excite the kidneys and irritate the entire urinary tract, Devil’s Lake salt great LAKE—the EVIL’S largest lake of North Dakota, the lakes body of water between the great miles and the Rockies—is about thirty wide long, from three to fifteen tiles eighty and, in places, from seventy. to feet deep. : . the aud every one was getting new clothes or getting fixed up in some way or other. The garden was” all being dressed up. It was beginning to look 80 nice and neat with the earth all soft. and dark now looking, so , ready to help along the roots of the flowers, The garden had looked rather for- — yo When your kidneys hurt and and back feels sore, don’t get ‘seared a — proceed to load your stomach with Keep keep them you like clean your kidneys your bowels clean, by flushing with which helps their normal The Scientists believe that this peculiar harmless mild, a to urinous waste activity. function salts” body’s the. remove and stimulate them to of the kidneys is to they ; In 24 hours filter the blood. in the location for such a lake lies and bestrain from it 500 grains of acid fact that an ancient river valley readily understand can we So waste, with _ drift, jammed partially came the vital importance of keeping the rock-lined area leaving a submerged kidneys active. i water, with filled naturally which Drink lots of good water—you can’t Its source being forming this lake. also get from any © the’ drink too much; for accounts in saline. Springs Jad pharmacist about four ounces of The Indians, saltiness of the water. a a tablespoonful in Take Salts. being suspicious of this water, called each “evil glass of water before breakfast — meaning “Minnewaukon” it kictmorning for a few days and your water.” ‘ Snow People. This famous neys may then act fine. This lake was the scene of a tragic grape salts is made from the acid of skirmish in frontier days between the lorn for awhile, Inthe winter it had and lemon juice, combined with lithia, been very pretty. ; United States troops, under command yekrs to help for it used Inbeen covered has Sioux and and the come and had Sully, snow The of General ; where the clean and stimulate clogged kidneys and the big show mounds dians, during which, the latter were had into the lake. also to neutralize the acids in, 1 driven and flewer-beds were in the summer defeated of tiny are no longer @ soures the they on so park system National given the snowy scene a look Hill Three Wise Men of Yemen. Sully’s irritation, thus often relieving — hills and valleys. southern shore of the lake was estab- ‘of a and ; supply ts so limited that ft fs never Geographic bladder weakness. (Prepared by the National lished to commemorate General Sully’s And then there had been more D Cc.) % Society. Washington, been ' geen except among the richest mer- victory. he Fort Totten Indian resJad Salts is inexpensive; cannot inmore snow and the garden had EMEN,. an independent country | chants of Zebide, Ibb, Taiz and Sanza. filled with snow people. jure; makes a delightful effervescent ervation is also located here. Many of Arabia, across the lower end everyone The commonest kind is Moquari, which. which drink There had been a snow man with hills or mounds from which countless lithia-water of the narrow Red sea from the grows in the. district of Makatra, rélies have been taken for university eyes of coal.’ Splendid eyes they were. should take now and then to hetp Italian colony of Hritrea, is the about four days’ camel ride from keep their kidneys clean and active, They were looking so fine and piercing ‘and museum collections surround this latest land to enter into. treaty relain their white background. S Aden, and most of the 2,500 camel Try this; also keep up the water ake. tions with Italy. As a result the likeliand loads of khat which reach Aden in drinking, and no doubt you will won; Then he had carried a stick That the surface of the lake has hood is seen of the peaceful. penetraHe had not the course of a year fs of this variety. der what became of your kidney tro ; had a pipe in his mouth. been considerably higher than it is tion of southwestern Arabia by ftal‘There hac is Khat cultivation is simple. The been alone in the garden, now is shown by wave marks on trees. ble and backache. fan influence. group of little snov a whole been plant bears neither flowers nor seeds, That it also has been much lower than This reign, like all other parts of boys. but is grown from cuttings. After the it is at present is attested by trees Arabia, was under at least nominal They were each about half his size farmer has flooded his field till the which are submerged in it. During Turkish control before the great war; and none of them had pipes in their f soil has absorbed, its. utmost of water, recent years the difference between but since it has constituted an imaarms snowy their under mouths, but he covers it with goat droppings and high and low stages has averaged mate, under the rule of the Arab Imam trees they held some bark from. the ‘allows it to “ripen” for a few days. about four feet, Yahya ben Muhammad ben Hamid al which was supposed to represent Then he buries the cuttings in shallow Din, who rules from Sabia. Yemen school books, holes from 4, to 6 feet apart, with A Bathing Beauty Pageant has the distinction and the good forThen there had been a few: snow space enough between the rows for tune to be one of the few parts of TLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, with It had looked. like a very animals. piekers to pass. But the Yemen cow e bt ie Arabia that are of agricuftural. imporits famous board-walk skirting fine snow village there in the garden and the sad-eyed camel, whose maw is SUCCESSFUL FOR €0 YEARS tance. Under a stable. government it the ocean shore for seyeral miles holds with all its snow inhabitants. never filled, have a nice taste in khat snow would have’ an important. commercial 30c &3Oc Atali Drugzgists an annual pageant which is one of the And there had .been several cuttings, and to discourage these mafuture. The British protectorate of great civic celebrations of America. houses and a snow fort and a flag rauders the former covers each hill Aden is one of the chief outlets for fts The week’g fun begins with the arpole, too. with thorn twigs’ and spiny cactus produce, ae Mrs, Cucumber Green was the playrival of King Neptune and his court Passing of Community leaves. Sometimes ke trains one of Yemen's American fame rests, prinof beauty, selected from the prettiest name of a little girl as many “of you the half-wild degs which infest the Singing Loss to World — cipally upon the familiar. name. of an know. She had chosen the name some girls In that vicinity. Originally a village to guard that particular field. “What has happened to community — almost deserted city, Mocha, through time ago—when it had been summer gala oceasion consisting of a one-day singing, which did its part in winning At the end of a year the young and. the name of Mrs, Cucumber Green which coffee no longer comes, where board-walk rolling chair parade, this shrubs are two feet high with a thick- celebration has been expanded te in- the war and afterward made life merdebris clutters the strects, where only had sounded so nice and cool, ly. spread green foliage 18 inches in rier for age as well as youth?’ asks Allie Baa was Mrs. ‘Cucumber mosques remain intact. clude. an. inter-city beauty contest— diameter. Behold now the farmer gothe Independent, Boston. There is a Green’s rag doll child.. She was a Coffee still is a major crop of Yethe leading cities of the: country sending out into the dawn of each morning dearth of it now, and even when one ~ darling rag doll child with a rag body men, but it is exported largely through ing their prettiest girls from among to gaze at his field and the sky in the finds it the old gusto is gone and the and face,.and her face had had feaHodeida, and in even greater quantity whom the judges select the most hope of seeing the portents of harvest listless choruses drag through to a tures painted upon it which were a) via Aden, port of. the British procharming gir] in America. On a morning the air is thick drooping end. This ought not to be. — little bit worn now owing to having tectorate to the south, which today is’ time. The bather’s revue brings aspirants with bulbuls, sparrows, weaver birds, There is much more than a social been kissed so much. the commercial; neck of the Red sea for glory of feminine attractiveness shrilly clamoring. They rise and fall But Allie much preferred being heart warming in popular song,’ im-— bottle, together in. competition for the title upon bis plants, picking at the tenderloved the way she was and having so portant as that may be in our conOrder eoffee in Yemen, however, and of the most beautiful bathing maid. much wonderful affection from her est leaves, “Allah be praised!” cries glomerate country. The individual’s you will not repeat the experiment. The entire assemblage of bathing the simple farmer, “the leaves are dear mother, Mrs. Cuenmber. Green, own stimulus is most important of — For the Arabians of coffee-land prebeauties is eyed by thousands of visthan havinga face with outstanding sweet and ripe for the market.” fer the busks to the berries, and the itors while being Judged by artists for all, for he ought to “go forth to life’ features. ; ; i 3 And now he calls his women and the both facial beauty and charm of form, with spirit and power. : brew therefrom has been compared to Yes. Allie Baa had been taken out: hot barley water. One cannot listen in chureh, which To the occidental wives of his neighbors to the cropThe rolling chair parade, consisting in the winter, all wrapped up with a Under a bower of jasmine ought to be the greatest place for commind* this concoction affords neither picking. of hundreds of flower-bedecked and warm hand-knitted sweater and scarf vines, with plumes of the sweet-smellmunity song, without wondering why flavor or stimulus. The Yemenite looks ingeniously decorated chairs and and cap. ing rehan in their turbans, the farmer elsewhere for a stimulant—to khat. the gift has fallen into disuse. People floats constructed on rolling chairs But now it was springtime and Al and his cronies gather to drink kishar The world knows almost nothing mechanically go through the form of and carrying the leading beauties of lie Baa was wondering if she wouldn’t opening their hymn books and rising, about khat: Our scientific books are from tiny cups and smoke the hubbuk, the country, is a unique feature. be getting something new for the while the womenfolk bring them armnearly silent on: the subject. Traveland then seem abashed into silence by Then, there are great night carnispring. : j . fuls of the freshly cut khat leaves. ers: who ought to have observed its the sound of their own voices. vals, sea spectacles, fancy-dress balls Of course -Allie Baa didn’t expect What a joyous time it is for all the uses write, from heresay. and usually and banquets galore. The winners of very much. Nor did she expect any: | village; for always the farmer diswith the most amazing ignorance. the several contests are finally judged thing actually new. There are even Europeans in the Ye-, tributes. the whole of his first crop in class for the awarding of the golden But she thought how nice it would among. his neighbors, A harmless vegetable butter color men, whose servants have chewed khat mermaid—emblematic of the beauty be to have a new bit of ribbon tied every day ‘of their lives, with so little: The khat plant grows from 5 to 12 supremacy of the entire week, around her neck or a new bit of sill knowledge of native life and customs feet in height and then it stops. As| o wear over her shoulders. , that ‘after. years..of residence they the foliage thickens, the larger The Bad Lands She thought perhaps that would not: ask > “Why, what, is khat? We never ‘branches are pruned out to. prevent N SOUTHWESTERN North Dakota be impossible as she knew there was Sugar Raised in Alaska heard of it.” Yet no Yemen event is crowding, and when the plant is. sixthere is a wild and weird region, an old chest filled with odd pieces of Three crops of sugar planted under complete without its presence, and no teen years old the top usually dies, . It . rich* in romance, exciting in’ history, silk and ribbon, which often went to the direction of the Alaska railroad Yemen Arab—mah, woman or child— is cut off about a foot above the of unquestioned ugliness and satuhelp decorate Mrs. Cucumber Green’s have matured and are at a refinery passes a’day if. he tan help it without ‘ground, and from the stump new rated with interest that is markedly family. for analysis. “i hie the aid of at least a few leaves of the shoots spring out and the plant is re. Some doll children might have: different from any) other known seeprecious khat. i ‘| born. grumbled about their mother. For tion of the world’s surface. .» Kaat te Thelr Stimulant. Particulars, Please — Marketing in Aden. It extends about ninety miles north Mrs, Cucumber ‘When the nropean is weary he Dave—I’m a self-made man. In ‘Aden the arrival of the khat and south by about fourteen miles east Green was not calls for aleohoi to revive him; when Sarah—Are you boasting or apolocamels is looked, forward to as the good at sewing and west and is called the Bad Lands he is joyful he takes wine, that he chief daily event. When they arrive, nor did she care —-not because of lack of law and or- sizing? may have more joy. In like manner about noon, the market is filled with a about sewing. der, but because it is difficult to trav| the hinese woos his *“white lady,” Hope is the parent of disa ‘restless, yelling. mob. Bedlam has So when she erse. the poppy flower, the Indian chews ment: dressed up her broken loose, but It is a merry, goodThe Little Missouri river has eut bhang, «nd. the West African natured bedlam. ‘ children she did deep-sided ‘canyons through it. Time seeks - sureease. in kola. Khat is it in quite an odd and the elements have fashioned the After the khat is weighed on the The Family’s Friend more’ to.the Yemen Arabi than any manner—a _ bit of scales and duly taxed, it ' region behind them into a labyrinth of Salt Lake City, Utah—“Byer si of these to its @evotées. It is no nar- government ribbon added here is, divided into bundles the thickness smaller valleys, ridges, gullies, rngged I was a girl my parents have ke “otic. wooing sleep, but a stimulant, or some other lithillsides, peaks and flat-topped buttes. on hand and depended upon D f Ake, alcohol. Unlike aleohol, it con- of a man’s forearrn. “Then the sellers tle gay touch. It BX Pierce’s Underlying these lands were ‘many mount tables and’ auction it off, ceals no dé¢mon,: but: a fairy. The was only when beds of lignite eoal. These burned In an hour the place is all but de khat eater will fell ren that when he Mrs. Cucumber out. The heat painted the rocks and serted and ‘the’ foot-marked, earthen | follows this fairy it takes him into:reGreen’s mother mounds a.profusion of colors. Many floor littered with debris. Now come gions »overlooking paradise,..He calls had time to do a of the. overhanging cliffs tumbled the venders of: firewood and all. the the plant, the “flower of paradise.” ag little extra -sew; despised castes, like seavengers, tc ( down. ‘This resulted in a chaotic desCatha edulis, as the plant is known ing that Alle had A New Scart. olation and indescribable waste that buy the refuse for a few pice, But botanically, grows tO some extent in actwally new is appalling: out in the streets may be seen hunAbyssinia, but it is @ultivated chiefly clothes. But knowing that her mothIn summer the streams dry up. dreds. happily wending homeward, a in the mountains of the Yemen iner, Mrs. Cucumber Green, did not like Their sun-baked bottoms crack open. bundle of the precious leaves under terior behind Aden, The word khat ig to sew Allie was never hard on her The spring floods turn these stream said to be derived from another Arabie each’ arm, their jaws. working and clothes. : i beds into swirling rivers. Their waword, kut, meaning sustenance or re-- their eves full of a @elicious content, And then, as Allie was wondering, ters. carry loose dirt and rock and viving principle, and refers’ to the ‘Ht is elose on ta noon, and you wilt ‘not _along came Mrs, Cucumber Green and erode the landscape into an endless see them again until after two o’clock. most salient property ‘of the plant. said: ‘ ; one we have taken most. variety of odd formations. Here and that of exalting the spirits and: supContrary to the general opinion. “Allie, my darling child, it is the there slender columns of clay hold | general tonic, good for an y porting the bodily ‘strength, under exkhat is never used as a beverage in~ springtime and you must have a new tated condition. I think it up great hunks of sandstone, rise huntraordinary eonditions, of one who the Yemen, but the fresh leaves are scarf,” ; excelled.”—-Mrs. T. C. Bloc’ . dreds of feet and look like monstrous eats its leaves. The researches of invariably chewed. The youngest W. 1st South, PAS And she tied around. Allie’s neck a toadstools. The bright sunlight intenAlbert Beitter of the University of All dealers. Fluid or tablet leaves are the best. They have a handsome searf of pale. green . from sifiles this colorful combination, proStrassburg, seem to show that its aesweetish, slightly astringent taste, not the old chest—a true springtime color; ors aan ducing a picture that is beyond the tive principle fis an‘ alkaloid in the | unpleasant , to. the European palate, and Allie felt very happy, indeed, as imagination. form of érystals, very bitter and odor- | but certainly not alluring. When her- mother kissed her and said: The Bad’ Lands have contributed less. . brewed, they, lose most of thelr “Oh, my darling, how too adorable many beautiful agates, crystals and Alung the steep, terraced slopes of you do look!” Strength and the flavor of the decocfossil remains to museum collections the mountains between Taiz and tion is much like that of grapevine in varlous parts of the world, Yerim you will find the small planta“cigarettes,” Coughs «* Colds “DANDELION BUTTER COLOR” ppoin soeeineeeten pa Mead |} Flush Kidneys} — ~ eneeea (© by Dodd, If Back Hurts nwa YONDER —_—— ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE : AND C Astonishing Information Teacher—Do we eat the flesh of the whale? Scholar—Yes, ma’am, ° Teacher—And what do we do with the bones? . Scholer—We leave them on the side of our plate. tions of the khat farmer. Not fill you have climbed nearly 4,000 feet will you see the first one, and when yor reach 6,000 feet you will have passed ‘the last. Varieties and Cultivation. Bokhari is the sweetest of all and by far the most expensive , khat The (@, Just of khat never what on is the the exact human toxic system 1927, effect has yet been ascertained. It is certainly a stimulant with a lively and nearly immediate effect upon — the brain and nerve cells: the gloomiest /man becomes cheerful under its influence, the most enervated active. Western Newspaper Union.) Immortal One of all Author of the greatest Eneli time, John Witen aa on Decentber 9, 1608, “Paradise Regained.” as sti best known Lost” . and e | | | Soap, Ointment free of Gudeere Gohannee BOOKS“= ; Dee ¢ Any | 0 He was famous for his prolific pen, his works being “Paradise ti —by it) 44 East So. Temple, Salt La W. N. U., Salt Lake City, a |
