Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-23

Win turkish power on the Wane, and
the Turk himself, apparently acquies
cent, the remodeling anw extending OF
the old Notifications was brought
about by French, English and German
prodding as temporary interests point
ed toward the Golden Horn.
Most of old Poland which survives,
in race and in political consciousness,
in typical culture and in folk-charac-
ter, survives in the Austrian crown
land of Galicia. Under the more stern
ly repressive rule of Russian and Ger
man overlordship, the Poles in Russia
and Germany have been driven little
by little from their stronghold of ma
, tional feeling. They are becoming
half-hearted Russians and Germans,
for Russia and Germany have done
all in their power to assimulate the
well nigh unassimulable Pole. In Ga
licia, however, with a constitution of
their own, under perplexed and len
lent central government, a conscious
ness of old Poland remains, and has
grown in intensity in recent lines.
| H0n0n1aI in
and east by the suspicious border pa
troll, naturally cut off from Hungary
on the south and southwest by the
Carpathians, barely touching it's sover-
eighty Tustria, on the west, the Cali
clan Pole has been left to himself, to
the single-handed solution of his own
difffcultie, political, economic, and ad-
ministrative. With little to prod him
into violent industrial exertion, he has
continued the past into the present
with its quaint customs, it's devotion to
agriculture and it's porevty-stricken
idealism.
Galicia slopes away from the Carpa-
thians to meet the boundless Russian
plain On the north. It's southern up
lands are devoted largely to grazing
grounds for horses, cattle and sheep
In the middle lands, cereals and sugar
beets are grown. The crownland is
sparsely populated, and in many parts
it's lands are very fertile, so that more
than enough breadstuffs, meat and
other products are raised for home
consumption, permitting the exporta
ton of cereals and meat products in
considerable amounts, mainly to Ger
many.
Galicia is Poland, ancient Poland,
and liqe the Fatherland of old, it's
masses are miserably poor, while it's
classes are very rich. One-third of
it's tillable lands are held by great
| landowners in estates of more than
| 1,400 acres, and one-half are held in
blocks of IA acres or less. Galicia is
| AGRICULTURAL Tt has little mineral
wealth, and less industry. Much of it's
3O,321 square miles are morass, sand
or forest land, and all else is given
over to farming. True, in the Carpath-
ians are found the richest oil fields in
Europe, and good zinc mines and rock
salt quarries are worked Still, it's
mineral wealth has small significance.
The forests, which are estimated to
cover one-quarter of the whole surface
of Galicia, contribute to a large lum-
Der trade with Germany.
Most of it's manufactured articles are
the products of home industry, though
there is beginning of textile indus
| try and its oil refineries are import
ant. About II per cent of it's people
depend directly upon the soil They
are mostly illiterate, small farmers and
day laborers, who pass the severe win
tiers at home, and regularly leave their
wives to work the farm in summer
while they exc out bare livelihoods by
taking seedtime and harvest service
upon the Germans farms across their
western border.
Galicia is practically self-governing,
the Vienna government interfering but
little in Polish affairs. Some 154 rep
resentatives are sent by the people to
the Galiician Diet at Lemberg, while