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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-18
Mrs. Collins, Hostess.


Mrs. S. c. Collins entertained Inform
ally Friday evening at her home on
College street. Those enjoying Mrs.
Collins hospitality were, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. G. Moss, Mrs. w. H. Collins, Misses
Mary Strange, Ida Munroe, Rosa
Walker, Ruth Walker, Ruby Simpson,
Mary Dixon Cleone Collins, Hattie Ar
ington, Messrs. Clyde Hill, Grady MUIR
ray, Arthur Murray, R. A, Walters.
Personals.
Mr.. Albert Park, of Ideal spent Sun
day in our city.
Dr. Desporte, of Columbus, was
called to Ellaville the past week on
professional business.
Dr. and Mrs. ]. S. Lightner and hand
some young sons, Lynwood and Han
sell, returned yesterday from Ideal,
where they visited relatives for a few
days this week.
Mr.. ]. N. Fain, of Smithville, was the
guest of Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Hearn
Sunday. Mr.. Fain made a trip to our
city in the interest of the Epworth
League, he being district superintend-
ent.
DR.. and Mrs. B. T. Rainey, OF Mauck,
spent the weekend most delightfully."-
with relatives in our city.
The many friends of Mrs. R. E. Hill
regret to hear of her serious illness
and hope for her speedy recovery.
Miss Ola Caldwell, of Americus, is
spending some time in oslr city.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Arlington, Misses
Hattie Arlington and Ruth Walker,
Henry B. and Lon Arlington, autoed 10
Parrot Sunday, spending the day with
relatives.
Among others from Americas attend
ing Coburn's Minstrel Monday night in
Americas were, messl Grady and
Arthur Murray, Nolan Strange, Clarke
Williamson, Misses Mary Strange and
Ida Munroe.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-18
Miscellaneous
Money Loaned.

Should you need any money, call to
see me. 1 am prepared to secure
money now at per cent. interest, on
improved farm lands. Loans promptly
made. R, L. MAYNARD, Americas,
Ga. adyt-25-1m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-18
LOST

LOST-Pointer puppy; 9 months
old; solid white on left side; two liver
spots on right side; limps right hind
leg. Please return to Eugene Hill,
Americas, Ga, and receive reward.
11-d&w-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-18

LOST-Ladies' ring with black onyx
set and small diamond in center. Fin
der leave at this office and receive re-
ward. I3-1w
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-18

Player Films have been shown here.
The mere announcement that Laura
Sawyer will be at the Opera House is
sufficient to draw a crowd.
First class music, both classical and
popular will be played by the orches-
ira. The music there is a distinct fea-
ture of every days program. The COM
bination of good pictures and good
music, being offered by Manager Nc
Afee has already pleased Americas and
is winning new friends every day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-18

FOR RENT-Nice eight-room house
close in; immediate possession. ]. e.
Hightower. 9-f
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-18
Valentine Party.

complimentary to her Sunday school
class, Mrs. H. J. Williams entertained
at a Valentine party Saturday evening
at her hospitable home on College
street. The parlor was made most at
tractive with ferns and cut flowers
that made lovely setting for the pref
ty young bellies and the handsome
young beaux present After numer-
Gus games had been enjoyed, and the
many, many valentines had been dis
tributed, a sweet course was served.
Mrs. Williams was assisted in enter
tanning by Misses Addie Monroe, Mer-
vim Johnson and Velma Williams.
House Party
At her home near Myrtle Springs
Miss Jewell Jordan entertained at a
weekend house party that proved
most delightful for the invited guests.
An automobile trip to Americas was
one of the diversions of the pleasant
party Rambles were made in the
woods, and a good time generally en-
joyed. Those present from Ellavillle
were, Misses Sara Strange, Addie Rie
McCrory, Cordelia Wall and Nell Stew
ems
TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-03-29


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TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-03-29
MACH 6 MACH
3abnGrSte

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fee i'm mittleren Dsten. 0odgraDigs
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nab bet gsbanoIuaa ees Yasitulsa.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
AFRO-AMERCAN CULL|NCS

In an interview at New York Mr..
Percy Granger. noted Australian
pianist, said: Frederick Delius has
a harmonic and polyphonic sense that
makes him like a modern Bach, and
It is easy to see how he could be at
tracted by the improvised songs
which he heard on his fathers plan
tation. It is not so much the melody
in these songs which attracts one as
1t is the method of singing-especially
the part singing"
He then referred to his stay In
New York and the pleasure he had
had in meeting several Of the negro
composers whose work he had previ-
ously known, and in hearing them
play.
When arrived in New York." Mr..
Granger said, 1T was a very great
pleasure to me to meet Mr.. ]. Rosa
mond Johnson, whom l had long ad-
mired as a composer, having fallen in
love with his delightful song Under
the Bamboo Tree several years ago
when l first heard it while on an II
tended tour in Australia, my native
country. There we're several good
singers with me, and l choralized 1t
and we sang 1t often. An American
creative genius that l am particularly
interested in is the colored composer,
Will Marion Cook, whose choruses,
Rain Song and 'Invocation'-to men.
ton only two-are works of great
originality and true inspiration, and
have a suitable harmonic flavor all
their own.
81 have had many delicious musical
impressions while in New York, but
o of my hours has been more hap
PLY spent than at the Music School
Settlement for Colored People, over
which Mr.. Rosamond Johnson pre-
sided, and where l first heard the
Hampton quartette, Mr.. Henry Bur.
leigh and several other fascinating
Negro artists"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
CALAM A0OGE coMWcnwG< MeoNEANAM A5Auc zueExY "a

"Abem, the sick man, the sick man; is your males
ty speaking as the doctor in the case or as the
heir" With that the other powers turned against
Russian pretensions, and on all subsequent oc-
casions in, various combinations, both in 1852 and
in 1877, backed the sick man" against any doc
toring by which Russia would be the residuary
legatee. And so events moved on for gu years,
till the day OF reckoning came, and Austria fired
the Serbian powder barrel and Armageddon
was on!
While it is an exaggeration, at any rate In
these modern times, to ascribe the mastery OF
world to the possession of Constantinople, it cam
not be denied that the city occupies from a po-
litical, from a strategic and from an economic
point of view, one of the most valuable and i'm
portant sites in the world. 1t is a natural fortress
OF great strength. protected as it is in the rear
by mountain and swamp, which make it difficult
to attack by land, by those wonderful straits,
the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. which furnish
matchless a defense against any onslaught
from the sea.
1t lies at the very point where Europe and
Asia meet and which connects the Black sea
with the Mediterranean, and even with the Indian
ocean, by way of the Suez canal and the Red sea.
When the railroad now in course of c~onstruo
ton from Ismid to the head of the Persian gulf
via Konia and Bagdad, is completed, which will
constitute far and away the shortest and quick.
est route from Europe to India, Constantinople
will become perhaps the most important station
along the line both as regards freight and pas
senger traffic.
Even the existing trade route to India via the
Suez canal would be endangered by Russia's pos
session of Constantinople, and 1t is for this rea
son that Earl Grey, in admitting in parliament
that England had abandoned its traditional polio!
OF centuries and would not oppose its free access
to the Mediterranean from the Black sea through
the Bosporos and Dardanelles, was very careful
not TO say Russia should be given Constantinopl
at oncel
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

the use made by the Moslem conouerors of the
seven Nils more or less dominated by splendid
seraglios and mosques, including the metamor-
phosed Santa Sophia itself, gives Constantinonls
today its peculiar character above all other cities.
land makes the near or distant view under vary
ing aspects of sun and season one of unrivaled
.magnifcence, so that it is today the chief picture
city of the world,
The mosques seem to be part of as we'll as ris-
ing out of a sort of curious mushroom growth
developing out of rooted refuse of stone and stuc-
co that spreads all over the two sides of the
Golden Horn, that famous arm of the bay on
(which the city is situated with Stamboul, the old
city on the west, and Galata and Pera, where
the foreigners live, on the east, stretching along
the shores of the Bosporus toward the Black
isea. And the mosques are wonderful, Here
they rise, huge masses of clustered rectangular
structures with all sorts of subsidiary buildings,
as it were. tied up to and p~lastered against them.
And then out of this squat mass appear the
soaring, slender minarets, cutting the blue sky
in lovely tapering outline, broken only by the
balconies, from four to six in number, the latter
grouping only allowed in one case however
while above the central section, fortlike in char-
lacter, the domes and semidomes are uplifted, all
to be crowned by the great dome which balances
THE entire mass in a manner that seems pure
chance. but makes an indescrible effect of beauty
and proportion, as is in evidence IN the great
MOSQUE ~Jeni-Jani near the Galata bridge.
Dolce far niente days will soon be over II 1t
again Yields to the new invaders, and a new era
of enlightenment sets in. Then the street and
public life will take on a new aspect anu the
city will be once more a place OF pilgrimage
Moreover, when the capital is once more IN
Christian hands, what a chance for the antiquar'
ians and psychologists and classical scholars and
ispecialists! Every ruin should yield treasures
and of all the promising places the most prom
Using are the mysterious vaults under the great
Agia Sophia mosque, formerly the Church OF 81
sophia, origin ally built by Constantine in 1926 OPP
posite his palace and dedicated to the Divine
Wisdom (Sophia). The church as 1t exists To-
day, one of the greatest buildings In the World
was erected in 5S2-5S7 by the Emperor Justinian'
Apthemios of TraIleis and Isidoros of Miletos
we're the architects. Fossati, an Italian archl-
tect, undertook a thorough restoration OF the
exterior of the building in 1S47, when It was
painted yellow with red stripes.
1t is in what may lie under st. Sophia that
the interest Of Psychologists will center. THESE
Taults have always been jealousy guarded by
ltba Turks. and few indeed have been the out
siders allowed a peep at them. One of those who
saw the most was the late Moberly Bell, manager
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of the London Times, VIII for a period was en-
ployed by the Turkish Tobacco Reggie. Mr.. Bell
some years ago described the great piles of ma
terial, covered with the accumulated dust of four
and a half centuries, which tantalized him with
their possibilities. He could not get at what they
really were since the gloom made it impossible
to distinguish any of the objects, and the Turks
would not permit a close examination.
Fascinating possibilities exist in the thought
Of what the dust that has been accommodating
since the year of the conquest by Mohammed II
may conceal. 1t is doubtful if many treasures
in gold and silver and gems will be found, though
even this is possible. But the chances that pre-
cious manuscripts of the classics may be dis
covered are greater, Splendid libraries, contain
ing, probably. practically all the lost classics,
are undoubtedly hidden in ruins.
There are known to be 5000 manuscripts in
the sultan's library, which have been seen, and
that only hastily, by few foreigners. But the
chief hope of scholars lies in their trust in one
of the least Objectionable traits of the Moslem,
his dislike of destroying anything with writing
on It, Even If he does sacrifice pictures and
sculpture, he usually leaves books alone, in case
the name of God should be written on them.
Had it not been for this superstition the world
would be very much poorer in the old learning
than It is today.
AS for It's strategic and political value it must
be ~membe that Constantinople is to the
Russian church and TO it's adherents what Rome
is TO the Roman Catholics, and for the last 200
years in particular it has constituted the prin'
cipal object of all Muscovite religious and po-
litical aspirations. without attaching any
credence whatsoever to the purely mythical tes-
lament of Peter the Great about Constantinople,
a document which was never heard OF until the
beginning of the nineteenth century, nearly a
hundred years after his death, and which is a
forgery concoeted by the Pole Sokolniki and the
Frenchman Lesueur, at the instance OF the first
Emperor Napoleon, there is no doubt that Car
Peter had set his heart upon the acquisition OF
Constantinople and had impressed this idea upon
his people as a national ideal.
However, whether the will be authentic or
genuine or not the fact is il does embody ma
tional aspirations, and has had a great effect on
Russian imagination.
Catherine the Great was equally bent upon
transferring the capita: of her empire from
Petrograd, and from Moscow. to STEAMBOAT, and
when Napoleon | and Alexander | planned to-
gether their sharing the dominion Of the world,
the Muscovite ruler insisted upon the possession
of Constantinople on political and religious
grounds. declaring it to be the key to the door
of Russia" Napoleon would not and could not
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inhabitants $4,000 are foreigners and
the balance is largely composed of
French and Italians only recently nat
uralized. Sixty years ago Monaco was
poor and desolate and Monte Carlo did
not exist. Then came M Blanc. estab-
lished the casino and called into exist
ence the most beautiful hell upon
earth. The casino company. with its
capital Of 375. 000,0 900 francs. now prac-
tically runs the little p~rincipality, sub
sidizing the prince, undertaking most
of the public works and relieving the
population OF all taxation.