Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-29

where battle steeds neghing. Yet 1 could weep
i feel so cheap that the boys are coming from
of gore foreign shore, where shot and shell
humming. To think I sat submerged by fat and
| punched an old typewriter when names wrought and
armies fought, and glory hailed the fighter. 1
my friend until the end as harmless as a rector and
wrote wise saws but never was g Constituencies OBJ
| jector
AS early as the eleventh century Novgorod began
to tribute from the Perm district and set
tiers there But when H. later, reach
ed from Moscow to Novgorod deported thousand of
the wealthy families, and sent Moscow paricians to take
their places Perm automatically released from Nov
gorod domination.
But the development of the mine region of the
Urals began with Peter the Great, during whose time
Ekaterinburg the Scranton of the Uras was founded
/ It slow in growing many of Peters
forms in taking root In the radical expert
ments now launched before Lenine's breakfast in Rus
STA is interesting to recall the storm of protest against
the instituted by Peter, because it was profane
numbering of the people, against the change in the
calendar, assailed effort to destroy 1.-The of
Our Lord and of that freakish if harmless edict
quiring shaved off, which regarded
an insidous scheme disfgure the image of God"
Christ would not recognize His own at the Judgment
Day
Peter named the city for his wife, later the Tsar-
za Catherine l. that strange figure in Russas bizarre
history who daughter of yeoman, foster child OF
humble pastor, wife of a Swedish dragon, sold after
being taken prisoner of to Russian prince who
fancied her. paramour of Great until the birth
of child impeed him to acknowledge her his wife
to crown her empress consor and to clear the for
her succession to the throne
No queen of proudest did or would have wished
o adorn herself as did the erswhe Martha Skovronsky
at the coronation ceremonies Her bore more than
$500 gems with walnut size ruby sustaining bejewel-
ed cross
When Peter took her to Berlin the daughter of EN-
peror Frederick William father of Frederick the Great
wrote in volume preserved her memoirs that the
empress appeared be low and that she wore SO
many decorations her dress ratified The Paris yer
dict of her remains unknown Peter left her at
Amsterdam when he the French capital 1t is fair
to assume that the monarch sought free field for gay
Rather
there and is quoted as saying, soldier; little
bread and beer satisfy me-
Like Cleopatra Du Barry, and other royal courtesans
Catherine was far from beautiful positively homely
from accounts But when she assembled the throne
! her common sense redeemed her illeracy. Her gem
laden crown and the luxury and power it stood for ala
not turn her head while other headdresses tell the story
of her devotion to her husband and Of loyalty TO her
people When she accompanied Peter in the Caspian cam
pagn she made the supreme sacrifice (or pre-Green
witch village days. of bobbng' her hair, and wearing
fitting cap protect her from the SUM- she
also set fashion wearing the cooked hat of the army
The former Russian government maintained an inn
portant mining school, chemical laboratory and gold as
say office at Ekaternburg Imperial lapidary works were
engaged in cutting and polishing malache marble, por
rhyry and jasper and the mint for copper
coins was located there
/ The city also was important industriay and COM
mericay Paper soap, candles and machinery man
uyactured 1t had mills and tanneres Its trade was
; in cereals silk goods, iron and cattle
)