Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-23
PLACES OF PEACE


 The places of peace differ from the places of war, Battles are fought on empty hills, unknown farms. along
 rOaGways that have run for ages with out any claim 10 fame other than the tread of the pilgrims that have passed
 over them. But treaties come out of cities; world conferences are born in
 palaces long known to fame.
 Germany turns from Berlin to Wei mar for iaS new national assembly: ::
 Neimar, home of Goethe and Schillar.
 and long known as the Athens of Ger
 many, LisEt spent many years in its
 quiet streets. studying and writing. de | lending Wagner and producing the first ''LChengrin" in its opera house Goethe, minister of state under the hereditary Prince Charles Augustus. directed the construction of the ducsl palace and the Weimar Theater. where Richard Strauss conducted some O,
 his ssrly works.
 Some of the old Germany elings aOoCt WeImar; equally some of the mystery and loneliness of Russia is in the atmosphere of Princes Islands in the Sea Of MarmOra. where repreSen- tatlKeS of tRe factions of broken Rus Sia have been invited to attend an al, lied conference, History knows Prink- lpo chiefly sS a place of baniShment tor royal women.
 Cyril Arthur Player writes in ~The Detroit News" of the meeting place in what is often called the Demon Is IandSc
 Tt Is five centuries since the Prin- Is re sian representatives do meet the en, 1oys of the allies there. it will be the 1irst thing that has happened to the Princes Islands since the Turks took ConStantinople: that is. if vou except an earthquake in 1894. but no- body outside of Asia Minor paid much attention to that
 They will form an impressive set tlng, impressive alike for the beauty Of the setting and the eerie nature of their memories and traditions. The Princes Islands have witnessed some . queer things in their day, some mighty ! queer things they were not called ' the Demon Islands for nothing. They . won that title simply because the 4 souls of departed Greeks were be- heved to betake themselves to these l gemlike isles in the Sea of Marmora: wherefore ordinary humans steered 2 straight past.
 The Princes Islands are a cluster of nine islands in the Sea of Marmora. from ten to fifteen miles southeast of COnstantinople, and near the coast i cf Asia Minor, The one nearest to the BcSpOrus is Proti. which is about mile in length; the next is Anti gone, of about the same size: then comes Halki, nearly twice as large, ii and PrinSipO, largest of all, lies stin further to the east.
 The tiny archipelago of the islands ;bounds with legends, most of them iating from the Byzantine period. when the islands were a place of ban Shment. The old Byzantines did not i the beauty of the surround I ngs to the extent of erecting palaces ( 'f imperial villas; they did dot the : nils and line the shores with monas- { cries and nunne-ieS. ultimately con s -erting these to state prisons, abodes [ T hOrrOr.s within whose walls they Onfined such of their emperOrs anR ' patriarchs. generals and l tateSmen as became the victims of [ heir countless revolutions or of plain s erSecutiOn. g When MahOmet took Constanti- i ople he set apart these islands for r