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A CITY OF EVIL.

Mr. G. Ward Price, the well-known cur- respondent of the London Daily Mail writes of Constantinople as follows:

The writer of that missionary hymn about the place where every pospect pleases- and only man is vile" wasted a good line in Na dould hare applying it to chylon. wailed until he had siøs Canstantinople

Of all the work's

"this is the cities great most beautiful in the mass and the most squalid in detail. Nature in her magni- ficence and ninu in his manness have here unitel to put pinch-heel in the setting of a

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Look at it from the deck of a ship, By above it in an aeroplane, and Constantinopla seunis like the city of a beautiful dream. Set foot in it, and the enchantment vani- shes, destenyed not only by ill-paved streets. mean baiki tul dirty perle, but also by the nt of gal blight that rests upon the plast

What is the matter with Constantinople? Even

its owners, the Turks, fear its evil spell and are most reluctant to make it once more the capital of their country.

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In twelve years Requaintance I have come to think of the city as af a man aieted with mysterion, organic disease liable to manifont illf in many different forms. Vice unti listamery flourish abundantly in it, but straightforward dealing comes seldom to any conspicuous rewardą,

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Some people Trang the corruption of molyra Constantinople to inlritaner fevan the degenerate Greek Einpira from which the Turks conquered it, as if that crumbling- five hundred years old masogry which is still did stuff in Stamboul exadec

the to Home taint to pervers its present in- habitants.

But a likelier explanation is that, through its geographies situation. Constantinople has always been a sink into which the secur-

of the whole Levant have died Uniformity of race sets to be in primary condition of national efficiency. It was not until the Turks went back intr their home- land of Anatolia that they recovered That is why they want to keep strength. their capital at Angora and recoil from the contamination of the mongrel population of Constantinople, made up of Greek, Armeni Jew, Arab, liussian, Cinskian, Georgiau, and Levantine, with sumpics of almost

every inther nation

the world thrown in.

their r was through mixing

with strain all the rucs represented in their capithi that the Tarks of Constantinople

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Yet, like many things that are evil, Con stantinople has a strange lor, and doubtless the Turkish Government will, in the end, ening back here-ren though it be to its

hurs.

WELL-KNOWN JOCKEY

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CHAMPION STEEPLECHASE RIDER

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Parfrument, the jockey, hi fatul fall nt Enghien last month at Paris when ril ing Fiek Marshal for Captain J. D. Cohn, the American owner. Captain Cohn said later that he was so distress that he had and decided to sell all his steeplechasers give up competing “over the stick" l'arfre ment, who won more streplechase events in Trance than any other jockey, had already won the first race of the meeting on Cam- bry He rode Lutteur III to victory in the Grand National of 1000 for Mr. James Hennessy. He was still breathing when

up but died on the way to hospital.. picerement was born in Belgium. Ilis

was British, his father

Freach. mother rele maay wingers in During to Mr. P. Whitak ras stable. In March he won the Imperial Cap at Sandown оп Mr. James White's North Waltham. The ist mount be had in England was Count Ross at Liverpool, the day after the Grand National. The horse won and afterwards was disqualified

the war

NOBLESSE 'OBLIGE.

BISTOP AND EX-MAYOR AN PORTERS. A remarkable incident was witnessed at Durham qu April 17th. A widowed char woman was carrying a basket of clothes home for washing, when Alderman Arthur Pattinn, ex- -Mayor, noticing her difficulty, offered his assistanco. A few moments later they mat Bishop Welldon strolling along the river banks He also offered help, and Bishop and Alderman, each hold- ing a handle of the basket, carried the clothes a quarter of a mile to the widow's home.

WOMEN AND THE FRENCH ACADEMY.

For the first time since its foundation the Academie Française has accepted the candidature of a woman. In recent days several women have had their claims to sit with the immortals put forward and discussed in the

now vacant is that of Jean Aircard: and names of the cardi. dates accepted for this include simply the Faucamberga. Madame Alfred Mortier, who writes under the pen name of D'Aurel, is the lady thus osigually honoured. Madame Mortier, in an inter Tiew, says she can conceive of no valid argument against the admission of women to the Academy-

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