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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, March 22, 1913, NOON EDITION, Image 7

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-THE HISTORY OF THE
Constantine tjie First established
Constantinople as the capital of the
Byzantine empire.
Constantine the Eleventh surren
dered Constantinople to the Turks a
thousand years later.
Constantine the Twelfth succeeds
to the throne of Greece after a lapse
of another thousand years, a leader
.of the Christian hordes that are again
clamoring at the gates of the great
"city given to the world by his great
predecessor.
.' All this leads to, the serious con
sideratfcnuof the old Creek legend
"prophesying the coming1 of another
Constantine who'would restore Con
stantinople to the jflag- bearing the
across. ' ,
Like Constantine the Great, Gon
stantine the Twelfth is . not a 'Greek.
He'?was -born -in Athens, it is true,
but his father, the murdered King
George, was a Dane and his mother a
Russian. From behig one of the most
hated men ".in "Greece, Constantine
!;has, through " his military ability in
'the present -war, become the "most
popular.. ' -
, The first Constantine, next to Alex
ander, was -the greatest of the workT
conquerors. He founded the Byzan
tine empire and piived the way for
the introduction of Christianity to the
world.' He left an. empire such as the
world had never? since before and has
Jnever seen since: Prom the 'moment
jof his death, practically, dates the de
i cadence of, Greece. .
1 Always, an unsettled, Iqbselyrform
ed federation of uneasy peoples, it
gradually fell to. pieces as a great
country of he world until today it
occupies but a speck, of land in what
was formerly a vast dominion that;
overlapped the' Mediterranean and
?seeped..intx Asia and Northern Eu
rope. Agnation - that Kwas known
throughout the world for ifs states
men, its artists,.its scientists its sall
cors and its soldiers in the daj of the
first great emperor, is now better
KING CONSTANCIES
known for its hucksters, its boot
blacks and. its bandits.
Constantine the great left the en
tire Christian world as a heritage
2,000 years, ago.' Constantine the
Twelfth receives a second-hand king
dom .that was peddled through Eu
rope until- a prince was found too
poor to refuse its throne. But he has
' ' King Constantine.
a name that' means .much specially
with relation to1 Constantinople. A
Constantine built it; a Constantine
lost it and now another. 'Constantine
is waiting --eagerly outside its gates
for the beleaguered inhabitants to
throw themselves on" the mercy of. the
troops he leads. 4 ' !
c-o-
An Eye to the Future.
Crummer "What are you turning
there?" .
Gilleland "A bundle of old;4ibye
letters,"
Crummer "That is wise", "it is
better to b,urn them than to have
them roast you some time in the
future."' .

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