The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03


tingent Of wounded, working throughout
the whole night to alleviate the pain of the
sufferers, among whom may be mentioned
in this connection, Mrs. White (now Lady
White, the charming wife of the then
representative of the British government
in Belgrade, who was always first and
foremost in the good cause Of charity.
As an instance of the ruling passion be
ing strong in DEATH I may mention the
fact that only two Of my charges died;
one on the barge during the journey, the
other in hospital. When the case of the
latter was found to be hopeless, he was
told by Mrs. White (who spoke Servian)
that IL he had any special wish it should,
If possible, he complied with. For some
time he was silent, then, with a bright
smile, he looked up into her anxiously SYM
pathetic face and said, apples" l at
once rushed out and returned with sew
eral; he seized them with nervous energy
and commenced devouring one ravenous-
ly, dying, in fact, in the effort before he
could finish it.
Foremost amongst distinguished women
on the war path was the queen of Rou-
mania C'Carmen Silva.') My first ac-
quaintance with this most fascinating SOW
ereign was at the Red Cross hospital at
Bucharest. Conigsby, the Times CORE
spondent who was with me at the time,
had Just left Philipopolis. where Lady
I
ergies to the succor Of the wounded Tell
me-" said her majesty (then Princess
Elizabeth, In excellent English, how
many beds has Lady Strangford in her
hospital?' "Forty-eight, your majesty"
Then tell her ladyship, when next you
see her, Mr.. Conigsby, that 1 have ffty-
four" Her womanly pride raised her
| above her social station. Carmen SYLVIA
was six to the good; there was a merry
twinkle in that royal eye.
romance worth remembering took
place while / was at PleNna, which curl
ously affected the destinies of a certain
| tiny damsel who was found left behind in
shattered Bulgarian hut by the advanc-
ing Russian troops. At the end of the war
this little waif was tenderly cared for and
| educated by the officers and men of the
regiment which had found her, developing
eventually into lovely and accomplished
| girl, who only a few years since married
a dashing young lieutenant of that same
! corps, which had been instrumental in
! saving her life.
surely fact is stranger than fiction
Here is yet another instance of a Russian
! cavalry officer who, having just mar
ried, was about to start on his honey
| moon when, war being declared, he was
/ ordered instanter to the front, whittier
in defiance of military permission, which
1 could never have been accorded. his
! young wife, circumventing an enormous
/ number of difficulties, succeeded In fol-
! lowing him, and where on several oc-
/ casions l saw her riding around the lines.
often drawing fire from the Turkish rifle
! pits She somehow managed to remain,
/ nevertheless, throughout the greater part
! OF the seige, much. as her husband told me-
/ TO his own discontinue, his anxiety for
/ her safety almost eehpsing his sense of
duty. Non sibi sed patriae; not for him
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! country.
There was, by the way, an old female
| cook, who, after the flight Of it's landlord,
| completely ran a hotel during the she'll
ing of Georgivo by the Turks, this leath-
! cry antique, but plucky parsonage con-
timing herself chiefly to the cellars of
/ the establishment, where she cooked and
| otherwise supplied the wants of such Off
! GERS and coNespondents-amo whom
We're the specials of the Times, Daily
/ Telegraph, Daily News. Scotsman, etc
who were content to take pot luck in
passing a desultory shell fire. Nor was
the poor old soul selfish in this matter.
/ her hope, by eXorbitant charges, being
TO benefit her son-the apple of her eye
a sort of half-dazed, galvanized impulse,
| who in terrible trepidation played the
part of waiter, shudderlng at everything
which resembled the most distant detona-
ton of shell.
Then there Is that other woman to be
| found on the warpath who follows in the
wake of carnage, one who concerns her
| self rather with the dead than with the
| living, whose hopes and aims in life may
| be sumed up In the one word-pelf-as
represe nted by epaulettes and gold lace.
| with an occasional watch or signet ring
thrown in; indeed, l have, with reference
! TO signet rings, gruesome memory,
which dates back to 1877. 1t was the night
/ after the battle of levin, in Asia Minor:
| one Of my native followers had purchased
/ from one of these hays of the battlefield.
massive gold ring with Russian mon
ogram upon it, at an advanced price, the
! proud possessor of this souvenir of the
recent fight, adding that If I had any
! doubt about its genuineness, the gold
seeker who had appropriated it would
! with pleasure supply the finger of the dead
man from whom it had been taken. was
however. in this case (even with the finger
thrown IND not to be tempted. although
/ (minus that dead mans digit fellow cor
respondent at once acquired the relic
could ramble on for hours concerning
| the Rosicrucians Of all nations whom I
! have come across on the war path.
/ amongst whom, conspicuous for their
! daring, We're the ladies' Of the Russian
! Red Cross during the war Of 1877. Nor