New-York tribune., 1902-05-11

bearded fellow dressed in native homespun of a
royal purple color. His audience consisted of his
buxom wife and little girl. whose head only ap-
peared above mass of nondescrpt hand baggage.
Pretty soon the conductor was examining tickets.
How old is that child?" he asked. About three
years, do you say? Stand up little girl. All!
thought so. Six. If a day. Her legs must shut up
like a telescope Give francs for her
ticket, and remember that you will have month
longer in purgatory for lying about her age"
And you and your company" retorted the re-
former, will be made to drink melted lead for
robbing poor labortng people. The people go
ing to take charge of the railway before long, and
then you will see how il is for yourself"
Il told you would have to pay for Morika,"
said the wife reproachfuly. and now you have
brought on us the curses of the conductor to spoil
our luck" She spoke with conviction. not due to
outraged moral sense but to superstitous fears.
hum of voices filed the car. Fragments Of
sentences in divers languages projected them
selves upon the The wind threw down the
biggest walnut trees the plain like babies stand
ing alone for FIRST time" Prices are terrible
at Sofia; they ask 20 cents pound for FISH. and
ireSh hSh al that, with the entrails an in No
so much as an onion skin" II going to Con-
S.aE,lnople fcopie find gold in the streets at
T"nStantinople' How it runs! We shall be at
Hasskeuy in an hour. and it is hours by dirt
bought from the Vienna pedlers. the men wore the
jackets ana bagEy trousers of the farm laborers
We're OF different shades OF brown and their grdles
dyestufts of each particular village. Some
1Vy homemade shoes. and some ancient sandals
fJund with thongs upon the WOOllen Spats that
covered their 'eet the sandals pcrsSting like the
tail OF tadpole whose legs have grown. in the
case OF some who derby hats their heads.
Out OF this bedldm a low dis
ungGiShable OF WOmen'S voices talking English.
One of the voices Uumistakably American
and was setting forth the historical relations of
and still abundant the plains OF Eastern Ru-
mtla. Cautions and Judicous of the central
aisle let one observe both of the The
older or the two the American, dressed in "a
plain gray travelling dress with soft felt hat
wound with bit of gauzy stuff about the crown.
Her companion was Bulgarian girl of seventeen.
The bare head of the girl, her sky blue jacket. and
her gayly /-olOred dress large of figure and multi
tudinous In Its sathIrs at the waist showed her
cobbler in a town. Of small village trades
man. She illustrated the partiSanship shown in
the gifts Of nature, for her HaXen hair bound
In one immense braid. whose end lay at some
length on the bench by her side and whose text
ure was fine enough 10 hatter a queen. u was
some Tim" bpfOr. ] learned that this spectacle of
two English speaking In third class car
IN Bulgaria represented Of the forces slowly
and silently uplifting life IN this backward region.
class M home which holds many wavering men 10
allegiance 10 duty, who going TO the
home OF one OF her scholars for a vacation. And
that SCholar-stiN Bulgarian; sti OF the
Commoncst OF the common peope-had been
equipped by her little teacher with alert mind
and n pass key TO the treasure houses of English
literature
At one Of the way stations my seatmate the
aNeman of neShborly Instincts. tried 10 buy a