Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-15

they set %Hfty-six rows Of seventeen heads
each in alternate rows OF stones.
This memorial of the Tamerlanes of the
nineteenth century was left untouched,
with the skulls grinning out upon the land.
until 1878, when the S~ervians took them
out reverently and buried them, with the
exception OF one that still looks out from
the east side Of the tower.
Farther on, near the Bulgarian boundary,
is another strategic place that will be
heard from in case of war. 1t is the
fortress of Bella. Palenka, and Moltkc pro-
nounced it one of the important points of
the Balkans. 1t was the old Roman city
Of Remesiana. 1t is guarded still by an
ancient castle-fort built in 1900 by the
. Grand Vizier Mustapha Pasha. He built IL
by the pleasant expedient Of tearing down
Servian churches and using their stones for
it. He also took the stones from ancient
Roman ruins.
This town, is close to .Piost, which stands
on the Bulgarian boundary and has a true
Balkan history. 1t has been occupied at
various times by Turks, Bnlgarians, Ser
vians, Russians ard Austrians. Almost
every time it was taken only after bloody
fighting.
From Servia to Bulgaria is a leap into
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ferent architecture.
The Bulgarian does not love the Servian
unduly. Luckily for the peace between
them, the Bulgarians are kept SO busy
plotting and contemplating about Mace
donia that their somewhat embarrassing
attentions are directed almost entirely
southwark just now.
AS the Cuban junta made its headouart-
ers in the United States, so the Macedonian
Junta makes its headquarters in BulRaria.
But unlike the Cuban revolutionists, the
Macedonian committee has not merely en-
listed Bulgarian sympathies and aid. 1t
has risen to a great Bulgarian political
power.
It keeps the pitch hot all the time.
Dive out of Bulgaria and into the noun
tain districts of Macedonia and you dive
into a land of Alexander the Great, of
Roman generals, and Of czars who were
cars long before Russia had any. Time
has jumped over this land and touched
1t only in leaps ages apart.
Go only a short distance from Salonica,
ancient, stored Salonica very dirty now
and inhabited by fea-bitten Turkish SOL
diers who do not like life, apparently.
and you will find a country marked with
the tumuli of the Macedonian kings, big
stone piles just within sighting distance
Of each other, that served as the stations
for the. wireless telegraphy OF those days.
You may find a fine old gentleman, dressed
In a long skirt that falls below the knees
and with pretty weapons fastened to all
available prOtuberances. He will talk TO
you If he trusts you and you are for
~tunately so poor that you are nor worth
capturing) OF his system Of levying tribute
as unconcernedly as IL he lived in the day
of Ulysses, earning his living with his
good sword and shield.
Turkish soldiers gaze with respect at
the very brigands whom they are, tech
nically, sworn to kill. Those brigands
swagger through the villages beloved by
all the women, envied and admired by ali
the men, afraid of nobody. Impossible
though II seems, they wear even more arms
than the other citizens. They strut by the
Turks superciliously, mockingly.
Sometimes the Macedonian brigand sits
on a rock just out of gunshpt from a gar