Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-11

monuments of memorials. They are to
martyrs of the Turkish wars, muir
| dered statesmen and assasslnated pat
| riot. Nearly every paving stone Is
pregnant with bloody story that
reachest almost from the time the first
stone was laid to the beginning OF the
present generation. The last Turkish
| garrison did not move out Of Belgrade
until 1861 and until then the entire
| eastern portion Of the town was popu-
| lated by Turks. The Turks hand is
| still to be seen everywhere--in minarets
| and other architecture, in costumes and
| In manners.
on Friday, when the weekly market
Is held in the city, the streets are full
of red fezzes. The Serylan peasant still
wears the Turkish trousers gathered at
| the ankles. Often he wraps a towel
! like mass Of linen around his high fez.
Sometimes he wears high sheepskin
cap. Every peasant wears a long shap-
| ly pointed and keenly ground knife on
his right side in a wooden scabbard.
From Belgrade the train roars
| through land which. only few years
ago, was a land Of brigands, whole
villages being held as openly by them
| as If their occupation were the most
| commonplace. one particularly famous
and strong home Of the brigands was
| the village of Domuspotek (the brook of
pigs. Now the most unusual occupa-
| tion Of most OF those villages Is to boil
| down plums in great caldrons In the
| open air in the season.
If man wishes to see all the tribes
| Of the Balkans, he need merely con-
| tinue on the train to the town of Nisch.
! Nisch will be the great object Of man
| euvers II ever there is Balkan war.
| It's strong fortress commands the key
| to the road into Bulgaria and Mace
! donia. Christian churches and Turkish
| mosques stand there almost side by
/ side The cry OF the imaum from the
| minaret mingles with the bells that call
| the Catholic worshippcr. Armed like
arsenals, with long pistols, long rifles,
| long knives, MaCedonians, Albanians
| and Arnauts shuttle along with the
| walk Of the mountalneer. Servlan peas
! ant women in gaudily striped frocks.
| Bulgarian women dressed In black and
| looking like priests mountaineers from
| Montenegro IN fustanellas with long
| be8ked yellow and red shoes and brill
| liant scarlet cloaks, grave Hodschas in
| silken caftans and green turbans, min
| gle on the streets with Spanish Jewess-
es with brilliant gold and silver head
| dresses, and Montenegrin women In
| white skirts and sleeveless waists and
! little red caps, with a rising sun en-
brodered on their fronts In gold.
THE TOWER OF SKULLS.
Near Nisch is a square tower. Tell It's
story and you tell the story Of the Bal
| kans.
The tower Is known as the Tschele-
| kula meaning Skull tower" In 1903
the Turks advanced toward Nlsch. The
| Seryan Wolwode, Stefan Sindjelitsch.
| intrenched himself with 5000 Seryians
| In the village OF KamenitZa. They were
overcome When the Janissaries rushed
among them, SinGjeltsch fired the pow
| der magazines and blew his own men
/ and the Turks into pieces. The Turkish
/ army ravened like a band Of wolves and
| killed all Servans who were left alive
| by any chance. After they had killed
and burned til there was nothing left
/ to kin and burn they chopped the
/ heads of the dead Servlan patriots
| Then they began the erection Of great
/ square tower. After It had risen 10
| some height they began 10 alternate the
/ rows Of stones with rows OF Servian
/ heads Altogether they set fifty-six
| rows OF seventeen heads each In alter
| nate rows Of stones. This memorial
! Of the Tamerlanes Of the Nineteenth
century was left untouched, with the
skulls grnnng out upon the land until
1875. when the Serylans took them out
reyerently and buried them with the
| exception OF one that still looks out
from the east side OF the tower.
Farther on. near the Bulgarian boun-
dairy Is another strategic place that
will be heard from In case Of war II Is
| the fortress OF Bella Palenka and Mott
/ Ike pronounced II one Of the important
points Of the Balkans IL was the old
| Roman city OF Remesiana It is guard
! ed stlll by an ancient castle-f0rt. bulk
/ In 1900 by the grand yizier Mustapha
! Pasha He built II by the pleasant
/ expedient Of tearing down Seryian
! churches and using their stones FOR H.
| He also took the stones from ancient
| Roman ruins.
As the Cuban iunta made its head
| quarters In the United States, 20 the
] AlaNtANHleu ANUAh uldhfE us ANAuNAAl~
| tiers IN Bulgaria. But unlike the Gu
ban reyo.utionists, the Macedonian
| committee has not merely enlisted Bull
| garlap sympathies and ala. IL has risen
| 90 a great Bulgarian political power. II
keeps the pitch hot an the time.
Dive out Of Bulgaria and into the
mountain districts Of Macedonia ana
you dive into the land Of Alexander the
I Great, Of Roman generals and
Of czars who were czars long
before Russia had any. Time has
jumped over this land and touched %
only Ia leaps ages apart Go only n
short distance from salonica. ancient.
Ttoried salorlca very dirty nov and
inhabited by Aee-btten Turkish sol
diers who do not like life apparently,
1rl you viii find q country marked
| U.lh the tuinuli Of the Macedonian
| I adj ID