The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-15

peasant women in gaudiy striped frocks.
looking like priests. mountaineers from
Montenegro In fustanellas with long -beaked
yellow and red shoes and brilliant scarlet
oloaks, grave Hodschas in silken caitans
and green turbans. mingle on the streets
with Spanish Jewesees with brilliant gold
and silver headdresses and Montenegro
women in white skirts and sleeveless waists.
and little red caps with a rising sun en-
broidered on their fronts In gold.
Near Mach 10 a square tower. Tell
It's story and you tell the story OF the Balkans.
Ts1 s9.ss In ni s the fS1I
advanced toward Nisch. The Seryian
Woiwode, Stefan Sindjelitsch, intrenched
himself with 5000 Servisns in the village
OF Kan,entsa. They were overcome. When
the Janissafies rushed among them. Sind.
jefitsch fired the powder magazine and
blew his own mon and the Turks into pieces.
The Turkish army rayened like band
Of wolves and killed all ServiAns who were
left alive by, any chance. After they had
killed and burned till there was nothing
left TO Kill and burn they chopped the heads
on the dead servian. patriots. Then they
began the erection Of great square tower.
After II had risen to 30 me height they
began to alternate the rows OF stones with
rows Of Servian heads. Altogether they
set flfty-six rows Of seventeen heads each
IN alternate TONt Vi rtOHCos
This memorial Of the Tamerlanes Of the
nineteenth century was left lntouGhed.
with the skull, grinning out upon the land
until 1873 when the Servlsns 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;
il another strategic place that will be heard
from in case Of war. II il the fortress OF
Bela Palenka. and Moltke pronounced it
one Of the important points OF the Balkans.
II Ia guarded still by an ancient castle
fort built in 100 by the Grand Vizier Mus
tapbas Pssha He built it by the pleasant
eypedient OF tearing down Servian churches
and using their stones for II. He also TOOK
the slopes from ancient p Roman h t,,ins; nd.
on the Bulgarian boundary and has true
balkan history. 1t has been occupied at
various times by Turks. Bulgariane, Ser
vians, Russians and Aust rams. Almost
every time it was taken only After oaoody
From Servis to Bulgaria Ia 2 leap into
different manpers. different costumes. diner
The bulgarian does not love the. servian
unduly. Luckily for the peace between
them. the BulGarians'. are kept % busy
plotting and counter plotting about Mace
donna. that their somewhat embarrassing
attentions are directed almost enorsiy
south ward Just now
As tho Cuban Junta made ito head
quarters In the United States. 20 the MAo,-
DOMAIN Junta makes It's headquarters in
bulgaria But unlike the Cuban revolu-
tionists the Macedonian committee has
not merely enlisted Bulgarian sympathies
and aid II has risen to a great Bulgarian
political power. It'keeps the pitch not al
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 10,
man Generals. and al cHars who ruled
long before Russia had any. Time has
jumped over this land and touched It only
Go only q short distance from Salonica
ancient. stored Salonica VERY dirty nov
and inhabited by nea-bitten Turkish SOL
diers who do not like life. apparsn,lyl
de tumuli Of the MsoedoniAn kings, bls
stone piles just within sighting disIano"
Of each other, that served ~ the Stations
for the wireless teleGraphy ~ those days
Sou may find q fine old gen'l"nan.
dres..d In . long skir that Tails ne.s
,lsc knees and with pretty weapons fAs'~n~i
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