Evening journal., 1907-11-16
IN ROUMANIA
Letter by Mrs. n. G. Knowles read
Before Daughters Of
the Revolution.
concluded from Nesterda1.

ters OF credence to King Peter, and /
had the pleasure of meeting his daugh-
ter, the Princess Helene. a very sweet
girl Of twenty-five years. who does her
best to fill a very eNacting position.
Motherless and brought up in a
strange country. the Princess has few
friends among the Servian girls of
good family, and is obliged besides TO
live within fifty feet from the spot
where King Alexander and Queen
Drago were so horribly murdered. Az
ter my audience with the Princess, she
invited me to tea in the palace garden.
All sorts of dainty cool things to cat
and drink were served, and after
wards cigarettes were passed, and few
there refused, except Mrs. Whitehead,
the wife of the English Minister, and
I Mrs. Knowles. We had ever so good
a time in Belgrade. everyone was 50
kind TO us, but it is not a progresses
ing city; sewers are just being intro
/ duced, and the pavements are-well,
the less said the better.
When we left Belgrade we took
steamer and came down the Danube to
Turnio SEVERN, just within the Rou-
manian frontier. IL was a beautiful
ride On the banks Of the river from
time TO time were old ruins, fortresses
with oreneleated towers speaking not
only of the time when knights were
bold" but of their wonderful skill in
building. As we approached the mar
row gorge OF the Danube known as the
l"IpOn Gates" we were constantly re-
minded that the Romans had been
There. We saw the Inscribed tablet Of
THAT inveterate old globe trotter. Tro-
jan, people they were. those
old Romans, and what a lasting mark
they left on good Mother Earth.
! lnAugust we went TO Bulgaria and there
Mr., Knowles presented his letters Of
lcredence 10 Prince Ferdinand and lis
tened with pleasure to His Highness's s
leulogy Of our able and brilliant Presi-
dent. / might remark in passing that
Mr.. Roosevelt is enthusiastically ad-
lmired in Europe and is looked upon
generally as our country's greatest man.
While i'm Bulgaria we made two
visits 10 American missions and then
Il did wish YOU were all with me, what n
lpatriotic love feast we would have had.
1.-THE northern part of Bulgaria has been
: lassigned to the Methodists, the south
ern part 10 the Congregationalists and
IHUNn are ANllb ElfsNAlAAA WI III NNA
way TO Sophia we stopped at Plevia,
b the scene Of the great battle of the
Busso-Turkish war where Osman Pasha
finally surrendered and by which Bull
, lgaria obtained her liberty At Plevua
we were met by a naturalized Ameri-
, lean who received us cordially and con-
Quoted us TO the carriage which the
. missionaries had secured for us. We
started off, three horses harnessed
labreast 10 an open carriage, bells iing-
ling, whip cracking and making a fine
, show one driver, tall gaunt indi-
lvidual might have been the long, lean
lantern iawed man just down from
Michigan" but alasl he wasn't, so We
had TO converse exclusively in sigr
Language.
We drove four hours steadily. only
stopping a few minutes TO water ant
, feed the horses night fell with all itl
! mysterious sounds. and the harsh out.
| lines Of the hills and the bare field.
! were softened and beautihed in TN,
. light Of the young moon. II was ter
ioclock when we reached LOvetch anC
drew rein under the light of the mis-
sion door After the oriental counr,
we had passed through. with all th'
unusual and picturesque costumes ant
sights. il was really a shock to be re.
| ceiNed by Miss Blackburn and Miss
J Davis whose accenUs at'once told tha
they were from Illinois, and to entei
the house which looked as though Il
had been taken up bodily from,-sa,
Georgetown. and set down in Bulgaria
When they gave us friend chicken will
: milk gravy. mashed potatoes, canned
J corn. cold slaw and apple pie for dinner
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was really in Lovetch. We had sucl
a lovely time, we gladly promised that
all being well. we would go back mex
spring and cross the Shipka pass t
Kasenlik, the valley Of roses wher'
the celebrated altar Of roses is made
From Sophia we went six hours int
p the country. over another spur Of tn
{ Balkans, to Samakow. where we spen
= three days with the missionaries, ant
, what a treat Il wasl One who has no
been in this part of the world canno
: realize what peculiar conditions pre-
vail in the Balkan territory, nor wha
: the Macedonian Question" means.
+ would not even try to explain it, bu
: will only say that conditions are sucl
] that the American schools offer tn
a only moral and efficient education 4
, be had and the results are fine beyoni
! doubling. The native church does abso
iutely nothing for the people, not evel
I. sermons are preached. except on spec
Iial occasions and The people know moth
ing of the Bible. Their religion, s.
called, amounts TO simple fetch wor
ship, hence when the Bible readers q
n among them, many are simply over
: ioyed and become the very truest o
j Christians: they do not bubble owe
doctrine or quarrel over the spllttin
= Of hairs, they simply believe, and d
l. The will of Gcd as best they can, jus
d as Gid the early Christians when tn
e W anderful message was first given b
q tile apostles Naturally these moder
lconverts look up to the missionarle
= as to beings of a superior order an
the United States almost spells Heavc
to them, as they think all American
= are like the missionaries. AS man
as can get away go TO America conf
dent that beneath the stars and stripe
they will find the freedom, peace an
riches which are so hard to have
their own country. 1t made my hear
ache to think how many have bee
disappointed. SO great has been IN
tide Of immigration TO the Unite
States, some villages have only wome
and children in them. The Bulgaria
II government has tried different re
pressive measures without avail.
To me il was most inspiring TO b
among those brave patient mission
/, aries; to see the actual working c
the faith that makes faithful and
faaI that American devotions patriot