Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-20

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- ELGRADE, servia, Feb. 2O.-m
II every land, for the past few
months. series Of dispatche
has been published from Bel
grade. the capital Of the little king
dom Of seryia These dispatches tell
ths story OF the arming OF the servian
people and the threatening tone as
sumsd by this little state against the
great Austro- Hungarian empire. This
lend is now the crater of q volcano that
at any moment may break out into
erupuons ard with the dire effects Of
war; deal death and destruction to
many lands ln southeastern Europe.
DO I- not easy TO understand the pres
cui pol ticd position OF Serva. for one
m5usuainted with the history and poll
Cg uf the Balkan states. In order 20
become acquainted with &C.. he must 60
back Wauy. centuries. After the deca-
dUngo Of the Roman empire the lands
now occupied by the Balkan states and
the southern portion of the Austrian
empire were overrun BIZ three races Of
people. of which the Ssryians We're ON
the vest. reaching 10 tho AdriatiC sea.
Southeast Of them were the Bulgtrt-
ans. while on tho northeast were the
Roumanians. The Ssrvisns were
Slavic people speaking a Slavic Ian
eGage. the Bulgarians a mixed Hun
nish and Slavic people, speaking a Ian
-uage souaWhat similar to Finnish
but with half the words similar 10
Serv3n. The Roumanian people are
descended TO n large extent from colo
n.os of mefceusries established by the
Romans 70 protect the lower reaches
nf the Danube and speak "a language
that ha4,a likeness TO Latin, the tongue
OFF the BBrans
The extent sf the laRdy where these
lnguIses are spoken greatly exceed
r1o llmnS of the present kingdoms NJ
S.rvia. Bhlgaria aud Roumana. The
SarvIap of Stavonic language Is not
only spoken Ina the kingdom OF Servia-
but with dialectiCal differences, In Bos-
U,a, Herzegovina Montenegro, Croatoa
and Hungarian Sayonla; the language
being tho mother topse Of some 1000
roo people. of which only two and a half
millions live iR Servia.
MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY.
The country tween the Adriatic sea
and the Danube river where IL turns
t1 the east. is mostly mountainous
ueople are generally poor and not very
clean. Many dress lu shcepSkins with
the woolly side IN tyou recognize the
perfume OF the sheepskins when you
ore in heated roOm), and wear sandals
with heavy wooden stockings, or instead
of stockings they use a wrapping Of
cloth Among the Scryian people there
lra lu many places community lands
E .rrg the house father and the house
mother not always man and wife, d.
rect the labor OF the small community
md divide the proceeds
They are a lighting people. but trav-
cling DE- fairly safe In the south
where the Albanian Montenagren and
Macedonian frontiers touch. it would
Do. unWise to travel without am escort
MS racial fouds. with much bloodshod.
lre continually being carried on.
no the north Of here from the Adri-
attic sea- no Fiume 90 peterWardein,
district 90 land about 200 miles long and
iH miles wide. was known until about
E1 years ago ms the Austrian military
frontier m this frontier district every
man from NJ % 60 years ~ age had
Oh serve practically an his best life
period as a soldier the Austrian gov
eminent furnishing him arms clofhing
and ammunition and allowing him two