The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-11-18
From the London Chronicle.

peasants were moving about armed
with rifles instead of pitchforks. They
We're dressed in their ordinary brown
peasant rags. with their pointed shoes
dashed tightly round their legs with
leather thongs. az II is Balkan way.
| These We're the last reseryists coming
in-men for whom no uniforms were
| left. Like Russian soldiers, they car
Ted rifles with bayoncts fixed, but az
that time on cold rainy morning thoir
| passion for hloodshed did not seem CN-
! uherant
an alone the line similar fighters
stood AT every bridge or crossing,
| guarding the main communication. At
| intervals one saw large mustcls n
! preparation. Most stations were
| crowded with men. The women usual
~ squatted in the ram AT one end,
| dressed i'm the Selvian peasant fashion,
watching events.
The Spirit of War.
on entering bulgaria one felt a
change. Here was the spirit of war
| the spirit ! have felt in other places
hll' II NhI was ttIt III lIbNsNu sup
lomacy sin talked. The station a:
Sofia was a wild chaos Of armed men
stores, ammunition mas, officers lug
gage, maddened officials cheering
crowds, and weeping relations. do
not mean the chaos was helpless. or
that this is in excited and Gesticulat-
ing people. The scene was only such as
is always enacted at the station of a
capital town when war is coming. IL
The city the spirit was the same. The
streets were crowded with people
moving restlessly UP and dow n. Boys
rushed through the crowd. yelling the
latest newspapers
Officers and Grdcrlies gallored,
splashing liluid mud and stumbling
over the slippery and uneven pave.
ment Buffalo carts waddled along,
making their steady two miles an hour
cart loads of bread were dragged
away from the populace who already
began To feel the rising prices of every
thing that can be eaten. Banks had
all their shutters down. You can get
no money FOR love or notes. Private
people charge ten francs commission
on every English E5 notc.and no small
change is To be had at post or tele-
graph. You must pay the exact sum
in cash to a halfpenny, or no telegram
is taken Only one shop in fifty Is
open. Everything that can be dev CURED
or worn for warmth is Communicated
for the army No tramG run, because
the drivers ana conductors are carry
ing rifles. Hardly any postmer are
left. All schools are shut, because the
teachers have joined their regiments
No men servants are left in hotels or
private houses, except where few
have been imported from Austria. The
city looks as though it suffered from
a week OF Scottish Sabbaths. Flour
yesterday ran up TO nearly double its
price. After another week of il tho
state of seige" now declared vii be
no mere phrase.
The Hour Has Come.
1t would be absurd 10 talk Of any
thing hut the war. No one thinks of
anything else. The losses must already
be very heavy, and all lose alike, ex-
oept a few army contractors and one
or two hotel keepers. They, however
have to work pretty hard and so have
their guests. Imagine what an English
city would be like If nearly all the men
of working age suddenly disappeared.
Add the elements of fear. of age. of
impending death and of a concentrated
national hatred. such rs We have never
known for at least a century then you
may have some notion of the spirit that
prevails over all hroods the dominat !.
ing AT last"
| suppose il is Just thirty-fve wears
since the Bulgarian Atrocities" stirred
even the dull and insensitive world to
| horror Ii is nearly that time since
Bulgaria herself was delivered from the
| loaths0me Turkish rule. But across the
| frontier thousands Of Bulgarians have
| been ground and tortured under it
without ceasing. No change has come
no advance, no real reform The TURK,
young and old. has proved himself in
| capable Of reformation. Think Of the
! long tale Of his Understandable abomlna-
tiOns, or Of Kochana and Berane, only
| a few weeks ago And now there is a
chance-there is a fighting chance tho [
the hour has come. At the worst, bet :
| ter an end with horror than horrors
without end" as the Macedonians used
10 say. For good or evil chanre, the
hour has come. AT last"
Such is the spirit Of the city and in
that spirit the deputies in the Sobranjc
greeted the Tsar Ferdinand when he
opened the session yesterday. Through
his long and hazardous reign he has
ensued peace, No one can charge him
with wnrlike proclivitics. but Re, too
tas yielded AT last" I arrived too
late for the ceremony, but attended
a special meeting this Sunday after
noon. Every seat was fun in the wide
I half circles where the deputies sit
facing the chairman at his table, and
the speaker on the low tribunal. Every
; gallery and passage was crowded to
suffocation by the eager popuiace, wht
/ Joined In applause with the deputies
clapping their hands and shouting in
most natural and unparlamentarS
style. The chamber is a large, modern