Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-01-31

the wailing of widows"
For thirty years Bulgaria
has sung these words of
her national hymn, embodying the
temperamental Slavic melancholy
which permeates her literature and
music. But now the wall of centuries
deepens into paean Of victory; the
children and the soldiers are now
singing this new version of the old
melody:
= The blood-red Martha Is foaming.
MORALLY wounded Turkey lies groaning:
On. on. zarigrad lConstantinople) is
One, two, three, march the infantry.
During all my twenty-five years
here" writes a Russian exile, civil
engineer in southern Bulgaria, in a
personal letter to friend in New
York, II have never seen the Bull
garian people SO deeply reused. The
women are organizing committees to
raise funds for the Red Cross work
and for the relief of the families suf-
fering because all their male men,
bers have gone to the front. For
several days after hostilities broke out
1t was impossible to buy bread. The
bakers were working night and day,
but they would not sell to the civil
ians; all was for the soldiers.
Young Boys Volunteer.
Our arsenal is three kilometers
from the barracks, and the authorities
were puzzled how to transport the
Mannlicher rifles for the new recruits
over to the barracks. The soldiers
were all on duty or drilling, and every
wagon in town was in use for carry
ing supplies. Help came to them
from an unexpected quarter. A COM
mittee Of three boys appeared and
asked that they be allowed to solve
the. problem. All the small boys Of
the town-they ran in age from eight
to fourteen-marched out to the ar
senal, organized into large companies.
and, each company under the direc-
ton of an old man, the little fellows
solemnly shouldered the guns and
trudged those three kilometers over
plowed fields to the barracks, re-
tracing their sterD many times until
every Mannlicher had been carried
over to the barracks"
This is a war that the people have
wanted and have been expecting for
many years. SO they gladly have come
to the financial assistance of the gov
eminent In every town citizens
formed committees to raise the nee
essary funds. In LON. one Of the
smaller provincial towns, such COM
mittee collected 400 francs the first
day the subscription was opened, 1890
francs on the second day. and at the
end of the fourth day it had $4,000
francs in hand. In this particular
case the money was used to equip
volunteer companies which were es-
corted to the trains by all the city
officials and the citizens who had not
vet been called to the colors.
Each small town is the market Gen.
ter of it's surrounding district. and 1t
is In them that the commissary de-
partment of the army has established
depots for gathering in supplies for
troops. Every day the peasants come
driving in their cattle and sheep and
pigs. and compete with each other in
giving. Many old peasants, who
fought in the Russo-Turkish war. or
in the war with Servia. are trying to
have themselves enlisted again. One
old man from Boyana drove into town
in wagon drawn by two buhaloes
and sought out the recruiting officer.
Giving Of Slender Store.
81 know l am too old to fight" he
said but you need men to drive the
supply wagons. Can't you make use
of me and my wagon and my buffa-
loes?"'
In the towns the very poorest peo-
p,e are giving ali the clothes they
can spare for the use of the soldiers.
Those families which have been left
without means of livelihood, because
the men have gone to the front, are
being amply provided FOR by commit
tees OF women and the weather. ciu-