The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-13
INTO ACTION SERV|A ONCE GREAT
Time When Little Country Was
Mistress of the World.
Conquests of Alexander the Great Re-
called by the Sad Fate Which
Now Seems to Await
the Land.

Washington.-The American reader
eastern Europe can hardly realize that
the little country of Servia, now over
run by the legions of Austria, was
once mistress of the world; that it
was from the hills into which the
Serbs are now falling back to make
a life-stand against the Austrian adj
vance there once marched forth an
army that conquered the whole civil
lized world.
Yet such is the fact; from the rug
ged mountain range that runs between
the meadows Of the Danube and the
shores of the Mediterranean there
sprung forth hardy race. of warriors
that conquered the world in an all-too-
bewildering short time.
1t was in the year $40 before Christ.
King Philip of Macedon, that ancient
ruler who held sway. over the land
now called Servia, had welded into a
marvelousiy wonderful mass the union
Of the keen-witted, imaginative, light
footed Greeks and the sturdy, tough
hided Thracian. To his son, Alexan-
der the Great, he delivered fighting
force Of 10000 fighting men, who COM
bined all the best qualities of both
the world of that time. ~
The young Servian, Alexander, start
ed forth, when but a few years more
than twenty-one, with these 10000
husky Servians-Macedonia as they
were then known-at his back. He
crossed the Rellespont into Asia,
fought the battle of Granicus and sub
quering by a few brief battles, the
whole coast of the eastern Mediterra-
mean, he halted year to turn off and
conquer the hoary-headed country Of
Egypt. He not only conquered it, this
young Servian, but he persuaded the
big men of the district that he was
the son of the ruling god. That was
the way the Servians of that day in
troduced themselves into a country.
Thence the young SerYian started
forth into Asia. At Arbela he over
threw the century-old empire of the
Persian-Chaldean rulers. He was about
twenty-seven years old at that time
quite feat for youth.
From the conquest of this ancient
quest of Cathay, now China, and adj
vanced into the interior of the present
domain of Thibet.
From his far eastern conquest the
young Servian turned back and direct
ed his energies toward India. Into
that country he headed these faithful
Servians-for, throughout the whole
Of his triumphant course, his 10000
native soldiers had been his mainstay.,
Into the heart of hoary India they
plunged, these war-worn but still fresh
and eager Servians. They seized the
land, manned it, and planted a Mace
DOMAIN government there. They were
farther from home than a Washington
man would be in New Zealand, but it
didn't bother them. They we're used
to conQuering worlds.
Back from the conquering of the
whole vast Asiatic realm came this
young Servian, even then but thirty
years of age. He met his death soon
after he reached the coast of the Med
iterranean, and among the Servian
generals of his army the whole ciyi.
lied world was divided up. Ptolemy
ruled Egypt; Lysander governed the
whole country now known as the Bal.
kans; Seleucus took possession of all
Asia Minor-in short, the Seryian SOL
diers Of his staff divided up the world
among themselves.
And they were citizens of the little
servfa that Austria is overcoming to-
day! i.