The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-07

| porting a school here which has turned
out graduates who have had successful
| careers In all the Balkan countries In
the past the school has had many young
| Bulgarians as pupils. and their Lam
guage. next to English. has been Tho
| one mostly spoken at the institution
Whether this will initiate against the
continuance Of the school or not Mr.
Clark, the director. was unable To- say
The school was the only one In the town
not closed during the war. and to-day
| the enrolment IL $50 students the
| largest In its history.
MIR. Clark says that so far In the Ser
Wan regime the school has been undls-
turbed. Formerly there were besides
the American institution. Greek, Ser
Wan. Turkish. Bulgarian and Rumanian
schools. The Bulgarian school has been
| closed, the Greek restricted but the
others have been allowed to continue
| A half days ride to the east Is OCH
rida, on the Albanian border. The way
leads over Ghavat hill. past towns that
the Turks time after time destroyed in
their efforts to suppress the spirit of
revolt. and through Resna. where the
standard of the Young Turk was first
raised in the instruction of 1908.
| You pass numbering, wicker bed
wagons drawn by buffaloes, trains %
| little pack horses almost concealed BY
| their burdens and lines Of peasants in
| bright costumes loaded down with coun-
| try products for the town markets You
| see far up on n mountainside little vii.
| lagos, built there to protect the inhab.-
| tants, and you pass through a cluster
or gyspy houses where the children fee
at the sight of strangers. and half
dressed women with wild black eyes peer
| out through the cracks I'm the gate and
past Rumanian. Servian and Bulgar set
| Elements, where men and women till the
soil with the same primitive implements
| that their ancestors used centuries ago
| st. Methodius, the most revered OF
| early missionaries who came into
Servian lands, began his propaganda n
Christianity at Ochrida and the spot
where he is supposed to have com
menced his teaching is marked by a
beautiful church about nine centuries
old. in the best of Servian architecture
and decorated with interesting frrscocs
The town has thus always had a great
religious interest to the Serbs. But he.
fore st. Methodius came the Romans
had built fortress on a commanding
hilltop and had established a thriving.
town on their great route to the East
| the Servians in the eleventh century
made 1t their capital and they ENLARGED
| the fortress until It covered the whole
Of the hilltop.
The way back to the Vardar was
over the Pietvar pass, then down
| through valley where great fields Of
poppy were just beginning to burst
into bloom. 1t seemed a Earring note
on the beautiful spring day to be told
at kavadar that "the Bulgarians
burned all Of our larger buildings" or
TO look upon Negotln, OF which not a
house remains standing. and hear a
homeless woman say: THE Bulgar.ans
destroyed everything: they swept our
little town out Of existence"
But the grimmest reminder of that
bloody conflict between the Bulgarans
and Servians is the reddish mountain
slope above Kivolar THE SIN CORE.
spondent in going over this part Il
the battlefield of Bregalnitza found
many OF the trenches and empank-
ments Just as the troops had left them
at the end Of the battle. At one point
the soldiers. digging away in the night
time, looked at daybreak into the eyes
OF their enemy not a hundred yards
away. Those two trenches were soaked
In blood before the sun was half above
; the eastern horizon said an officer
who had been through the engagement.
| Men fought in the terrible heat OF
those five June days, often without
water or food for twelve hours; hun
dreds craZed by suffering tried To reach
|, the Nardar and dropped dead from eN-
haustion In the plain. In the trenches
you kick up a broken rifle, exploded
shells or parts of a disabled mountain
battery. A hunter following fox
through the underbrush recently STUN
bled over two skeletons in the remnants
Of uniform, their rifles by their side,
In considering the bitterness ongcn-
dered by this war one can appreciate
the magnitude of the task thar the
Servians have In trying to reconcile the,
racial differences that have for So long
distracted their new possessions They
have perhaps little to fear at present
from the Albanians, who have troubles
enough at home, or from the Turks,
who, as is usual In a land conquered
by a Christian Power, are em.-riung
in great numbers to Asia Minor Their
alliance with Greece and l;un ma
makes an UNDERSTANDING re- 'l.nI
these two peoples comparativcly easy.
But the Bulgarians? They 81, as
insstent upon their claims I'm "'''-
donia to-day as they Were when .Ney
went to war to fight for them ana
there Is every reason to believe l'y
will not abandon their old ~ $40 '. o.
harassing the country with h."r ~
armed men. The Scrvians N
nature are hopeful and optm.,''. say
that they can dispose of the n''d" ana
that the so-called Bulgars az. m"rrN
"Bulgarized' Serv!ans. GIVE u., me!
say. "but a few years and az zen,
Macedonia will be peaceful, happy anu
contented."