Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-24

age had spice of excatemen
about it. With the exceptio,
&z1 OF the leader of the expedi
tion, not one of us had eve
oeen In Serbia before; nor, indeed
nad we more than the vaguest no
LIONS regarding the country and its
people. Some of us, moreover, like
mysel1, mad no experience whatever OF
hospital work; so that the whole adj
venture seemed as underlined and
shauowy as any lover of romance
could desire, writes John w. N. Sui.
hvan in the Illustrated London News.
we started at midnight, but none of
US were in bed. The rumor that we
were presently to pass through an
area OF floating mines laid bv the Ger.
mans, combined with the natural ex-
citement of leaving England for an in
uehnlte period, effectually banished
sieep tor the time being. And we were
10 nave convoy! AS q matter of
TACT, the convoy was very tame af.
Ialr. We occasionally saw a smudee
on the horizon which We were in.
formed was one of the escorting cruis-
ers' and sometimes two or three vi.
clousiook1ng destroyers would come
near enough to be seen; but apart
from these transient appearances the
convoy, from the spectacular point of
view, might just as we'll not have
existed. 1t left us at Gibraltar and
from there till Malta it was no longer
necessary to have lights out at night
from Malta to Saloniki the wealth.
er was bad. and, except for two davs,
respite at Athens, the time was spent |
In enduring violent internal upheav.
ais succeeded by spells of sad media.
'ion' Bnt from Saloniki it is merely
days train journey to Skoplje-or
oskuo, as the Turks called it when
II belonged to them-and at Skoulie
our hospital is situated.
A Serbian train is never in a hurry
1t proceeds with leisurelv dignity
along Its single-track railway, taking
10 hours to travel $50 miles, and thus
anorolng one plenty of time to study
oerolan scenery. The Vardar. a river
WHICH resembles tumultuous stream /
OF pea-soup, accompanies the railway g
throughout its entire length. At in q
.erVais we crawl cautiously and almost v
over high wood bridges. t
lne Vardar boiling beneath and the |,
Oieak. pare mountains enclosing one n
on elther side. Stationed at regular X
instances along the line we see a il
lttie matched mud hut, and stand pI
hg beside it a motionless Serbian W
sentry, apparently quite alone in the sc
desolation. 1t has a tn
oDer1ng effect, this Serbian scenery fit
We gradually lose the holiday feeling: re
re become serious and a little dc.
ressed. ",
Arrival at Uskub. 70
With the fall of dusk we light our M.
indles, sticking them on projecting no
arts of the carriage Il have NOT GOT 80
le grease off my uniform yeti. and loo
zen our bags of provisions. Fortu- wa
iteiy IL Is warm day, for there wo
no heating or lighting apparatus on sto
g train. We finish our meal. talk tbo
little and sleep a little. until pres 90 9
tly the train clanks slowly to a tor
$50, "e nave arrived. phu
Skoplje or Uskub has, as we dis.
Vered later, more points of interest
IN most Serbian towns. II is BIZ
led by the Vardar, one side being "a
rkish In population and buildings, -,
az 10 roaI,,, e oe. o,an me con- hotl
some ways instructive. But at first o no
had no opportunity of seeing the 81,
n; the hospital claimed all ones go.
'ntlon. After working twelve to a1
zen hours every day, one has little
ure or inclination for sightseeing. us 81
|, WALL I'm biah vain
ugh the semiliquid streets of "
ub from the orderlies' sleeping again
rters to the hospital and the er pu
' of the distant mourto;ra So slave
hospital windows u,ao e. - the I
our sole acquaintance with thio sign,
of Serbia. On the other bond cheaI
gained quite a good insight into IT
character of the Serbian people OF col
the patients in the wards. taken
ey are curious race. Thai tbev driver
brave and efficient fighters is
n by their records in this and
wars; but it is more interesting "Do
I've mn"I one might call their tic six
qualities. The first thing which favori,
IS one about the Serbian patients seasic1
ward is their extraordinary voIu- Il :,
thI. iuiness' Ihey turn ten alb
thing into joke, including death 1--WE
: TSo emenr Ihelr sense of into pc
. - 'ner sense OF honor, oc- had a