The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-05-25
BY MILDRED FARwELI.

On tue road OF the Serbian
on. either side marshes and flat land. !
behind them the MOUNTAINEERING
lines OF OK carts were moving slowly :
along. At last came the much desired
Hour Tor the army-the drivers. most
of them Mohammedans in peasants
CLONES with rough turbans wound
round their heads, walking beside the
oxen. az day after day they had
walked for months-on the long trek
from Bulgaria.
Trenches, mere SCOOPS in the ground
and hastily thrown up mounds OF
earth showed where the Serbians had
made their stands. and every few hun
dred feet were skinned (the hides are
~Naluable) of animals
horses and oxen with great dogs like
Eskimo huskies tearing silently at
their flesh. who raised their eyes and
stared at us as We passed.
At Prelep. a brown town-brown
with the brown of mud and OF Bulgar-
ian faces and uniforms-we wound our
way through narrow streets, mere al
leys of ope booths. to lunch in a fill
Thy inn. the best the places afforded.
We shared our foo with the officer
In charge and some of the soldiers.
America was as usual the topic of
conversation. one OF them had "A
brother in New York who owned a
moving picture show.
Afterward we started up the BabOo-
ma pass, the much fought over Ba-
boona. supposed by the Serbians 10 be
~impregnable. In the low foothills we
passed. sitting on the ground. some old
men in queer u of date uniforms
like u continental soldiers of green
with yellow collar and cuffs. the Bull.
garian reserve taking a rest.
In a thick mist we crawled our way
up the mountain through a region of
low bushes, the moisture on them fro
zen into glittering ice BY the cold.
When the chauffeur stopped to mend a
tire he and the other soldiers calmly
plce. behind them a drop of hundreds
of feet. The Serbian prisoners break
ing stones glanced UP at us suspicious
ly, their faces sullen and fierce under
the Serbian caps-no resignation
there.
They did not know that a friend was
passing Through the mountain air so
still and clear you could hear a German
motor %gruntiug and coughing it's way M
the far side of the pass. n; the tor the
mist had cleared away. and We saw the
hundreds OF them lying below u.
The blue figures OF an austrian trans
RED ieZ-AustriauS from Bosnia and
Herzegovina were toilinE up o.. horses
strstning. men swearing, our chauffeur, /
gaHly hnmmiuE a liftle Balkan tune.
charged them like q knight OF old.
We went down the mountain in series
OF leaps. full speed. ahead to a hsirpin /
brakes. -st a. We had almost pushed
valley below. and on again a. fun speed
TO the ncNt corner.
War automobiiuE l. a sure cure FOR
1eur is coming 90 America. Heaven help
the man who employs hun.
NJ dusk We had one Of our inuuUcrabic
~breHkdoWu~ IN front OF a lonely Bulga-I
,isn outpost. SACKS Of Hour were stacked
high beside 90. when We opened the
u"or "a sht-Ey hsur' 900 % long hooded
mantle of hom-spuu started upout OF the
gloom comttage guard. Ho lowered
his hayonet when he saw Bulgarian unit
forms and tho officer IN command OF the
lost Hospitality invited us iu.
~. 90 ou his lcd several Officers
grouped around u~. very interested iu
brough, Turkish consc. Thoy we're 80
..., ANA lou,.y tntt they were broken
hearted when We would not stay for din
me-. !
Tho Other ,oTresronasut cart Tsenon;
th" ofng'r tn charge 81 u-. and walked .
down the road We had become great '
friends with Tsusor who was "a thin
Bulgarian. Q divided Thorn into Two
clas-.s thick and Thin oriental and
The moon had com. ur and We sat
down on Tho psrsp't of O. Roman bridge.
western coyotes barking and ysppIng.
asked. g iaff mine iu the motor
Neither OF Us bad We Thought Doe was
Then We had better walk on Doc
said IT Is "a dog pack ana they arc
Ne Itmp,d into N,IIes on three tires
through the dim huikS ~ hundreds ~
German transport automobiles dranu up ]
by the roadside. N1t On bed 90 De- had
every corner taken for the soldiers Mac
k'nson and bis chief % stan. Won SscSt.
had arrived.
Why ~ De- one never hears tho name
OF Gen. Scckt out OF Germany In
their army he ts considered one ~ %
not the clevcrcst met they have.
The German station cnmm1ulauf-'u
each OF the conquered towns there are i
two-One bulgarian. one German. This
one was a blond bhnrmwarEtu type. said /
there was a t~clogrtm FOR FRAU IarwelI
Your luggage VIII arrive BOO charge OF
Lieut.. e. tomorrow signed bE tho Ger
man intelligence officer az Npntstlr.
] began at one to put ou important
airs. u De- not often that a lady bon war ]
times has an automobile sent from tina /
bring her a forgotten bag.
We spent most of the night % Ncilcs I
IN the red cross rest station. only two ]
walls ~ the railway station were lett
from the bulgarian huwhardmtnf SOLE .
diers asleep on tho floor and ON the racks
around the walls Intended fr hold
etrefchers. Their mouths open snoring
in every koy. The a~tmD4rlrrc was
thick win tho mingled fumes lf soldiers
and their tobacco.
We pushed the Ecnersrs relations
away from the only table ana annexed
s. ourselves. The Bulgarian station
oommsndant had come 100 and We l.4r
and some ~ tho cleaner soldiers. Tho /
other corrsfr unIsuf with bic feet 1r
the stove beside those NJ a hr.sIt eyed I
little Bulgarian BOO 81 captain uniform ]
vas deep IN UOrFrraafflu a hoard tho /
captain cay he hsf been "a rHuu boz 4
America for two years.
The life ] jed fHcre re want On.