Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25
carrying Water.


oeople seemed to change, and ha&
not been for the priests and tn Il
rigands 1t is probable that the thread
Bulgarian national life would hav'E
been definitely sundered. But in thei%
mountain Businesses this strange com
bination of the monk and the MAJ
rauder kept alive the national feellngE
Like Robin Hood. they are always repE
resented as the protectors of the poo'f
and the weak, and in addition as tn
friend Of all Christians and the rlith4
less scourge of the Ottoman oppressorI
Thousands Of legends and songs haye|
grown out of their exploits; and had!
thpy made war against the common|
foe only instead, as they too ofterS
did, among themselves. their famj
would rest upon far firmer FOUNDED
ton.
Nevertheless, among oil the agenl
cies which contributed in the end "a
the winning of Bulgarian independ-
ence, the brigands We're by far the
most continuously active; and the lor !;
centuries Of Turkish misrule were cor
stantly broken by series of abortivs
revolts. which were suppressed witt
increasing cruelty. until the bruta
massacre in 1875 inspired Mr. Glao
stone to the famous Midlothian cam.
paign, gave to the car convenieni
handle against the sultan. and brougl.
on the Russo-Turklsh war.
Their Rapid Development.
That war was ended by the treaty
of San Stefano, which essayed to es.
tablish big Bulgaria; but, thanks 70
| Disraeli, British influence brought
about the congress of Berlin, and
1t was a little Bulgaria which finally
secured place at the worlds council
table.
A lowly place 1t was but with splen'
did courage the Bulgarians set out to
make it better. and the story OF Buf'
garian development In single genera
ton finds few parallels among mod
ern nations. Except for the humiliat
ing war with her one-time allies ir
the Balkans and her subsequent sui
cidal espousal Of pan-Germanism, Bul
garia's advance has been constant and
remarkable.
The country possesses great whea
fields, extensive forests, rich mines
all of which have been made to re
spond to that patient industry TO
which the Bulgarian peasant is thu
model for all his Balkan neighbors
A UNIQUE product--and the most profit
able-is the altar of roses, the world
supply of which comes from southern
Bulgaria, and which has enriched tn
landed peasants of that quarter be
yond their widest dreams.
II Nation Of Farmers.
Agriculture has always held frs
, place in the life of the Bulgarians
Turkish domination for half a mi
, lennium made farming still more ger
} eral among the Bulgars. for practl
| cally no other calling was left ope
! to them. BY wedding out the uppe
i classes, too, the Turks made Bulgaria
J agriculture more and more a peasan
) activity. And now. by Legislation, tn
3 Bulgarians themselves are emphasis
+ ing farming on small scale. nj
) tional law limits the estate that a
3 individual may hold to maximum Z
a about IA acres, and most OF the holt
ings are much SMALLER Another la
' aims TO abolish d leisure class by n
+ curing ali adults between certain age
: to work.
: There Il q temptation to considt
e Bulgaria, touching Greece as 1t doe
h southern country. But its latitude
d approximately that Of Iowa. Its are
. incidentally. Is some 1900 squat
+ miles less than that Of Iowa. I'll
principal port, varna, on the Blat
h sea. is farther north than Boston. M
l. it's harbor Is often frozen In winte
q The southern portion Of the eountr
= however. becomes very hot IN SUNNI