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Show 4. Monks Feed Starving Macedonians., The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph Tele-graph on the Macedonian frontier has sent his paper pa-per a long description of the refugees arriving at Rila monastery, after fasting for days and sleeping in the open air with the thermometer at 34 degrees, and their gratitude to the monks who shared with them their black bread and salt and exhausted all their resources to help the hungry fugitives. The correspondent adds: "But this help, despite the sacrifices it imposed on the monks, was but a drop of water in an ocean of fire. "Scores of people must hav3 perished miserably but for the timely assistance of a beneficient American Ameri-can lady, Madame Bakhmetieff (formerly Miss Bcal) of Washington, J). C, wife of the Russian diplomatic agent, at Sofia, Bulgaria. "Without losing a moment, this philanthropic lady dispatched $5,000 and a sister of charity to relieve re-lieve the needs of the innocent outcasts. My companion, com-panion, Charles Crane of Chicago, likewise gave a liberal contribution for the same purpose. When r.-e were leaving the monastery a couple of days later over 1,000 refugees lined the avenue in front of the doors and insisted on' shaking hands with us." ' |