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NAME OF TALL
GUERILLA CHIEF
STRIKES TERROR
Mention of "Babounsky" Is
Enough to Force Obedi
ence in Serbia
M O D K R N ROBINHOOD
s
Was First a School Teacher.!
Then Took to Lending
Wild Bands
Gevgheli. Serbia (correspondence i
of the Associated Press.—One of the j
most picturesque figures of the Kuro- J
pcan war is the Serbian "komitadji"
or guerilla, Ivan Stoikovitch, known to
fame as "Babounsky". The name is •
draw n from the famous Babouna Pass, j
where the Serbs so long held the in
vading Bulgarians at bay. Ivan Stoi
kovitch comes from that part of Serbia
and is therefore known to his follow
ers ami lo the Serbian population at
Jarge by a nickname indicating the
fact.
A slight man. tall, with honest gray
blue c\rs anil the pale features of a
student, he impresses th" stranger with J
anything hut tho terror which his- j
name inspires. Nor do his looks belie |
his real profession. Kor the redoubt
able Babounsky was a school teacher j
until, fired by an ardent patriotism,
he gave nn his classes to gather about |
Jiini a band of intrepid spirits in the i
fight for the release of the Turkish |
part of Serbia from the Ottoman yoke.
Kver since the first Balkan war he I
and his followers have been under I
arms. I'nrecognized by the laws of j
war, they have tuken their own risks j
of capture and Instant execution, j
Their refuse is in the Serbian moun- j
tains and they have been willing to
trust their security to their own astute
ness and th«> impregnability of their
numerous hiding: places.
Ilt'Bulnr Kohin IIIMHI
During the brief periods separating
the first Balkan war *-om the second
and the second Bail war from the
present European struggle the internal
administration of Serbia was in such a
state of disorder that it seemed to
Babounsky better to retain his band
under arms and to assist in the ad
ministration of a rough and ready jus
tice than to send his followers to their
own firesides, in this capacity even
in the -diort intervals of peace he kept
his na no as a kind of modern Robin
Hood—the friend of the weak and
the terror of the evildoer.
Especially since the complete break- |
down of the Serbian administration fol- j
lowing the flight of the government to i
Scutari has Babounsky become a per- j
nonage of prime importance in Serbia. |
Before the advancing German and '
Bulgarian armies, town after town was j
evacuated. Sometimes the inhabitants i
were able to take a Tew of their be- i
longings with them: more often they j
were forced to leave with the clothes
they wore as their only possessions.
'Hut especially in the southern part of i
Serbia, where the greater part of the j
inhabitants arc really of Turkish or |
Bulgarian extraction, only the Serbs
fled, and the Turks and Bulgarians
remained. While waiting for the ar
rival of the armies of their com
patriots they were not averse to going
throtigll the deserted .Serbian dwell
ings and acquiring a few useful ar
ticles.
Babounsky did not approve of this.
Naturally the deserted dwellings and
all in tliem would fall into the hands
of the conquerors. That was all right
—the chance of war. But that for
mer neighbors should do the looting
was not in Babounsky's code. And
those who tried it were dealt with in
a most summary inaner.
"Kcoliko" Escapes
Whoever among the Bulgarians was
suspected of giving information to the
advancing Bulgar armies also received
short shrift. A story is told of the first
Balkan war when a certain pseudo-
Serb, known as "Kechko," was sus-
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TIME TABLE
In Effect June 27. 1910.
TRAINS leave Harrisburg—
For Winchester and Martlnsbure at :
6:03, *7:52 a. m„ *3:40 p. m.
For Hagerstown, Chatnbersburg Car
lisle. Mechantcsburg and intermediate
stations at *5:03, *7:52, *11:53 a. m
•3:40. 5:37. *7:46, *11:00 p. m.
Additional trains for Carlisle and
Mechanlcsburg at 9:48 a. m., 2:16, 3:26
«:3n. 9:35 a. rn.
For Dlllsburg at 5:03, *7:62 and
•11:53 a m„ 2:16. *3:40. 5:37 and 6:30
p. m.
•Daily. All other trains daily except
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peeled of treason lo the Serbian cause.
Babounsky's band appeared upon the
scene one night and Kechko and four
others were arrested, tried in seeert by j
the band at midnight and sentenced to ;
be "sent to Saloniki" —that is, taken j
to the banks of *h« Vardar river. I
stabbed and thrown in, their bodies to
drift down with the current to Saloniki. j
All five were lined up on the bank, j
Babounsky save the signal for the |
fatal Mows to be struck. But unfor- j
tunately, Kcchko's executioner, a law- ;
yer from Belgrade, had never killed a |
man before and his hand slipped. The j
five bodies were thrust into the Yar- j
dar. but Kechko was still alive.
A week later the Serbian consul at!
Saloniki was called to the hospital, j
Kechko told him the story of his es- j
cape from death, but begged that it be!
kept secret until after his departure I
for the United States. Ultimately re- i
covered from the unskillful stab of the I
Belgrade lawyer, Kechko quietly de
parted for America, where be lives'
still, unterritied by the famous guerilla. I
Whenever the allied troops have j
need of fresh meat or wood or mules,
one of the officers acquaints a Serbian
with what is required. The next day
twenty sheep, two cords of wood or a
hundred mules are brought into
Negotin or Rapliadar. as the case ma>
be. by a Serbian peasant. The peasant
collects an equitable sum for the goods
delivered and in time each Serbian
who has been involuntarily levied upon
for lamb or wood or mule receives his
payment. Babounsky docs not even
keep a commission.
When, too. either Serb or Bulgar m
one of the towns occupied by the allied
troops behaves in a grasping or dis
honest way toward the French or the'
British it is not lone before the pun- j
ishment arrives. The punishment may J
take various forms, from death for I
treason to a dozen blows with a stout |
stick for cheating one of Serbia's'
cllies. The punishments, however, are I
rare. Babounsky's reputation is too!
well known. The magic phrase. "I.is
len, my friend—l shall see that Ba
bounsky hears of this," generally has
its effect. i
THi; COST OF PEACE
The people of Europe are wasting tin-1
told life and wealth in their present;
struggle, yet we Americans congratu
late ourselves daily that we are on this
side of the ocean and not called upon
to bear the staggering cost of war.
We are very fortunate, hut not all of|
us realize that, even we are carrying!
upon our shoulders a tremendous war !
burden. {
What does war cost us? During the;
one hundred and thirty-eight years of j
our independence we have spent about;
twelve years in war, or about nine per
cent, of the time. But tlie money we
have spent for war during that time'
has not been nine per cent, of our ex-!
penditure. It has been about eighty [
per cent, of it. For some years we;
have enjoyed perfect, peace, but our war j
expenses have continued—have in
creased. have been quadrupled in the I
last twenty years. During the past I
year, in a time of peace, we have spent
; §478,000,000 for war purposes, army,
! navy, pensions and interest on the na
| tional debt, which is entirely a war
debt. This war expense constitutes
seventy per Cent, of all the money spent
jby the government; while only the
'other thirty per cent, pays the bills for
all civil purposes, including rivers, har
bors, Panama Canal, agriculture. Con
gress, the executive and the judiciary.
RETURNS TO IIARRIKBVRG
Howard Frlekman, formerly of
Harrlsburg, who has recently been
'■onneoted with the More of Groff and
Wolf. I .an caster, has returnee) to (his
city to associate himself with Wil
| Mam Strouse, in his new store at 310
Market street.
Josef If. Strouse, son of William
Strouse. has also returned to the city
from a business trip to New York in
connection with the new store.
FRENCH DEBARK
AT KRIVOLAK
i
i Serbian Village Is in Constant i
Danger of Shell Fire
From Bulgars
Krivolak, Serbia. Jan. (corre
spondence of the Associated Press). —
! Krivolak is the debarkation point of
! the French armies in the field in the
I Balkan campaign. As a village it is
| small and unclean, with more the
character of a Turkish or a Bulgarian
I than a Serbian town. There are no
I accommodations for anybody. The
(railway station, with its chimney
knocked down by a Bulgarian shell, is
the most imposing building. To the
east Is the Vardar, still swollen with
rains, shifting, uncertain, narrow, deep.
To the north, where the Vardar bends
in a westerly direction, is what the
French call "the English bridge"—a
pontoon structure, for the building of
which the British army lent the men
and the materials. To the southeast
is a hill, commanding as an artillery
position every nook and corner of the
curve of the river. To the north be
yond the Vardar is tlie key of the!
whole French position—the mountain |
of Kara Hodzali.
Strong as the point is naturally—j
j and the French Balkan campaign so |
far has almost confined itself to the |
tactics of occupying and holding, if j
| possible, the maximum number of I
j stron« natural positions—it is open to j
hostile bombardment from the hills on |
I the opposite shore of the river. A few j
I moments ago half a. dozen large caliber I
shells fell in the river near the Eng- |
lish bridge. Just now one has fallen j
I on the hillside to the southeast of the
I station. Constantly the bridge, the
I station and the railroad are the mark
|of Bulgarian long-range artillery. But
jthe mark is too distant. The Bulgarian
artillery fire generally Is excellent, but
it lacks the scientific accuracy of the
Fren< h. and :is yet the Bulgars have
no aeroplanes to verify their tire as
I the French have. So Krivolak remains
I unharmed. Shortly the bills to the
least are to be cleaned of their bat
' teries. Then Krivolak will be tranquil.
I.OIIK, slow Journey
! The journey from Saloniki to Krivo
j lak by the single track railroad seems
! interminable. Fifteen hours to do
j seventy-live miles. T'le French com-
I plain bitterly that the delay is in the
I Greek end of the line. Already French
■ engineers arc double-tracking the mil- ]
! road from thte Greek-Serbian frontier!
! north.
There are no fixed train lines.
(Everything is subserviated to the
j transport of troops, munitions, sup-
I plies. On the return journey it is the
transport of the wounded—of armies
. needing repair, of empty rolling stock,
•of which there is too little. There is
but one passenger coach on the train,
crowded with officers charged with the
communications of the various armies
engaged-—for the telegraph wires are
also uncertain—with sanitary officers,
medical officers, commissary staff and
a few civilians, bound for Greek vil
lages between Saloniki and the fron
tier. The station at Saloniki is a mili
tary one. a couple of miles from the
town, in the midst of fields flowering
with the tents of the British, finally
beginning to move toward the front.
The train is long—all freight cars
save the one reserved for the more
distinguished. But almost all of the
freight cars have their human load as.
well. The men sleep on straw on the
door throughout the wearisome jour
ney.
At Strumttsa station a Serbian offi
cer comes quietly down the corridor.
"All lights out." he ordered. "From
here on the railway is within range of
the enemy. They generally drop a
few at parsing trains if they see them." I
The order seems superfluous in view
of the fact that the car is improvidod !•
with any lighting system—or at least J
any that works. But a few men have i
provided themselves with candles, and'
it is these that must be extinguished, j
"Going- to Suloniki"
Slowly the train approaches kilo- j
meter SB, where the railway crosses
the Vardar to the side of the Bui- j
garians. The bridge was destroyed
three year sago in the last Balkan wars !
—and has not. been properly rebuilt j
since. The train creeps across it. The
swirling waters of the Vardar are |
white in the moonlight. Against aj
sand bar the current has washed three |
black objects. Logs'." As the trains!
pass close to them, those who have j
looked out of the train windows see j
that one of the black objects ends in a I
white oval—a face upturned to the!
moon. The eyes are black-shadowed j
holes. The mouth is wide open. A |
mat of hair alternately covers and re- I
veals the wet, glittering forehead in
time with the little backwaters of the t
river from the sand bar.
"Good God! what are those?"
"Some of Babounsky's acquaint-1
ances," says the French officer. Ba
bounsky is a Serbian guerilla. He has j
no standing in the laws of war. but he |
isn't a had sort, and he administers a
very rude but a very effective sort of
Justice hereabouts. A good tnanv of
the inhabitants or this part of Serbia
are Bulgars. you know —and there is J
no end of spying and general lawless- i
tiess going on. Babounsky looks after
that. A lot of Serbs have fled; leavtng j
all their belongings. The temptation
for the Bulgarians who remain is I
great.. But if Babounsky catches them |
—and he generally does—their shrift
is short. He sends* them to Saloniki,
as he calls it. The Frenchman jerked |
his thumb over his shoulder toward ]
the river just passed. "Those are on !
their way to Saloniki," he added.
KEN lIIG I'l XERAL TO-MORROW
Funeral services for Christian Ken-j
dig llage, division telegraph operator
for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Wil-J
liamsport, will be held to-morrow aft-l
ernoon at 2 o'clock at the home, 605 1!
North Front street, the Rev. Floyd !
Appleton. rector of St. Paul's Prof- j
estant Episcopal Church, officiating, r
Burial will be made at the Harrisburg j
Cemetery. Mr. liage was the spn of |
the late Mother and Mary Kendigl l
Hasp. He was in his sixty-sixth year
and had been in the employ of the!'
Pennsylvania Railroad for fifty years. I
Since 1 874 he had been located at Wil- j
liamsport. Mr. Mage is survived byj|
two sisters, Miss Boletta K. and Miss
G. Marie Hage; also one brother, H. 1
Brent Hage. Honorary pallbearers 1
will be W. L. Slack, trainmaster; C. V.
Pelton. road foreman of engines; W. ]
H. Holter, assistant trainmaster, all of
Williamsport, and Clement B. John-1
son. of this city.
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HOY'S SUCCESSOR
Pressley H. Bailey, Columbus,
Ohio, Is Chosen Commer
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PRESSLEY M. BAILEY
"Bob" Hoy's successor.
ITessk-y H. Bailey, industrial engi
neer of the IvOgans Gas and Fuel Com
pany, Columbus, Ohio, has been
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Harrisburg Mglit and Power Com
pany to succeed to the place held so
many years by "Bob" Hoy.
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the middle west, having served for
dose upon fourteen years in the Lo
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umbus, niiio, and tho Louisville, Ky„
Gas and Electric Company. He real
ly entered the employ of the Columbus
concern, worked his way to tho top of
the ladder, left there for a brief pe
riod to work for the Louisville com
pany and eventually returned to Col
umbus. From Columbus he came to
Harrisburg.
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Kiple succeeded Robert W. Hoy.
Mr. Bailey is widely known in fra
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son, a past worshipful mast of his own
blue lodge and council. Mr. Bailey is
also a member of tlic Jovian league,
the international organization of elec
trical engineers, and the Elks.
French Arrest Turkish
Subject in Reprisal
Paris, Jan. 14.—As reprisal tor the
interment of the French subjects in
Turkey the French authorities to-day
arrested Salil Bey, archivist of the
Turkish embassy, and the lats func
tionary of the embassy remaining on
duty here. Mis wife and daughter
also will be placed in confinement.
The New Labor Law
The new Workmen's Compensation Act is now in ef
fect. If you are an employer of labor you should be
familiar with every phrase of this most important piece
of legislation. We are prepared to supply this act in
pamphlet form with side headings for easy reference.
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I WHAT OIK SAIAIiIi AItMV COSTS
' Our army is but fourteen per cent:.
the size of the French army, s'et cost-;
[ us more than twice as much. It is
i but thirteen per cent, as large as tin
'j German army and costs over half as
; | much. It is but seven per cent, as
j large as the army of Russia and cosis
| thirty-seven per cent, as much. Our
army costs us $1,300 per capita, whilr
j no European country pays as much an
II S4OO. Naval figures reach almost the
j same proportions.
> i We look with considerable wonder
'land admiration upon the great guns
j which protect New York harbor. Our
wonder does not cease when we know
5 that the cost of firing one of these
[ guns is $1,600 to SI,BOO, as much as a
.: laborer can earn in two or more years.
—The Chuisttan Herald.