nouncing the
promulgation of the firman, Gortchakoff, the Prime Minister,
cabled that "an adjustment of this awkward question and one
that would not break the links between the Bulgarian
community and the OEcumenical Patriarchate would be a great
alleviation, whereof the credit would be mostly yours." The
Russians repudiated the Exarchate publicly and they are not
now, as are the Serbs, in communion with the Bulgars. For
example, when the Bulgarian bishops in Macedonia, after the
troubles following the first Balkan War, went to Russia in
order to state their case, they were taken to a monastery and
not allowed to participate in the religious offices.]

[Footnote 51: _Le droit italique de Fiume._ Bologna, 1919.]

[Footnote 52: In _Land and Water_, June 5, 1919.]

IV

THE SHIFTING SANDS OF MACEDONIA

WHAT ARE THE MACEDONIAN SLAVS?--THE RIFT CAUSED BY
RELIGION--VERSATILITY OF THESE MACEDONIAN SLAVS--HOW FOREIGNERS HAVE
STIRRED UP TROUBLE--AUSTRIAN, RUSSIAN AND TURKISH MANOEUVRES--THE
DEPLORABLE MILAN--NIKITA THE COMEDIAN--THE GREAT STROSSMAYER--RELIGIOUS
DISPUTES BETWEEN SERBS AND ROUMANIANS--THE BURDEN OF THE OBRENOVI['C]--A
HAPPY ADVENT--AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN WRATH--THEIR MONTENEGRIN FRIEND--AUSTRIA
GIVES HOSTAGES TO HISTORY--THE DREAMS OF AN OLD REALIST--VERY HIGH
POLITICS--THE RIDDLE OF SARAJEVO--THE MISERABLE MACEDONIANS--FEROCITIES
OF EDUCATION--THE STORM IS PAST.

A wealthy gentleman of Belgrade, one George Weiffert, who brews
admirable beer, is said some years ago to have sworn an oath that if
his wished-for ice, that was strangely lacking, should appear by Saint
Sava's Day (January 27, New Style) he would adopt this old archbishop
as the patron saint of his family. Another Teuton, of Hebraic origin,
whom I met at Zaje[vc]a, had placed himself and his house under the
protection of the Archangel Michael, whose festival is on November 21.
The Roumanians of eastern Serbia seem, all of them, to have assumed
this custom which the Serbs call the "slava," and those inhabitants,
say of Pirot, who did not consider themselves Serbs at the time of
their annexation would gradually fall into line with their neighbours
and select a saint, if only because the annual "slava" celebration is
a day of tremendous hospitality, when the peasant is glad to squander
his savings in the entertainment even of persons unknown to him. And
those who are in the habit of attending "sl