save your life when all your
hopes are gone.'"

"Now, listen! I was taken prisoner by the Austrians. In their retreat
they let me go with their column. We went through a thick forest. I
thought myself lost. All my past life came before my eyes. I remembered
the gipsy woman and her advice. I looked around. In a few moments I
jumped aside and found myself on the top of a tree. Nobody saw me. Hours
and hours the Austrians marched close to my protecting tree. At once two
Magyar hussars rushed back looking around, evidently searching for me.
They went. Then came our first advance guard, and I slipped down from
the tree and surprised them. Is that not Fate?"

* * * * *

Typhus fever raged most in Valevo, where the Austrian troops came first
and brought it, a worse enemy of Serbia than even the Austrians
themselves. A Serbian women's association in Nish held a meeting and
consulted a doctor how they could help.

"Don't go to Valevo," advised the doctor. "Whoever enters the hospital
over there must die."

The president, a well-known woman, kept silent, went home, packed her
luggage and took the first train for Valevo. After two weeks she was
brought home infected by typhus, and died soon afterwards.

* * * * *

A patrician mother fled before the Bulgars with two girls. For several
days they had nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat. As they reached the
rocky frontier of Albania, the girls asked the mother:

"And now, whither?"

The mother smiled and said:

"I will give you now the last bit to eat, and then we will go where we
will be perfectly safe from enemy and hunger."

And she gave to the girls and she herself took--poison.

* * * * *

In spring 1913 the Montenegrins took Scutari after immense sacrifice of
lives. Yet they were forced by the Great Powers through Austria's
intrigues to leave the very dear town. Soon afterwards a Serbian from
Montenegro travelled from Cattaro to Fiume. An Austrian officer saw him
in his picturesque costume, and said to him with irony:

"You see after all you must yield Scutari to us."

"Yes," replied the Montenegrin, "we Montenegrins and you Austrians are
as different as lions and foxes. There are many dens of lions where the
foxes creep in and not one den of foxes where you could find a lion."

SERBIA ON THE ISLANDS

Serbia suffered shipwreck, and her broken pieces are now disp