An Incident of the Balkan War
It is well known that in many places the Turks fled at the approach of the Bulgarian army. Such was the case at Mustapha Pasha. There was such a panic among the Turks, that in their flight mothers left their children. Our soldiers along with the dead and wounded had to gather the crying babies. Many a Bulgarian soldier considered it his duty to send home a Turkish baby to be taken care of, when he discovered that its mother had abandoned it and could not be found. A cavalry lieutenant from Sofia added the other day to his family of six children a seventh one—a Turkish baby girl. His horse suddenly shied, and the rider saw on the ground the baby, and jumped off to take it. Just at that moment a shell fell on the saddle of the horse. The baby saved the man's life. He left it in the care of a Bulgarian woman in the city, and when after the battle he could not discover its mother, he sent it to his wife to care for as one of her own.—Sofia Correspondence of the Christian Herald.