Fhoto by Frederick Moore 



IN THE MARKE:T-PI,ACE OF JASSY 



Jassy is the capital of Moldavia, a pleasant little city lying among vineyards and gardens. 

 It is the center of a rich agricultural district, and the peasants of the surrounding country- 

 side flock to its market, and, by their picturesque costumes, make it an animated and brilliant 

 scene. Those in the picture seem to be a little afraid of the camera. 



Could Russia be expected scrupulously 

 to regard Rumania's integrity? 



Had Russia succeeded in dominating 

 the ''Big Bulgaria," which she created by 

 the treaty of San Stefano, there is little 

 doubt that she would also have kept the 

 road open for her armies to and from 

 that state across Rumania; but the other 

 powers of Europe again interfered ; Rus- 

 sia was threatened with a greater war 

 than she had just concluded, and rather 

 than enter upon it, she consented to a 

 European conference on the question of 

 Balkan frontiers. 



The powers feared that the Bulgarians, 

 heing Slavs like the Russians, would be- 

 come but an outlying dependency of the 

 Czar's dominions. The famous Berlin 

 Conference was the outcome. 



For many reasons the Rumanians had 

 cause to be thankful. Thev had made 



their place in Europe by proving them- 

 selves willing to die for the cause of 

 liberty and by showing that they under- 

 stood the art of modern warfare. 



RUSSIA TRICKS RUMANIA 



The Russo-Turkish war, like the pres- 

 ent one, had had its surprises for the 

 wise heads of Europe. The Rumanians 

 were able to throw off forever those ill- 

 defined ties which were "known at Con- 

 stantinople as suzerainty and at Bucharest 

 as vassalage." 



But they had also to suffer a bitter dis- 

 appointment — the loss of that portion of 

 Bessarabia which they held previous to 

 the war. In the treaty of peace with 

 Turkey, Russia obtained from the Sultan 

 a section of what is known as the Do- 

 brudja, a territory bounded on two sides 

 by the Danube (because of a great bend 



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