Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-25
|ulHlRE LEUPOLD'S REQUESTS.

|f.iI, hAu hNNt9 VI ahhiAAeAS lvF
md portraits, Austrian battle
Y and landscapes, 80 long as he
ved the kindly practice of giving
| away.
hsi there came time, before he
a years of age, when, having no
!. lett and no guilders for those
we're gone, his noble enthusiasm
house furnishing line for others
4 ,onght to sudden cneck by such
4, as fame alone was never known
VI artist these demands were gross
irial In their nature, but their very
'sheanre seemed to spread pestil-
4 contempt which rendered them
,erious and imperative, curiously
the recipients of his past fayors
m their faces with great aud crit
'.uentiveness upon his fine paint
rheh had not cost them liorin,
lheir backs with unbenliug peril
Il upon the fine artist. Thus Herr
4 minimizing in his bare studio,
4 rs first lesson In beluted thrift.
I NJ. thus engaged, his eyes alightel
i newspaper abstract Of paper.
recently communicated to the
D Biographical society by DIR. lie
ipon primitive and little known
4 people calling themselves Pod
"a who exist high up among the
lthhn mountains of Galicia, In the
4 nnge of these mountains separat-
4 tiacia or Austrian Poland from
aus glowing plains.
VI paulus had rerend the article
81 tines, and sat looking out of his
! vindow over and above the quaint
roofs, AS If his artists eyes
II y bllowy swaths of the Tatras
''riA "a gave him communion with
a n lftian people there,
\ ~ lIdreaming had been inter
0 rA Nnother rude demand for rnnt.
j, u al.s the intruder with dehnita
tn-s ahluitement, and then reread
" Sea nee more, some portions Of
.vt y though half arguing to in
4En ilngb interested friends
4 1trs1 poor they are content That
sss Ileir food is principally oats.
i y clpy boiled or ground and CON
r. 1io cakes; and though their diet
~ they enjoy perfect health and
hg lives. Now there must he
sfll eompleNions and types among
4 Fpc as these"
4 Ealked back and forth for time
ae paper in mis- hand, seeming TO
nore and more how little his
Rally contained. Then he read
gain:
population Of this remote re-
4 Why II Is not 100 miles from
A Plumbers several hundred
~ individuals. During four or
n baths of the year those of them
n .Nmpany their flocks and herds
niantain pastures, live exclusively
u 'tnllk whey. each person consum-
M three to four liters daily"
+ Herr Paulus rested his head In
i md discouragedly, closed his eyes
a Is N from pain, and mude an ex-
4 " wry face He filliped the paper
I tisengaged hand for long time
4 Alopened his eyes and resumed:
! Aagb far from being cultured, the
n peasautry are poets aud artists
nare, Ach, Gott," he groaned,
eautiful and how rare! They
"a Of dancing, and often, when
llis Of the day are over, meet 10
I IN their fayorite diversion. They
4 tfa improvisatores. too. mud ma ~
can sing their own songs set
~ qf their own composition. Their
i tender and artless in senti-
nd generous and elevated in
Il qualities attributable to their
q spontaneous resources, not in.
NJ Possessed of natures knowing
4 4 nolent passions nor unnatural
Z fhnlus sprang from his chair to
4 'hlow, as though the little, dark
Hel5 studio were prison. He
q BIS hands upward aud tlutter-
rcn the panes, while his face
De glass with backward and
N Inpatient movements.
growing dark in the hard old
IN t1w. The stone gables oppo-
. ~ hateful to him for the FIRST
and the saifrony glow of the
n r'iet sky seemed resting most
4 ~ aEay in the northeast where
4. ans Mountains lay.
Il ~ hs turned from the outer glow
II me inner darkness, struck his
" together sharply from which they
y 70 rebound In the air with the
H. Of one throwing of hopeless
A Wen be snng for a little as mer,
( = ee had ever done in the student
Fnea hope was high Mt Buda'
4 ~ lights brought in unusual
Z" wrote note and dispatched
n Aelner; told the little old fellow
II ray mold of the raisin upon
a w answered it, to set a price upon
~ s-H ne could find within the studio
u = me proffer at once; found him
/" possession of less than 100 HORNS
.lgh Herr Paulus paid his rent
"a hastily and secretly packel
~ containing only such matert
N - artist of experience would re
aaoFty after midnight of the SAINT
AaH admittanee 10 the little I'M
,va where he remained untn thu
'ehng; setting out In the halml
'eihsht, after having heard iron
n w at the inn that his strongl
-,anee and probable suicide has
M The value of his canvasses L
-1Ay possessors fully an hundre'
nsr Paulus was gaining in phil
!. Is web as experience.
. oest beloved are the dead h
-, u will be as one dead 4
yhemnltz now!r with which b
Onward cheerily toward Neu
~ the pass through the Lipta
i beyond.
morning Of the fourth da
& ssolns found himself in a grea
sel' valley OF the Arva, trampin
along the mighty stone ron
rom Craeow, the metropolis Q
~, buda-Pesth and the turtle
.ri. &c .sineland South. On thi
.r-5inadowed, forest-tinged. clia
easeade-tremulous thorough
qntsred rather than trudged
N ttssseler and artist that he Ia
h, ~ travel and study had neyt
~ such w0ndrous groupings 0
b ~ , aoar upon this internationi
~. ~ tlng-ed from bis new mod
- hie. The buds and bloom {
a oeckoned and flashed Q