The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-25

Z ne GlOfleS OF THIS mountain journey
are unrivaled Wild. rugged, grand ma
ture. unchanged since creation by the
hand Of man. was the artist s for sole and
complete enjoyment.
This, TOO, was startlinEly varied Oy Oc-
caslonal almost Simultaneous views of
marvelously diderilE character, as he
now and then came 10 the very peaks of
uation-dividlng heights.
To the north the country slopcd across
ialicla, along the Erl n Polish plain into
Russian Poland. Winter still held all the
further northern land of terror and fam
Inc in us steely grasp. Only in Gallcia,
and then IN some Of its sheltered southern
valleys, was the Joyous E-lduess Of spring
yet manifest. To the south, another
cline; another land indeed another
world Hungary. land Of wine and dance
aud song, encircied by IT'S mighty wreath
mountains, ana visible in all its witChing
radiance as far as distant Buda-Pesth,
lay spread before his gaze d disk OF thrOO-
blng green and bloom
Many, many times was the portfolio
opened and as many times was closed
when Herr Paulus would rapturouslJ eX-
claim:
1T is TOO sacred, too wondrOus, for the
canvas. IL IS all too near the God ~
AT one OF these times he was looking
! back upon the glorious valley OF the ArVa.
His eyes, following detail after detail
close TO the mountain edge foreground, at
last caught glimpse OF the white, ribbon
like road over which he and Jura had
come At the very spot where Jura had
slgnalled to TercSe, We're mounted sol
diery driving more Russian Hebrew exiies
toward the further Austrian towns.
They were ike black specks in the dis
lance. but the very slOwhess Of their
movements pl oclaimcd the cNlles misery.
He watched them for a long time The
soldiery pressing closer and closer, goaded
some of them into resistance. They
turned about and fought The soldiers
struck them down like beasts. Those
who could sought safety IN fight, heed
less Crazed and maddCuJd fight
! Their drivers, dividing into small de
tachme1ts Of twOs and threeS, gradually
herded them again together A few had
escaped to the mountains, where pursuit
was more difficult; but the horsemen
plunged after them doggedly. One figure
ran desperately and wildly, falling re-
pe&tedlv 70 the earth. Tho chase was
long one, but finally solitary horsemau
far up the heights above Avra ran his
quarry down.
He seemed leaning forward as if to
strike, when the figure Of woman CON
fronted him. The woman hurled some
thing at him which he lodged Then he
whirled as if to strike. Something in the
woman's hand glittered in the sun like
knife blade as she sprang to the horses
head turned the animal in the opposite
direction, we'll nigh 0vertoppling both
horse and rider; and when the rider had
regained his seat and rein the woman was
standing where the figure had fallen with
defiant, appraised hand
| The hOrseman continued his descent
with hooking, threatening gestures, but
alone. Then the woman bent over the
fallen figure, lifted it upon her back as
though IL had been bot disabled sheep
or goal, and moved slowly and steadily up
the mountain side, without hating or
wavering under her heavy burden.
A solemn premouition came to Herr
Paulus that the strange drama he had
witnessed without power of participate
as savage gorges and fOaming cascades
laid dark and flashing betw cen, was TO
have immediate and permanent influence
upon himself; was in some unaccOuntable
way to set in motion u train Of events
which might shape anew his almost
wasted life.
But he soon dismissed this as an idle
I fancy, born out of the saddeniug scenes
Of the yesterday and to-day, and his own
fOrlOrn and almost obiectless condition
Pressing forward upon his way. he ar
rived shortly after middayat the huts of
Dmytro and his people where he received,
as Jura had promised, grave and kindly
welcome.
Herr Paulus found true the wondrous
tale of DR.. lie Bon and more. He learned
there were upwards of an hundred thou
sand souls of this strange rae in the
IatVaS and Carpathian mountains Their
herds must have numb ered millions of
sheep and goats. During four of the
winter months these people retire to such
towns as NiedZwiec. JabOnka Nieumarkt,
Thurodin, Duna ,ec Mdgura, Repisko and
Aforementioned many remain in the
mountains prOtiting by wOodcraft in
n nd 1c
so nlling up and overcrowding the towns
that in winter time they become pOpulous
cities
Dmvtros band had come but little
time before up the southern mountain
slopes with their herds, but its embers
r had already built a mountain village of
thirty huts. which housed 200 souls
whose herds numbered some thousands OF
sheep and goats. This curious people, he
, learned, do not remain long in these syl-
: van huts, but, as summer advances, leave
them for higher grazing grounds, never &c
return TO the same structures, new huts
of limbs and bark being built with each
change of location and, as nearly as the
| artist could judge, each band comprises
/ one great family patriarchical in system
ana 10 a great extent communal in regard
2 to their little glnings.
lie found, too, that their language is a
> mixture of the ancient Magyar and the
6Gfmaulc tongues; Cnat men ana women
) alike dress in the Unframed skins of the
! ! goat, with hoods and sandals of the same
material; that their songs and singing
are margelously passionate, tender and
pathetic, most of all yoicing fervor OF
. national and domestic love and are
: always, as we'll as their wild
graceful and impetuous national
dance, the czardas. accompanied by
the thrilling strains of the cziganok; that
, the men We're of fine. large frame and
: giant strength, the matrons sturdy, hand
some and gentle, and the maidens supple
. shapcly and Perfect as models OF abstract
: physical beauty. Curiously for the region
it seems OF the finest Saga-sung types
with fair, white, rose-tinged skins. daz
: cling teeth lustrous blue or, hazel-g gray
eyes, and a wreath of naXcn hair with
that marvellous CLINT of ashen gray and
= silver in it no master painters brush has
D ever rightly limned; while with THEN
frank and artless ways is 4 certain subtle
charm OF head poised backward and q
trlfe to this side or to that, ever suggest
70 ing ungrudged attentivencss, blonde
with the alertnCss of the bird or the deer
Herr PaUlus like the artist he was lost
no time from his work. The simple foll
I | about him, proud of the little they saw il
/ themselves when transferred to tbs
, | artists portfolio We'd with each other ir