Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-24

NIGHT With Jura in his cart, dreaming only
witching dreams of beauteous shepherd
ssses reckoning to misty heights beside
sylvan streams and fsecy, tinkling herds.
While breakfasting together In the Inn
kitchen the next morning, kellner came
with request from the Hebrew woman for
; word with those who had succored her
md her child.
ssI cannot see her, Jura. I must be of
to Terese and the herds. Ny heart II al
ready sore from these cruel scenes. Speak
with her yourself, Jura, whom you return
from showing me the way. You can tell
me what Il is when I return from the |
mountains to Arva."
They set out early, for the Polonais or
open spaces in the mountains where the
Tatras folk Craze the herds, are half |
days journey above Arva to the east. |
Jura kept Herr Paulus company for an |
hour or two, and was then able to show /
him the way 80 he could continue alone. |
They parted affsotionately, Jura returning |
to his cart In the inn yard and the artist |
moving forward up the heights with |
strange and almost solemn elation OF |
mind and heart.
, The glories of this mountain journey
are unrivalsd. Wild, rugged, grand ma
ture, unchanged aimee creation by the hand
of man, was the artists for sole, and COM |
plste enjoyment.
This, too, was startlipgly varied by oc-
easional almost simultaneous views of
marvslously differing character, as he now
and then came to the very peaks OF nation
dividing heights. - I'D
To the north the country sloped across
Galicis, along the great Polish plain into
Russian Poland. Winter still held all the
further northern land of terror and fam
inc in its steely grasp. Only In Galicis,
and then in some of Its sheltered southern
valleys, was tho Joyous gladness of spring
yet manifest. 70 the south, another
cline; another land; indeed another world.
Hungary, land of wine and dance and
song, encircled by It's mighty wreath of
mountains, and visible in all ita witohing
radiance as far as distant Buda-Pesth, lay
spread before his gaze disk of throbbing
green and bloom.
Many, many times was the portfolio
opened and as many times was closed,
when Herr Paulus would rapturously ex-
claim:
ut is too sacred, too wondrous, Tor the
canvas. It is all too near the Godp
At one of these times he was looking
back upon the glorious valley of the Arvs.
His eyes, following detail after detail close
to the mountain edge foreground, at last
roa1 over which he and Jura had some.
At the very spot where Jura had signalled
to Terese were mounted soldiery driving
more Russian Hebrew exiles toward the
further Austrian towns.
They were like black specks in the dis
lance, but the very slowness of their move
msnts proclaimed the exiles' misery. He
watched them for q long time. The sol
diery, pressing closer and closer, goaded
L - A. 1,,k TLav, ~aI
about and fought. The soldiers struck
| them down like beasts. Those who could
sought safety in flight, needless, crazsd and
l maddened aiaht.
Their drivers, dividing into small detsch-
ments of twos and threes, gradually herded
them sgsin 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 repeatedly to the earth.
The chase was long one, but finally sol
itary horseman far up the heights above
Arva ran bis quarry down.
He seemed leaning forward as If to strike,
/ when the figure Of woman confronted
him. The woman hurled q netting at him
which he lodged. Then he whirled IS If
to strike. Something In the woman's hand
Rlittered in the sun like knife blade as
she sprang to the horse's head, turned the
animal In the opposite direction, well-nigh
overtoppling 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 1t upon her back al
Il "a L-k
or goat, and moved slowly and steadily
up the mountain side, without hating OF
wavering under her heavy burden.
A solemn premonition came to Herr
Paulus that the strange drama he had
| witnessed without power of participa-
ton, as savage gorges and foamirg cas-
cades laid dark and flashing between, wa
to have immediate and permanent infu
, ence upon himself; was in some unac
countable way to set in motion train O.
events which might shape anew his almos
wasted life.
II But he coon dismissed this as an idl,
| fancy, born out of the saddenipg scenes
of the yesterday and to day, and his owr
forlorn and almost objsctless condition
, Pressing forward upon bis way, he ar
/ | rived shortly after midday at the huts O
i | Dymtro and his people, where he re
ceived, As Jura had promised, grave ant
kindly welcome
, Herr Paulus found true the wondrou
} tale of Dr.. LsBon and more. He learned
there were upwards of an hundred thou
sand souls of this strange race In the Tar
tras and Carpathisn mountains. Thei
l herds must have numbered millions o
sheep and goats. During four of the win
towns as Niedzwiec, Jsblonks, Niepfnsrkt
Thurodin, Dunsjec, Mdgurs, Repisko ant
Kriwsn-although many remain in tn
mountains, profting by woodcraft in trap
ping and sharing animals and birds-s'
filing up and overcrowding the towns tina
In winter time they become populou
! cities.
Dmytro's band had come but little tim
, before up the southern mountain slope
! with their herds, but It's members had al
, ready built mountain villsge of thtrt,
: huta, which housed two hundred foui
whose herds numbered some thousands o
, sheep and goats. This curious people, b
learned, do not remain long in these syl
van huts, but, as summer advances, leav
them for higher grazing grounds, never t.
| return to the same structures, new huts o
= limbs and bark being built with eacl
change of location; and, as nearly as tn
I artist could judge, each band comprise
one grest family patriarchal in system ant
/ 20 Hle8b e1bonb COmEQuQA1 III regard u
) their little Rainings.
! He found, too. that their language is
. mixture of the ancient Msgyr and the Ger
| manic tongues; that men and women alik
D dress In the untanned skins of the goat
, with hoods and sandals of the same mate
. rial; that their songs and singing are mar
| velously passionate, tender and pathetic
. most of all voicipg fervor of national an,
4 domestic love, and are always, IS we'll a
B their Wild, graceful and impetuous nation
al dance, the czardas, accompanied by tn
thrilling strains of the czigsnok; that tn
men were of fine, large frame and gisn
Q | strength, the matrons sturdy, handsom
Q and gentle, and the maidens supple, SHAPED
and perfect as models of abstract physica
y beauty. Curiously for the region it seem
Q of the finest Ssga-sung types, with fair
. | white, roee tinged skins, dazzling teeth
!, | lustrous blue or hazsl-gray eyes, and
I wealth of daxen hair with that marvelou
CLINT or ashsn gray and silver In it no mas
: ter painters brush has ever rightly limned
|. | while with their frank and artless ways
t q cer.a ain subtle charm of head poised back
!, ward and trifle to this side or that, eve
/ suggesting ungrudged sttentiveness, blend
ed with the alertness of the bird or tn
deer.
Z Herr Paulus like the artist he was los
q no time from his work. The simple fol
z about him, proud of the little they saw i
!, themselves when transferred to the artist
. portfolio, We'd with eacn other in docil
d obedience to his every direction and II
quest. But his toll lack zest. Terese di
q not come until long after her herd had file
l. demurely into the polonia among the a
II po0ffncY md han hor ha,n