Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

WOulu GOlllS w Nil anu lIlCuAbs
This done, the great artist of Chem
nitz found he had less than 40 guilders
left on earth, whereupon he passed
restful night with Jura in his cart,
dreaming only. witching dreams of
beauteous shepherdesses beckoning to
misty heights beside sylvan streams and
tleecy, tiakling herds.
While breakfasting together ia the inn
kitchen the next morning, u kellner
came with request from the Hebrew
woman for word with those who had
succored her and her child.
, II cannot see her, Jura. | must be off
to Terese and the herds. My heart is
already sore from these cruel scenes.
Speak with her yourelf, Jura, when you
return from showing me the way. You
can tell me what it is, when return
from the mountains to Arva."
They SET out early, for the polonias 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 ar two, and was then able to show
him the way so he could continue alone.
They parted atfectionately, Jura return
ing 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 unrivaled. Wild, rugged, grand ma
ture, unchanged since creation by the
hand of man, was the artists for sole
and complete enjoyment
This, too, was startlingly varied by
occasional. almost simultaneous views of
marvelously differing character, as he
now and then came to the very peaks
of nation dividing heights.
To the north the country slopcd across
Galicia, along the great Polish plain
into Russian Poland. Winter still held
all the further northern land of terror
and famine in its steely grasp. Only In
Galicia, and then in some of its shell
tered southern valleys, was the joyous
gladness of spring yet manifest. TO the
south, another cline; another land; in
deed another world. Hungary, land of
wine and dance and song, encircled by
its mighty wreath of mountains, and
visible in all its witching 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
exclaim:
at is too sacred, too wondrous for the
canvas. 1t 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 fore.
ground, at last caught glimpse of the
white, ribbon-like road over which he
and Jura had come. At the very spot
where Jura had signaled to Terese
were mounted soldiery driving more
Russian Hebrew exiles towards the fur.
ther Austrian towns.
They were like black specks in the
distance, but the very slowness of theil
movements proclaimed the exiles
misery. He watched them for long
time. The soldiery pressing closer anu
closer, goaded some of them into resist
ance. They turned about and fought
The soldiers struck them down like
beasts. Those who could, sought safety
in flight, needless, crazed and maddenec
flight.
Their drivers, dividing into small de
tachments of twos and threes, gradually
herded them again together. A few haC
| escaped to the mountains where pur. vi
was more difficult; but the horsemeI
plunged after them doggedly. One figurl
ran desperately and wildly, falling re-
peatedly to the earth. The chase was {
lons one, but finally a solitary horse
man far up the heights above Arva rar
his quarry down.
He seemed leaning forward as if tt
strike, when the figure of woman
confronted him. The woman hurled
something at him which he lodged
| Then he whirled as if to strike. Some
thing in the woman's hand glittered il
the sun like knife blade as she spranG
to the horses head, turned the ANNA
in the opposite direction, well nigh over
| toppling both horse and rider; and
when the rider had regained his sea
| and rein the woman was standing
where the figure had fallen with defiant
appraised hand.
The horseman continued his descen
with hooking, threatening gestures, bu
| alone. Then the woman bent over the
fallen figure, lifted it upon her back a.
though it had been but disabled sheep o.
goat, and moved slowly and steadily VI
the mountain side, without hating o.
wavering under her heavy burden.
A solemn premonition came to Hell
Paulus that the strange drama he haC
witnessed without power of participa
ton, as savage gorges and foaming cas-
cades laid dark and flashing between
was TO have immediate and permanent
influence upon himself; was in somt
unaccountable way to set in motion ;
train of events which might shape anew
his almost wasted life.
But he soon dismissed this as an idlt
fancy, born out of the saddening scene
of the yesterday and to-day, and hi
own forlorn and almost obiectless con
dition. Pressing forward upon his way
he arrived shortly after midday at tn
huts of Dmytro and his people, wher
he received, as Jura had promised,
grave and kindly welcome
Herr Paulus found true the wondroG
tale of DIR. lie Bon and more. He learned
there were upwards of an hundred thou
sand souls of this strange race in tn,
Tatras and Carpathian mountains. Thei
herds must have numbered millions o
sheep and goats. During four of tn
winter months these people retire +
such towns as Niedzwiec, Jablonka
Nieumarkt, Thurodin, Dunajec, Mdgu
ra, Repisko and kriwan-although man,
remain in the mountains, profiting by
woodcraft in trapping and sharing ami
mails and birds-so filling up and over
crowding the towns that in winter tim
they become populous cities
Dmytro's band had come but littl,
time before up the southern mountain
slopes with their herds, but its member
had already built mountain village O
thirty huts, which housed two hundred