The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-27

out, except one unconquerable, who
placed himself before them.
VIII you dispense? You must first
} step over my dead body"
4 fourth, more nearly a half, of the
number were already lost.
We, too, are lost cried the suffer-
erS.
Men, l will be accountable for you"
called AndrouIzos: the usual word of
the leader, in the hour of desperation.
The famished, hunted creatures fell on
the enemy and routed him. He fled in
terror, leaving his baggage and pro-
visions. OF the latter, Androutzos took
enough TO sustain the life of his fam
ished men, some of whom had fallen in
the charge from sheer hunger and not
otherwise injured. The company en-
tered Vostitza and took ship for an
island. The men had been 40 days and
40 nights with next TO no food or sleep
The tale of this retreat resounded
throughout Greece. 1t is comparable to
that Of the 10000. \ mighty nation,
powerful sovereign, Catherine the
Great, had instigated the Moreote ris-
( ing. High officials, among them the
vaingloriouS Orloff, planned great
things for the expedition. But a Greek
mOuntainer was its one great hero;
hero of whom the Russian annalists,
ashamed, make no mention.
Theodore Kolokotrones, when he was
hunted down." spent 10 consecutive
days and nights without food or sleep.
yatagan in hand, on guard, on the look
out, fighting by day. GLIDING the hunt
ers at night. A portrait taken of him
at the close of this ordeal is pathetic in
its emaciation and hunted expression.
HOW THE KLEPHT NET DEATH.
The nerves of the klepht were of the
iron of his mountains. No torture could
elicit a groan from him. At his ban
quets his toast was For a happy bull
let" for death by the bullet was truly
prefera BILE to death by Turkish torture.
But when the latter was his fate he
met it as only a hero could. katzanotes.
while a refuge on one of the islands,
fell i'll of the smallpox. To recuperate
he returned tic his native air, accompa-
MED by his brother George. The two
lodged in a cave, where they were sur
prised by 60 Albanians. George shot
down several of these. and fed, bearing
the invalid on his back. but was over
taken, and the two were taken 10 Tan
nina. Ali decreed that their limbs
should be crushed inch by inch by 4
sledge hammer. The elder brother,
weakened by privation and disease,
uttered d cry when his knees were
shattered. George looked at him with
astonishment and pity. Brother, viii
YOU make a moan like a woman?
George himself neither fiinched nor
groaned under this martyrdorn. His
body from feet to thighs, was mashed
TO d pulp ere he expired.
Koslantes Kolokotrones, the elder,
persisted under such tortures as my
pen refuses to describe. writes Pom
queville Papa Thyme (Euthemius),
the younger Blachavas, after many
arduous achievements. was carried
captive to Tannina, and exposed for
two days TO the insults OF the. mob, in
the square of the seraglio.~ Pof1quevfffe-
writes: Il had met this hero at-Milias
on Mt Pindus, in all the pride of his
freedom. surrounded by his pallikari.
saw him for the last time, bound TO
stake his bronzed forehead dripping
with the sweat of agony and death.
Even in that hour his eye flashed de-
lance, and turning on me look more
serene than that of the demon who di-
rected his fortunes, ne seemed to call
on me to witness with what calmnesS
hero can die. Without an utterance OF
suffering he endured the blows of the
executioner Ali had tried to extort
from the sufferer some Information or
confession. but in vain. He refused TO
open his lips. Every species OF torture
that that cruel one could suggest had
been inflicted on this noble sufferer
And, when all was over, his limbs, torn
from their torso, were tossed about the
streets of the city; the remains OF the
last klepht of Thessaly.
THE KLEPHTS NOBILITY OF
CHARACTER.
The klepht was far too noble to de-
sceud to the ferocity of the Turk STAY
he must, but this he did with dispatch
u
devout, the puritan of the cliffs. a
slight to captive woman be she
whom she might, was not TO be toler-
ated. One klepht who ventured on such
an indiscretion against Turkish lady
held for ransom, was Immediately dis
patched by his men.
His religious devotion was in keeping
with the rest of his character in sin
cerity and simplicity. In the early pc
Rod of tie Narcotic rising, Theodore
KolokrotoneS came upon ruined mon
astery in a wasted place. He vowed to
heaven that he would rebuild the edlnce
if once his country should be freed
from its oppressor, and when 1t was
freed his first care was to fulfil his vow
In all periods of menace, of eXtraordi-
nary peril, the power of God" was the
power in which he and his brother
huephts trusted. Debarred from the
scriptures without teachers of moral
ity, the severe virtue OF these sons OF
the heights seems to have proceeded
from the light which lighteth every
living man.
Hundreds of folk songs keep green
the memory of these heroes in the
hearts of those who have entered mo
their labors. They rest, but their works
follow them. The powers. sunk in in
fanny, receive the contempt of the civ
ilized world. but the mountaineer he
roes of Greece, nay Greece. herself.
with the ideas she represents. is hon
ored by every lover of his kind. hoped
for and prayed for by every adherenI
of him who directs the visible republic
of God NJ. S. ROBINSON.