The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22

committing suicide by the entreaties of
his Sfriends, who implored him to live
for the sake of his wife and his country.
He obeyed with heavy heart, and buried
himself at Tardona among the beech for
ests of Borsod
A Marked Man.
For long time his life was actually in
danger. His services to the revolutionary
cause had been so conspicuous that he
was a marked man. 1t is true that in
his newspapers, the Esti Lapok and the
Pesti Hirlap, he had at first preached
moderation to the more fanatical and
taken up strictly constitutional stand
point; but on the other hand, blinded
by the deluSiye triumphs of April he had
openly approved of Kossuth, the dethrone-
ment OF the HapsbUrg dynasty and Of
other equally radical meaures, and his
eloquent pen had done more than almost
anything else to rally and convert the
waverers.
At last, after five months of extreme
anxiety, he was saved by a strategem of
his wife, Nine. Jokia. succeeding in get
ting her husbands name inserted in the
list of names of the garrison of the fort
OF Comorn, which had been granted
complete amnesty on Oct 2, 1S49 six
weeks after the war was over elsewhere.
Yet, even now, Jokai was obliged to ef-
face himself as much as possible, and the
return to the capital, "a Bujdoso Ma
poioja' ("Journal of a Fugitive"D, and
'Forfadalma CsatakepelP ("Battle Pic
lures Of the Revolutior'9, both Of them
composed in the asylum sofitudes of
Borsod, appeared pseudonymousIy under
the name Of his dog, Sajo.
During the twelve terrible years imme-
diately following the abortive revolution,
when Hungary, robbed of all her ancient
rights and privileges, was degraded into
a mere appanage of the Austrian crown
and tyTannized and exploited by reaction
ary foreigners ignorant of her very Ian
guage, Jokia, almost single handed and in
the face of appealing difficulties, devoted
himself to the noble task of keeping the
national spirit alive and encouraging his
/ countrymen patiently to wait for better
days.
Extraordinary Labors.
During this period he was literally
chained to his desk, turning out master
piece after masterpiece at the rate of
seven volumes q year, and editing at the
same time two literary and two comic
papers, to the latter of which he contrib
uted many of the Illustrations. Much of
the work thus accomplished is of perma-
nent value and comprises some Of his no
blest creations, e. g., the great historical
romances "Erdely Aranykora' C'Golden
Age of Transylvania''), with its continual
ton, ''Torok ViIag Magyarorszagon''t
| ("Turks in Hungary"), "Feher Rosa"
(''White Rose'), "a Janicsarok Vegenap-
! jail ("Last Days of the Janissaries''),
etc, novels of old Magyar social life and
manners, e. g., "Egy Magyar Nabob'
Gan Hungarian Nabob'O with its con-
tinuation "Karapathy Zoltan" (''Zoltan
Karpathy''), 'Szomoru Napok' ("Dark
DaysD and "a Regi 10 Tablabiral1"
(''The Good Old Magistrates'O; brilliant
phantasies such as "Oceania," the scene
of which is laid in the capital of the lost
! island of Atlantis, and the beautiful col
lection of short tales in ten volumes en-
titled 'Jokai Nor Dekameronja" ("Mau
rus JokaiS Decameron").
During the transitional period (1S61 SD,
| when the disasters of the Italian cam
| paign of 1859 had taught Austrian states
men the necessity of some sort of COM
promise with Hungary, although they
were by no means disposed to admit all
her pretensions, Jokai began his political
career, He sat in every diet; established
his reputation as skillful debater; found
ed the newspaper Hon as the organ of
the Moderate Liberal party, and had the
supreme distinction in 1863 of being con-
demned by the imperial government to
twelve months hard labor in irons for
inserting in his newspaper a "seiitious''
article by his friend, Count Nando Zichy
, The king, however, commuted the SEN
tence to one months solitary confine-
ment, and Jokai himself has told us in
| "A Tengerszemu Holgy'' ('Eyes Like the
Sea') that during this month his "ceII"'
daily was thronged with distinguished
| visitors.
A Parliamentary Leader.
But it was only after the composition
with Austria 1S67), and especially dur
ing earlier years of the long administra-
ton 1S75-90) of his friend, Coleman
Tlsza, the Cavour Of Hungary, that Jokai
exercised constant and considerable DO
lItical influence both as a parliamentary
debater and as editor of the Hon. His
usual seat was on the second ministerial
bench, just behind the premier and when
ever he rose to speak he always COM
manded the attention of a crowded and
! expectant house. More than once his eIo-
! quence extricated the government from a
tight place.
Wrote 142 More Volumes.
Yet amid the stress of this intense and
manifold political activity Jokai actually.
between 1851 and 1886, found time to