The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-07

straps. Ropes are used to tie the
baggage on, ropes lash the furniture
to the horse, a piece of rope acts as
a bride.
When the horse has been so well
packed that little of 1t can be seen,
the Bosnian gets on himself. He sits
in front of the load, and as the Bos-
MAN idea of loading a horse is to
put everything we'll forward, the rider
sits almost on the animals neck much
like man mounted on a camel.
With this outlet the Bosnian is hap
py and the horse doesn't mind. Off go
the companions, clambering. The horse
can climb like goat. 1t will fall into
a hole, ascend a smooth face of rock,
slide down another and fall into a
second hole as placidly as if it were
ambling over a pasture.
The Bosnian likes it, for it is liter
ally true that where certain fearfully
bad brittle paths are paralleled by ex-
cellent new highways the Bosnians still
plod up and down, jolting and STUN
bling. along the bride paths.
The bride path is not ideal: but
there is worse road still, which seems
to be even more of a favorite with the
true Bosnian. 1t is the Kaldermas.
The Kaldermas is a road that was
originally a mere path over fields. In
moment of ambition, long ago, the
Bosnians improved these trails by
throwing stones into them. AS no
attempt was made to make founda-
ton, the Kaldermas is terror to-day.
There isn't town of any size in
Bosnia that does not boast of APP
proaches of this kind, and the weary
traveller, when he sights town,
knows that his troubles have only be-
gun, for the Kaldermas goes over rock
and swamp.
The fact is that the Bosnian, al
though he has settled down to being
a European and an Austrian, is a
Turk at heart. To-day Bosnia and
Herzegovina together have 2S5 ele-
mentary European schools and 1854
lower Mohammedan schools.
The Busnian still loves some of the
Turkish ways, though he fought the
Turk all the time. He prefers even
now to take his disputes to learned
Turk rather than to a European judge;
and it is on record that Bosnian, Croa-
tan and Dalmatian Christians have
taken their law cases to Turkish
Kadis on Turkish territory over and
over again in recent years.
They like the Oriental method,
which permits them to carry on their
own case and to fight It out before the the
Judge in person. They like, too, MS
method of judging. 1t is within their
understanding.
one of the funny Bosnian stories is
about a case of just this kind. Two
sisters and a brother had been sup
porting their old father until they
grew weary of him and decided TO
throw him out.
The wise old gentleman discovered
the plan in time. He hurried to a
friend and borrowed a. Dag of gold.
With this he repaired to his room
where he began to count it taking ex-
cellent care to make the pieces clink
loudly.
The loving children peered
through a crack and saw the hoard.
Immediately they began to rival each
other in attentions, ana une roxy ola
daddy lived in clover till he died.
AS soon as he had passed, the chill
dren hunted for his hoard and pres
entity found a great earthen jar sealed
and extremely heavy. Forthwith they
bore it to a Kadi, told him the story
and besought him to make the oil
vision.
The Kadi was foxy old gentleman
himself. He ordered his servant to
suspend the Jar from the ceiling with
a string. Then he loosened his tur-
ban and opened it on his head as far as
he could. and stood Immediately un-
der the treasure. ~
Now" said he, group yourselves
around me. Then my servant shall
thwack the jar with a club and each
one shall have all the gold that falls
on him or her. -
The servant thwacked the jar as or
dered. and out fell great stone di-
rectly on top of the Kadi's head.
The Bosnian's idea Of a woman is
Turkish, too Fear thy husband, oh,
woman" is part of the priests for
mula at Christian weddings; and the
bridegroom then treads hard on his
brides foot to impress it on her.
In true Oriental fashion, the wooing
in many districts is begun by bidding
money for the girl. Often the nego-
tiations become spirited enough to
make bidding feverish. Unlike Tur-
kew. however, the Bosnian father gives
the sum realized by him for his daugh-
ter to her when she is married.
After she is married, the Bosnian
woman settles down to work. She
expects nothing else. Her time of fun
passed with her girlhood, and she
would be shocked by suggestion that
a. wife need not necessarily be a la
borer.
"Only the man who beats her some-
times, loves his wife TRULY" is a Bal
kan proverb of much popularity.
(Conv1ief 1904 by 7. G. McClure.)