Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-13

| ~ eagles nest, high on the south
ern slope Of the Balkan noun
tains. The half dozen huts of
I which it consisted were made of rough
stones, daubed within and without
thick with clay. The roofs were Of
logs. overlaid with mats Of brushwood
/ woven together by flexible whites and
{ plastered heavily. The inhabitants were
, goatherds. Their lives were simple.
II they were denied indulgence In luxu-
ries, they were also removed from that
! contact with them which excites desire,
1 and so were contented.
Milosch and his good wife, Helena
good Mother Helena, all the hamlet
called her-werc blessed with two boys.
! Their faces were us bright as the sky
| In which, from their lofty lodgings.
| they might be said to have made their
morning additions for the eleven and
| twelve years of their respective lives.
Yet they were not children Of the
cherubic type; rather tough little knots
Of humanity, with big bullet heads
matched over with heavy growths Of
hair. which would have been red had 1t
not been bleached to light yellow by
sunshine and cloud mists. Instead Of
! the toys and indolent pastimes Of the
nursery they had only the steep rocks.
the thick copse, the gnarled trees and
the wild game Of the mountains for
their playthings. They thus developed
compactly knit muscles, depth Of lung
and thickness Of frame, which gave
agility and endurance. For religious
discipline they had the occasional min.
istrations of Il Greek priest or mission
airy monk from the Rio monastir,
many leagues to the west Of them.
By the side Of Mllosch's house ran
or. rather climbed and tumbled, SO
steep was it-that road over the BAL
kans, through the pass OF Slatiza, by
which Alexander the Great, nearly 1900
years before, had burst upon the Moe
slams. Again, within their fathers
memory, Bajazet, the Turkish Light
ming" as he was called because Of the
celebrity Of his movements, had flashed
his arms through this pass and sent
the bolts Of death down upon Walla-
CHA and poured terror even to the dis
tant gates Of Vienna. Often had MI
losch rehearsed the story of the terri
BILE days when he himself had been a
soldier in the army Of tho Wallachian
Prince Myrtche.
Their neighbor, Kabilovitsch, a man
well weighted with years, not only lis
tened to these tales. but added marvel
Gus ones Of his own. Kabilovitsch was
a strange character In the little settle
ment, though not the less confided In
because Of the mystery Of his previous
life. He had come to this out Of the
way place, as he said, to escape with
his little daughter the incessant raids
and counter raids Of Turks and Chris
tians. which kept the adjacent country
In alarm.
Good Uncle Kabilovitsch, as all the
children Of the hamlet called him,
named his daughter, lass Of ten sum-
mers, Morsinia, after the famous peas
ant beauty, Elizabeth Morsiney, who
had SO fascinated King Sigismund.
Morsinia often braided her hair and
sat beneath her canopy of blossoming
laurel, while Constantine, the younger
of Miloschs boys, dismOunted from the
back Of his trained goat at the mimic
threshold and wooed her on Blended
knee, rs the good king wooed the beau
tiful peasant. Michael, the elder boy
was not less ardent though less poetic
in the display Of his passion for Morsl
min.
To Constantine, however, the little