IN THE LAND OF THE MAGYAR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2189, 30 June 1914, Page 5

IN THE LAND OF THE MAGYAR

IBs M&wxm Ross, F.R.G.S.] No. IV, Our nest joijt'My was to Tapoicaa. ■. "ft e loyuu -ourselves with about an hour lo spare -beloro our train came ftloiig, so we strolled denvu to tMe great late, and taerc, in the distance, near the etui of a long wharr. we saw a man iisiiing. At last we iiad discovered, a Huttgarsaii u'iio was a disciple of old Isaac) ' tic had a krog, slender wand, at tho end of which was ■ a picM of' string, ai-jd, at the end of that, a hook about an inch long. But his ma'.mer csf lishii-ig. *fas sti-atigi! indeed, a-,u.d wc found tiiai tie ww wot after fish at S-11, hut 'was grappling, for a paiasol that- his little ■uieee iia.U dropped into the w.ster that day, She was at home lua-kiug many tears about- the lost parasol, and the old man,' with all the patience of Izaae himself, wns lis-hing away, pushing first iii oii-e direction, and then in another, ■iwvc shortening his cast and again leiig-tliefiiiig it, but ali. to no purpose. Wo turned and resumed our walk te. ward-; the railway, and, just as we wero at the Mild of the wltarf, we heftfd - a fn.fg-ii'ty shout, andj lookiiig back, saw the. old inan waving tho recovered aiid driptJ-iug parasol hi triumph ill the air, . Thus are virtue and patience sometimes : rewarded in a hard and u:uceli-ng. world; and we, too, behig quite pleaset! at his sucees-s, and thinking <if' the tears of the little girl turii-ed to joy, joined : in li.is gladness., aiid slioutctj and waved j bask to him, in of his: tiianiph.' And with that we boarded the train, and. -steamed out ift.the direc- j tioa of Ta-pokza, along tire reed-fringed . shore of the great lake, and ihrciwh ficii land ia wliich tjio grass tvas high and succulent, and cattle fat, and ttte vines, and the -maize luxuriant. Stefan was St tho. \vindo-iv all tks trtoft, rcc-aH-ifig incidents in the happy rfeys lie s.pejis . in this p-lac-e as a- toy in ljis father .s ' company. Hore was a cottage, he know ■well; yonder fields over which he- marched as a- young soldier; and awsy tliefe oh tho luHsi-ti'.', in a soft of J'ueir-oi - - I'ook's Hill Couiitfi', % cave wjiere, ivith iuaiza taken froa a tieigh-bsatin-g farni-c-r's noid-ivhcn the iarmt-r was not. iciokinpj-'-he afsd Ms ■eei&paniflns, tho world forgetting and by the worid forgot, eoaked thenisclves a meal i-ft' true brigand style. And there wore other tales of boyhood days such as a. man iieyer forgets. Of bow on one otcasi-o-Ji lie wandered away, and, seeing u crowd about a house, crept in, and, all utuio* ticed. iva« witness, at vh-o age of four, to a pusi-mortcm esaiaitiati-Bii,. until tho regiiirelltal siwgean, recognising linn as the littie salt of the old coTcnel, took Win hc.ine. where tho child with KCiMi glee told them how tho doctor had ta-i4e.ii. out Hak's heart, and had iisld in adm.iri-iigiy in his liakd. Mai was a bricldafer, who had fallen into burning lime. Incidents at a Station, We stopped at a station with a long n-aiii-B. The only passenger te dkbrtibar'a was a young gjrl, ilcnarr and goodlooking, witli dark hair and fine b.tue oyi-s, .yscii as one- sefes often iii this country. She tfa-s iyriteitiy' tie (iaughtei of 1 the- sfaiioiimptoi-, for the. first thnig sho did oh Lmdin;: was to .go tip to hi'ffi aiid kiss him affoct.ioaat.eiy np. the fip?. Then sh& devoted her aU-ciitbii to a tax thai was chained to ft tree in front of tho kouspj but \vho \\-as still % cry wild, and apparent!y not at all in loco with his mistress, or iii tho least degree pl.ea-ssd with his oft'-ij toss of . liberty, liui: a. young fox-tei-riiir thai met her .on tho doorstep leaped with joy at lier approach, and gave her a. ' weleotfte as .v;a?iu as tilva-t a£ tho ;fex was fyj-gM. T'tioro was a lit-tte boy of four at this place, wearing proudly t-ha old cap of a- .'Hvtssaf. Bo -was alrcoily -iiivagimug hi;mself as a soltfior. There, -also, wa» a youth wearing on his ordißaw felt ia'V tho retl, whit®, anil green, ribbon (the colours of tho cihiihi'V), indicating that ho had been eho.'son to ,-serve- Ms t-ime as a kolaicr. H«, also, was quite proud, (Hid vva.-; Jioldiiig ft levto on- '.a sn'rali scale, the girts el the yillago he'iiig quite pleased to spt'ak ivith him. Unlike the anti-militarists of out lan'd, ho k ->niy too proud to .serve.' Tie ,knows ishat dfif'SMe is tiedessary, that, to ■prevent the horrors of war ; yau must ba not euly I'ti-ong but prepared. Kis.tMimtry has a history of dark year's behind it, siitl he will do w'hal hp (.'in to prevent a iecnrreiico of those black djy:.. "Strong frontiers make goo;i friend->." a-s S'tefie treVy aptly'puts ft, a'ric! s.a. this joiittg -chosen one .goes on liia way r&joteing, with l'.e.ad orcot, an Suck tailor 11)" Stature, and to la.ok any nia.u of wonia'ii straight .in tho eye.,' But should ho hare failed to p»S3 t-lii neew:sarv oxEi-jnhwtjoii iif jjausss, his lot woiild indeed have been a miseraiiie one. lff..tv-nn!;l hnve. bee-h looked at asknnce ■by all 'the village maidens, and lucky indeed-:would he .tie'if his'late male ■p-aiiioils asked him to drink a glars of wiiie with them in the inn, instead of ■jeiivi'ug l.tim' to sit. -apsrl ii-t . Siiotlier 'table. To ■ such an extent doer, itiis -ostracism -extend, iff case of tits?, man who has failed to pass'far" service, tiia-i there ha.v been frequent- insraiiecs in wliieli the rejeotfid -one has jjecn driven to commit -sukids,"' llius Woldd it appßar that the question of compulsory military training in a- coin-try might, iii time-, come to he settled by the y.mng women of the country. Necessity for Dcfencc. Continental travel thrusts tiio n'ce.csity far universal training 'very strottgty upott tks at-teittioii. of, tlie -Btteh visitor. The history of tto?sp nations, their fist. feuds, ahtl' warSj and tyrannies, their standing armies, and their strong frontier's Sfo ail a _!esr,mi for, fingiaii-I and ths OtiUfl - Eiiipii.o.to- .be prepared. As oiie. goes East through Butojie and ■finds even the. cities of the nniuvolvod couiStric's ierit!-!ia].y' alTorio;!. ocin-.n'.erci-ally and nuancislly, thraugli this ugly Balkan busiMess, on:! realises a little more forcibly that #«!• must fe svoided, and that, tho only -®ay to avoid it is to ha -strong. Sailing slong tlie -peaceful, hlito A<lri'r.iie, osi.o could fcarcely realise: that, not far away, over the border, peoples were at. deadly grips, ■arid thai bloodshed and- rapine-, stoivatian, and disease -were de-vastAting ■ the country. Even here, in Hungary, choleio. had' conic- from tlie trail of battle to claim its innocent victims iii, a peaceful,.land, and qns might not drink the water in -the tillages nor eat fruit that, ho could iiot pot-J. - Even for the biusiiiun of one's teeth one used a mineral water, because it was boiler to bo suto than sorry. A Pastoral Sceno. But we have- notv coine far past out liftfe country staiioii, with the paprika; a gorpattS red, drying on the white walls -of the- hoiKes, and iho .-tatioiimsster's dau-ghter, with ter fox and her dog, nafi tte young man with his ribbon ffiiiiid hiii hat. Ahead, there are. some t.-ree,f-r-ii)ge(l eoiueal hills, on aui mi old ruined castle of tho fourteenth ' century, and other hills rugged and sqttared topped, with white' lio'tiser among the rineynro's, dotted over (heir ■ sttn.tiy slopes, aiid -on a plitiu at this hot of ajl these is i'apolcza, when- tho people uiv Jews atici Catholics in i:eli.gi.ou, but all Hinigariaiis ia nationality.

Wp. pas? a woman with a buHoelc- ; she does apt drive her ox<m f sbo simply walks in front, and they follow her. -'A little girl. i\ith a small whip sii's in the hay in t'lie cart, pretending to urge the. ic.v.n along. Another tedtn led by-a woman ltas lmmsscil to it a Wlwto aw! it cow. A- wrtigh-tmiml Ki> tle Hufifinriun ttfcpherd's dog, With a W of wivfrd kinging frv-m lii's no-k, to jn'evcp him (isiii ruiuiiiig too lass. ai'tor *'he jjlaeep, is tvitli liis toaster in tie

field. There are uo fences, and each hard of cattle, <>r swine, or fte&k of Aeflij has its attendant Watching all day to keep the animals out of tho corn. Only the geese, which are innumerable, seem to wander and fly. at their own sweet will. In the evening., when tins animals are. driven, homo into the village, each diw-kaaws its own gateway, and the pigs, neamig their house.?, run briskly now, i'or t&s, i ..ltnojf that just ■outside their comfortable, d''nn-be<ldod stics-an evening meal of cooked maize and vegetable.sorhps is awaiting-them, 'iho Hungarian pig .is,, certainly, an etlucatcd pig 1 •At ■ the station, my Wend Stefan was quickly recognised, and soon tho new's of his arriva,! was spread throughout tii& town, We eitiiibed into a vehicle with osir higga.gC', ami drove to our hotel, Sf«'fan, witiiout loss of time, went off, late in -the evening, to visit the p ave of his fat her, who was the patriarch, the adviser, and the beloved• ofle of tho town. Tlicy called -him iiot- by li'ij roilitarv title of colonel, but simply Untie—a. title of enden rment. As we went up to our rooms- in the hotel., irare-footed serving Women were scrubbing passages and cleansing ail the rooms, because . this was a Jewish house, and tlie next, day was "Uosi'.haslionu." No one in all the place sisalte. a word of English. Thus came I into tlie heart of my friend's country. • (To lie continued,)