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Show 1 ig$ ( WAKKUAYS WAMIKItlMJS. SL Y$ lUlltn Mirpbtrilt. 4Eil k teeaalal Uomapoail.Bte of. Ut DKIIM1T About tlio) ear KM, al Ilia ilawn of , ' Hie rtoMen age lu Italy, tliero were niW itallr gathered ut the table of tho chief i fS cltten of 1- lorenco mich mtn m 1'ulcl, fj Ii lllp.ttiu Urrl lloUlcrlll, (llilrl.tidAjo Jvv ainlMlchaelAtiKelo. The liot, wlioao K jfifj ealtli luid niatchlcai attainment, lb v il- J mail hlin known anions tlijiottn ' Si'V tale, and eayanU of aniutherti l.uroj fiKrt M "''nn0) ' MaRnlflfcDt," wrote r T riaatonl ajeni of wondrout .wftlnr. t' ki and oarer called "I.a Kencla Da llir- B filial Latino." IwMOUcelun tloii (be- t? T ij Imtan nlllorwonelucVI( loliare thla K V ''I llttlo known though uraAaliiKriimo if; j.'J elllon tranalau-d fur the nrt Unie Into f tyl r i.iigll.h.liillieorlifliial mitre, ty no 9 u. lee" a acholar anil K-t than Hlr aIwIii I . Arnold. The loem conirlaltiK KI 7 lito llnni,il'rlrUliiliiile thouKliKlowliiK in 15,!T onlan(l Imaitlnarjr the Iioi'Hm and aSi iOK ' ' uonaumlng tanioii of tht abrpliiril M vmfu lad, "rtaTrlla'for a ilalntjr laaunt m jBlRft Klrl. "Nencla." One cannot rtnd thli U WeJi ' lowl-llf iiratt-ciy without the 91 ImXJv awakenlnft In hlon aoul of n thrill- aJ flK trfr and rurumlaftcratlTe tenderncM for l!Wv, the humble Itrra It an ilalntlvtly re 9 fafkr veala; and It vm wltfi thin ffellnjt W aMEHI "'' l aought, icrharai oreMnurli fur a) Sip. "e lectio and romantic aide of the filcture, to know tho rial everj-day wn Irre of thoH) who tend the flocka and Mi !WaB brnltof Italjr. V aKBR My flratwantlfrlnitavrereliiiouthirn a JHH Italy, the territory of olden Apulia. H 1HBI Once IhU waa art of Onccla Manna. Wj -B Ita ttrrat cltlia were Arilnuni, Bj 'HH liucerla, Arril and Camulum. 1'artly flb BLfl en foot, artly by the antique M JBIS cabriolet of roYlnclal Italy, 9SWI rtlytiylltlRn, the lectla of the an- Sn -juaBr dent Ituutnns and tartly on the lacka Ml oEsm) "' "n donknya nf wondroui thairitb H Sfefil " and tnarvelout nwcr, t made my IK HBu way InaalK zagcouraolck and forth Jfri BHj acrona the lufroiuently traveled, little IE Wanl known, weird and lonely, yit alvi aye Wh 9qfiw tranacendantly lautlful and fiuclnal iVm -VKSU lnictenlnauli. UpwardiofftXJcaatlre, w HBn modern, inetlltoTal and In rutin, atrlk 1m 'Bffitft Innjy rrcallliiit the rplondor and detay aW aBMB of Ireland, wera ronnled. The few H ffiSK emalnlnit rellca of Canine, whero tho Wh- MWVl Itomane met their Cfuthlug defeat of H H?lM U1 - '-"J! n'1 wl,"ro "l0 hlatorlo rlly HI JRJB ,waa finally dntroynl, In 1011, by ItoU- Br iLWaKfc rr' (lutacard, one of Taaau'i fieroi'a, Jb OlK' '( t re found. Jlarl, nn the AdrlatU', ISU JtuSUfl u farnoua now for Ita lUh aa In the tlmn aW dSlKjr f Horace, waa aeeu. The nnclent lu ataSlk abbey and church of 8. Mrcolo, MS IBJaWW' whero am found the ialntluin vBb 1K. s of one of the earlleat ItalUn Ou TaBw i mater, Vlearlnl, and where, (K2 (Ma k- luliws. l'oii Urban II. held tho faoiom t. ciiuncll which eourtht to reconcile thu b chtinhnf Greece with that of llolue, S wafvlalle.1. I cllmh iiaat Mein, with i lla Klorloui caatln of tlie old Norman f rorerelgna, to the rillnct Tolcnno, Monte Vulture, lh"Aiullaii Vullur" of Horace, whoae crater, otirtrown ami L w'1'' Oakland latvhw, now toulaliia W Ml' Iwolakea, ien lied aboroouo of which In jln. latheiuoal t?rle iiiouaatery of Kuroiie, JWi OV walblyeiceptliii(Mournt. lnHin, UL Ml and from whueetowere the blue walera 1W fH of theMeillterranvanon thu weat, anl V jH thoao of tlie Adrlatlo on the rrut, tn flH could tie Uiacerned. 1 tratllieil, too, rE flt '"' huudrrdaof returnlint Hiirlina, ig UR caiurlui; Willi Iheinal nhihl by thu I ' Jti waj aide; eat with the carrttuija iu Ida 6 f , HI cart an I ox welted by the fuuntalna, f I Vl cllmlied to the ahrlui wllli rerereutlai i A f tllgrlnu; waited by the mountain ( -J H lilxWa with roadalde lfi!C"r, made . O iountloiM and aatoundlnit variiHa to AM W Kct Into tho Interior of tabliia for CM m uruuiihtiof uoiuadl hlto and nanfa, SIB L tiutlirmllk and oranun water, , H which )ou can Kit eTerywhire In the (k H country for the ulueofhalf an Auurl- V EP caniTiit; itraUxIfrouitowiitoniouii . w tain with the curo and hlilloike, 1 H aaalated moru than one ahe herd III t m bulldlnicanidohut of atom.nfur thu ' A D niauiiFrof Ihoruiran "hee'lihe" roll it M uon wlndwet moora, aud altir 'rv "3 mtklnr; my home for it brief iwu tmiw li amoliK Uiu heherda of tlieiaatiril mtmp Ik niouiiulu raniru of Dtranto, folloxiil frMRIt il n fool, Iheclaaalo Apilan Way to thu VSKMr r, hrlirrdhauiiUuftheollTandliiu. QWrw '!' Rlrt-hllla if Tuacnuy, Hlic lurila, Til M aheilierda eTerj whirij but nowhere tv JeM waa the dream of ehehtrd life brrtitli- am " lu from "l.t Ni'Cii.U,"m theuttar IjL jM romthehinrtof uroae, fulfilled. tJE ME Uneof the u oat InUmtliiK facte re In (flr prdlos the li lirrda or auuthiru 'Jft B Italy la that they are nut oulyndla- flm Si tlnctcliu, liut.throuiili holdlnit tin m- hH HJt wlrce aloof Iruiu all other imtaant JBJf' mam ciiu.it, aro almoin ui.llncl rarv, lu 4afl ET am lent tlmea all thla country uaa (uti. fW Tp,- j Ject to Kourulnir dcirrd'l na & ' by lb" Haracena, to an ratent ri- . y , quIrliiK that kvi le alioul.1 herd to. ,L 5 1 mllior In walled low na for rotecllon A jtf f llfoaudroirtj. Hun nrurlv the J , entire impuliitlon uf old AAilln wiru I ! il I hcherda. 'Ihey drou llnlr htrda , jJT ' ' from the biwmtu the mountnlna, re f Si! turnlDK for eafrly at lilglit. lhu j. I wC OeeceuUanla of therxlu n dlrict llnu H t rf ' for more than two lliouaond juunr lire J IK' ' dolux that Identical thlnir tuilay, not l I tt formfely but from trajlllouary cua. ' J fll '' torn. Allthoauwho exltt In aouthtrn 4 i Italy today whu nru not ibeihunla, I V t oat herda or hrrilauien, form the iji ' Bit ulatlouof dtlea and touua and iviif L , S ' Mm, the coiitallul or Held lalnrera, U -. MB I audlliiiaiKratoraof all Uicao may U 'f V I jail to huvu urailually Krown away t .XI f'omtho alnili.rd'a llftf.ralher lliau ! uHk I ljt Iba 1 hanla of our tlmn nru a ! .jWfln I troductof new forma of rural econoiu I T"mI ,0 nwiwIHw. They rrel lidir. ! ' .( marry with other ()aiae. Whin f ( t'tMl It "", Uo' ""X Inalantly Mriurt r AU K !rem lll Iw-at, aru uuwrlwl In 6 ' W !t lo'r ordira uf the iltlit, or r r become tin, moat ill ik rati ly huH lea. fcf ', f (he human caltlo that labor In the '!i "Ida- Theirldeluth.lrown.liwnt, K f ' JliUieixriualYiUfMorilielitlaaa.il 'ir,1' tholoiiBllneofaheihirdnncialrylhty I' i, I., caulroce, amiiuntanlinoatbiaiauwluu. ilfj ltUirajtlcallylheouoirldetliiyiwi. ,, I 1 ", Hill laolatlon i f Moral nu fliite ti'll i"tliaairMerYiHllutere.tlinrtracei In ' V Vi. I rhyaloKiiuiuj They are won It -fully ii SS 5 I Baraceulo In their w,k. Thu loll, ' JH I f! alender,aiil flirure, the oval fan! ' ij ", aiidahluhiKaklu, theniHk, tiny at the J I ( taUoat,jij)ttadiiigiigiaiy nadlimlly ' . Irrrrottiterrni irtutctcn, like a broaJ tiuitfil (nt), to ttie fhoul Icni, Uis jel lowlnh Mue tlngo of the while o( tli rje the iJIxtendM tiMtrlU ftuil tli tlntxlliijt t(rth, nil prutiounct the .nl-rn origin nU rcUlticd hjulo IcRlral nniiiltlrn. Inevirjrtirt of eoulhcru lUlyou will corneiijioii a I road, rmu Rrown hljlmny. It In rnlltnl tho "Iraiiuo." For twenty centuries ItliMwrTtd thv wimeirwf, Itcau benearl llktntnl toour owd vtt wrttern Hotk tralln I. a ling from "griwi to pnwt' when herdi are driven northwarj, fat ttnliig ou their yrny to the great llTMtork Diaikfti. On ttil "trnturo" oeoumtlie jtatljr pprlitjj enxlui from the lower Talteynnrt Icoaitwlno moorn and nmnlii to tho Atmllati nioutiUlii urumcr r-tvturi. lit the autumn, hundred of tliouitanJt return along tliette auchnt wajs. During th winter the henlitmen hiii ahejherilA life In town hotel, or In huU urnr the towm and rllUtd. The licrttit atiitllocki are then driven out to and returned from Uallj mcEti. lint In the ummer time on the mounUlti el Ira U the nal outdoor life of thu punr-JIftii of the ilck and lnnU WJiether he le henlaman, roaI herd or ahr lirnl, he In usually l m. charKc of A Hock or herd of from CO to tin) animal. Amone tho cattle, and herd In In common with them, are large numb n of n biocU i of buffalo, tnallt-r and 1i-m hairy than tho now ixtltul American hi con. In a herd "f 1(H) cnttlf, twenty will tw pruvlded with uu muilcAl LellR, In a Mock of m many hetp twice aa many will have UIU, Mine of which are excevUlinjly rueto dlou;andthequalltyof file LelU aro of inoro roncerii to the ApullAti ohrj henl than that of hli ihcep. The latttrare odd little creature. Xenrly All are black. Their leg nn 1 hoof are Mack and uhlny at el-ony drum-allcka rhelreyes nrntxedltigly mall and a brilliant yellow; whllo the Ilttln cnaturte aro aa agile m chnmoU. Wi IrJ. utrange grouim ore thefw whlili follow tho Jlncka and hen In to the muunUli.Ji. .Nearly every thc herd of eouthTru Italy In married Jlu ruarrlt youig. Uu rtntfl, or rnther there grow, MxmliiRly all uncontK.oua to lilniprlf, a large family The onf marry oilier ftluphtrd'a ilauahten; the daughU ra olh-r olh-r ftliiiierda' nuna. JllumU perhnpH born lu the graM by tho ldoof the "traturoMn a cleft of some rock In Lhofdguof a torrent gnivlna, or In some low hut ou hill or moor, he eiiHrgee from habjhood b childhood a nomad; I a nomad In youth an I manhood, he matea a n noma J : and liefer ccajc a uomadlo Ufa until the (ulckllme of imo village Campo ha n to roniiumee UU bout. Bo that to tsrrry (lock Iwlong a family Tho tatterdemalion group t0MMi.ra noliomubut that of the dally grafting laud of the Hock. 1 heir hole j-wtn. Ion nover euual llvedollanln alue. Their toUl earning do not eiceed rlevtn inU ur day. Like Wnlli chhui ilU- they xjuat any w here for rcfttainWleep, anleat anything that will iuiUIii life. If they ioutm a alURleafplratlouon earth. U 1 tint secret one of o mtuy otlur lUlluu field nnd moor laborer to "lake to the the hill..," that I, to Iwcome outright brigand. Unlvurwtt Indoleuco and itpjgiiance to ittbrt are ufiguanl agalmt thla Thu AputUu ihe-herd ihe-herd hlmwlf 1 a plcturif.u) fellow euoushi iUpltu your couhIou iicm of hU vucuou Ignoraiict', hi tin varying cruelty to hi flock, and hi utter Midden, rather thanactlve, bru-U.lly bru-U.lly to hi wife and children, who urto a hi packmule, like the Aoitr lean f.uaw, for tranortloghlilrn Uor UIjiikIuk tolhebllU. Tall, ami atralght a an arrow, he I clad from head to foot In uiidrcwcd ikln. A lilfurcated garment of untanmd hide, faahloneU alter the pattern of that one well known to American drtui reform re-form laJh-, funiu a iwrtof waUUont and trouivr comblued. Thu I tttur are opened at tho klde. Mow the kin, olteii illi laying gaudy button oma meutlng the tide ufhUhalf2lter,uu dioucd kln boot. Onr hi walatroal I a lung, iKMearmhiMjackitof hide, jinivlded with numterlr jKHkeU, hi rnlii.j roof alore hou of uuger tnure. A Jautity, t rlgaudlili hat m U i rklly utaou hi fine, itirly hi oil nnd bring Into fctrlklng nlirf hi ollro klu, hi large, gruvu iee and trlnkly, curly Uard a half Kgyptlau type, one woul t nay, to M It reproiluutt lu alnt lug. Kluiig from hi right houlder ncronfl hi left hlpbyabronl twin I of hi Jo, with occasionally the prhele trraaure of a olheJ Ira or 1 route luckle, lthe Invtparnhle cntlli or ahei herd' (touch A rutty carbine, which Unewr dlcharg-u, or a tout tairahlgh a hi briant but nevir tho ahej hnl' (rtMik of ol ten tali and modern tabtcuur t -ft f complitu the jlcture. And It I alwaa a I Icturr; for thl fellow with thu face of an njiostleand thecal- of aaalut lo ilellclotnly languid and Iticx) remit ly Izy, that hltkplendld form I furovir lu June and rei-oito. On the mountain ildta thellfoof thl hehenl family I a chaugelcM one the whole kummer long, uiiU-m the terrible hall dorm of Mmthrru Itah full U-on the mounUliu, or tho Hill more tU-tnictlvo wind aloriu, that frniuuitly tllng both theiherd and llixka from thu crag to tfeath. come whl-tllnguver icakorhowIlugthruugh gravlu. riuu the human marmot awaktu from hi letlmrjrj and accom plUhia rodlslou feat of trenglh aud wonJrouiacU of valor, lrinculng en-daugtritl en-daugtritl imtnUn of the lxk or of hi onn terrified 1 n-nl. tood It iioleutaaiid chctnut'tlour bnad. lie Uthe one lullm uhodrlnk wattr ln tend of wluu Ml field lore, though unconbclou to hliuM-If, I ntariluu When i pur ml l-y itr.me huugir, all inouuUfu moorland tlnl nrr doomcij u hi re ho mU lit uarw, It U a wll t, fclmtigt, melancholy laud liu look Uon it ui-jii, If hv hitve thu energy tor looking llUwiruandchlllniinruund him aru a volceh a IiIuim If and hi dork. 1 hu very melody of the !.. IwIN Uromee a inraulngli-M din. Due carrlr nun) from hi einlrounuut and cumpmlonihlp with him on!) a pathetic Mme of hi hon limtwimii degradation. Von iaii uulj n member him ut 'another animal hi hairy lit le. Innntll le to the trumpt time of eterual nature oruu nd him rhechciphroui lug at hi ohlo aru hi itpial lu Intilll. i;iint ; hi vuri-urloni In Uimonatrablti furcr nnd mtlvllle. lhe lonn kitral v, hti ling oIkivu thl A)ullau flit j herd ho r I Jt r horizon of view. Hut there nru othtr h(lurd In Italy of whom a ktinukr pictuiu can bo drawn. lheu uru thu hthenln aud hepherdtM uf thu l-cafmnU' NM,r ilotk lu ritMntont, In Joni bardy, In nulla lit ruiiau), ami irn lu itlfiruut death breeding Marem mis on the rjrrrhtuo Hen, lhtru nru mun uiiiong thow who, like thu Apullait kheiherd. huvu dict tided fromalicjhiruuucektor, and who all thtlr llM-awHldiuly follow the one u cation. Jlut In the malu tho are the UtUo fglU and tho ) outlu auif wlru of JO all the irratnntry. In northern llafy the iuanlry aru a liap ler folk than Ihoaeofthoaouth. The beauty of the cltlea. rjualntntM and acerulnen or tho village, and harnlebi, the radtaiico of 'the valleya and the nob). lc-lurcrfueneM lc-lurcrfueneM of the fureaU and the blah mountalna aeemi to have given a rcllecllve -ectfjl Ailunn, aunnlnnm and even virility to the orle. Their ehephrrda do not poMt-M tlie grave, i I. vacueua race, of the aouth. Competilonahlp occounta largely for thla. In tho north the ahepherd la alwaya ono of the vllligi ra. He urahoaharra their everyday lile. The feahta, ca notiaala, marrlagea, fuuer-ala, fuuer-ala, all are thelr for injoynicnt and rontiini latlon. Nearly every family hatlUownllttlo Hoik, Dfttn aeveral of theau are merged Int. a larger llock and taken to tho lilgheat mountain landa fortheentlro aummer. In luch caaia ahe henl and hli family accom-iiiy accom-iiiy them, nnd they live much aa do their kind In Apulia, lu October tho aame Hock will hu driven to the rain ra and nmrahi-a of Man nimo. where the hii herd and hl family ribalat almoal entirely on mured wild fowl, which come here In tnyrladi to eecnpo the wlntirior thollrltlali lalea, thellaltlc iiglonaaad the tit mini roreata. Hut ten or thouaanda or little flockr. let by tcna of thouainli ef little alirp-htrda alirp-htrda nnl ahe herdreare, Irnve the village greggla or aim -f(ld and home evtry morning ror tho higher gladee riomcllmiiAilog, often n lg trained to henl the llock, with tlieni. If n maiden line charge of the llock lhu wlllhavoluraplnlleor knitting, nnd uork andalngnnl It ml htr dock tho whole day long. Ifnlal or .tripling leadnflotk, hu will let tho lg or the Jog Uud tho aheeis with an occaaloual momt nt i f i xmitlve olm rvatlon, and Itiurritorihu day ho gather) ninth-rooma, ninth-rooma, hunta the young of bird, all of which nro eagerly eaten eava tlioae of lhu awallow and Mwk, auarea foreat fowl, or Ik. on Ida flutu In Idle fantaay, llolh miut bring a tuck load of ft rna, graa, oak, elm or vino leave., with tho llocki at night. Home of thla la for teniorary net, but the winter win-ter atoru li chlclly thu. gathered, I hrfve counted moru than luj of thi-M lllllu lloika dcMiudlng from the mountain with lhthc lurda at eventide. even-tide. Tho valleya are volceful with thouinnda of tinkling Leila, Willi thu eotea from liundroda of hehenla' flutea, with the tri'.tl of acorn of tin p. honla'torui. Ihen, na the ahadowe fall aoflly iiion tho hamlcli, cornea the hoiialng of thu ihrcp In tho greggla, and the paatural yield, lo'lho protein, while "Itavtlla" and "Xoncla" gain new etrcngth for tho morrow (rom their lmwl t r .'earning ro!etita,or r-rldguof r-rldguof cruahed white beana. l.tXIAII l. Wakemax. |