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Show sadallsm la Hangar, Inconcclrabio ai tho anachronism may seem to tho western mind, ths agrarian system of Hungary has not yet Issued from tho feudal form. Ths Hungarian farmer of today li virtually virtual-ly a serf, bound to his master, ths horedltary owner of the toll which the peasant tills, by the tangible tie of personal liability. The Hungarian feudal lord of the and of the century la entitled to fifty days' labor from each male adult who dwells on hla land. The seignior la at liberty to demand de-mand this contribution at whatever time may Bee in best to him, with the frequent result that the tenant farmer farm-er is employed in gathering his master's mas-ter's harvests while his own crops are rotting nfter a rainfall, or are being consumed by an early frost, or suffer damage from one or more of the many causes which render destructive the lightest delay on the part of the harvester har-vester ln gathering the fruits of a year'a labor. H, Ivan Tonjoroff, In Th Arena. |