OF VOL. 2. SILV ER TO N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , AUGUST 11, 1898. NO. 31. Progress. upon the original rock, into which a r e m a r k e t p la c e s for the sale cam el The Eddas and their C ontents. stairs have been cut to facilitate and goat meat, m utton and vegeta­ Revised fu r the To rch o f Reason.J t be upward or downward climb, and bles. Of the latter, the cauliflowers Iceland was settled from Nor- M nning daw ns in regal g ra n d e u r— M other e a rth w ith beauty teem s; are very r steep in places. All are are the largest and best I have ever ! wa>’ in ,he n in th century. A re- , Hoary m ists of su p erstitio n filthy. 1 he ordure of men, women seen. Num erous cam els and don- m arkable social life grew up there, Melt l>efore th e genial lieam s ; Wiiile the ear of day m o unts upw ard, and children is as offensively and keys come io town daily laden with which preserved the ideas, m an- (Mowing, sp a rk lin g on h e r co u rse; publicly deposited in the streets as them . O ther vegetables do not nt>rs, and religion of the Teutonic ' Winning by lier gentle influence— Hers no conquest born of force. is th a t of camels, donkeys, dogs and flourish, potatoes being not much P,()P,e in their p u rity for m any bun- cats. The stenches are unspeakably larger th an chestnuts. The com- dred years, and whose Ed das and Principles sublim e and m ig h ty , Are evolved in a m b ien t a ir ; hornble. It was shrewdly suggested mou people do not often indulge in S a g a s a r e the chief source of our All the atm o sp h ere is ra d ia n t— th a t the peculiar corpse-like odors meat, but live principally on o l . - i .............. r>...............~ For the tru th now do and dare ! knowledge of th e race. « In th is This the age dem an d in g action ! prevailing in these holy streets are ives, olive oil, and a q u ality of u ^ ’n,ate a >‘d barren region of the Gird your arm o r firm ly on ! a ttrib u tab le to the bodies of the bread, black and unsightly. There e a rlh > where seas of ice make Noble w orkers, ceasing never, Hum an prejudice is strong. saints who caine out of their graves is no water in Jerusalem save th at thousands of square miles desolate Toiling with a noble purpose, at die time of the resurrection and caught in cisterns, and this in dry an(1 i,npenetrable, where icy masses, When the early m orn ap p ears, “ went into the Holy City and ap- seasons becomes both scarce a n d elsewhere glaciers, are here m oun- Glorious shall be th e noonday (if th e sw ift revolving years. peared unto m any,” and who, per- foul. Babies and children up to tains, where volcanoes w ith terrib h Errors old m ust be com bated, haps, never returned to their two or three years of age are car- eruptions destroy whole regions of Priest and people m ust advance, Musty p arch m en ts cannot longer graves again. As there is no record ried by th eir mothers astride of one inhabited country in a few days hv Chain th e m in a in ignorance. th a t they ever did return, and shoulder, being held in place by lava, volcanic sand, and boiling For the p resen t tim e is b rillia n t surely they would not wish to, there the arm or leg. It is a novel sight. water< was developed to its highest With th e th e prom ise of th e age; wo,lid seem a deal of - plausibility, ---- -------- Erom all th at has been said it is degree the purest form of Scandina- They who run m ay read th e lesson; Bravely tu rn each glowing page. espeeially that Jerusalem as a place o f ! virtn ,ife- especially to those who have scented r plain ___ _________ And the goal is h u m an freedom ! these u n earthly stenches, . th L at . the residence is . not attractive. Yet, The religion of the S candinavians Who shall dare th e race im pede? Mis your b irth rig h t, m an and w om an! co, pses of those old saints, though outside of the walls, or city proper, is contained in th e E ddas, which Bow to n e ith e r sect nor creed ! no longer visible, are still stalking there are m any handsom e residenc are two,— the poetic, or elder Edda about the city, shedding their pious es, missions, m onasteries, convents, consisting of thirty-seven poems. The Holy City. odors for the benefit of whom it may hospices and the like, on which the younger,or prose Edda. Tht _ 111? 1 l « « —. G w -v i »» 4 1 . z. X! __ . „ « e concern. Surely such a phenom ­ m illions have been expended. The first poem in the first part of the BY DANIEL K. TENNEY. enon would he appropriate in Jew s have about a hundred syna poetic E dda is th e V oluspa, or We were greatly surprised to find Jerusalem , if anyw here. All things gogues, the Greeks about twenty Wisdom of Vala, a prophetess, pos- sensing v»st su p ern atu ral knovvl- that Jerusalem lies, practically, at are possible with God. m onasteries, nunneries and relig- edge. It begins thus, Vain speaking the sum m it of a m ountain range 1 he city is said to contain about ious schools, and the R om an Cath- I com m and th e devout a tte n tio n of all twenty-five hundred feet above the 80,000 people, of whom eight °lh*8 about as m any more. The noble souls, Of all the high anti tin» low of th e raceof M editerranean. There is no level thousand are T urks and A rabs— A rm enians and Copts also have a H e in d a li; land within or about it. Ravines M ahom etans— two thousan d Ro­ considerable num ber of chapels and I tell th e doings of th e A ll-F ath er, ost a n cien t Sagas w hich come and declivities everywhere abound. m an Catholics, four thousand other holy edifices. The Mahome In th e to m my m ind. There are, indeed, some sm all O rthodox Greeks, one thousand tans are well supplied with mag- T here was an age in which Y m er lived, m ountain peaks overtopping the \rm en ian s, a few hundred Copts, »ificent mosques. The P rotestants \\ hen was no sea, n o r sh o re, nor salt waves. city itself, but only a few hundred. E thiopians and Syrians, and about aiso have a num ber o f structures Nor earth Motv, nor heaven above, Barrenness is everywhere ap­ three hundred Protestants. Of the devoted to religious uses. The prin- No yaw ning abyss am i no grassy lan d , parent. A few old olive trees and rem ainder, sixty thousand are Jew, (‘ipal source of popular revenue con- Ti*l th e sons of Bors lifted th e dom e of wild flowers alone relieve the gaze a t least half of whom were expelled « is* >n preying upon the fifty to And ,.rea,'ed’’the vast M idgard (earth) as one rides about I be country. from Russia a few years ago, and seventy-five thousand pilgrim s, below; Hie south rose af>ove the There are no forests,all having been have wandered here because they whose credulity or curiosity annu- 1 >H*n cut down and consum ed. The city knew nowhere else to go. T heseare a Hy leads them to visit these weird And th e green grasses ma