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THE ECONOMY FENCE,
CARDS.
M- KEENE, D. D. S.
,ntnl offii'o m Brennan
corner nf
B roilier’a
C ourt
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riul Htnets,
OREGON.
LEM.
L. N . W O O D S , M. D.
[Y H IC IA N
M.
D.
Rician and Surgeon,
IA L L A S ,
R O ,
J. K. Si BLN Y,
H. C, E akin .
LOSS OF APPETITE,
SICK HEADACHE,
BAD BREATH, Etc.
A G enius F o r G e ttin g S hot Is N o t V a lor,
T H E S T R O N G E S T , CH E A PE ST, M O S T E N D U R IN G A N D S A T IS F A C ­
T O R Y AR i ICLE ¡N T H E W A Y OF
Ever seen in the northwestern market Manufactured by the rod or mile and
delivered at all points within reasonable distance
Call mi or address
IA LY, SIBLEY & EAXitf,
A
O H M A R T ,
In rear of Cook’s hot. 1 Salem, Oregon.
[ttorneysi-ii t- Í .uvv.
It is a mild laxative and atonic to
the digestive organs.
By
tak.
ing Simmons Liver liegulator you
promote digestion, bring on a reg­
ular habit of body and prevent
Biliousness and Indigestion.
i havü « 1 . jnly wil «I »Iwtriu* buoi, in colli
r Keliuttleaostract« furmihvd, and nu>»e> t<i
Ñ o cimiinUsi-.il a »» vr^.icl «•»» lounN.
iléon'* block. Dalla*.
TH E STUFF T H A T MAKES GOOD SOL­
DIERS IN MODERN WARFARE.
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YARD, LOT AND FARM ENCLOSURE
pffluo over Brown & Son’« store.
1,
Is tailed the “‘Father of Diseases.”
It is caused by a Tor]Hil Liver,
and is generally accompanied with
a S
m
M cCALLO N,
«m p
BRAVERY AND NERVE.
T o treat constipation successfully
A N’ I) S U R G E O N ,
D allas, O regon.
H.
“ M y wife was sorely distressed with Constipa­
tion and coughing, followed with Bleeding Piles.
After four months use o f Simmons Liver Regulator
she is almost entirely relieved, gaining strength
and flesh.” —W . B. L hhpks , Delaware, Ohio.
Room*
J. L. C O L L I N S ,
if.
Take only the Genuine,
irney and Counselor at Law,
W hich has on the Wrapper the red
mark and Signature o f
S 5 Trade­
«1, U . Z L I I . I N * CO.
S o lic it o r m C h a n c e ry .
I been in practice of hi* profession in this place
9 t thirty years, and w ill attend to .ill ouairess
_ i to hi* ¡.are. Office, corner Main and cou rt
pin*, Folk Co, Or
J. H.
utler ,
T o
w nsen d
HE SMOKES UNDER WATER.
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B U T I.E R A T O W N S E N D ,
A T T O R N E Y S - A T -L A W .
bffioe lipetaire in Odd Fellows’ new
These leading merchants nf tin
county now have in stock a tine
assortment and beatiiul array of
the very latest and nobbiest pat­
terns in dress goods for spring
ami summer wear. They are al­
so well stocked in all other lines.
kk.
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H e a d
Tb« Leading Home Company.
WC MARC A 8PE0IALTY OF INOURANCC ON
irh«8 *nd Psnonages,
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Dwellings and Household Goods,
8ohools and othor Publio Buildings,
Farm Buildings and Farm Property.
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D. B. MCDONALD,
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▲ (air uhare of patrpimge solicited
wOihTEST.
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Gne Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
H piiup , sign and ornamental, grain-
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•..1 e r in dru*«, chenue 1. And perfumery
«t»tl.nery. toilet article., meerchaum PM*A
tobacco, etc , etc. Pore liquor, for
medicinal p n n .«e» only. 1‘i.T.wian. rnv-
«eription. compounded day or night. .Wain
etreet, oppaite c-.urt houM, Dalla,, Dr.
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PAWLING.
Benjamin Hey of Cynthia, Ky., who still
owns him. That training did not injure
him any, despite his tender years, is shown
by the fact that, while he only weighed 493
pounds at the opening of the season, he
went into winter q w aters perfectly sound
and weighing 720 pounds.
His sire was Colonel Kip, 2:20^, and hi*
dam was Merriment, 2:26%. Paw ling will
be campaigned again this season, and great
achievements are expected of him. He will
appear at the Surprise stakes at the North­
western Breeders’ meeting in Chicago.
SPORTING NOTES.
In valuable P rese n ts t o be C ive n A w a y In R eturn fo r
WILSON & CO.,
F o il
$
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i. L. PITTOCK, J. K. OILL, J. LOEWKNBKRG.
L EGGERT,
F. M. WARREN,
J. S COOPER,
8. E. fOUNO, E. P. McCORNACK.
H. M. GRANT.
Some of Swimmer Alilfeldt’H Novel Tricks
at Chicago.
One of Chicago’s numerous attractions at
present is Jolm A. Ahlfeldt, one of Europe’s
great swimmers,
who can live un­
der water
tw o
minutes without
breathing and per­
form o t h e r re­
markable f e a t s .
He is 36 years of
age and a native of
Stockholm.
For
BO years he Inis
been a swimmer,
a n d t h e conse­
.•#r
quence is that he
is almost as much
at home in the wa-
JOHN A. AJILFELDT.
ter as a fish. He eats, drinks and smokes
in his exhibition tank.
W hen only 14 years of age Ahlfeldt won
first prize in a mile race. Hu has given ex­
hibitions in all the great cities of Europe
and performed before the Prince and Prin­
cess of Wales. Ahlfeldt is also a long dis­
tance swimmer of note. In 181)1 he swam
82 miles from the shore of Sweden to Den­
mark, and the same year planned to race
across the English channel with Dalton and
Fisher, two well known swimmers, but a
storm prevented the match. Ahlfeldt is
still ambitious to brave the dangers of the
channel ami declares that he will do so
next year. He has also made two daring
dives, the most perilous ono of which was
from a cliff 66 feet high.
Pawling, the Baby Trotting King.
Pawling, the champion yearling trotting
stallion of 1892, is not yet is the magic 2-30
list, but his mark, 2:81, is a very sensational
one when his age is taken into considera­
tion. The season of 1892 was a great year
for baby trotters, but none of them made a
more creditable record than Pawling. He
is a dark chestnut of/it 15 hands high,
weighs about 770 pounds and was bred by
O ffic e :
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LOWENBKRti,
President.
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DALLAS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 189«.
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M. O ’Sullivan, the amateur champion all
round athlete of America, was recently ap­
pointed a policeman in N ew York.
Frank G. Lenz, the wheelman who Is
girdling the globe, was recently attacked
and nearly lieaten to death by Chinese la
bqrcrs, who cried “ K ill the foreign devil!”
Letiz saved his life by performing tricks on
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his wheel for the amusement of his tor
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Lasker won an easy victory over Sbowai
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ter recently at Kokomo, Ind. The match
1 1 5 5(70 ROI.I.FD GOLD W ATC H CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
was for f l ,000 and the American chess c ham
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John S. Johnson, the great cycling racer,
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break
his Independence record of 1 minute
The ib o r . article, will be dletrlbu'ed, b y m e n t i s , amr.nit pmrtle. wbo «Lew SPEAR
H E AD PI a . T u b « » » , and return to u, tbe T IN T A O * taken tb. rrfr m.
56% seconds for a mile.
W e w ill (lla trib a t* S M o f tbeee prizes In t h ia r o n n t y aJ fo llo w « !
Bicyclists Allen and Sachtleben w ill soon
To THE PARTY sending u« tbe yreateet number of S P E A R H E A D
leave St. Louis on their wheels for New
TAOS from f h u c a n t y we wilt give............................................I GOLD WATCH.
York city, to complete their bicycle trip
To the F IV E PARTIES «ending u, the next greatest number of
SPEAR H EAD TAOS, we will give to each, l UPF.HA G LASS....5 O PERA GLASSES. around the world.
TO the TW E N T Y PARTIES «ending ua tbe next greateet number
Arnold Schott lander, a pupil of the im
of SPEAR H E A D TAG S we will give to each 1 POCKET
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tort, is coming to America. Schott lander
To the ONE H U N D R ED PARTIES sending ua the next greatest
won the eh ess tournament of the German
number of «PE AR H E AD TAGS, ed> will «Ire to each I
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ROLLED GOLD W ATCH CHARM TOt/TH P I C K .......................100 TOOTH PIC K S Chess association in 187H at Frankfort-on
the Main and participated at the masters’
f t the ONE HU N D R ED PARTIES «ending us the next greatest
tournaments at Nuremberg in 1888, Ham ­
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burg in 1865 and Dresden in 1898
T -e a l V r e i i e r o f f r l i n fo r thin c . o n l y , 220 .
SPEAR HEAD TAGS.
CATTTIC.N.-NO Oae, w.. bn reeeired before January Ixt, IPH, nor after February let,
l-M ilacn r . vacs on:
ring tag« munt be marked plenty with Name of Sender. Town,
l^ a o lr. Sint», n*. , H n w ie . J S g « In eneh package. All chargee on packages muet b .
y . D.—sp F A R T T W
w w i mom qoalltlee of Intrinsic ralne than any other
w 'ob^ia, prrrt' w *. !t V be rwerteet, tlie tougbmt, tbe rtcbeeL S P E A R H M D tf
ainolaw.y p. H it «,y And Air iw e tlre ly dilTb-ent in ttavr.r fro m nny . t b e r slug toheccw
A trial w’n conrlnen thn w . » r .k e r' ealof th e fr-t. It Ir tbe largeet «ellernf any similar
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M l , or r-rt-a vbich pw -ee that tt nae caught the populerta.te and pleaaee the
S S E r l ' . y " i.:d ta iJ d ■ ate l i t h « -n o te « for prize» h -e that a T IH T A G f. on every
to mnt pteo. a t SPE AR i.E A D t o o t.-T. b »c if In tbe tag«, no matter how small tbe
qaan-ity
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K ’j. SORO COMPANY, M ido lk to w k . O h l a
A liet of the people Cbtalolne the— piirer In thlt county will be published In UU*
paper Immedlately after r twnary leA . " t.
C M IfU L L V
F IL L E *.
K IT
A Little T
oo Work.
"W o,H said the bnehiess manager weari­
ly. “ I have got so used to haring *trade’
advertisers mske me absurd offer* of vari­
ous commodities in exchange for advertis­
ing «pace that it has rome to be mechanical
to me to write ‘declining to accept,’ but
m ben a man has tbe cheek to send in a
gravestone advertisement and ask roe to
take it out in trade I can t help feeling a
little personal grievance that It isn’t alto­
gether easy to conceal ” —Somerville Jour-
X T ) U T I H i U fO .U 4 « I U * T L MU.
and B r a v a d o Is N o t H ra v e ry — C o u ra ge o f
th e E v e r y d a y S o rt Is G o od E n ou g h anil
Is N o t a S carce A r t ic le .
¿Copyright, 1803, by American Press Associa­
tion. Book rights reserved.]
E E D S of daring,
like many other
accomplishments
fair to thin k. about,
are easier said than
done—that is, it is
easier to dream of
glory than to seek
it at the cannon's
mouth when it
comes to the pinch;
easier to set up for
a hero than to keep
the s c u t c h e o n
bright once it is bared to the world’s gaze.
I have written tales of heroism in scores
and hundreds, fully expecting that skep­
tical readers were mentally calling me down
for explanation of the mysterious thing
called nerve or daring. Sometimes heroism
seems to turn on accident, sometimes on
luck and again on the nerve of the doer of
a deed. Accident and luck surely play into
the hand of the hero, but is not tbftt simply
because they give a setting to show out the
deed in the best light? Doesn’t accident
merely furnish the occasion, luck place a
certain man there and nerve do the rest,
which is the all essential? Let some calam­
ity pass without producing its hero, and
there goes up the wail, ‘‘Oh, if some man
of nerve had been on the spot, this or that
evil would have been prevented.”
If the man of nerve happens to be on
nand when needed, the calamity never takes
place, and the trifling episode which an­
swers for it calls out no gush for tbe
man of the hour
The truth is per­
haps that our jaded faculties demand
strong sensations. W e are blind to the
stare which keep up their faithful routine
vigils in the sky, only doffing our hats and
rolling up our eyelids when the meteors
and comets startle with their flashing bril­
liancy. Really, were it not for good old
fashioned, prosaic, spartan like and martyr­
like, almost sullen and gloomy, stubborn
and relentless courage, modern society
would go to pieces. There are always bril­
liant hotheads to stir up a fight. There
needs be the sound hearted men, with cool
heads and thorouim braced nerves, to carry
the thing through?
There are several millions of men in this
country today of military age who would
be glad to know whether or not they pos­
sess the nerve to stand up and l>e shot at by
people shooting to kill. This is something
no man can kno until he tries it. and he
may go thiough oue initiation only to feel
the need of another and another. The
chances are that out of every million there
would be 500,000 good for a round of battles.
One of the marvels of the civil war was
the manner in which tender bred chaps
shouldered their way through hardships and
fighting.
Bookkeepers, cashiers, counter
jumpers, students, professors and lawyers
touched elbows, with the horny handed,
brown faced sons of toil, and neither class
could say to the other, “ Follow!” It was
“ nip and tuck.”
The experience in our war was astound­
ing when one stops to think we are Amer­
icans with thoroughly independent social
traits. There is no such thing as caste, no
acknowledged superiority and no class de­
manding reverence.
Independence
of
thought and action is the boast of every
American, and though it may be only a
sentiment it is a hard one to uproot. The
moment a man enlisted all his independ­
ence vanished. From being accustomed to
think and act for himself and tackle his
own problems in a manly way be became
as a child, dependent on others to do the
thinking, to order him when and how to
act, or, worst of all, not to stir if he died for
it. TbAt was a lesson to completely upset
the average American with soldier stuff in
him. Schooled to healthy self control, he
was called upon to practice self effacement.
Many of our mountaineers and backwoods­
men were spoiled by having 1 wider* set
over them who didn’t understand their ma­
terial. Lieutenant Cushing of torpedo
fame was let alone by his superiors the
moment they discovered his weak points.
He was good for nothing at routine work.
Fighting on his own hook he destroyed the
monster ram Albemarle, and, to use a com­
mon term, “ raised the old Harry” gener­
ally. Custer was a man of the same DAture.
Sheridan did nothing on a large scale as a
subordinate nor when pushed in his inde­
pendent command, and Stonewall Jackson
was an absolute failure when trammeled
by orders and policy.
j The fact, that the American soldiers ac­
quitted themselves so well is proof that the
average inan has the soldier stuff iu him,
and the leaders, like the men, believed so
from the start. A man is more touchy on
tbe question of bravery than on that of
i beauty. H e’ll go into his first fight one-
third hero and two-third* toward, but he
I won’t know it and will come out thinking
! it is the reverse. Unless some one gives it
away he w ill reverse the proportions the
second time.
It is easy to give one’s nerve a wrench by
overdoing the heroic. Bravery is an uncs
tain quality when it is at all unnatural, as
it is when spurred up to imitate somebody.
W ho knows what is hack of the heroic deeds
we see or hear about ? An officer in the ci vil
war who was promoted for daring conduct
on the field owed it to a frantic and ungov
DASHED TOWARD THE Li*AMT.
emable horse. The line was charging—and
not doing very well at it either—wheu the
horse took the bit in his mouth and dashed
toward tbe enemy’s stronghold, carrying
the rider through a storm of bullet«, much
against his kill. The hesitating soldiers
were not to be outdone by anybody and
bravsly pushed on in the tracks of tbe run­
away, while the officer, who was probably
shaking in his saddle, wan gazetted for con­
spicuous valor on the field. But the men
who set out to imitate such exceptional
deeds are the ones who find that batt lefield
nerve isn’t to be trifled with. If the need*
of the hour Inspire a soldier to attempt tbe
feat, he’ll get through or die in trying. If
not, let him act his brnnoio role and thank
his stare for the nerve to do that.
However, it is not the occasional buret of
valor that puts a soldier at ease on this
question of nerve. He longs to be brave
under any and all circumstances—brave by
the hour, by the day, by the month and the
year. The strain comes in with tbe long
pull and the strong pull.
Lieutenant
bushing’s marvelous daring when he de­
stroyed the Albemarle w ill never die out of
literature and never ought to. But it al­
most found a parallel in a Confederate ram
commander in an exploit on the Yazoo and
Mississippi river*. That was Captaiu Isaac
N . Brown’s battle in the Arkansas. The
vessel started down the Yazoo one momfng
in July, 1862, and shortly encountered a
Union ironclad, a gunboat and a ram
steaming up purposely to meet ami destroy
her. During a hot fight, sometimes at pis­
tol range, Brown stood out on the shield of
the Arkansas exposed to shells and small
arm missiles. A bullet wound in the head
tumbled him down the hatch among the
dead and wounded, but he climbed out
again in time to direct the closing fight
with the three antagonists. The Arkansas
came out victor, and without delay Brown
pushed on down the river, running the ves­
sel amuck against the Union blockading
fleet of rams, ironclads and gunboats. The
run used up a whole day and was inter­
rupted by three separate battles, but the
Arkansas got through, able still to float
and fight, though in a fearfully battered
condition. A man with the nerve to stand
out on the bare shield of a ram from sun­
rise to sunset, fighting her through the bat­
tle lines of three fleets one after another,
falling asleep under the blow of a bullet
and picking himself up to go back and in­
vite another one, facing broadside after
broadside of shells and volley after volley
of rifle shots—that man may challenge the
world in good faith for a test of nerve. His
is the sort of mettle needed for modern
ware in the long run.
W ild battle charges were not in high fa­
vor during the civil war, though far too
many took place. The general most addict­
ed to the vice was cured of it and lived to
regret some of his battle orders. I once
heard General Slocum declare while eulo­
gizing a body of men which he commanded
during the war, “ You were always ready
when called upon, and you never disappoint­
ed my hopes iu you.” That, he added, was
the highest compliment that could be paid
to soldiers. It sounded very moderate,
wholly lacking the Napoleonic ring, but it
grants this entire question of valor. To be
ready on the jum p when wanted, to do the
work cut out, is to be an ideal soldier. E r­
ratic genius is out of place in an army.
Grant told Ned Bunt line that his insatiable
thirst for wounds and glory interfered with
his routine duty as scout. Arm y headquar­
ters demanded secret news. Buntline was
ready to get the news, but he ached to be
shot a la Texas Jack or W ild Bill, for
j spectacular effect.
Any man may well doubt his ability to
meet the test of nerve for the everyday pur­
poses of war, yet hundreds of thousands of
A BULLET TUMBLED HIM DOWN THE HATCH,
average men went through it nobly in the
j civil war. The Union armies before Rich­
mond and Petersburg and in front of At-
! lanta in 1864 numbered roughly 250,000 men.
| A third of them were re-enlisted veterans of
I the campaigns of 1862-8. They had fought
! at Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamnuga and
| Chattanooga, at Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill,
| Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville
' and Gettysburg. They went in for a second
term knowing that the last campaign whs
j to he a finish fight; that the period opening
| under the Grant-Sherman regime was to be
a period of blood and carnage. I used to
look into the bronzed faces of my comrades
in the trenches at Petersburg ns they talked
calmly of the hour when we should muster
for a final charge on the breastworks across
the line, perfectly astounded at the thought
that those were the very same boys I had
known three years l>efore as soldier novices,
whistling to keep their courage up at the
mere suggestion of a battle. They had
learned something meanwhile. They had
adopted the profession of arms. Their call
ing was to fight, and fight they did, hold­
ing out for months and years with gallantry'
unsurpassed, with soldierly daring seldom
paralleled among civilized races.
GKOlUiK L. IClI.MKK.
OLD SEA KINGS B O L D .
DARING
NAVIGATORS
WHO
FIRST
SIGHTED NORTH AMERICA.
The Cabots and the Earlier Voyagers.
What W as Done or Left Undone to Ex­
plore the Westward Limits of the Known
World.
[CoDyright, 1890, by American Press Assocla-
#
tioa. Book rights reserved.]
O T H IN G succeeds
like success, but
the prize is often
cheaply won. The
Cal>ot8 gave the
North American
continent to the
English race and
are called its dis­
coverers, but the
English were a
century behind the
Spaniards in util­
izing their knowledge of the western hem­
isphere. North America would have been
discovered within a few years after South
America had the Cal»ofc fleets never sailed.
Daring sailors in the northwestern seas
drifted naturally to those shores. The In­
dians got here somehow from the original
Asiatic habitat. The Cabots, John and Se­
bastian, who touched Newfoundland in
1494 and 1497, respectively, were searching
for a northwest passage to India. Reports
of what Columbus had dono and the fash­
ion of the time put it into their heads to
take out patents for the discovery and oc­
cupancy of new provinces. The trip made
under John Cabot in 1494 was indeed a bold
one, no matter hovr inspired. He sailed
with a single vessel and struck for the
unknown; northwest. Columbus was sup­
posed to have reached the island* of the In­
dies on the east. The American continent
was still unkuown. W ith the fate of his
expedition bound up in a single ship Cabot
steered through the trackless ocean 700
leagues away from the known world. The
sail was a remarkable one, for he left Eng­
land in May and was back again in August.
Sebastian Huiled over the same course west­
ward in 1407, sighting Labrador again and
points on the coast as far south as Florida,
then carried his knowledge of western navi­
gation over to Spain.
The Cabots were not the first sea rovers
to make land in North America. Longfel-'
low’s stirring ballad, “The Skeleton In
Arm or,” may be the wildest fancy so far
as a historical basis goes, but it gives a
vivid picture of the daring, adventurous,
warring people who ruled the icy seas of
the north before the advent of merchant
sailors. The Norse sea kings were in their
way discoverers, conquerors and colonizers.
They did not lack for room at home as
much as for freedom, excitement and
pleasure, like more civilized men who find
diversion in the jungle. Unknown far­
away seas, barren arctic islands— these were
the lairs and hiding places of the van­
quished, the outlawed, the brave but des­
perate refugees when driven from their
people by crime, misfortune or love of
isolation. One such is the hero of Longfel­
low’s verse, and if it be not true that some
bold Norse Romeo fleeing with his Juliet
made a refuge on Newport bluffs and cast
himself despairing upon his spear point
when the grim marauderleft him a discon­
solate castaway it ought to be true that
some romance based on the powerful pas­
sion of love gave rise to the first appear­
ance of man in the new world. Thu gar­
den of Eden had its love idyl. W h y not the
western Eden also?
The date of the Newport tower is fixed
by good authority at some period not later
than tffe twelfth century, in a note to his
poem Longfellow quoted t he arguments of
a distinguished French antiquarian in fa­
vor of considering the tower to be one of
pre-Columbian origin.
Gunnbiorn, a Norse sea rover, was driven
west from Iceland in 876 and sighted a
strange coast. The discovery was recorded
in Iceland, and 50 years later another wind
tossed mariner was shipwrecked on a coast
lying west from Iceland, and he named the
new country Iceland the Great. A century
after Gunnbiom caine Red Eric, a young
Norwegian who hail killed his man at
home and sailed as a fugitive to Iceland.
Again outraging the laws, he was set afloat
in a strong ship with some daring fellows of
his own ilk, and they sailed away on the
ath described by Gunnbiom to find a wild
ome beyond the icy main. A t the end of
three years the rovers went back to Iceland
E
T H E SKELETON IN ARMOR.
▲ skeleton incased in a suit of sndsnt
armor, broken and rusted, was taken from
the water at Fail River in 1889. The Idea
occurred to the poet to connect it with the
famous round tower at Newport:
Speak! Speak! thou fearful gueatl
Who with thy hollow breast
Still in rude armor dreet
Comest to daunt me!
Wrapt not in eastern balms.
But with thy flesh less palms
Stretched, as if asking alms,
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Why dost thou haunt me?
Then from thoee cavernous eyes
Pale flashes seem to rise.
As when the northern skies
Gleam in December,
And like the water's flow
Under December’s snow
Came a dull voice of woe
From the heart’s chamber.
I was a viking old!
My deeds, though manifold.
No skald in song has told,
No saga taught thee.
Take heed that in thy verse
Thou dost the tale rehearse.
Else dread a dead man’s curse.
For this I sought thee.
!
Far in the northern land.
By the wild Baltic's strand,
I with my childish hand
Tamed the gerfalcon.
And with my skates fast hound
Skimmed the half frozen sound
That the poor, whimpering hound
Trembled to walk on.
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THE NORSK TOWER AT NEWPORT.
Oft to his frozen lair
Track’d I the grizzly bear.
While from my path the hare
Fled like a shadow;
Oft through the forest dark
Followed the werewolf’s hark
Until the soaring lark
Bang from the meadow.
But wheu I older grew,
Joining a corsair’s crew
O’er the dark sea I flew
With the marauders.
Wild was the life we led;
Many the souls that sped;
Many the hearts that bled
By our stem orders.
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Bright in her father’s hall
Shields gleam’d upon the walk
Loud sang the minstrels all.
Chanting his glory;
When of old Hildebrand
I asked his daughter's tend.
Mute did the minstrel stand
To hear my story.
While the brown ale he quaff'd
Loud then the champion laughed.
And as the wind gusts waft
The sea foam brightly.
So the loud laugh of scorn.
Out of those lips unshorn.
From the deep drinking horn
Blew the foam lightly.
She was a prince's child,
I but a viking wild.
And though she blush'd and smiled
I was discarded.
Should not the dove so whit«
Follow the seamew’s flight.
W hy did they leave that night
Her neet unguarded?
A SHIP OF THK NORSK HE A KINO«,
Then launch’d they to the blael.
Bent like a reed each mast.
Yet we were gaining fast
When the wind failed ua.
And with a sudden flaw
Came round the gusty Skew,
So that our foe we saw
Laugh as he hail'd us.
And as to catch the gale
Round veer’d the flapping sail.
Death! was the helmsman’s hall.
Death without quarter!
Midships with iron keel
Struck we her rlbe of steel;
Down her black hull did reel
Through the black water.
As with his wings aslant
Sails the fierce cormorant.
Seeking some rocky haunt.
With bis prey laden.
So toward the open main.
Beating to sea again.
Through the wild hurricane.
Bore I the l
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Three weeks we westward bore*
And when the storm was o’er
Cleudlike we saw the shore
Stretching to leeward:
There for my lady'* bower
Built I the lofty tower
Which to this very hour
stands looking seaward.
Then* lived I i we many years;
Tim- dried the i melit i ’* (bant
She had forgot her faprs,
Hhe waa a mother,
Death rloeed her mild bine eye*
t rider that tower she lien;
Ne'er shall the sun ariee
On sock another!
Still grew my boeem then,
fctiil es e stagnant fe n -
Uatefnl to me were men,
The sunlight haUtaii
In the vast forest here*
Clad In my warlike gear,
Fell I upon my spear
Oh, death weegewMfUi,
T h ia
n'd with many •
Up to its native star*
My soul aereuded!
There from the flowing hew!
Deep drinks the wnrrior’s seni.
Skoal! to the northland! Skoal!
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Once as I told in glee
Tales of the stormy sea
Soft eyes did gase ou me.
Burning out tender,
And as the white stars shin«
On the dark Norway pine,
On that dark heart of mine
Fell their soft splendor.
Scarce had I put to sea.
Bearing the maid with me—
Fairest of all waa she
Among the Norsemen!—
When on the whits sea strand.
Waving his armed hand.
Saw we old Hildebrand
W ith twenty horsemen.
and told of their discovery of Greenland.
In 985 Eric led an expedition of 85 ships to
Greenland, and soon all the habitable fiords
of the arctic island were peopled with North­
men. Eric’s son Lief went home to Nor­
j way iu 999 and was converted to Christian­
, ity, which was just then raging in the fer­
j vor of a new idea. He took a priest U>
Green laud and established churches, tbe
j remains of edifices dating from the elev­
enth century being visible there today.
j A t the time of Eric’s discovery a sea
J king namerl Bjarni, voyaging between Ice­
I land and Greenland, was swept from bis
course and driven nine days’ sail south­
west from Greenland, where he sighted a
A T o w n H o llt O v e r a K e e f o f G o ld .
level coast. Lief, the zealous prooelyter,
Johannisburg in the Transvaal 1* a won
started with 85 companions to find the land
derful little town. It is but five years
described by Bjarni. He first hit upon a
of age, and the inhabitants number 40,000.
barren shore, with Icy mountains lying In­
It stands upon a gold reef, and upon thin
land. Farther south he struck a level,
reef 50 companies are at work giving em­
sandy shore, skirting a forest country, aud
ployment to 3,870 white men and over88,000 *
still farther south and west a river up
natives. The town has gas, water, tram- ;
which he sailed to an iuland sea. On the
ways and handsome buildings, while for 20
shor* m of that sea his followers found grapes,
miles east ancf west the funnels of mining
and a colony was established that kept up
works can be seen.— St. Louis Republic.
commerce with the Greeulaud Norsemen
for 40 years. No certain traces of this mys­
A C u rlnas Pa|»*ir In Demean.
terious Vineland have been di^covered ex­
A most curious paper is that described by cept tbe tower at Newport be so considered,
Mr. G. A. Sala, as formerly published in th< but the Greenland colonies lasted until the
Deccan. This paper was lithographed ever
fifteenth century. Then a succession, qi
morning on a square of white cotton cloth
calamities, the ravages of fierce Eskimos,
After having perused it the sub«criber
a pestilence imported from Norway known
employed it asapocket handkerchief. The
as the black death and an impenetrable ice
they sent it to the local washerwoman, whr pack which settled along shore combined
returned it a clean square of white cotton,
to extinguish tbe last Norsemen on the
to the publisher, who lithographed and
American soil.
issued the same sheets again and again.
Traditions of the Norse discoveries did
circulate among the maritime people of
No Cats In ftcrfptore.
those early centuries. A roving Welsh
The cat is not mentioned in the Bible or prince took the story so straight from
and seem* to have been unknown to the the Norsemen that he sailed with an ex­
old Assyrians The Etruscans and old Ro­ pedition away to the west to some unknown
mans knew about it, as some of their relics land and returned to make a voyage in 10
proTe< but its domestication In India waa ships, after which be din
< comparatively recent.
A ''Correcting” Camera.
! A I/Ondon photographer has constructed
an instrument to which he gives the name
) t the “photo corrector,” the object of which
is to regulate and correct the various pro-
portions of the body, iiresjiective of the
pose which the sitter may select. The re
suit is that while the actual likeness is
faithfully preserved, the hands and other
parts of the Issly which are distorted by
the ordinary process of photography are at
once brought Into harmony with the face
' and the rest of the figure.—New York Jour-
nal.
W elsh onnaU. A crew of daring A ra b aaU-
ors about the eleventh century set out to
And the limit« of the western ocean and
carried home accounts of a land beyond the
main. Two Venetian captain« were wreck*
ed in the north Atlantic in the fourteenth
century and < eventually reached Europe
with news of an inhabited country west of
tho ocean, and the adventurous Basque
whalers spread similar tales after their long
voyages. The records of Dutch, Polish and
Norman voyages also bear testimony of
both islands and limitless coasts far off to
the west that could only refer to Am erica.
G korgk L. K im im .
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