The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-05
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GEIEK- WALLY.

GEIEK- WALLY
Upon those dizzy heights she stands.
The fearless Geier. Wally, .-
While far beneath The torrent roars
Along the rugged valley.
The Ache winds is laundering way
Beneath / 8 misty cover,
Crowned with his everlasting SHOWS
The Murzoll frowns above her.
Defying danger, death. she scales
High peaks, the clouds environ
Keen eyes, sure feet, her wild life gives -
Sinews and nerves of iron.
AS now from rock to rock she springs.
Then for 4 moment tarries.
Her movements and her looks suggest
The wild fierce mountain fairies.
Her once fair brow ami glowing cheek
h"wned hy the wind aud weather,
Her truest friend. Il mountain hawk,
Her plume, 4 vulture's feather.
The RGfner guides, WHO oft in vain.
Have sought to WOO and win her.
Say that she nocks at love: her heart
Has turned to stone within her. -
Yet she was once-this mountain maid,
The Sonneplatten heiress. -..t & -,
Ofall their fair Tyrollan girls,
The prOudest and the fairest.
Banislel because she held her love
Dearer than kindred,-ricl,es.
Exiled from home because she dared
TO cross her fathers wishes.
Old Stromminger, his daughters hand
To vincenz would have given;
But she, resisting, found home
On Murzoll. tempest. .riven
Among the ice fields, far above
Fierce Aches rushing water,
An exile from her fathers house.
Murzo' lis adopted daughter.
Driven from man her heart has grown
Hard rs the rocks around her.
vii !er, more reckless Of her life
Each passing year HIS found her.
The traveller looks with wonder on
The girl vii" treadS so often,
Those glscial heights nc'er trod by cen
The daring guides Of Roefcn.
(Like MurzO = fairy daughters),
The dumb wild channels of the Alps,
The winds and spl,shing waters.
Such is the tale they told to me,
A stranger in the valley.
Such is her sad LIES history,
The fearless Geier Wally.
Adrian. Minn., March Is, 1883.
jain Brown, for many years the de-
voted personal attendant Of Qupe,
Victoria, died ut Windsor castle yes
ter'lay. n pl lin, h''nrly:: Scotci'n,an
he was the most trusted and the most
fait 'ful Of all the qucen'S retainprs
i'll q for more than Il quarter of u cen
tiny has scarcely ever l,een bryon,
reacl, "f..'er c;,ll. .s~Many men of nnhlt
hil tn have envird ::lim ktlle confilrnc.
r., sell in |. M, for which they wnul.
gladly have surr ;ndered both rank ant
The reason for this coniitlenc.
was that John Brown was :. spirit
and through him the Quep,
believed that she held daily conmu
nic:.t:on with her DEPARTED husband
The church big"ts reported her ''cazy'
on this account, bnt she will die III til.
belief. though she is the head IF til.
English church. We would give Sll
for Il book containing reports of t:.es.
Seances.
The 1.emarS Sentinel, concludes :
capital article on the death Of kar
Marx rs follows:
The dectrinps whicl, Marx prom"lea
ted were hot new, hut he fO, INFLATED
them int" ICpulor and even bcwitcl,ins
language.
We will not attempt to present eve,
an abstract ot his doctrines: but vii
only say that Kari Marx has h"en and
is tn-Aay, Il greater factor il Enr"l'e:s,
thought, than all the s.'-callpl states
men on that continent or contingent
islands.
Kings and capital would I've H. ppy i
karl's doctrines dipi with him. Eu
they did not.
They live in Nihilism. They live i,
the red flag If socialism. THEY live il
Land l.tagueism. They live in Green
backism. And they live till revolution
subnerges modern systems beneath an
arclly, or erectS ON them u higher an(
noblrr civilization.
The town af Creston, Iowa, charge.
81 600 a year for saloon license, and tn,
Gazette says all classes of people ar,
satisfied with the way this plan ''of reg
nlating'' works. The ''irresponsibl,
dHggeries are all squeesed out, ami th'
city grows in revenues.
Aud u gentleman from Sanborn
Iowa, Informed US recently that tn
license fee there is $500, and there ar
two regulated saloons and the peopl'
are we'll satisfied with the working O
the license system. This is what W
have claimed for long while, sine
seeing the failure Of prohibition featur
in Worthington. And facts are pour
ing in from all sides to sustain til,
claim.
The newspaper man may take littl
consolation over Il nav postal law tina
has been passed. Persons who deligll
in swiRdling the publisher are request
ed to bear III mind that this law makes
the taking Of a newspaper and refusin,
to pay for the same, theft, and any pei
son guilty Of such action is liable to OF
dinary criminal proceedings. the SAM
as If he had stolen goods tn the amour
Of Observation-Disclosures Iowa Report
er.