The Red Cloud chief., 1889-02-15
~ TELL lgoGNo


Reaosos ses Dsl,esea9 1Aos 8~oeoW
ssssy - . 0yss-
was curious - SO On what ground
tho suiae-hooks hasci their ssa'cmcos
and Ia learn shy go onld class sas
Of Tell with such ,a,c. - that OF .s.ncas
OF Troy. King Arthur and tho Round
Table, or Robin Hood in the Hr~cn
woods @. England. The facts ] OBJ
tanned wcrs scattered through various
vo! and I can only give briefly .
sew o. The principal points. mostly
taken from a German book. Tell and
Gcssler in Legend and History" By
RochholE:
Chronicles mos: nearly contemporary
.,h tho time u. tn. supposed Ike %
Tell do no, refer IA him.
The -a.iie~; chronicles OF the legend
lived ncariy tao hundred year, !a'er'
In many age and centuries arc found
legends % famous marksinra shooting
a, various small objects rings. tables,
nuts. fruits, -:c.
Nc, n few legends exist % shooting
NJ offsets PLACED % the heads os per
sons
4 Persian poe, Ia iis5 wrote =
legend ~ = kin. who put an apple On
h head a! u iavorl:c slave. -hoi nj H.
and >p!i, the apple lae ave was
made Ill by the fright
Among European legged. n 10
found in Wcstphalis: n father. named
E.scl. was compelled ~ n Prince 'o
shoot an apple from ai~ sou head He
oos three asrro~s ou, q. bis CULVER.
af;c-wa-d cou;c>>ing that. II be had In
iur-d his son. he mean; - s.ll tho
Prince.
In DENMARK. = writer in the year
1900 relate. tina, in az = man named
Toxic was compelled BY Ming uaru,d.
the Nge-roo,hrd. 70 shoe, an apple
from hi, son, head. and that, he also.
had ne harmed his child. meant ~
shoe, IN. king.
A King ~ Norway. Olaf the ffous.
obtained "a promise from a heather
mark.nan that h. would ~ baptized
into the Christian faith q. the kins
would contend With him IN shooting
and win IA. match. tn King She, n,
n chcs, figure ar table: on the head -
y boy and hii hciw crn tho tablet and
the hcsi. but graxcj tho head on the
entrcaii.- 81 the boys mother aud sls-
Ter. the marksman forborc To- shoot
,..t, .n4 -.,f--.A E..-Hf rs..l !
Another Harold commanded "A MAJ -
shoe, NJ nat on his brothers head.
Years after. the King was pointed ou,
In battle by this mar to another marks
man. who sbo: him dead
All these werv ~t~storc the tim. 81 Tho
Tell
Later. the legend appear In Nol-;"in
tn. leader ~ an i~ssurrcction against
l. in is.2 fled aud conc.alcI
himself In a swamp. The barking 20
his dog betrayed his hiding place. H.
was taken prisoner. bat, promised hts
on condition ,ha; h. -ho, an
apple from the h".l 81 biz ION lie I,u;
on. arrow On the bpw-~tTiug and took
another between his tooth. conf~.sing
aftcrward that II he failed in his nr.t
shot he intended IA shoot tn" King An
old picture shows the mar6sman with
the bow ready To shoot aad the arrow
between his t.sth. the hoy standing
and the dog between the father and The
boy.
The legend and name ~ Toll seems -
originated In sweden ar the
~S.itzcriaDi with the .~arlic-, .~i-
81 tina. country. who were wan
on, 81 Sweden. Tollu- or Tel
las (Tell) was n giant ~bn lived on an
O-cl. belonging "a sweden H.
lscd Ia anus. himself with ihrowing
tones about When he died b. told
his p,opl. - bury him In hi. garden.
IL war can- h. would raise and
help them. One dav some children
who heard this tale stood on his grave
fought and then called
'.roilu. arise War g.. an ,hy grave"
put his head out. but ga. 40 an
,ry at seeing only children tina, h.
appeared again A similar
j. told %! William Tell; tina; he
vas once disturbed In his sleep under
he A~xcnb.rg by n hcri.rnsn Who vas
for n lost Gov. and mat he "a. 4,
Indignant n the disturbance In the
rg.nd %. The swedish Toilu. theirs 10
20 mention 81 shooting a; an apple. bst
part of tn. legend i.curren, among ,
heir Finnish aeighbp-- sarah LDr- ,