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noticing that they fell to ashes as I
passed-and in another moment, in q
moment Of wildly mingled feelings.
was out upon the burning parapet, and
there upon her knees. leaning against
the outer walls, and seeming asleep was
the white maid whose fair face had
haunted my forest path and shone upon
me through the drift and reck OF ten
years storm and battle.
Down I went upon one knee and,
deep, strong love and gentle compunc-
ton yelling up in my heart, took the
maiden's head upon my shoulder and
her hand in mine. and In a minute she
gave q great, shivering gasp of pain and
fear and opened her eyes and looked up.
By sweet Skulla herself, it was nearly
worth the interval of pain to see the
glad light of pleasure that was lit with
In them as they met mine, to feel the
warm clasp Of her hand and to
know unspoken that our hearts
were one and our troth unbroken. It
was q happy moment, but all too brief,
for I knelt and framed the hot words
of love and courage and drew her
sweet, yielding form to my bosom,
and rained my long garnered kisses on
her dear, pale face. felt the oaken
platform whereon we stood heave and
tremble, and, with a gasp, I looked
about and saw the cruel flame had
gnawed through every joist upon that
turret. and the whole platform was
cracking and blistered and hanging by
q thread, while down below, hungry
for its fall, was the great roaring,
seething funeral Of the inner tower.
"Gunns!" I cried, my own? there
is but one way. Look! look! The
stairs are gone, the platform rocks, and
down below the courtyard is cruel hard.
Gunna. my life! come-quick!-there-
so-and hide your face deep down to
my wolf-skin folds!" And as she fed to
me and leapt into my arms I hid her
face in my cloak and stepped of on to
the narrow rim of cracked and ragged
parapet just as the platform fell into
ruins and went laundering down into
the yellow and crimson caldron under
meath.
For one grim minute poised myself
upon that narrow, giddy shell Of black
ened wall with the bowling flame roar
ing behind and the dark vortex Of the
sea laundering in dim dreadfulness two
hundred feet below upon the other, then
wrapping my sweet burden still closer
to my bosom and muttering between my
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lature, which will make even greater
discoveries and bring the guilty parties
to justice"
The republican officials who have just
retired from the state Offices, admit that
they have been receiving fees and that
it was Eot confined to the secretary Of
states Office, but that the same state Of
affairs existed in the auditors Office
They justify their action by saying
that the constitution provides that their
salaries shall be neither increased not
diminished during their term Of Office
and that the legislature had no right to
pass such Law.
They further say that they did nor
take advantage Of the law allowing
them each a raise of $500 q year, and
the receipt Of tho fees was in accord
ancs with the constitution which said
their salaries should not be increased
nor diminished. This course was
agreed upon at a meeting of the state
officers Immediately after the law Of
1891 was passed.
Ex-Secresary Higgins says he was
advised to follow the course he did by
Attorney General Ives.
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CHAPTER vi.


It was Just at dusk that evening: the
western Sky was streaked with crimson
and black; the white mist was lying In
thin wreaths along the purple river
meadows; the landrails were croaking
in the fern ard the night jars churning
on the oak; the little stars were twink
ling in the smooth heaven, and the pale
crescent of the moon was adip upon the
sea when thin curl Of smoke rose from
the thatch of hut in the fishing village
below the turgh. A minute after
bright tongue OF flame shot up and q
cry OF alarm rose from inside the stock
AIDES. Surely some careless housewife
had let an ember fall among the thatch,
they thought, and the great oak gates
creaked upon their hinges and out to
the extinguishing rushed in their loose
sheepskin cloaks two luckless herds.
AS they passed the portal en- arrow sped
across the grass, and, plunging deep
into the chest Of the foremost, he
bounded half his height into the air,
then fell with heavy thud into the
fern and went rolling and kicking and
screaming down the hillside. At the
same minute an unseen hand from be-
hind, with a single sweep of good
Norway ak, severed the head OF the
other from his body as he stood glaring
after his comrade, and now the starlight
was twinkling on the weapons and mail
of hurrying NOrsemen, and while the
fierce cry of "Odin! Odin!" went up to
the black sky, and the dusky crows,
startled from their roOsting places,
tapped dismally about between the
stars, long, low wall of fear and terror
rose from the hundred corners Of that
doomed citadel.
And the game was ours from the be.
ginning. Numerous and strong, fierce
and blOodthirsty as bloodhounds on the
trail, we raced for the open gates, and
carried the first one and swept round
the way between under the unguarded
palisades, where a dozen men might
have held US at bay, and SO to the inner
portal, where we stabbed q brave old
crone who tried to shut it in our face,
and there the place had fallen-the
wolves were in the fold.
And wild work we made of 1t! As we
gained the entrance the English chief
tain rushed out Of the mid-doOr Of his
hall in his nightwear Cfor he had al
ready gone to bed), naked sword in
his hand and by his side fair young
boy with curly yellow hair. By Thor, I
would not have been the wild fowl on
the neighboring marsh when that comely
lad was hungry. He shot so close and
straight, although the light was poor for
shooting. that had there been q dozen
such it would have gone badly indeed
with us. At the first shaft he pierced
Kolbiorn through the wrist, and the Sec
ond wounded stalwart Sveinke In the
thigh: then he shot one In the throat
and another in the stomach, and kept
US all at bay until his last arrow was
spent, and then died far down on the
haft of bloody Dagson's bear spear like
the fierce young cub he was. AS for
the other - although he was stout
enough of heart, yet his limbs were
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teeth. Now for green Baldersund or old
Valhalla!"-leapt bravely out into the
night!
This is ALL This is the story of Ulla
the viking. Ulla the priest. The lamp
waivers to its ending-the ink is dry.
When the clansmen picked US up the
maid was dead, and so was the light and
the loving Of Ulla. For three days We
ridge and furrow of the black North Sea,
grassy mound by the white lip of the
ocean in Baldersund. And grief, dull
and abiding, sat In my heart, and none
could assuage it. At last, after many
years, there came one barefooted. .
cross and a staff in his hands, from over
seas and whispered comfort He poured
the JUNCTION of the new faith into my
heart and the baptismal water on my
head and bid me forget and arise anew.
And I took the cowl Of him. learning to
read and write, and built me q hut by
the green mound loved and strove by
penance and privation to do as was
bid.
But can I forget? Can the sharp
thong and the mean fare purge the hot,
free, loving spirit in my blood? At
times It shakes of the shackles Of sweet
insipidness. and then II. old Ulla Err
lingson-while the pale ghost-hre
plays upon the dark summit OF my
mound and the black sea booms dismal
in the black night distance. 20 out upon
that dear, shrouding turf and cast my
self upon my face. and tear my white
hair, and mock the wild wind and waves
with my still wilder grief.
THE End
Copyright, by the Authors Alliance. All
rights reserved
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THE STORY Of ULLA
Told at the Edge of the Northern Sea, and
Written for This Paper.


evening supper and laid out for our
selves all the best we could put our
hands on. And fierce, wild revelry my
fellows made OF it The hot blood OF
rapine and pillaoe had got into their
veins and they heated 1t higher with the
strong, abundant drink from that Brit
ish chieftain's hiding places, until they
were more like tawny, handsome band
OF furies than mortal men-gods!
think I never brought such crew Of
devils to that shore before. They made
the rafters ring with their wild pagan
hymns: they danced and shouted and
ate and drank, while the pale captive
girls stood budding in the shadows or
waited trembling on them, and the wine
and ale went streaming down the floor
among the blood and litter, and the
torches flared. and the dogs howled out
side. Oh, it was strange, wild revelry
and went on for half the nighttime.
It must have been near the dawn and
most of the maidens lay swOOning upon
the floor between WEAKNESS and terror,
and half the rovers were drunk as
swine, when they fetched in the dead
chieftain, setting him. pale and bloody.
in his chair, and putting cup into his
hands while the ribaldest fellow there
made a song and sung it to him. Then
next q cry arose-who started 1t know
not, but may God forgive him-for the
English -franklin's daughter! We had
not seen her-she was not among the
captives-and now a hundred buxom
fellows were on foot hunting with torch
and lamp high and low in every crack
and corner of the burgh to find her.
Unhappy damsel. they hunted futilely
everywhere until tEoy came to the
small round tower on the cliff verge;
there the strong oak door was barred
and shut from within, and wild yell Of
drunken pleasure tod their quarry was
at bay.
What was it that made me just then
so sick of all that revelry and sat like a
black foreboding on my soul? 1 know
not, but turned. and, weary Of the
glare and tumult, slowly left the burgh
and walked down to the beach, where
lay my ship, just as the men were max
ing tall mound of sticks and heath and
timbers about the door of the doomed
tower that held the silent princess.
Climbing on board I gave orders to
those who had stood by the Wolf to
make all ready for the sea, then threw
myself down listless. strangely sad. and
chilly as one in ague, by my place at
the tiller to await the coming of the
pillagers. And presently, one by one,
the sons of the creek came Keeling down
the path, singing as they stumbled
down the darkness and carrying bundles
and bags. and furs, and cups. and
weapons in sheafs, and dragging falter-
ing slaves, and surly, snarling dogs in
leashes, and so at last when they were
ming down the path, and before he had
got half way to US the burgh was all
Illuminated with rosy light. and look
ing up we saw that the laughing villain
had fired it in twenty places, and not
only the dwellings but also the great
mound of fuel his friends had built
against the tower door.
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lean and old. and my merry fellows
made short work with him. and he lay
In the moonlight as they left him, pale
and bloody across his threshold, all the
evening.
Then we shut the gates to keep the
screaming women in and lit stack or
two to give US light and 50 fell on. But
why should 1 try to tell you all we did
that evening? Why should I try to
picture the wild, fierce hell Of lust and
cruelty and rapine that ragged within
those grassy shambles under the mild
white starlight? And II had hundred
pens l could not tell each incident as it
befell, and II did you might not care
to listen. II I had . hundred pens I
could scarce recount how, one by one,
we first dragged the men from their
hiding places, and how some Of them
fought desperately, while some sub
mitted sullenly, but whichever way 1t
was We killed them. Or how the women
screamed and struggled in the arms OF
the sea rovers and cried for mercy and
tore the yellow boards Of their new.
Rrimly laughing masters, and were sent
down to hades, the old and lean ones,
and how the others-the pale. fair girls,
with fear-bright eyes and long. loose
hair and bare feet, all in their torn. d.
shevelled night gear-were bound hand
and foot and dashed to the pillars In the
dining hall, or how the little ones
moaned and walled. and hid behind the
heaps Of dead and strove to wake with
timid petulance those who would never
wake again. or. often, with their cher
ished playthings locked tightly within
their arms. crept into wondrous corners
and hid from us-ask me no smaller de-
tail. for could surfeit you with horrors
until compassion dimmed your eyes and
stayed your reading!
For an hour he place was full Of the
cultural shouts of men and the shrieks
OF women. the scream Of the maiden and
CRY of the mother losing her little one;
the vail of the captive and the moan Of
the dying down In the shadows; and
men ran here and there struggling with
white-shrouded forms, or dragging by
heel or har strange shapes into dusky
corners, and the fires blazed and the
sparks fell-and thcn. presently, be-
cause there were no moro to kill. thu
noise died down until presently silence
relened, broken only By the laughing
and shouting q ny men. and thus W
Gn1huo1 - - AL. relit tie la1Ps
8. = - z1cep & - $50!
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Needs Of the Educational Exhibit.
Though We have raised something
over $4,000 through the contributions
of the pupils and teachers in the public
and UNCONVENTIONAL schools, this, with
what will be raised from the same
source hereafter, will not be more than
sufficient to put our work in form
creditable to the state. Nearly $500
of this amount has already been ex-
pended in the work of preparation.
We need from the state through its
legislature a sum sufficient to provide
tables and cases in the state and ma
tional buildings; to cover transporta-
ton of material to and from Chicago;
to care for and properly explain the ex-
hibits during the six months Of the e1-
position; to pay for publishing our
History of Education in Kansas"
Eight thousand dollars would probably
cover the total expense; $4,000 will be
needed for the history alone should We
print 1000 copies for distribution and
exchange. Very truly yours,
L. C.. WOOSTER,
Superintendent.
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Simple hut ShreWd.

. On a recent rainy Sunday two
nice-looking, well-mannered men sta
toned themselves in the vestibule of
the English Church and relieved all
who entered of their umbrellas, say
ing that the vicar disliked having
wet umbrellas carried into the
church. When the services were
ended the people looked for the two
men, but they had quietly stolen
sway-and also the umbrellas, with
CT v,ifing for The Denedlct3oo.
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CHAPTER VII.

Up came our anchor and out We
lurched upon the waves once more. We
set sail and drifted slowly Gown under
the cliff where stood the castle, and as
We came the fire ragged furiously until
when We were below that beetling brow
We were sailing on heaving molten sea
Of blood, and all our spars and cordage
were shining copper red, and all the up
turned faces Of the vikings were flushed
and hectic in the shine-and then-Oh.
how can write it?-just as We came
the nearest q white woman's form
stepped frantic out on top of the tower
and clasped her hands across her eyes,
and hid her face and wept. And Lob
the fiercest, strangest gust of agony
and joy sprang up within my heart-1
gasped and glared, and, all forgetting
the strangeness of it in the horror of
the moment, dropped the ttller. and
leaping to the clanking bulwarks stared
another moment, and then, out Of my
deepest heart, out Of the hot inspiration
Of my very soul. burst fierce, wild cry
of "Gunna!"
And In An instant that white form was
on her feet and staring terror-dazed at
us, and then she saw me by the shrouds
as I stood limned in gold, with all my
ship against the black setting of the
night, and gazed down steadfsstly up
on me for q minute, then clapped her
hands upon her bosom and stretched
them wildly to me, and above the hiss
ing of the flame and the thud Of the
white surf upon the rocks I heard her
cry, -Ulla! Ulla!"
And now the strength Of twenty jarls
was in my heart I tossed of as though
they were baby fingers the strong grip
of two stout fellows who thought to
stay me and In q minute was In the surf
and striking out brsvely for the land.
The great frothy pillows Of the tide
boiled for q space under my chin. and
now I was deep down in q humming
black sea valley and anon mast high
upon Q curling crest Of spume, and then,
all in the black shadow Of the cli6. the
black waters seemed to dissolve into q
hell OF ghostly chaos and white thunder,
and my feet touched the pebbly bottom.
I landed somehow, out how only the
pale Norns can tell, and scrambled up q
sheep track the boldest Of my men had
said in daylight was impossible; came
to the palisades and clambered over
them, and rolled into the fort on top OF
two mangled DO lies. and up again. and
now, in tho golden shine OF the fire.
rushed to the great hall
There in his chair Of state was the
dead chief just as my robbers had left
him, with mouth wide open and fixed
eyes staring grimly down his hall and
| golden wine cup clinched within his
| fingers and bloody night gear wrapped
about him, while on his face the streaks
Of pain and anger twitching with q
hldeous mockery OF life a. the smoke
curied and the flames went soaring over
head in rosy eddies. To right and left
was wild disorder, tables overturned
and benches cast about, broken Aagona
and squandered victuals, bent sworde
and cleft targets. and costly stuffs pulled
into shreds and dead men a-spraWl upon
their faces. and blood and dirt and 1T
ter, and over al the tire was humminG II
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fakes and embers on us below. But
nothing l cared for blood and litter, but
with q foot of wind and q heart hotter
than the flames above rushed through
the banquet place and brushing rudely
BY the scowlinR king got out TO tho
inner court and SO reached the portal Of
the tower.
Over q red path Of cinders few, and
with my bare hand cast the flame-ro. o.
doorway into red ruins, and up The
twining oaken steps I raced-scarce
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WE have noticed that when anyone
in a crowd has a bit Of scandal to re-
late, it is not until the speaker e
through talking, and all have had
their curiosity appeased, that some
one says something about gossiping
being so improper.
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STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest

The state school fund commissioners,
It their last meeting, invested q large
mm of the state fund in district secur.
ties.
The officers and clerks of the lower
loor Of the west wing Of the state house
rave. without solicitation. signed q
paper approving the course of Fred NJ.
Stonestreet rs janitor during the thir-
een years he vas employed at the
tate house. and recommending him for
! similar position elsewhere.
The suit for criminal libel against
Sol Miller. editor OF tho Troy Chief,
which was brought on complaint of A.
J. Stacey, came up for trial in the dis
irict court. There was no statement
hat the paper circulated in Shawnee
county, and on this ground, David
Overmyer, attorney for Mr.. Miller,
moved to quash the information, and it
vas quashed. Mr.. Stacey will file new
Information.
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EMPLOYMENT. which Galen calls
Natures physician" is so essential to
human happiness that Incidence -
Justly considered the mother OF mis-.
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OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND Do
lNCS HERE AND THERE.

Jokes and Jokelets that Arc Supposed to
Have Been Recently BOrn-SayinSs and
DoinEs that Are Odd. Curious and
LauGhable.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-06
Dirie Placer Claims Sold.

On Tuesday last WIN. and WIS.
Clarke sold their entire interest in
their four placer claims of 80 acres
and four water rights, together with
the cabins, bitches, tools and uten-
sils in Dixie mining district to J.
F. Mailhon and DIR. O. J. West,
physician at the Lapwai Indian
Agency, for the sum of 81 200.
These claims were originally the
property of Dillinger, Leitch and
Taylor, and are well known, pro-
ductive and paying properties, and
have produced probably $4,000 per
year of $14 dust for the last Is
years, with the simplest hydraulic
appliances in the form of pipe, hose
and boxes. The purchasers are also
negotiating for George Blaine's
claims on Crooked creek, and other
placer propositions in the Dixie
basin, and if they get what they
want they will revolutionize the
prevailing obsolete method of pla-
Ger mining in Dixie and send out a
mule load of dust every season in
stead of the gumboot-full which is
the present productive capacity of
the camp. Dixie is a most inviting
field for investment in both placer
and quartz, and as all are gold pro-
ducing propositions the camp, in
the very nature of things, is bound
to be heard from at no distant date.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-06

Il W'OmderTML Placer Discovery.
A prospector named Butler was
in town Monday and turned in to
the Bank of Camas Prairie IA ozs.
of gold dust which was the most
wonderful sight we have ever seen
of that character. The dust was
composed of slabs of gold quartz
about the size and twice the thick
ness of silver dollar, which was
literally 80 per cent. gold. One
piece was solid gold, SIS fine. The
famous gold slab on the Mother
Lode on Prichard creek was low
grade ore when compared with the
astonishing richness of the quartz
in question. 1t is plain that this
quartz had not travelled far, and we
should judge that it had simply
been broken off and crushed flat by
the quick passage of glacier over
the ledge. 1t came from Deep
creek, a tributary of the middle
fork of Salmon, and about so miles
east and south of Warrens. Mr..
Butler was naturally reticent about
the extent and exact location of his
discovery, but he has not yet found
the ledge, and will renew his pros
pecting in the spring. If this dust
were exhibited in Spokane as the
product of SLOGAN, Kaslo, Kettle
Falls, or any of those 6x9 wildcat
mining camps up in the northern
country, it would create stampede
and 1000 men would flock to the
scene, even in midwinter. But
people take it as matter of course
that such specimens should be
found in Idaho, the future greatest
gold-bearing State in the Union.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-06
Our Beef Going East.

Surridge Bros. start next Mon
day with a train load, 15 cars, of
our Camas Prairie beef cattle for
the Omaha market. The load was
made up by the Surridges, Seth
Jones, John Breen, Elmer King
and others. 1t is an experiment
well worth testing, and has already
had the good effect of forcing the
buyers for the Puget Sound mar
ket to offer higher prices, and they
will do still better when we get the
returns from this eastern shipment.
Our cattle men have been giving
away their cattle to the Portland
Seattle Tacoma Spokane combine
long enough. We need money on
Camas Prairie about as bad as any
other COW county, and our stock
men have $4,000 worth of prime
beef which ought to be shipped
east and sold before December ! il
the coast combine don't make bet
ter terms. The cattle are shipped
in the name of Jas. Surridge, and
he will accompany the train and
dispose of them.
The Surridge Bros. also shipped
trainload of Camas Prairie hogs
to Spokane this week.
Both the MP. and UP. are anx'
ious to haul our cattle east and are
offering special concessions in the
way ofstable cars, which heretofore
were not used west of the Rockies.