Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-18

ferior marksmen had merely graZed.
The highlands of Circassia, too, pro-
duced hundreds of cley ar guerrilla lead
ers, but there Is no doubt that the
doom of their tause was sealed by the
untoward fate of their heroic chief,
and. though the Cross could On the
whole boast more military devotees
than the Crescent, 1t Is more than PROB
able that the fatal aim of a L~anguedoc
archer ut the battle Of Tours decided
the creed of the leading Caucasian ma
tons for more than q thousand years TO
come. The tile of Moslem conquest
had inundated a territory OF 6,o0o,0D
square miles. and after overlooking the
passes of the Pyrenees, threatened TO
submerge Central Europe, and already
poured an irresistible flood through
Southern France. where it encountered
the last b~reakwater Of the Christian
world in the plains of Tours. With his
$4,000 veteran fanatics and numerous
allies, the khalif A~bderahman had no
doubt of victory and had contrived TO
repulse the battle front Of his enemies
a league and "A half before, on the third
day of the murderous fight, the mil
COMMUNICATING missile struck him
through the right eye into the brain.
BY cruel ill-luck his Vizier had galloped
off with a message, and the puzzled
Mussulmans had to suspend operations
till they could communicate with the
Emir Obeidan. who was leading the
left wing mt the other extremity Of the
battlefield. Noticing the recoil of the
hostile vanguard, Charles Martel then
ordered a headlong attack that retriev-
al Tho ingSac af thn npnanItnO III yG and
led to the ultimate retreat of the IN
vaders. Yet at the turn Of the tide the
Franks were defending their last ram
part, and if that position had been
forced Paris, Vienna. London and Dub
lin, as well as Madrid, would now be
bristling with well endowed mosques,
and Anthony Comstock would employ
a swarm of turbaned detectives to EN-
force the provisions of Il Friday clos.
ing law.
Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian
agitator, was really a descendant Of Il
Slavonic family, and often smiled when
foreigners called him a representative
Magyar II represent nothing but the
hopes of the future" he once told an
English admirer. ''hut il you wish to
be ethnologically exact you must call
me a Bohemian"
.Why, ] thought you were a Protest
anti
"Yes. / do protest with a vehemence,"
he said, land so would all my county
men if had not been for those two de
plorable Austrian sharpshOoters-the
one at Trocknitz, the other ut Luet-
zen
Near the village Of Trocknitz the re-
doubtable Ziska was hit by a shot that
destroyed his eyesight. and thus handi-
capped him for life, and ut Luetzen one
Of W~allenstein's musketeers made good
his boast that he would unhorse the
king of Sweden if he could approach
him within range of 800 yards.
do you think you could rid us OF
that bully for n purse of 500 ducatsY"
asked his corps commander.
XIII him, you mean? / don't know
about that. but l engage 10 knock him
out of the saddle IL I can keep my DOW
der dry. Galloping won't save him. /
have practiced at moving targets be-
fore this"
The Austrian captain had a consul
tation and agreed that it would be
worth while to give their specialist
every possible chance. He was not n
first-class rider. but they mounted him
on an easy-golng horse, with a proper
escort. and an assortment of we'll
primed reserve muskets.
There comes the king, now said
one OF the guides. when the Swedish
cavalry gallopcd mp in pursuit of a
routed brigade. New, watch that
pond. 1t will make them slow up a bit.
There! ! thought so. let's trot a little
closer, TO give you a better chance"
mo, let me dismount," said the dead
shot. I'll answer for everything, right
now; 1t spoils your luck If you don't
leave ~wcll-enough alone"
Are you sure ne Is in ~range-from
this distaIceT''