The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-01-12

ferior marksmen had merely grazed.
The highlands Of Circassia, too, pro
duced hundreds of clever guerrilla lead
erS but there is no doubt that the
doom of Their cause was sealed by the
untCWard fate of their heroic chief,
ana though the Cross could on the
whole boast more military devoteeS
than the Crescent. it is more than prob
able that the fatal aim of Il Languedoc
arcner 1T the battle of Tours decided
the creed of the leading Caucasian ma.
tons for more than thousand years to
come The tide of Moslem conquest
had inundated Il territory of 6,0O00O9
square miles, and after oyert1oWing the
passes of the PyreneeS, threatened to
submerge Central Europe, and already
poured an irresistible flood through
Southern France, where it encountered
the last breakwater of the Christian
world in the plains of Tours. With his
100000 veteran fanatics md numerous
allies, the Nhalif Abderahman had no
doubt of victory and had contrived to
repJlse the battle front of his enemies
Il league and a half before, on the third
day of the murderous fight. the mil
lennium deciding missile struck him
through the right eye into the BRAIN
BY cruel ill-luck his NiZier had Sailoped
off with Il message, and the puzzled
Mussulmans had to suspend operations
til they could communicate with the
Emir Obeidan. who was leading the
left wing at the other extremity OF The
battlefield Noticing the recoil of the
hostile vanguard, Charles Martel then
ordered headlong attack that retrieV-
ed the losses of the preceding days and
LODI TO
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 we'll rs Madrid. would now be
hristl;ng with we'll endowed mosques,
and Anthony Comstock would employ
n swarm of turbaned detectives to en-
force the provisions of Friday clos.
ing law.
Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian
agitator, was really a descendant OF
Slavonic family. and often smiled when
foreigners called him representative
Mauyar Il represent nothing but the
hopes of the future he once told an
English admrer. hut if you wish to
be ethnologically exact you must call
me a Bohemian.
why, 1 thought you were Protest
anti"
Yes. / do protest With a vehemence,
he said, land so would al my county
men if had not been for those two de
plorable Austrian sharpShooters-the
one at TrocknitZ, the other at Luet-
zen.
Near the village of Troc.lnitz the re-
,toubtable Ziska was hit " Il shot that
destroyed his eyesight. and thus handi-
capped him for life. and at LuetZen one
of WallenStein'S mtISketeerS 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 purse of 500 ducats?'
asked his corps commander.
Kill him, YOU mean? | don't know
about that. but | engage TO knock him
out of the saddle if can keep my pow
der dry. Galloping won't 81 e 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 4
first class rider, but they mounted him