New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-05-19
POPULAR TRADITION.

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- 49,
J INSTANCES INST WHERE lT WAS FOUNDED
ON HISTORICAL FACT.
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hench had d;s.n,,o.,ad =, 90 ,-,,a,,...
when Or how Int = the d.vs 80 1 he
thendom thav nsad e. nlaca off.r;n. 80, =
the shirt of the 1old chief naar tha .,,ot
where it had stood when the ,,;ea;a Ion.
arv sailed, ont IN the n,uornino 800 to
storm tho f3rst ohiact II rot;ced x.,.s
this tree observation-disclosures n tha ,n,;d.t
If ita nnt,nrnad roots hnn, .to,,a
bench.
The reverend gentlemen. Whit;no
was his name if we remember riohte
stood in a maze The legend WAS trna
then. Examination moved bavond q
doubt that the bench had rested apainst
the bole of the tree in some ,iistant aoe.
for there was no trace Of an inciaion,
The wood had grown smoothly ronnd
and over it. So far al he conld ,rnm,phlv
compute, four centuries must nave
passed since it stood outside the trunk.3
For that time the islanders had nnrap..ss
served the memory of a circnm, stance 80 g
trifling, for to question that thia|T,y,p Mas
the bench thew assigned "a their = ,y,thic
hero would have been sil1v a AID then
the good man incurred his I haste He
had DESTROYED the 5 natiie,nt / ahor "a years
hecanse he won1d not cro,7;t tho o.
counts Of grave events Given e,N = ali So
robustness by members nf his f7ock and
il proved that they were 3trnst worthy
even on such detail "a the nersonal
habits of man who died 400 wears aoo
The story is one To be borne in mind
by all students Of folklore and Of that
early stage III human annals which is
based upon tradition. Rnt IL does not
follow that Mr.. Whiting had good canse
TO lament his burned manuscTints if he
valued them only for the records Of
eyents they might contain That there
are particles of fact in the most gro
tesf1ne of these legends which nrofess to
be historic. we find more and more rea-
son to believe as onr knowledge widens
hut IT. is rare1v nossih1e to stiff them
from the mass Of noetic nonsense Saw.
ages everywhere keen the memcrv If
startling incidents which occurred, as
we learn by internal evidence. an in
definite number Of ages aoo
Geologists recognize that the BLACK
sea was once a lake. with M ont;et to-
ward the Mediterranean. They incline
TO think or believe that it escanod
through the Rosnorns and tho Darda-
nelles shortly after the glacial neriod
But Diodorus Sicnlns mentions a tradi.
tion Of the Samothracians exactlv agree
ing with this account which learned
men of the dav have framed mon the
teaching of science, Did the Samothra-
clans exist in the placial neriodp Thev
saw that when the R]ack sea hrolro it's
barriers st last all their country 1yas
drowned-that vas tho samothrao;an
flood. And il il evident ENOUGH fiat
such must have heen the result If tho
cataclvsm There is a MASSAGE in PIN
dar also which some commentators in
ternret as an a11ns;on to tho s,n,o NO.
dieions event /
Traditions of tho mammoth .ro so
general and 50 v;gorons in The extreme
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