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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26
Something Vast and Dragon-Ltke
Emerged From the Darkness

tell you that myself. You bleed the wart, put some
blood on a piece of bread and lay 1t IN the 15ad.
Whoever picks it up viii get your warts within
month";"
"Oh but I don't want anybody else to get EN-"
cried the boy. 81 wish them to just 60 awayl'
"WelL perhaps old Wizard Adams book may have
some remedy. I don't recolect. 1 never saw him
cure warts"
Did you ever see him conjure at ala" asked the
lad
ooh, plenty Of times responded his grandfather
"He used to burn herbs that snuelt awful, and say
the most tremendous spellsi The night before he
died, 1 recall he was fussing round until midnight
burning blue lights and shrinking up the atmosphere
something dreadful, but nothing happened far as
/ could see"
Did he ever bewitch anybody that you knew ~ in
quired Erie
"Wel, I couldn't swear to thatp said Hertzen.
~ Ou see, ne didn't tell his secrets; In fact
he died without revealing something that might
have been very important, indeed, maybew
ooh what was it!'
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This Enchanted Valley lay over the mountain and
was shrouded I'm tail trees that kept the sunlight
from ever reaching the ground even on the bright
est summer day.
Great, Notwithstanding toadstools covered the
earth at the entrance to the valley PROSTATE tree
trunks moulded away where they had fallen across
the ancient grass grown road that led into its gloom
a road that man travelled, and long, danl stream
of gray hung from the limbs of dead trees,
waving In the breeze like outstretched fingers that
seemed TO warn off inuuders into this forbidding
spot.
Birds were never heard to sing I'm this valley; In
vain Erie stood peerug into Its gloomy depths and
listened for a songbud5 note; all was silent the
tomb.
That once upon a time men passed through 1t.
along the old road, was proved by the road itself
yet TINS must have been hundreds of years ago. Erie
thought tor O tree had grown right IN the middle
of the roadway. But, after ALL some trees grow very
rapidly and this one may have been merely sixty or
seventy years old.
From the top of the mountain he could see plain
j. where the road had run along the valley when his
grandfather pointed out him that the newer trees
differed from the old growth both in size and kind
but the huntsman could not tell him how many years
ago the road was used by men.
"Ihe Enchanted Forest was here when I came"
said the old man, 'aud it looked pretty nearly as it
does now as far as / can seq
"HaTe you never tried to explore it, asked Eric
Eyes made the attempt once, replied his grand
father. 81 never tried again"
'What happened" eagerly inquired the boy
Il was scared so bad that I thought my hair Must
have turned gray p responded the huntsuan Some
thing, know not what, came at me In the gloom
with q hOarse snarlug yell that chilled nv blood
causing me to turn and fly like the wind 1t looked
somewhat like an enormous bird with bats wings
and 1t had eyes that lighted up the darkness like
lampsl That was enough for mel I never tried it
again, tell you i have always had enough to oc-
cupy my time without bothering about the En-
chanted Valley, for, after all, what would it benefit
me TO explore it, anyway
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Tomorrow night at seven III go and dig there
where the shadow endsl' he cried. Whatever 1t
was perhaps it's there yet, and grandfather never
came near it with his spadep
He could scarcely wait for night to fall next
day. but at last darkness came and the great round
moon, perfectly full, over the low hill IN the
east.
The blasted poplar tree, gnarled and leafless cast
a long, straight shadow across the field like finger
pointing toward the hiding place of the treasure.
At seven o'clock the shadow ended exactly where
small burdocz grew, and pulling up the weed Eric
began to dig hurriedy, as if he feared the shadow
might move away and carry the buried treasure
with it. tn few minutes the spade struck some
thing with a sound that indicated metal, and with
beating heart the lad turned up the hidden object.
What do you suppose it wast
Nothing at ali but mean little iron lantern! A
sort of dark lantern with small, square glass WIN
dow in front, covered with rust and dirt
When he had searched deeper and at last was
cutie certain that there was nothing more valuable
nor important In the hole, he again examined the
lantern in the moonlight and Disguised indeed
He took it home and then he told his grandfather all
about it.
Depend upon it, it's precious ~ asserted the aged
woodsman. Wizard Adams never would have bur
led It so carefully, nor have made the memorandum
I'm his book unless 1t was very valuable to him. and,
If to him. why not to you! Study farther In his old
books and see what 1T says about lanterns. I've
heard tell of magic lanterns ere nOwp
sOh, so have I' said Eric, Shut 1 know all about
them / saw a magic lantern exhibition in the
church once'
.sWeH. this is one of thcm am sure !" said the
huntsman Il VIII clean it up with sand-sOap and
polish st, after which, maybe, we can experiment
with 1t. never saw Adams use 1T, and never knew
lac owned H. So 1t was doubtless one of his seerets
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Yet here and there he came upon what seemed to
be the echoes of ancient magic from tine days of the
Arabians and Persans when magic was magic; but
these scraps were so incomplete that they only lade
him mad, A spell, for instance, that would change
a man into white horse was hall told and then all
muddled up with words and phrases in some uu-
known tongue; c. the magic formula FOR flying
through the air. or for becoming invisible was
written with spaces left blank so that they were
quite worthless to anybody who knew not the miss
ing words.
Gee! It's like guessing contest in The papers"
cried Eric. "Only not half as easy! I'D rather
tackle fifty puzzles than try to guess this.'
Still, he found that the old wizard had been
careful student of animals, birds and insects, and
had written down the strange things that he had
seen in the woods by day and night, that, after
all, Eric learned many fact that he might have
been unable TO discover by himself, sharp as his
eyes We're
lie learned, too, what plants were used to cure
diseases, both Of men and animals, so that after
few weeks Of study and experiment be was able 10
concOct some wonderful mixtures that cured his
neighbors cows and horses of various illnesses
their chickens of the pip, their cats and dogs of
what allied them and soon he was In a fair way to
be considered quite little wizard himself although
that really, he wei knew, was nearly impossible
until he able to understand the mysterious
books much better.
On the last page of one book we're number of
figures, as if the wizard had been studying arthrne-
tic, and below them was written tins sentence:
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Il suppose that If I had put in all that time in
doing some sort Of work would have been rich but
the thought of the treasure hidden therein the field
kept me perpetualiy on the jump ] would wake at
night and go out to dig. and / really think that
have turned over every inch of soil for a hundred
yards about the old dead poplar Teep
"Perhaps the wizard came back later that night
and dug up the treasure himself.' suggested the
boy.
Gracious j never once thought of that.7 cried
the hUursmau. "But, 10! That is quite impossible,
as he was never out of my sight after7ard. no.
that's NOT the solution of it; but perhaps somebody
else saw HIM bury it and came Immediately to the
spot and removed the treasure whatever it was7
But YOU said that you had seen the wizard go
into the Enchanted Valley, and at night"
"Hess i have gone with him to carry his cloak and
books more than once; but Of course remained
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26
Mystery Of the Enchant-
ed Valley and How It
Was Solved by a
StudiouS Lads Clever
Work

IN the kingdom Of Atrophia, which is so small
that it's not ON the map, so there's no use IN
looking for it. yet which, small as 1t IS. has
many dark forests where the wild deer rove and
even wolves are said to prowl, there lived boy
named Eric Hertzen with old man whom he sup
posed was his grandfather.
In TRUTH this old man, Victor Hertzen. was not a
relation of the boy at all. The lad had been found
when a small child, sitting beside the road in the
woods q winter evening
The tracks of a. carriage In the deep snow mat
lay in the road were the only signs that human
beings had passed by and Victor always supposed
chat the child, who was little more than baby, had
fallen from the carriage and had not been mlssed'
butt as strange things had and were still happening
I'm the Dark Forest perhaps some other explanation
of the occurrence might be found.
The huntsman, however, didn't bother about find
ing any explanations he expected that the people
who had lost the pretty child would soon come seek
ing for hmm, but that never happened. The boy
seemed completely forgotten, and years passed
Hertzen, too almost forgot that he not his
child for Le had named him after son who was
dead and the boy grew up in the belief that the old
man was really his grandfather.
Together they hunted the deer and the hares, and
there was not spot In the forest that the lad didn't
know almost as 1yel as he did the two rooms In their
house, except, of course, the dread region known
far and wide as the Enchanted Valley which he
had dared to explore, although he ycarned 10
make the bold attempt
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But the only reference 20 lanterns IN any Of the
books was in paragraph that was perhaps the most
seuseless of them all that read thus;
@IF A MAN BUT POSSESS AND CARRY IN
HIS HAND THAT WONDROUS LANTERN
THAT EVIL THINGS TO FLEE IN TERROR
FROM BEFORE IT'S LIGHT BE MAY WALK
IN THE DOTH DRIVE AWAY FEAR FROM
TIE HEART FIRST AND SECONDLY CAUSE
ALL MANNER OF DREAD VALLEY IN
PEACE AND no THING SHALL TROUBLE
HIM ONE JOT OR TITLE"
sNow, that's a fine lot of rubbish" cried Eric,
and then he paused Perhaps this, also, was puz-
lie that was meant to be turned and twisted about
in order to read properly. and in another minute
he had thought Of reading every other line, that
il then read;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26
The Story of How a
Beautiful Girl Was
Rescued by a Long
Lost Prince Who Won
Immense Wealth

"BUT IF a NAN BUT POSSESS AND
CARRY IN HIS HAND THAT WONDROUS
LANTERN THAT DOTH DRIVE AWAY FEAR
FROM THE HEART FIRST, AND, SECONDLY,
CAUSE ALL MANNER OF EVIL THINGS TO
FLEE IN TERROR FROM BEFORE ITS
LIGHT, HE NAY WALK IN THE DREAD
VALLEY IN PEACE AND NO THING SHALL
TROUBLE HIN ONE JOT OR TITLE"
Then he understood That night-for of course,
1t was plain that shouldn't carry lighted lam
tern by day-he took it and went to the dread En-
chanted Valley Strange to say, he felt not the
least fear; his heart beat as calmly as If he were ia
his bed as be STROBE down the gloomy forest aises
Suddenly something vast and dragon-like emerged
from the blackness before him, It's immense form
seeming covered with scales of gtterng Jet and Its
eyes of IRE flashing tiny sparksl
That 1t had bat-like wings he saw. but they were
so great that they were lost in the darkness
either side. It's head was like something resembling
both a lizard and parrot and it had clawsl Such
claws as one sees on japanese carving, but simply
tremendous! But when he flashed his light upon it
to see 1t more clearly the thing uttered a silly,
ridiculous little squeak of fear and Topped its great
wings IN terror, after which 1t suddenly squawked
end few away.
He walked on and on until the way was stopped
by an immense rock, to which he saw a beautiful
young girl chained. She reached out her hands to
him as be approached and said:
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"It must be true, for I now remember that the
prince was lost! Fool that am not to have thought
you, were the lost babyl I am a numbskulli To-
morrow viii set out for the court, and you shall
be restored to your parents y
"EiFst we must bring out all the gold, however,
for my father viii need it," said Erie, and so early
the next day they went to work. and strange to say,
neither Of them saw anything more terrifying in
the Enchanted Valley than some tinid rabbits
They took all the gold, more than SIX million dol
lars WORTH to the house, and then loaded If on a
cart after which they set OF for the city OF tho
king
You can imagine what excitement was produced
by Erics appearance, and with what JOY he was wei
coined by his parents, who had never given up the
hope Of having him back again. The army was SO
delighted that every soldier offered to fight with
out pay, but there was plenty OF money now In
Atrophia for everybody, and when the wicked brotl
or appeared with his army his soldiers instantly de-
serted and came over to fight for the king who had
the good hard cash. So the bad brother was com
PEELED to flee, and was never heard OF again.
So Eric was now prince; but to tell the truth,
he didn't like it very much and often he would steal
away with Elvira the girl whom he had rescued ana
spend the day IN the woods with the huntsnaan for
he was tired of the display and pomp OF the court
When he Is a king, which VIII happen some day.
he Is going to hire good man to rule the people
and spend his time travelling all over the world with
Elvira and perhaps he VIII come to America, SO
that we all may see him. So that's all az present
about Eric the amateur wizard.
WALT McD0UGAILa
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This was the greatest and hardest puzzle Of all
What the straight row Of rs meant Eric could not
imagine, and he pondered over 1t for many hour
until the woodsman grew alarmed at such absorp-
ton. One night he was thinking very hard when
suddenly tiny ray of light shot across his mind.
perhaps the rs are merely parts of letters" he
exclaimed, and instantly copied them on another
sheet of paper after which he began to make other
letters of them in endeavor to form words that
would make sense of the whole sentence. If you
lad had st himself.
Yet he was now so sure that he the right
track that he never stopped, although it seemed inn
possible to find the correct words; but happening to
think of the blasted poplar tree near which the
wizard had buried the mysterious something all
suddenly became clear light itself He rapidly
added to the eight Is the needed marks to form the
words
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26

and the sentence was completed 1t was June and
the moon was full, too and shining IN him as he
read
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-11
MAY EFFECT A JUNCTION.
Port Arthur Squadron Making a Dash
for Viadivostok.

yladiyostok, Aug. 11.-Preparations
are being completed here for the recep-
ton of the Port Arthur squadron. De-
parture of the squadron from Port
Arthur is generally interpreted to 'ndi-
cate the siege of the fortress is enter
ing ON the final stage.
Preservation Of the squadron is con-
sidered to be vital to Russia's future
plans, and while 1t is acknowledged its
departure will greatly weaken the de-
fensiye power of the garrison. without
capture of the squadron the fall OF the
fortress would be robbed of much of rs
strategic Importance. The similar ships
were probably left behind on account
Of their slow speed and inadequate
fighting powers, while the torpedo boat
destroyers would constitute constant
menace to the Japanese fleet outside.
Even il the squadron succeeds in get
ting thru the Japanese ships. it is real
ized that it runs desperate risk n
irving to reach Vladivostok, as Togo's
fleet is larger. superior in strength and
faster than the Russian squadron. Be
sides the straits Of Korea are under
stood to be mined, and the squadron
probably will be compelled to take a
longer route around Japan. It is believ-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-11
JUNCTION WILL OCCUR.
Chefoo Dispatches Indicate Belief That
Russian Ships Got Away.

chefoo Dispatches indicate Belief That
Russian Ships Got Away.
Chefoo, Aug, 1.-THE captain of the
Ryeshitelni does not deny the Russian
warships have gone to join the Vladi-
vostok squadron. He simply refuses to
answer questions on the subject, claim-
ing it would be improper for him to do
so. Other sources affirm absolutely
all the big ships, except the Bayan,
which Is injured. left Port Arthur yes
terday, exchanging shots with the Jap
fleet at long range and 1T seems likely
the long expected junction of the two
Russian sauadrons will now occur.
Shortly after the arrival of the Rye
shitelni here Chinese Admiral Sab sent
an officer on board. who demanded that
the destroyer either leave the port or
disarm. 1t had previously been ascer-
tanned her engines were disabled. The
captain of the Ryeshitelni agreed to
render the engines absolutely useless
and disarm in such a manner as Ad-
miral Sab demanded. The captain re-
quested the Chinese admiral to indicate
a position nearer shore where the des-
troyer might lie until the end of the
war under protection of the Chinese
government. The passengers on the
Ryeshitelni include two women, one or
whom is said to be the wife OF General
Stoessel This, however, is denied
1t is evident grave reasons caused the
Ryeshitelni to undertake her hazardous
voyage.
Presumably she came here to file i'm
portant urgent dispatches.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-11
Plan to Continue Eioht.

Chicago, Aug. 11.-While peace me-
gotiations were in progress yesterday
afternoon, the union officials in charge
of the packing strike were busy formu-
lating measures of war-should peace
fail.
Picketing on a large scale, designed
to guard every business center of the
city, was proposed as the first meas
ure, The effect of the order was felt
late in the day when Il thousand union
men were set to watching every whole
sale meat distributing depot. cold stor-
age plant, railroad yard, and freight
depot. as well as the .blacklisted" groc-
cries and markets thruout Chicago.
Stop Meat Wagons.
Trouble of minor sort started in
several places. when pickets stopped
meat wagons and sought to prevent
them from delivering their loads. H. G..
MCGEE. meat dealer at 207 North
Clark street, was dragged from his
seat and roughly handled by strike
pickets, while he was loading stock
from the cold storage warehouse Of A.
Booth & Co. 152 Kinzie street. Nc
Gee was said to have bought meat Of
the packers.
Robert Basso, 4729 Loomis street,
who was driving moving van, aroused
the ire of crowd of strikers and pick
cts at Forty eighth and Loomis streets.
He was cut on the head by flying mis-
siles and was escorted home by the
police He is non-union oiler. en-
ployed by Armour & Co.
Teams belonging to a department
nly hn y.o-
house of j. b. Glow & Sons, at the Har-
rison street bridge. 1t was charged
that the supplies for packers We're be-
ing delivered there
Increase Picketing.
Extension of picketing to all places
where meat is handled was decided up
on at the meeting OF the board of busi-
ness agents Of the Packing Trades
Council. held at Forty seventh street
and Ashland avenue at o'clock. The
fact that the Teamsters Joint Council
had failed to grant material assistance
to the strike did not stand in the way
of the action. The committee of eleven
APPOINTED by the council to confer with
the business agents was in action, and
it was with its concurrence that the
new picketing measure was adopt
ed.
Railroad yards and freight depots
were added to the list of picketed plac-
es in the hope of cutting off the deliv-
cry of meat from cars direct to the
dealers. Bakeries and other concerns
accused Of delivering supplies to the
packing plans for the benefit of the
strike breakers also We're included, and
pickets were told to stop wagons found
on such errands.
Union officials estimated the en-
larged plan OF picketng would affect
2.2oo of the 5000 retail drivers and a
majority of the 300 ice teamsters.
Many milk wagon drivers also will
have to run the gauntlet of the picket
lines today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-11
DESPERATE At PORT ARTHUR.
Russian Soldiers Compelled to Remain
at Posts All Day Women Carry

at Posts All Day Women Carry
Water.
Lao Yang, Aug. ia refugee from
Port Arthur. who has just arrived here,
says the defenders of the fortress re-
main all day at their posts In spite Ut
the dreadful heat, the women heroically
carrying water to the parched soldiers,
although not a single space within the
perimeter of the fortress is free from
bullets and bursting shells. Sometimes
the whole fortress seemed enveloped in
smoke from the countless shell ex-
plosions.
There was a memorable sight from
Wolf Hills when the Japs attacked the
Russian positions there July 25. Five
Jap divisions moved across the plain to
the assault under cover of their guns.
The onset was so desper;Se it almost
verged on frenzy Field Marshal Oyama
commanded the Jap forces in person
and several princes Of the blood and
veteran generals led on the attacking
forces, giving examples of courage and
resourse previously uneaualled. The
Jap artillery received fresh supply
of ammunition the previous evening
and never before was there such a ter
Tllc nall Oh ptoJeCGiSS, VuS eAiS Siho' -
of the Japs were unavailing against
the determined stand OF the Russians,
and the attack was repulsed with en-
ormous losses. The refugee gives the
Russian losses at 1900 and the Japs at
10000.
After the battle General Stoessel or
dered out every available surgeon to
dress the Japanese wounded. but the
Russians were unable to bring them In
to the fortress. where the problem OF
feeding nom -combatants is too serious.
Consequently the Japanese wound I'd
were left on the field, to be taken off
by their own people.
Chinese are crowding into Liao Yang
from the villages and are threatened
with becoming involved in the APP
proaching battle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-11
TO DEP0RT PREACHER
Methodist MIR .stsr at Victor Organizes
'.suard and Defies the Citizens AIli-
nnee - Battle Between Miner and
The Mob.

Cripple Creek, Aug. ia committee
of Ave went to the house Of George
Steidt last night for the purpose Of de-
porting him. After the men had gain
ed an entrance to the house Sheidt be-
gan shooting at them. A dozen shots
were exchanged, but no one wounded.
Officers have taken Sheidt to Jail for
protection.
Rev. L. S. Leland, pastor Of the NJ.
E. church of Victor, who has been TAX
ing an active interest in the troubles
in the district, has been ordered out
of the camp He has notified his friends
ard the officers of the law, who have
rallied to his support. and are guard
irig his house.
A new alliance is being formed in the
district, for the purpose Of taking
middle ground between the Western
Federation of Miners and the Citizens
Alliance. The promoters do not favor
deportation of men without trial.