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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

from land in these clumsy and unsea
worthy contrivances.
Consequently, when the question
arose a to what race was advanced i'm
navigation in that early time when
these monuments were put I'D. the
answer naturally came that the onlv
race known to be a race of sailors and
merchants then was the race of the
PhOenicians.
And if they were the Phoenicians,
how did they come to reach America
They had colonies on the islands Of
the western Mediterranean, and even
in the islands of the Atlantic Ocean.
as history proves. 1t is not hard to
imagine that they may have found
their way to America. Some archaic
ologists are even willing to believe
that they reached America by way
of the lost Atlantis, that legendary
continent that is now sunken some
where n the Atlantic Ocean, if it ever
existed.
At any rate, the theory that the
Phoenicians were the erectors of the
monoliths of the world, to commem-
crate discoveries or for religious pur-
poses, has gained strength through
the recent discovery of a great up
right stone near the River Loire,
which has Phoenician words engraved
deeply on it. Translated, these words
say, "On this spot was slain our
brave comrade"
In San Luis, in Bolivia, is one of
these stones which has on it the en-
craving of a foot print and a snake
with its head raised. The foot print
is a well-known Phoenician symbol
of death, and is found on many stones
that cover ancient Phoenician burial
sites And the snake with head raised
is another acknowledged Phoenician
emblem. 1t signifies a march for
ward. Exactly the same symbols as
those on the South American stone
have been found on stone in central
France.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18


MI of the German officers in
lVl German Southwest Africa,
where the black men are IN
revolt against German rule, has sent
home an interesting report on the
African savage in war
In the first place, says he, the idea
that men in state of nature like the
blacks have sharper vision than civil
lied men is wrong. The white man
with perfect vision can see farther
than the savages. Thus, white scouts
perceive the smoke from the tunnels
of river steamers and steamships
passing below the horizon out at sea
before the insurgents do. German
sailors were almost uniformly quicker
and clearer in sight than the savage
scouts.
But among the civilized soldiers
there are many who suffer from opti-
cal weaknesses, particularly short
sightedness, so as a whole the negroes
are superior to the soldiers in sight.
Another thing that has been found
to interfere with the quickness OF
sight of white soldiers who have been
without previous experience in Africa
is the fact that the unusual nature OF
the country leads their eyes to mark
the peculiar things. while they over
look the little things Thus the eye
of newcomer naturally is caught by
the thorny acacia bushes, while on the
plain there may be a score of little
hollows where negroes are lying III
wait The dark color of the savages
is almost exactly that of the ground
where they hide.
Something in which the savage is
far ahead of the civilized man, says
Major Rickelmann, is the sense of di.
rcction of locality. He has found thai
the savage can make his way through
perfectly strange country; and he i:
perfectly at home in districts through
which he has journeyed only once be
fore, no matter how hastily he may
have passed through them.
They are also almost as sharp a,
animals in finding and following ;
trail.
Thus he led party of negro scout
one morning Just after daybreal
they came upon a trail that was So
fresh that the Europeans in the part,
were confident that the enemy hac
passed that way only few moment
before. But the negro scouts declaret
without hesitation that the trail ha,
been made before dawn; and whei
they were questioned, they pointe
out that there was dew on the ben
grasses and leaves showing that tn
trail had been left long enough TO
dew to be deposited on it again
Another time they found trails lead
ing from water hole. AS the foot
prints were quite dry, the Europea
scouts argued that a considerable
length of time had elapsed since tn
trail had been made. because ther
had been time enough for the sun t
dry the moisture But the negroe
felt OF the foot prints and announce
that the trail was quite fresh. Whe
the white men said to them, But tn
sun has had time to dry the waite
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

from the foot prints, the natives said,
Yes. But the sun has not had time to
dry the moisture out of the earth
The spoor is not an hour old" And
this turned out to be correct.
The savages are extremely insen-
sible to outward pain. Thus they suf-
fer serious wounds with remarkable
stolidity and they will go without
food for days if the warfare demands
it. But sickness and other internal
troubles will terrify the negroes inn
mediately SO that they lose all heart
at once.
A great obstacle to the white men,
and a corresponding help to the saw
ages, are the thorny bushes that -four
ish everywhere
The negroes are adopts at wriggling
through them, while the white sol
diers can hardly approach them with
out being caught.
The thorns are often three and four
inches long, and there are dozens OF
them on every twig, each pointing in
different direction. Only the most
skilful of scouts can wriggle his way
through a thorny bush that is fairly
dense. An inexperienced man who
tries it will escape only with loss OF
all his clothes and with painful and
deep slashes and tears over his whole
body.
A really dense thorn bush, say the
Africans, is too dense even for a
snake. 1t is certainly true that snakes
are Offer found dead in such bushes
having been caught by the trap Of
thorns as they tried to crawl through
The negroes crawl into the bushes
and though they may lie only a few
feet away from the road, the soldiers
who pass are entirely powerless to get
at them except with bullets. They
cannot charge and drive the enemy
| aWay
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
LUho Raised the M0nolithS !?

a MONG the greatest mysteries
"a in the mystery of the past
4 u human history on earth, the
monoliths that stand in vari-
GUS parts of the globe have always
been chief
These strange stone monuments,
generally rude with hardly any sculp-
ture, but wonderfully large in size,
are scattered everywhere. The most
famous of them are the cromlechs,
such as those in Stonehenge in Eng
land. Others are found in the west
ern part of France, in the northern
part of Germany as far as the Oder
river, in Denmark and in Sweden.
Northern Africa, Madagascar and
Asia, from Mount Sinai and the eau
casus to India, all have some here
and there
Lately they have been discovered
even in Siberia. There are several
places in Japan where such stones
stand
Others have been found in North
and South America. Among the most
wonderful and mysterious of them ali
are the vast, almost terrifying stones,
rude1y sculptured, that have been
found on lonely Easter Island in the
Pacific Ocean.
The mystery as to what these
stones meant was not the only puz-
zle. The greatest puzzle was how
primitive people without knowledge of
engineering and without known appli-
ances could have moved and erected
such giant blocks, some of which
weigh as much as $50 tons In many
districts where the great memorials
stand there are no stones of such size
to be found in the earth. Consequent
| ly they must have been transported
from places long distances away.
For many generations, ever since
men have spent any time in thinking
over these matters, scientists have
puzzled their heads over the monoliths
IN vain Whether they classed them
as all being the same, or whether they
divided them into different classes,
| they remained the same riddle.
Lately, however, there has been a
systematic study of all the monolith
memorials of the world, and as re-
suit a novel theory has been advanced.
1t is that one race-that of the
Phoenicians-er all these 1nonu-
ments.
| OF course, if this is correct, it means
that history will have to be revised,
for it would show that the Phoenic-
ians once knew all about the whole
globe, and that they had visited Amer
lea and Asia long before modern days.
The first thing that led to the as
sumption that the Phoenicians had
raised the monuments was the obser-
walton of M. Levistre, a French
archaeologist, that almost all the
monoliths were to be found near the
mouths of great rivers or along their
courses. This pointed TO a people
that used ships.
Now the Gets were never strong
on the water Their boats We're print
tive. being made mostly of wicker.
work covered with hides, and they
were unable to move any distance
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The Worst Wind of the World.

what is the worst wind of the
world?' said the captain of trading
ship that pokes her nose in almost
every spot of the world during her
curious wanderings. ''Well, III tell
you first of other winds, so as to lead
up to it artistically. I've been through
Kamtschatka, which is what they call
the storms of that country, and I've
seen it blow drifts fifty feet high in
an hour. put in three days in a ty-
phoon, which is the great grand
father of all the hurricanes. 1t blew
every sail out of the bolt-ropes and
swept the deck so clean that it looked
as if it had been scraped. Down in St
Vincent, in the West Indies, lay on
the beach during a West Indian hur-
ricane, the black storm that sweeps
over the Caribbean, and | had to dig
my hands into the earth to hold tight
But worse than all these is the
wind that they call the woolly, or the
willy, or the willy willy, according to
locality You get it al its best in the
Straits OF Magellan, but great part
Of the country around the southern
end of the south temperate regions
enjoys its blessings.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

till all the vaulted chamber swung
and swirled like smoke when wind
blows it. 'Io, ho! That is a poor
gift. Now [ will give you one that
amounts to something. Dive deep,
Rudolph, dive deep and seize what
treasure you can from my treasure
house at my feet
Rudolph dived straight down into
the cold black sea, till his ears
throbbed and the blood hammered at
his temples Fantastic and awful in
the deep lay the wrecks. with their
splintered spars fimmering in the
running water Skeleton sailors lay
on their crumbled decks, and Rudolph
was seized with fear; but he filled his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

1t was the great Sea Fog himself,
but he did not know where little Elsa
was. They sailed through my do
MAN, said he, and l could not hold
them. You must ask the Tide Moth
er. She sits on the ghost rock Car
nilhan in the cold southern seas,
where the sounding lead has never
plunged You must sail till you see
the Southern Cross in the skies and
then You must sail till you reach the
sea of snow and gale. But tell me
first if you have a gift for little Elsa
when you find herr"
The fisher boy told the Sea Fog
what the Starlight had given to him
"Ho, hoF' LAUGHED the gray giant.
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THE Old FINN ~
WO1LAN WIG FAKE S
TIE FOUR WINDS

ships are, is the palace of the Sea
Fog. He may tell you where she is. :
Il will 60" said the fisher boy.
you must take gift from US
said the Starlight. 1--WE will teach
you what to say to her when you find
her. You will never be able to say it
to any one else, but when you stand
before her it will come to your lips
at the right moment Listen!'
He listened, but all that he could
hear was the confused murmur of the
waves-the sea sounds that are like
the rushing of distant waters and the
beating of wings and the whispers of
many voices far away.
Il do not understand" said he.
Farewell, FAREWELL" said the Star
light. You will understand when you
need the knowledge"
He sailed fast and far over the
worlds deep places into which no hui
man eye has ever looked since the
world began. At last over the brim-
ming rim of the heaving sea he saw
a dim, low land, and that was Cape
Sable, all alone in gray sea.
The palace of the Sea Fog arose out
OF the running waters straight before
him. In it the pillows roared unseen,
and drowning ships beloved with all
their steel lungs for fear of the death
that came invisibly and the shining
black rocks stood, each with a hood
of fog, and each with barred black
teeth.
With stout heart the fisher boy
drove his little craft through the
ghostly dark, till he sailed into vast
dim vaulted chamber. There, stand
ing breast deep in the black water,
was huge gray figure that seemed
to sway and expand and change each
moment. Now and then a terrible
face looked out, and again the misty
wells that fluttered around its head and
shoulders closed in and hid all.
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her." said the old Finn woman, "and
| will give You the best of all gifts
to bear to her. | will give YOU
strength and beauty from all my
winds"
She stirred her pot and all the
winds blew on him. Go now" she
said, ''for you are handsome and
strong enough to win any maiden"
The North Wind spread his black
wings and drove the boat till the mast
sang like a bowstring, while all the
white waters of the white North raced
after them and threw the boat from
one to the other like a ball, till the
shore arose ahead. There, with tow
ers and high buildings cleaning, stood
the city.
In the golden prison, in the most
beautiful room, sat the girl She had
grown tall and beautiful, but he rec
ognized her at once.
Little Elsaw he cried.
She looked at him. For moment
her weary eyes frightened. "Who
are your she asked. 81 seem to know
you, but I cannot remember"
Il will tell you later" said he. See
first the gift that the old Finn woman
has given to me for you"
She gazed at him, and her eyes be
came weary again. Strength and
beautyl" said She. @Alasi MANY
have brought such gift
Listen, then" said he, while tell
you what the Tide Mother has given
to me-"
He told her all that the tides of the
world had taught him. eyes" said
she, that is better. But it, too, has
been brought to me in vain Wisdom
is not what am waiting for"
Without word Rudolph laid at her
feet the Kings ransom that he had
wrested from the treasure house of
the Sea Fog. But her eyes became
only the more weary and she shook
her head sadly
Ashamed and sorrowful, he turned
to go. "Of what avail will be the poor
gift of the Starlight" thought he. IF
wealth, strength, beauty and wisdom
cannot free her?"
But at that moment the words Of
the Starlight came unbidden to his
lips. They told of the sounding
beaches where two children once
played. They told how boy and
girl once ran hand in hand all day
and loved each other even as babies
They told how she went away at last
and left him sorrowing forever.
With every word a link of the
golden chains broke away. Link after
link they fell, till suddenly the girl
sprang to her feet with eyes and
mouth smiling.
Rudolph! Rudolph she cried.
That is the gift for which 7 have
been waiting i'll my golden prison
You have brought me the gift of true
love and 7 am freeW
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
FISHER BOY FINDS TIE
Pf1NT07f ROCK CAR1ILFAN

Finn woman who makes the winds.
She sits in Upland. where she has
sat since the world began. and there
she stirs the pot that boils forever.
Every time she stirs it the winds
come out and blow. She can tell you.
But before you so, I will make you a
gift"
Then the Tide Mother reined in her
racing horses-the Japan Current,
foaming and tugging; the Polar Cur
rents, gliding green and smooth, with
white names glistening with ice, and
last of all, the huge blue racer, the
Gulf Stream, that tugged fercely to
get away and sent the sea smashing
toward the sky in its struggles.
Firmly she held them all and made
them tell the fisher boy everything
that they had learned in their rushing
around the world-the good and the
bad, the beautiful and the terrible.
Lapland was cold and lifeless and
the foes Numbered on its shores.
There sat the old Finn woman. and
when Rudolph asked her, she stirred
her pot. AS each wind came Tapping
out of it, she seized it by the wings
and asked it if it. knew where little
Elsa was
None of them knew till the biggest
wind of all leaped out, screaming and
lighting. It was the North Wind, with
his black feathers. yes" roared he
In a great city stands a house all
made OF gold. But it is a prison for
all its beauty. In its most beautiful
room, chained with golden chains to
a golden throne, sits the girl. She is
weary and waits for deliverance, but
only he can rescue her who brings her
the right gift
..The North Mind sha11 tic ,.o.. 20
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on long. brown beach,
where the sea came every day to make
solemn organ tunes.
The boy was the son of the poorest
fisherman in the village that lay
crouched behind the sand dunes. And
the girl was the daughter of the rich
est man, who had the general store
and the postoffice and everything else.
Every day they played together on
the singing shores. The boy built
castles of sand for her and made tiny
boats that he named for her, and he
thought there was nobody like her,
and she thought that there was no
body like him.
But there came time when her
father was so rich that he wished TO
stay in the little village no more; 50
one day big ship stopped off the
long, brown beach and the fisher boy
saw his little playmate go out over the
tossing waves. and presently the big
ship moved away again and he was
left alone
They have gone out into the wide
world" said his father to him, and
YOU will never see her again.
The tide came in and the tide went
out two times a day, many hundred
times. No message ever came back
TO the beach from the girl. At last
no one ever thought of her again-no
one except the boy. But he thought
of her always.
| 10 n II md
out into the rolling sea with the
smacks to pull up the cold, wet fish.
When the boats returned laden with
their catches, the other fisher lads
went into the village to frolic and
dance with the girls; but he sat on the
beach, through the long, soft summer
nights and thought of the girl that
had gone away into the wide world.
One night he could bear it no
longer He stepped into his dory and
foated out to sea. The ocean lay black
and smooth in the dark On the slope
of every wave the starlight swan like
sparkling fish.
"Ah, if you, that see the whole
world, could only tell me where little
Elsa is" said he to the swimming
lights.
I'VE do not know" said the Star
light 1--WE looked down on her til
she vanished in the palace of the Fog
that rises out Of the grayest sea and
has a thousand spires, that change
mysteriously with every moment
You must steer north by east for
seven days and seven nights till you
raise Cape Sable over the dim sea
rim. And there. where the drowned
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
Savage Fighters and Their Ddys

n TAJOR RICKELMANN, one
MI of the German officers in
lV1 German Southwest Africa,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-03
NORMAL SCHOOL
COMMITTEE HERE

Five members Of the special joint CONS
mittee appointed by the Legislature to
select a site for the proposed new normal
school. arrived III the city last night and
are stopping at Murphy's
They are Messrs. West, OF Louisa.
chairman; Sears, of Mathews; Barksdale,
OF Halifax: Smith, of Clarke. and stearnes.
Of Newport News
They will hold an informal meeting at
NIurphy's Hotel to-day. but they do not
expect to reach any definite conclusions.
as the attendance will be so small. The
committee has visited in all. twenty-eighe
towns In the State They are all tanned
and In fine shape, having evidently Jared
well wherever they stopped.
Senator j. Boyd Sears, OF Mathews, was
greatly pleased and declared that those
who had never been over the State had
no conception OF the wealth and beauty
Of the rural dlstricts. 1.-THE valley and
the Southwest gives the appearance OF
great gardens, rich and productive and
in a. high state OF cultivation" he said.
land what saw In different sections was
a revelation to me.
Senator Sears said the committee had
a great task before 1t to decide among
Tia large number OF places that are APP
plying for the school and that many OF
them were offering strong ana valuable
Inducements.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-03

A correspondent OF the New York Sun,
writing from Richmond. says that irflu-
entail Democrats In Virginia were much
surprised to read In the newspapers that
Senator German had expressed the
opinion that Judge Parker, Of New York,
was the most available candidate for the
Democrats to nominate at st. Louis.
THESE Democrats" continues tho cores
pondent, believe that the Old Dominion
Is favorable to Senator Germans candi-
dacy, and they are also Of the opinion
that their neighbors In West Virginia
will stand solldly Mt st. Louis for sena-
tor German"
What ground these Democrats" have
for their faith we do not know II there
Is any considerable sentiment in Virginia
in favor Of German, we have not heard
OF it. 1t has certainly not manifested
itself In the various meetings that have
been held to select delegates to the State
convention. We do not believe that the
convention will instruct for anybody, but
ttere is reason to believe that tho Vir-
ginia delegation In the st. Louis conven-
ton will be overwhelmingly in favor Of
Parker
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-03
BRIDGE WASHED AWAY.
Patterson chafes Under Jail Con-
fnement-Wife Gone Crazy.
Especial to The Tlmes-Dlspatc

Especial to The Times Dispatch.)
BoYDTON. VA, June 1.-The railroad
bridge over Miles's Creek. few miles
west Of the town OF South Hill. on the
Southern Railroad, was washed away
yesterday afternoon, The trains are de-
3, F. Patterson. the ex-railroad con-
tractor. who is here IN jail. charged with
obtaining money under false Pretense .
Is In poor health. Hls close confinement
In steel cage about seven feet square
Ia fearful strain upon his. nervous sys-
tenn. He chafes under prison HE. al
though he Is made rs comfortapla as IS
permissible under the law. His meals
are served from the hotel. ,5O6
He asked Sheriff Beales soon after BIZ
Ing placed In jail II he, would not allow .2,
him the privilege of walking about IN the
prison room in the daytime. as ne was
suffering With indigestion and needed ex-
erclse. The sheriff told him. that as ne
was charged with, q felony his aGcommo-
dhtlons were the best he could give him.
Patterson - perhaps sixty. years o!a.
He has good education and is courteous
to every one. n.
jail II his. wife was Lying. IN q ,, very Y
sad tone OF voice he replied: Yes. she Is
living, but she Is IN the asylum, TX
troubles" he went on to say. were toQ
much for her to bear, and she has 1921
her mind tN