The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-06-09

Al OHST00.
Twelve new species!" he said, with
pride. "Mein own country will gif
me honor for this. Five years spend
! Now / go back home.
II shall not tell you what nickname
they gift me in Oregon" he added.
smiling; but my real name ISIS VOL
fran Won Rittenhofen. Berlin, it wass
last my home. Tell me, you go soon
to Oregon"
That is very possible" answered:
and this time at least / spoke the
truth. I'VE are bound in opposite d.
rections, but If you are sailing for
Europe this spring, you would save
time and gain comfort by startirg
from. New York. 1t would give us
great pleasure if we could welcome
so distinguished a scientist in Wash
ington."
mo, l am not yet distinguished.
Only shall be distinguished when I
have shown my IL new species to
mein own university"
''But it would give me pleasure also
to show you Washington. You should
see also the government of those
backwoodsmen who are crowding out
to Oregon. Would you not like to
travel with me in America so far as
that?"
He shook his head doubtfully. Per
.haps l make mistake to come by the
St. Lawrence? 1t would be shorter to
go by New York? Well, / hat no
7 hiv,1>
But tell me, where did you get that
leetle thing?" he asked me again pres
emily, taking up in his hand the In
dian clasp.
81 traded for it among the Grow In
dians'
you know what it ISIS, eh?''
mo, except that it is Indian made. y
He scanned the round disks care
fully Waltz he exclaimed. Il
show you something's"
He reached for my pencil, drew
toward him piece of paper, taking
from his pocket meantime a bit of
string. Using the latter for a radius,
he drew circle on the piece of paper
Nov look what l do" he said, as
! bent over curiously. See, draw a
straight line through the circle. l di-
vide it in half, so. l divide it in half
once more, and make point. Now l
shorten my string, one-half On each
circle-only half way round on the
opposite sides. So, now, what l got,
Ell? You understand him."
l shook my head. He pointed in
turn to the rude ornamentation in the
shell clasp. l declare that then /
could see resemblance between the
two designs!
"It is curious" I said.
"Mein Colt! it ISIS more than curl
Gus. 1t ISIS wonderful! hat two Anna
zonias collected by my own hands,
and IL species of my own discovery,
yess, in butterflies alone. That iss
much? Listen. 1t ISIS notings! Here
ISIS the discovery"
He took pace or two excitedly,
and came back to thump with his fore
finger on the little desk.
What you see before you ISIS the
sign of the Great Monad! It ISIS
known in China, in Burmah, in all
Asia, in all japan. It iss sign of the
great One, of the great Two In your
hand ISIS the Tab Gook-the Oriental
symbol for life, for sex. Myself, l hat
seen that in Sitka on Chinese brasses;
I hat seen it on Japanese signs, in one
land and in another land. But here
you show it to me made by the hand
of some ignorant aborigine of this con-
tinent! On this continent, where it
did not originate and does not belong!
1t iss a discovery! Science shall hear
of it. 1t iss the link of Asia to Amer
lea. 1t brings me fame!"
He put his hand into a pocket, and
drew it out half filled with gold
pieces and with raw gold in the form
of nuggets, as though he would offer
exchange. waved him back NO."
said /; you are welcome to one of
these disks, if you please. If you
wish, will take one little bit of these
But tell me, where did you find these
pieces of raw gold?'
Those? They are notings 1 recol-
lect me l found these one day up on
the Rogue river, not far from my
cabin. l am pursuing a most beauti-
full moth, such as l hat not in all my
collection. So, fall on a log; skin
me my leg. In the moss find some
= bits of rock. recollect me not where,
but believe it wass somewhere there.
But what find now, here, by a stran-
ger-it iss worth more than gold! My
friend, | thank you, embrace you! l
am favored by fate to meet YOU Go
with you to Washington? Yess, yess,
/ go!"
CHAPTER XVIII.