Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-09-21
I BITS OF HISTORY.
: By A. w. Macy.
A Young Kings Dream.

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dil Otho ILL.,, king of Germany and
Holy Roman emperor. Never perhaps
did IL king fail more utterly to realize
his ambitions. Born in $50, he came
L" his throne in a95. IL more boy; yet
such were his intellectual attachments
that his generation called him the Won
de: of the world. Intensely religious,
he believed himself divinely commits
stoned to do a great work for human
ity. He had Il magnificent scheme for
making Rome the ccnter OF Il new uni
vefs:l empire with all the other king
doms OF the earth tributary to it. He
reNeicd in the giories of the past and it
WAS the dream OF his young life to re-
store them i'm all their magnificence.
ON ms last journey to- Rome he opened
the tomb of Cllarlemange, at Alx-la-
Chapelle, and gaZed upon the long dead
monarch, sitting on his marble throne.
In less than two Years from that time
they brought his w body back across
the Alps and laid it near that of the
great emperor. He did at 22, on the
Very threshold of manhood. his dreams
unfulfillcd.
Arctic Adventures of the Ship Resolute
In 1915 Sir John Franklin went in
search of a northwest passage with
two ships and 16S men. All were lost
IN the frozen regions OF the north.
Many expeditions were sent in search
or the lost explorers. In 1852 Sir Ed
ward Belcher conducted such an eN-
petition With Ave ships under his com
mand. All five of the vessels became
ice bound and We're finally abandoned.
In 1880 the captain of an American
whaling vessel sighted u strange look
ing ship In Davis strait. No signals
were put out or answered, and no crew
was visible. The strange craft was
boarded and was found to be the Reso-
lutte. n of the five ships that had been
a~bandoned by Sir Edward and his
crew. In some way it had escape it's
icy bonds and had drifted southwark
more than 1000 miles i'm the 474 days
scovery. Some things on board had
peen damaged by water. otherwise the
snip was i'm fairly good condition. By
"a resolution OF congress $40 600 was
spent i'm putting the vessel in first
CLASS shape. and 1T was then returned
To the British overnmen with tho
compliments of the American people.
An Invasion That Did Not Take Place.
IN 1886 the young king of France,
Charles WI, was persuaded by his
uncles, of whom he had a good supply.
TO invade England. and an army of 40
ooo inen. was assembled i'm Flanders for
made for the expedition. Every SOL
dier provided himself with a pillard, or
hlfed man to go along and collect plun-
der for him.. An enormous tent was
constructed. which it would require 72
vessels to transport in sections across
the channel. Just what this tent was
for is not quite clear. When all was
ready for the grand start it was found
that h youthful king was drunk.
When ne sobered up he decided to wait
TOR the ~arrivalsof one of his uncles. BY
the Tune the uncle arrived the king had
IN an OndL io nnfr1 --l
TO make the invasion after all. The
army disbanded and the stores which
had been collected We're p%lundered. The
boats upon which the parts of the great
tent had been loaded got away from
their mornings and drifted into the
mouth OF the Thames. The English
seized them. and found the great tent.
useful in Il variety of ways.
When Chinese Women Went to War.
About 1850 a Chinaman at. Marking
named Hungsewtsiuen founded "a So
ciety which he called Cody Worship
ers." i'm opposition to Confucianism, the
state religion. 1t soon came into colli-
sion with the imperial authorities, and
the uprising became known as the
TAPPING rebellion. The most peculiar
thing about it was, the women were
as active as the men in the military
operations. 1t is said that a large army
OF women was raised and formed into
brigades of 5000 women each, with
female officers. OF each brigade 100 o
We're picked women INC drilled in gar
rison duty. The rest were compelled
to do the drudgery, as building breast
works. digging trenches. erecting bat
teries. etc. The rebels held the city of
Marking till 1864, with Hungsewitsiuen.
called the Heavenly King" as ruler.
The rebellion was finally suppressed by
the imperial authorities, and it had a
tragic ending. The Heavenly King
persisted by his own hands amid the
blazing ruins of the palace he had oc-
cupied for II years.
A Mad Queen.
One Of the most pathetic characters
In history Is Juana, daughter of Ferd-
inand n Isabella. Her father was
king of Aragon and her mother queen
of CASTLE. She was the third child and
the second daughter. but by the deaths
of her older brother and sister she be-
came heir to the CASTLE throne. She
was married to Archduke Philip. son
of Emperor Macmillan of Austria. In
her young womanhood she became
mentally unbalanced and was known
as LA Local. The Mad. Her mother
died in 1904. and she became queen of
CASTLE. Owing to her mental incapa-
city. her husband exercised the royal
power n administered the affairs Of
the Kingdom. He died two years later
n she is said to have kept watch
over his coffin for many days in the
belief that he would return to life.
Shortly afterward she was placed in
the castle of Tordesillas, and never
knew liberty again. though she sur
viNed nearly SO years. Notwithstand-
as a mother queen: for two Of her sons
became HOly Roman emnerors nrn