Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-04

the war-like Cimbri, tribe which for
II years kept Rome in a state of panic,
and which was the first Germanlc host
to make it's war across the barrier of
the Alps into northern Italy, anticipat-
ing the descent of the Visigoths by five
centuries. The Cimbri came within
the purview of recorded history in ll3
B. c., when, after having been driven
from their northern home, supposedly
by North sea foundations and having
made their way southwark through the
German forests, they inflicted a signal
defeat upon a Roman aSmy under
Consul Papirius Carlo, at Noreia. In
stead of following up their success in
TO Italy, the yiCtorS pushed westward
into the Rhine valley. Four years lat
er, however, they practically annlhl-
lated the Romans under Marius Junius
Silanus on the field Arausio, where
sc, 900 troops were slain. This terrible
reverse sent a tremor or terror
through the lawmakers on the Capito-
line Hill, and the constitution was set
aside in order that Marius, fresh from
his triupmhs on African battlefields,
might be invested with consular pow
ers for five years. He was deemed the
man of the hour and the only general
who could turn back the tide of the
barbarians that had debouched from
Cimbri Chersonese, the name given to
Jutland. While this tribe poured over
the Alps, driving the forces OF Catul-
lus before it across the Adige and the
Pc, Marius administered a crushing
defeat at Aquae SeXtiae in Gaul TO the
Cimbris' companions in arms, the Teu-
tones. The consul then rushed back
across the Alps and at Campi Raudii,
near Verceli, where a century earlier
II, l. hi Gv-rf yf.fr IN
Italian soil, the invaders were utterly
annihilated, while the women slew
themselves and their children in pref
erence to being borne to Rome in slav-
cry.
"Jutlands agricultural poverty dates
from the beginning of the sixteenth
century, by which time the peninsula
had been almost completely denuded
of its forests. 1t was not until 1866,
two years after Denmark had been
forced to relinquish Schleswig- Hol-
stein to Prussia and Austria, that the
Danish people began an appraisal of
the latest agricultural possibilities Of
their remaining domain to see if by
cultivation they could compensate for
their territorial losses. Colonel f.
Dalgas, an engineer officer of the Dan
ish army, was the leading spirit in the
organization of the Danish Heath So
ciety, which began to plant trees
throughout the peninsula, a movement
which is still going forward and which
has proved to be the salvation of the
land. Mountain frs were first plant
ed, and these were succeeded by red
spruce from America These trees
serve as a living barrier against the
fierce sand-driving gales from the
North sea. The interior of the PENN
sula is fast losing its barren aspect,
more than $500 square miles of heath
having been redeemed by afforesta-
ton. Oats. barley, beet-roots and rye
are now grown profitably, cattle and
sheep find good pasturage, and the
I forests TEEN with deer and wood pig
cons. Typical of the growth of towns
/ in this rejuveDated area is Herring, a
| settlement of 40 souls in 1866 and now
thriving community with a popula-
| ton of 5000.
! "Jutland has a familiar ring in the
ear of every school boy, for he remem-
| bers that the Angles and the Jutes
were among the first Germanic peoples
! to emigrate from the shore of the Bal
| tic and settle in Britain"