Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-09-14

consin Archaeological society and Saul
| County Historical society met at Dev
lis Lake State Park and unveiled ;
bronze tablet on the big bird mounC
at kirkland. The rain in the earl,
Imorning and threatening during thu
Iday prevented many from attending.
] During the forenoon some climbed
4 the bluffs and others visited in the
] shady grounds. A picnic lunch was
Eserved at noon.
Exercises on the Mound
| Charles E. Brown of Madison, sec
iretary of the Wisconsin Archeologi
! cal society, presided. The main ad
dress of the occasion was made by
| William Dawson of Madison, whose
Iopening words were:
'The company assembled here to-
/ day have come TO pay tribute to a de-
parted race. The history of that race
is as cryptic as the contents of the
mound upon which we stand today
! 1t had no Homer to sing the deeds of
! its departed heroes, no minstrels or
trabadours to harp it's exploits across
lthe world. The origin of the race is
hidden in the mists of oblivion. It
came out of the silences and into the
Isilences it has returned. Looking
around on the noisy inanity of our
imodern world, one loves to reflect on
THAT great empire Of silence in which
the Indian roamed in sublime free
dom. Living close to nature, he i'm
ibibed something Of her grandeur.
Like those German tribes from which
the English nation sprung-he was
/ the free-necked man-roaming the
vast solitudes unfettered and un-
afraid, His was splendid line. He
breathed the free air of a continent.
He personified that liberty of which
men dreamed, and which the found
ers of this nation have tried to real
iZe. There was not an atom of SER
Witty in his being. No conqueror
dependence, and when he died he
died as the sun sets at evening, ex-
piring without tear or lamentations
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He closed with: "The flag that Miss
English will remove from the face of
the tablet is itself a SYMBOL SYM
Dol of a wider bond and brotherhood,
of a more perfect and a vaster union
than that of the Bird Clan. The Bird
Mound symbolizes the sacred ties of
a clan, but that spangled banner SYM
bolizes a fusion of races and clans
the four winds Of heaven. No nobler
symbol of human brotherhood was
ever given the sanction of an earthly
government 1t is the Silken tie of
48 of the greatest commonwealths on
earth bound into one mighty empire
of Maine to the Golden Gate, and from
the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande.
One of these commonWealths is Wis
consin, whose motto is forward
Forward Forever Forward, and while
we take this affectionate retrospect
future-the future whose horizon is
trimmed with hope-hope for the day
when savagery and strife and clans
shall be no more-when all the world
moving in the orbit of love and amity
shall march down the ages to the
ton of a brotherhood that is as wide
as the planet and as strong as the
arm of God; the day of which the
poet dreamed:
"'When the war-drum Lthrobs 40
longer
And the battle flags are furled;
In the Parliament of man,
And the federation of the world +"
The address was most excellent
and strongly given. Mr.. Dawson is a
ready speaker and all were pleased
with his effort
Miss Zero Virginia English unveil-
ed the tablet with the following quo
tation from Crabbe:
"Minu,ely trace mans life; year after
year,
Through all his days let all his deeds
appear,
And then, though some may in that
life be strange,
Yet there appears no vast nor sud-
den change;
The links that bind those various
deeds are seen;
And no mysterious void is left be-
| tween"
F. B. Moody of Madison, member
of the State Conservation commits
sion, told of the work being done by
the state to acquire parks, the effort
extending over a period of about
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