The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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DOCTORS' DUTIES At ■■PAN***-*'
Must Look fter Prevsntion as ,|fell
Cure of Disease
Not only the engineers, but a'--" the
loctors, *111 have much work to <lo in
-nonaction with the construction ot
:be" Panama caual. The health con-
lltloua in the vicinity are very had,
It would ho difficult to find worse.
The Chagres fever, which is peculiar
to this region—heinK named, indeed,
ifter the river of thnt name-prevails
ronstantly, and is a very serious men-
tee to the lives of men from the.
north I am confident that it ran be
stamped out. but this will he a difficult
well worthy of the efforts of.
the' best medical ability In this cow*
fThc climate itself is not unfavorable
to health. The danger lies in the
swamps on the coast and in the abso-
lute lack of sanitation in the towas
The swamps will have to be drainei
and a civilized sanitary system put
Into operation. This work must
under the direction of a medical man
„f firmness, sound ideas and strong
executive ability. Though the man-
ual labor on the canal will be done
by acclimated natives, a large number
:if men from the United States will
t)f. employed as superintendents for
other work requiring skill and edu
cation.
Many young American civil and me
rhanlcal engineers are looking "
Panama for opportunities, and there
Will bo places for a considerable pro-
portion of those who want them The
lives of these men are too valuable to
be sacrificed to unhealthful conditions
tl,at can be remedied. Some of the
first and most important undertak
ings in the canal country must
prosecuted by physicians-Success
OUR COAST LIGHTS
The Ward of King Canute
A Romanca of the Danish Conquest.
By OTTILIE
A. I II IFNCRANTZ. author <>' The Thf'" °' Licl LuC''V
MCCLU RG k CO
1)9
There Are 9,000 Signal Lights Along
American Coasis
There are 9,000 burning lights and
signals stretched along the American
coasts forming a perfect link, so thai
the navigator never need be beyond
sight of one of the beacons. One Ilions-
anil of these are located along the
Atlantic coast, 1,500 are scattered
along the rivers and inland water-
ways 500 on the Great Lakes and 200
on the Pacific coast. Of the grand
total including light houses of differ-
ent classes, buoys, beacons and dan
get- signals. 3.000 are lighted, giving
forth their warnings at night time. Ot
these a score or more throw a li^ara
of 100,000 candle power. To maintai*
the light house service a corps of
over 4,000 men is constantly employed
and a fleet of more than fifty vessels
service in the world exceeds our
CHAPTER V.
The Training of Fridtjof the Page.
Who that has youth and a healthy
body Is not made a new being by a
night or dreamless slumber? \\ ak
cned by the sun's caress, to the morn-
ing song of blowing trees, Randalin
faced her future as became the kins-
woman of warriors.
The tent was empty, though scat-
tered furs along the benches showed
where sleepers might have rested.
But from outside, a clatter of hurry-
ing feet and excited voices broke sud-
denly upon her. Did it mean a battle?
She sat up, straining eye and ear.
The jubilant voices shouted greetings
that iust missed being intelligible.
While she was trying to unravel it
all. one pair of the hurrying feet
halted before the entrance! After a
muttered word with the sentinel, they
came on and brought the son of Lod-
brok into view.
The girl started up with a gasp of
1 alarm, then made the strange dis-
covery that she was no longer afraid
of him. Though he showed against
the linen wall as brawny and big of
jowl as he had loomed up the night
before, she found herself moved only
to dislike. What had been the matter
last night? Understanding nothing
of the clairvoyant power of sharpened
nerves, she set it down to cowardice,
and put on an extra swagger now as
her eye met his.
Rothgar surveyed the sprig of defl
ance with no more than a perfunc-
tory interest.
It seems that you are the son of
Frode the Dane," he said in his heavy
voice. "Frode was a mighty raven-
feeder; for liis sake 1 am goipg to
support you until you citn go well on
your legs. Have you had anything to
eat?"
As she shook her head, Randalin s
heart rather softened toward him.
It hardened again when the
But
from a new direction. She leaped to
meet It, and for the next minute was
kept turning, twis.lng. dodging, till
her breath began to come in gasps,
and her exhausted hand to relax its
hold. Her weapon was almost falling
from it by the time the son of 1-od-
brok lowered his point. Imitating
him, she stood leaning on her sword,
making futile gasps after her lost
breath.
A grin slowly wrinkled his face as
he watched her.
"It appears that one who is no big-
ger around than a willow twig may be
capable of a berserk rage," he said.
"Do you not feel that you are wound-
ed?" . .
Following his eyes down to her
hand, she found blood trickling from
her sleeve. Oh, and pain! Now that
she had wakened to it—pain! prick-
ing, stinging, stabbing. Dropping her
;ord, she caught at her wrist.
"How did it happen? 1 thought a
pin had pricked me!"
Roaring with laughter, he caught
her under the arms and tossed her in
the air.
"A pin!" he shouted. "A pin! That
is Frode himself! A beard on your
chin, and you also will be a feeder
of wolves! For that you shall have a
share in the battle. 1 swear it by the
hilt of the Hanger!"
For a moment the girl forgot her
wound and hung limp in the great
hands. "The battle?" she gasped.
—I fight?"
Roaring afresh, the Jotun gave her
another jubilant toss. "You bluster-
ing field-mouse! Showing your teeth
already? Why knows? If you meet
a blind Englishman without a wea-
pon, you may even kill him. Here,
he tumbled her roughly to the ground,
"tie up your pin scratch and then come
after me. I must go up yonder to
Canute, under the oak tree." Putting
out one great hand, he patted her soft
curls as though she were some shaggy
C anut
gleamil
with boj
plain I
began to
Arrow
and one
aulverlng
was
"Craft,
Why spill so much
Listen to Edric the Gain
ess and efficiency. A
the
No BO
own in completenei
modern American lighthouse of
first class costs between *100,000 and
$200,000. and of this amount
third is spent for the electric light
and apparatus alone. Beside one of
them Egyptian Canopus or Rhode
"perfect Idol, with profulgent brows,
whose rays streamed down the purple
Koas to Mlzraim. would shine as tapers
in the Mediterranean niglit, with no
plafcrf among the seven wonders of the
world, and hardly worth noticing.
Kansas City Journal.
Under the caption, "The Union Pa
cific Railroad and Louisiana Terri
tory," the new World's Fair folder is-
sued by the advertising department of
the Union Pacific, which has attracted
such general attention, recites these
interesting facta:
-While the construction of the
Union Pacific Railroad, Its trials and
triumphs, are a part of the history of
the United States, the important part
played by this railroad in the develop-
ment of the Louisiana Purchase can
hardly be estimated. In the building
up of this vast domain it has been one
of the chief factors.
One hundred years ago the popuia^
Hon of the region was estimated at
20 000. Up to the Inception of the
Union Pacific (In 1860) it bad In
creased to 3,233.529. In 1900 It num-
bered over 13.000,000 of inhabitants,
In this wonderful growth, with its stir
pendous increase In all the many-sided
phases of commercial, material and
intellectual prosperity, the Union Pa
cific—as a glance at the map will
show—has had a conspicuous share
It has opened vast regions offertUe
country to settlers, and brought grea
areas of an unknown and unproduc-
tive wilderness into close communion
with metropolitan centers and mar-
kets. Thriving cities, towns and ham-
lets, through its efforts, have sprung
up In every direction.
It may be of interest to know that
the total number of manufacturing
plants, and the value of their outputs
combined with that of the national
products as reported in the census or
1900. give an aggregate production for
the Louisiana region of $3,500,000,000
annually, or 223 times the original pur-
chase price. The same census reports
(lllOOi also show the total population
to he 13.343,255, of which 8,303,096 in-
habit ants are living in the states and
territories reached by the Union Pa-
cific. On the 1900 census figures, it Is
estimated that the true wealth of the
Louisiana purchase can be stated at
about $13,051,868,359. of which $9,360,-
;<87 js represented in the states
reached by this great railroad."
Then do not
for that is the stuff
meTi made of."-Benjamin Franklin.
A bulletin" issued by the
bureau gives the total number of em-
nlovees In the executive civil
of the United States as 150,583. These
figures Include only those employees
, ho are required to take an examln
at'on About 85,000 postmasters and
employees of small postofflces are ex
eluded as are about 15,000 employees
with 'small salaries, in the fteld
branches of the war department,
about 10,000 employees at navy ytrua,
who a.e classified, but appointed un-
der navy regulations, and a few thous-
and in olliw liar Is of the service,
Randalin rode In a dream. The son
o- i odbi H was beside her, singing as
ho wcttt. and tossing his gr-.at battle-
a*9 in th- air. to catch it again by
the har in front of-them rode
,e King; In his hand his
lilade, whose thin edge he
and again .on, a lock of
g hair, while he laughed
,h delight.
the bowmen's faces were
re them; then suddenly it
ail—"the hail of the string."
One hissed by the girl's ear,
it her cloak, to hang there
with Impotent fury. The
man oil 1 er right made a terrible gur-
gling soe id and put up his hand to
tear a shift from his throat. Would
they be Main before—Canute vose in
liis stirrups with a great shout. The
horns echoed It; the trot became a
gallop, and the gallop a run.
into the very heart of the hail-cloud.
How the stones rattled on the armor!
And hissed! There! a m".n
death-doomed: he was falling.
To the side of the young leader,
Thorkel the Tall was spurring, bend-
ing urgently from his saddle.
my King! Craft!
good blood?
er "
Canute's furious curse cut him short,
To the Troll with your craft! Swords
shall make us, or swords shall mar
us. Use your blade, or I will sheathe
it in you. .
Only the wind that took It from his
lips heard the Tall One's answer; for
at that moment his horse reared and
sheered away before a spear-prick,
and into the rift a handful of English
rushed with shouts of triumph
There were no more than half-a-
dozen of them, and all were on foot,
the two whose gold-hilted swords pro-
claimed their nobility of birth sharing
the lot of their lesser comrades, ac-
cording to the old Saxon war-custom,
but it needed not the daring of the at-
tack to mark them as the very f.ower
of English chivalry. The young no-
ble, who hovered around his chief
much as Rothgar circled about Canute,
would have been lordly in a serf s tu-
I nic- and the leader's royal bearing
I distinguished him even more than bis
mighty frame.
At the sight of him Rothgar uttered
a great cry of "Edmund!" and moved
forward, swinging his uplifted
But the Ironside caught it oi
shield and delivered a sword-thrust in
return that dropped the Dane's arm
by his side. AS it fell, Rothgar s left
hand plucked forth his blade, but the
English king had pressed him toward
his master.
Canute's weapon had need to dart
like a northern light. The noble and
one of the soldiers had forced their.
way to the side from which Thorke
had been riven, and a third threatened
him from the rear. Three blades stab-
bing at him as with one motion.
It was a strange thing that saved
him—Randalin could explain it least
of all. But in a lightning flash it
was burnt into lier mind that, while
her king's sword was
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She was kept turning, twisting, dodging, till her breath began to come ..
gasps.
;hrails had brought the food, and he dog. then hurried out to his chief.
iat down and begun to share it. His
hick lips, his heavy breathing—bah.
ie was revolting! Before she had fin-
shed the meal she had come to the
•onclusion that she hated him.
As he swallowed his last mouthful
if food, Rothgar said abruptly. "Ca-
uite has put your training into my
jands. It is his will that 1 find out
iow much skill you have with weap-
>ns Can you handle a sword.
Randalin hesitated, uncertain how
•ar her idle play at fencing with her
arother would bear her out. I tUinU
rou will find my skill slight. 1 have
1 have grown so fast that I lack
ttrength in my arms. And I have not
.xercised myself as much as I should
aave done."
"It is in my mind that you have
been a lazy cub," the warrior pro-
wunced deliberate sentence as lie
,et down liis goblet. "It is easily seen
•hat Frode has been over-gentle with
ron. Stand forth and show what your
3kin is worth. This sword will not be
heavy." Selecting the smallest of
the Jeweled blades upon the floor, he
thrust it Into her hands.
It Is good to have in one s veins the
liquid fire of the North, blood to which
he presence of peril is like the touch
of the lee King to water. At the ftrst
nash ol' the blades, strange tingling
Arcs began to flash through Randalin
then a hardness that burnt
The first pass, her
"Dost thou love life?
squander time.
and
while it froze.
hands bail parried seemingly by their
times her
ly, and deftly
own Instinct; now she Aung back er
tumbling curls and P^eeded'ogve
those hands the aid of her e> es. Three
blade met Rothgar's square-
turned it aside. The
big warrior gave a grunt of approval
•md tried a more complicated pass.
Her backward leap, the sudden dou-
bling of her body, and the excited
clawing <>f her free hand, were not
graceful swordsmanship, certainly,
but her steel was in the
The next instant, she even drew a lit
tie clink from one of the Jotun s hi -
ver buttons.
As she was recovering herself, she
felt something like a pin prick her
wrist; and she wondered vafu0J
what brooch.had become unfastened,
lint she gtu£u scant attention, for
ihe bis blade w.t threatening her
It was a respite to be alone, and she
accepted it gratefully. But it was only
a respite; she never for a moment
lost sight of that. The battle must
be faced, and faced boldly. One word
of reluctance would be the surest be-
trayal of her secret. A betrayal meant
Rothgar! She shivered as she fancied
she still felt his greasy touch upon
her hair. To become his property
that he might even kiss! With a gasp
of relief, she turned her thoughts
back to the battle.
None too soon; above the outside
din a horn clarioned, loud and clear.
Through the hush that followed could
be heard the voice of Canute, assign-
ing their positions to the different
bands.
"I and my kinsman. Ulf Jarl, shall
be foremost. To the right of my stand-
ard Edric Jarl shall stand, and the
men with whom he joined us. He
shall have another standard. To the
left of my bodyguard shall stand the
men 'of Eric of Norway. Friends and
kinsmen shall stand together. There
each will defentl the other best."
Then Rothgar's harsh voice sounded,
shouting her name—Fridtjof's name.
Giving her scarf a hasty twint about
her arm. she knotted it with her teeth;
and seizing the sword In her little
brown hand clotted with her own
blood, she ran out into the tumult.
Shrill and clear from the opposite
hills came the notes of the English
horns, as down the green slope moved
the ranks of English bowmen. The
hum of Danish voices sank in a
breathless hush. Down the line came
the young King upon his white war-
horse, clad for the battle as for a
feast. The sun at noonday 1s not
more fiercely bright than was his
face. His long locks flowed behind
him on the wind like tongues of yel-
low flame; and like northern lights in
a blue northern sky, the leader's fire
flashed In his eyes. As he came, he
was calling out terrible reminders;
words that were to the ears of his
champing host what the smell of blood
is to the nostrils of wolves.
His answer was the bursting roar
of the Danish battle-cry. Like an ava-
lanche loosed from its moorings, they
F'4i l>t down the hillside upon the Eng-
lish bowmen. From that moment,
.the two in front of him. the one be
hind was going to deal him his death
\nd even as she thought it. she found
that she bad thrown herself across her
horse's neck and thrust out her sword
arm—out with the force and fienzy
and down into the shoulder of the
Englishman. In a kind of dazed won-
der she saw his blade fall from his
grasp and his eyes roll up at her, as
he staggered backward.
Canute laughed out. "Well done,
Berserker!" and redoubled his play
against those before him
A turn of his wrist disarmed the
soldier, and his point touched the
voting noble's breast; but before 1he
could lunge, the mighty figure r,f Ed-
mund rose close at hand, his blade
heaved high above his head.
(To be continued.)
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■Then chanting, dancing, and (lie
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