The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1937, Page 10

HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY N THE 14™ CENTURY THE SEAPORT OF WISBY, SITUATED ON THE SWEDISH ISLAND OF GOTLAND IN THE BALTIC SEA, WAS ONE OF THE RICHEST CITIES IN CUROPE. 175 STRATEGIC LOCATION MADE IT A GREAT (OMMERCIAL CENTER AND A CLEARING HOUSE FOR THE PRODUCTS OF ALL THE COUNTRIES BORDERING ON THE BALTIC ... IN THE VEAR 136] VALDEMAR ATTCRDAG , THE WARLIKE KING OF DENMARIK, ANGERED BY THE GROWING POWER OF THE | EAGUE- IN THE BALTIC AND ENGAGED IN A QUARREL WITH THE SWEDES, SOUGHT AN OPPORTU- NITY TO MAKE HIMSELF MASTER OF WASBY AND ITS RICHES .. S ) A Man OF GREAT DARING AND AUDACITY, THE DANISH KING RESOLVED 1O GO SECRETLY AND ALONE TO WISBY TO SPY UPON THE PLACE AND MAKE UP A PLAN OF ATTACK A AR \VISBY WAS THE PRINCIPAL TRADING STATION OF THE FAMOUYS HANSEATIC LEAGUE N THE BALTIC AND ITf HARBOR WAS ALwWAYS CROWPDED WITH SHIPS BEARING CARGOES FROM MANY LANDS NEVER DREAMING WHO THE HANDSOME STRANGER QEALLY WAS, THE LOVE - STRUCK GIRL SHOWED HIM ALL THE SIGHTS OF THE TOWN AND TALKEP FREELY OF ITS GREAT WEALTH - AND THE WEAKNESS OF (TS DEFENSES. VALDEMAR TOOK PASSAGE ABOARD A GERQMAN TRADING VESSEL BOUND FOR GOTLAND. REACHING WISBY, HE BOLDLY WENT ASHORE AND STROLLED, UNSUSPECTED, AROUND IN THE TOWN VALDEMAR MET A FLAXEN-HAIRED BEAUTY, WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH YHE TALL , DISTINGUISHED - LOOKING “MERQCHANT” AT FIRST SIGHT .. ... @ :2vnG LEARNED ALL HE WisSLED TO KNOW, VALDEMAR BADE THE MAIDEN FAREWELL AND SAILED Away, PROMPSING TO RETURN ... ... 70 BE CONTINUED -1 MEDICI WAS THE- MOTHER oF THREE- KINGS oF FRANCE-, ..., Francis I, CHARLES X AND HENRY IIL TRADING JUNK oON ONE OF THE: GREAT RIVERS OF CHINA .............. THE BOAT IS A FLOATING STORE AND A HOME FOR THE OWNER AND HIS FAMILY AS WELL -~ NOTE THE MATTING SAIL , THE LANTERNS AND THE SPINNING PRAYER WEEL ................. & THE FAMILIAR BATM SPONGE- IS THE SOFT, ELASTIC, MANY-CELLED SKELETON OF THIS MARINE CREATURE-, @ e winTen: TIME ANCIENT GERMANIC BARBARIANS USED THEIR BIG SHIELDS AS SLEPS ~/ e Sttt bt e