The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1937, Page 10

NG CAPTURED WISBY, THE GREAT Ty 1S Avi DEMANDED THAT THE TOWNSFOLK FILL THEM WITH GOLD TO THE BRIM BY A CERTAIN TIME OR HE WOULD LAY THE WHOLE CITY IN ASHES . ITTER, IMPOVERISHED, MOURN - ING THEIR READ, THE PEOPLE OF WISBY BLAMED THEIR MISFORTUNE! ONTHE MAIDEN WHO HAD UNWIT- TINGLY HARBORED VALDEMAR. WHEN HE HAD SECRETLY VISITED THETOWN AS A SPY ............... ouLp You BEUEVE IT-—¢ How THE cusTom ofF RAISING THE RIGHT HAND WHEN TAKING AN OATH ORIGINATED. In 7HE COuRTs IN MEDIAEVAL FrRANCE A WITNESS WAS REQUIRED BY LAW TO RAISE HIS RIGHT HAND TO SIGNIFY THAT HE PLEDGED HIS HAND THAT NE WwOULD /i TELL THE TRUTH =~==== - & IF HIS TESTIMONY 7 WAS PROVEN, FALSE-, THE i WITNESS WAS SEIZED ) =) [ . $o0AL ETIQUETTE was u'sgsu 3 1840) ENGLISH DANDY AND ARBITER OF ION BRUMMELL ISSUED INVITATIONS TO PARMES CONDUCT PRINTEY ETTE’ WITH RULES FOR ON THE BACK *THE WORD ~ AND HIS RIGHT \ ceid \j ITSELF IS MERELY FRENCH FOR “TICKET - FRIGHTENED MERCHANTS AND TOWNSPEOPLE EMPTIED THEIR & METAL POURED: | INTO THE HUGE VESSELS, BUT DESPITE WiSBYS 5§ GREAT WEALTH T WAS FEARED THEQE WouLD NOT BE ENOUGH GOLD TO MEET THE INVADERYS BEULIEVING HER GUILTY OF THE BASESY TREACHERY, THE INFURI- ATED CITIZENS VENTED THEIR WRATH ON THE UNFORTUNATE GIRL ,WHOM THEY DOOMEP TO Di BuT AT LAST THE TUBS WERE FILED, AND VALDEMAR IN TRIUMPH SET SAIL FOR DENMARK WITH WIS IMMENSE BOOTY. THIS CRUEL BLOW RUINED WISBY, AND THE CITY NEVER REGAINED ITS FORMER PRO OF THE GIRL WAITED UNTIL AFTER DARK WHEN THE SPOT ED, MADE A smaLL RELEASED THE Topay, SHOULD YOU VISIT WISBY, YOU MAY SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE MAIDEN WAS ENTOMBED . BurT, IF YOU PREFER TO BELIEVE A LOCAL LEGEND,AS 1 DO, THE SEALED NICHE CONTAINS NO GHASTLY REMINDER OF A CRUEL AGE -+ @0 a5 NOT HEARD OF THE” RoBERT Elee’ CELEBRATED IN SONG AND STORY AS THE SPEED CHAMPION OF OLD MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS > THE WiIGH SPOT OF THE “LEE'S COLORFUL CAREER WAS HER FAMOUS RACE WITH THE “NATCHEZ® IN 1870 UP THE MISSISSIPPI AGAINST THE CURRENT FROM NEW ORLEANS TO ST, Louis, WHICH THE LEE “WON IN THE TIME OF THREE DAYS, EIGHTEEN HOURS AND THIRTY MINUTES .. ...