The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1937, Page 15

B H{16HLIGHTS of HISTORY 8y JCarou MANSFIELD. ‘AHLIUS HAD A SON WHOM HE LOVED DEARLY. THE BOY, PROUD OF HIS FATHER , AND WISHING TO WIN LIKE FAME FOR HIMSELF, FOOLISHLY RESOLVED TO DUPLICATE HIS PARENTS EXPLOIT REGARDLESS OF THE CONSEQUENCES .............. INCIDENTS WAS THE SINKING In 1S YOUTH MANLIUS WON RENOWN 4 BY VANQUISHING A GALLIC CHAMPION | WHO HAD CHALLENGED ANY MAN IN THE ROMAN ARMY TO SINGLE COMBAT D But yeArs LATER WHEN MAN- LIUS HAD BECOME CONSUL OF ROME, HE DECIDED THAT SUGH DUELS WERE MERELY VAIN-GLORIOUS AND BAD FOR THE DISCIPLINE OF THE ARMY, AND FORBADE THEM ON PENALTY OF DEATH .. . ... HENCEFORTH HE WAS KNOWN @ RA4sHLY THE BOy CHALLENGEP A CHAMPION OF THE- LATINS (A TERM THEN CONFINED TO THE PEOPLE OF LATIUM ) TO MOQTAL COMBAT ANP SLEW WM - ““D/HEN THIS DUEL GRIEFJTRICKEN AS ManLIUS TORQUATUS HAD SPARED 15 OWN SON WHILE CONDEMNING THOSE OF OTHER, MEN TO DEATH, MANLIUS PROMPT- LY TURNED +15 BOY OVER TO THE RELUCTANT LICTORS FOR IMME - WHEN HLS BELOVED SON WAS BROUGHT BEFORE HIM FOR JUDG- * MENT, BUT THOUGH HIS HEART WAS BROKEN HE DID INHIS DUTY OF THE AMERICAN WHALER ESSE—X OF NANTUCKET BY A GREAT WHALE N SOUTH PACIFIC IN 1819 ... How THE ENGLISH LONGBOWMEN \WON TME GREAT BATTLE- OF CRECY - Every ARCHER WENT, INTO THE BATTLE - e “AUD, RE ' 4G A HAMMER AND TWO LONG WOODEN STAKES AREPERTION OF AR SHARPENED AT BOTH ENDYS ... THE STAKES WERE RENDITION OR SONG, THEY GENERALLY DRIVEN INTO THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE FORM A BR1 UINE OF ARCHERS YO OF “SPEARS " THATY EFFECTUALLY CHARGES OF THE FRENCH MOUNTED KNI -, R oo SHOUT “ENCORE " whitCH 1S FRENCH FOR. AGAIN" - HOWEVER, THE FRENCH THEM- SELVES DO NOT USE THE WOR BTHIS WAY BUT AT, IS (- TWrCE ) NOT FALTER. RoMAN WAR GALLEY OF THE: DAYS OF THE WARS WITH CARTHAGE; EY HAVING THREE * A TRIREME, A GALLE BANKS OF OARS , THE GREAT SHIP PLOWED RIS VIS I e s ROWING BENCHES, SWAYED BACK AND FORTH AT THE CARYS IN TIME WITH THE STEADY POUNDING OF THE HORTATOR ,WHO \WITH MALLETS ON A SDUNDING BOARP, BEAT MONOTONOUS CADENCE OF THE STROKE: