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Show THE SP a ene, he Anglo-Saxon Chronicle notes the first descent of the Danes upon England. The account states that three shiploads of these marauders landed upon the coast and slew the officers sent out to meet them. For a long time afterwards these invasions went on increasing in frequency and extent till in the latter half of the ninth century the whole country was completely overrun and subjugated by them. In those days great commotions were going on in the countries comprising the Scandinavian peninsulas. These countries were becoming overpopulated and the means of subsistence scanty:and uncertain; under energetic rulers society was becoming more settled and obedience was exacted from chiefs whose wild and turbulent spirits could little brook restraint of any sort; impelled by these conditions vast numbers of Northmen swarmed out from their native haunts to seek pillage and conquest in more favored lands. For several centuries no European country was secure from their attacks. They came not only upon England, but upon Ireland, Scotland and the adjoining islands. They plundered the cities of France, Spain and the countries of the Mediterranean. They planted colonies in Iceland, and crossed the Atlantic to the shores of Greenland and America. But their attacks upon England were the most savage and persistent and of the longest duration. It was ata period when England lay WESTERN places most vulnerable to attack or best suited for defensive operations. Observing the value of a navy, he constructed ships:of larger size, swiftor and steadier than those of the Danes, which he stationed in harbors convenient for the interception of their fleets. By these methods he succeeded in restoring a fair degree of tranquility to England. From these measures of defense Alfred now turned his attention to domestic affairs. The government was in a sad state of demoralization. Laws civil and religious were held in utter contempt. He amended the institutions of his predecessors and adapted them to the new.requirements of the time; and better than all he saw that they were faithfully executed by capable and energetic men. Order and individual security were maintained with a firm and even hand. The grossest ignorance prevailed in England at this period, due in most part to the incessant wars with the Danes. The monasteries, which were then the repositories of learning, had been destroyed and their inmates slain or driven away; the libraries were burned and all traces of culture and refinement wholly. obliterated. Between the Thames and Humber rivers,it has been asserted,there was not a single person who could read or write his own name. Against this mass of ignorance Alfred strove with all the resources at his command. He in- stituted schools for the instruction of WEEKLY. 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City, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and all Nebraska, and Builders. - PIONEER Are being received daily at BETWEEN Denver, a BV go ac” ge > CN Gr’ Contractors GOODS ‘Makes Direct Connections at the feet of these rude invaders that his people. The dearth of learned men Alfred became King of the West Saxons. he supplied with scholars from other At an early age he gave evidence of countries. He translated into English character and ability of a high order, with his own hand the Consolations of and he loved while yet quite young to Boetius, the Pastorals of Pope Gregory, listen to recitals of Saxon poems and the handbook of general history by heroic legends from his mother’s lips. Orosius and the history of the English Into all Later he learned to read the Latin people by the Venerable Bede. authors and acquired from them an ar- these he wove the richness and wisdom It is to this King, dent love for learning and a high and of his own thought. generous enthusiasm in the promotion born in a rude age and surrounded by of his subjects’ welfare and advancement. the most adverse circumstances, we may The beginning of his reign was far from look back as the father of English propitious. Fresh hordes of Danes literature, which has gone on increasing scattered the West Saxons and forced in richness and profusion till it has bethem into submission. To escape their come the glory and admiration of the fury Alfred retreated in disguise to the world. Thus did the efforts of King Alfred free forests andswamps, awaiting a favorable turn in the current of events. Here in his country from the fetters of a foreign company with afew faithful adherents foe and spread some degree of enlightenhe constructed a fort on a little island ment over an ignorant and superstitious amid the swamps of the river Parret, land. The building of ruined towns and from which he made sudden sallies upon edifices, the organization of an army and the unsuspecting Danes wheneyer op- navy, the encouragement given to commerce and internal industry, the foundportunity presented. But these cramped up quarters con- ing of schools, monasteries and univerformed not at all with the enterprising sities, the institution and maintainance spirit of the King. He resolved upon a of beneficent laws for public and private bold and hazardous measure. In the security, all these proclaim his reign asgarb of a wandering minstrel he visited one of the most glorious in all English the Danish camps where his music and history; while the symmetry and goodlively humor gained him ready admit- ness of his character, his constant entance, even to the tent of Guthrum, deavor to promote the welfare of those their.savage leader. He observed the over whom he ruled mark him as the weaknesses of their position, and in the first example of a truly Christian King. of Danes fancied security, the rioting and utter Though fresh incursions lack .of discipline, he saw hope for his troubled. the latter part of his reign, one of them under Hastings being of the distressed country. Returning to the island fortress he, most formidable character, yet he sucsummoned the Saxons to his support, ceeded in repelling them all; and when who responded joyfully and in great amid his labors death came to him, he numbers. He fell upon the Danes at transmitted a comparatively peaceful their most unguarded quarter and over- | and prosperous realm to his successor. But the Danish invasions did not cease whelmed them with the suddenness and fury of his assault. The broken army with Alfred. For long after these barfled to a fortified camp, where they were barian hordes harassed the country with In the early part of the closely besieged, and,driven by want and fire and sword. hunger, they were soon glad to accept. éleventh century they succeeded — in any terms that the victors might offer.. placing a Danish dynasty of four kings of England. With Alfred acted wisely and with clemency. j;upon the throne Edward the Confessor the Saxon line On a sacred promise to settle peaceably in the eastern part of the island, and on | was for a moment restored, only to go Guthrum and twenty of his chiefs re- down in 1066, before the conquering ceiving Christian baptism, they were forces of William, Duke of Normandy. allowed to retire to their appointed From this time onward the Danish in‘homes, where they afterwards served as vasions ceased to play a part in history. a bulwark againt subsequenj invasions —_ of their countrymen. Alfred’s generosity won them as staunch friends, and for 4 OF S. Main St., First Door South of Walker House. GIRLHOOD. SALT LAKE Order Your Winter's Supply Now, Office, corner Main Streets. and Second Telephone 240. South ‘ SS a a Oe Seedsman 2nd Preserver of Fresh Memorial Flowers, 34Q W. 3rd South Street. 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