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Show BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY. William Tell, a cousin of the late Wat Tyler and half brother of the celebrated Wat T'ell, was born in troubulous times. Comparatively little is known of Toll's early life, except that almost from infancy he was a remarkable archer. It is said that when he reached the age of 10 he celebrated by accumulating accumu-lating a reasonably respectable load and shooting out every light in the village, as they shone through the rain and the mist. Whatever may be said against our hero, he was a true patriot and a staunch union sympathizer. sympa-thizer. The fact remains, however, that he would never have attained any considerable prominence had it not been for a remarkable exhibition of nerve and skill which he gave one afternoon at a Schuetzenfest. One of his enemies, perceiving that he had partaken too freely of the nut-brown ale, for which his native village was famous, stumped him to shoot an apple off his son's head. "Sh shure!" muttered Tell; "make it (hie) a gra grape, gol darn ye!" "" It is a singular fact that all the credit for this episode has come down through the ages piled upon the head of William Tell. His son, who, it would seem to the casual observer, took a few chances himself, has never been inscribed on the scroll of fame, nor the cover of a cigar box. Anyhow, Bill hit the apple instead of the son's right eye, and as the incident is closed, there is no use of taking from him that meed of prasio which is his due. Tell also won considerable fame as a writer of popular songs and yodels, many of which are still yelped by Tyrolean quartets in the music halls throughout our broad land. His finished ballad, "I'd Like to Shoot the Lovelight From Your Eye," he presented to Adellna Patti. Shortly after the apple incident Tell was seized by a tyrant named Hank Gessler, and sent to the county jail, where he remained during the balance bal-ance of his story life. He left a large family to mourn his departure and freeze onto his old line insurance, and an apple experience more thrilling than that of our friend Adam. Milwaukee Sentinel. |