Show s 1 5 9 k t W SS 11 1 1 I 1 i I 1 e ai IR f id 17 leeland leela pd gd teo iceland land belles belies its b chilly name every no now and then thell for years its lava plows gave it an equa equatorial reputation find and now its earthquakes are performing a like service the danish colo liiste are art an extremely independent class and alad no cry for help has come fro ajom m them althou although h the damage by the september shocks may be estimated at several million dollars dolia M the farms destroyed number well over and few buildings of reykjavik the capit capital 11 of f abis eutima thule of the ancients escaped some injury but these iceland icelander rb b while bile they dont mind the ordin ordinary arv earthquakes have arve a rare respect for such as shook them M U 1 N I 1 I 1 I 1 21 if iiii ea annually ann nally and al over or half a mn mil lion sheep six million pounds of codfish and pounds of eiderdown eider down exported last year give a fair idea of the industries indu atries of the country vegetables and grain which can ripen quick make maae up the only planted crops for the summers though warm are very fact almost all the breadstuffs breadstuff bread stuffs Ei used are imported so is the wood for trees are a rarity there them but for the student of geology and mineralogy a town of iceland is intensely interesting though full of anz noya noy aces ances during the past year however a society was formed at reykjavik the purpose of which is to give the prospective traveler all the information be needs to pierce as deeply into the interior as po possible sible the scenery is at times entrancing although the absence of woodlands gives the land generally a naked and rugged appearance in the neighborhood of the niagara the be traveler finds himself in constant wonderment at I 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 x I 1 I 1 I 1 iw an 0 1 I 1 1 7 V I 1 L z b it I 1 I 1 ai 1 44 F i r 1 V 16 I 1 1 11 1 4 r 11 4 0 I 1 to Is I 1 ia p P I 1 aw 4 I 1 iva 6 tho ali the valley vailey where e the national assemblies of iceland were Vor formerly merly held up this month in fact it is years since the little country has had anything to equal it but as for outside did aid it would take a series of such euch earthquakes to mug th them m to seek it they are peculiarly hardy and exceedingly cee intelligent in fact education ti on is with them of such importance that where distances make it impossible for or children to attend school the mountain is brought to mohammed in other words the ischo school ol or rather the itinerant teacher comes bome to them almost every parish if it is any distance from the coast towns has a traveling 1 gogue who as a ule rule 1 simply directs the educational work in each household lays la s out the course coune of study and leaves the actual work of hearing lessons and of elucidating problems to the parents it is a rare treat to go into the home 0 of f one of abe these e iceland fari f armor ur famili s and during the long ions winter evening watch the educational work as it progresses gr esses the parish priest pries 1 Ic lc elanders elander have been lutherans Luth erans since may perhaps be on his hi 11 monthly ly visit and this means not alone eon consolation 01 for the soul but a rigid examination of the younger ones in their studies at the age of fourteen comes the mirial examination and no child can be confirmed conter ud until this has bas been pas parsed sed education for the farming classes cla SQ aels ends at this point but for the ambitious there are the hi high gh scho schools ils in various parts of the country the school l of philosophy 6 ophy and d la n gua at iteva reykjavik and for many there is the university at copenhagen Copen bagen for no do inconsiderable sid erable proportion of tile hili high school their curriculum of studies pupils end up in the danish capital when they return they become the leaders in tile the political contests which are always stirring up this liberty loving nation nominally iceland icel and is a dependency of jonmark denmark but since 1874 IS 4 when their constitution was restored to them t they hey have been enjoying almost absolute freedom of political action the Al Alt bing thing or iceland parliament meets every other year and of the entire me membership of thirty six only six are named by the king these six comp comprise iise just one lulf of the upper bouse while the twenty four members of the lower loer house are elected directly y by tile the people the land or goe morl is named for life by the ki kiu D or of Deni denmark nark but only upon the becom recommendation of the al taluy uis his power does not extend to the veto tor for a majority vote of both brouses bouses makes kes a measure me allure a law unless of course it be a matter matte r involving a change in ill the constitution when the kings s veto is i effective ut in its literary life iceland in respects even surpasses its s 50 country its acho scholars lars crded mother transplanted the classics of all IMI imie have e us na ons into their own vernacular and weekly news and add dally W garines ga and have ex excellent L ellent circulations pare Ice ianis ilDr libraries arles are becoming exceedingly massive cee ee the student of american history bi storY T to great library bull building ding at reykjavik the forms an invaluable ald aid in fa fact iceland d was colonized by a people for whom wilom ed education took the place of military we life wars wal s were unknown to lu arv them al and id tb their leir peaceful inclinations t early arly accent accentuated ua ted by an isolation were the great NuT world which from essentially cond condu nive Ave to literary was so it Is that t almost all the ancient labor scan scandinavian diu avian manuscripts are icelandic archaeologists recovered icelandic for us the great ses sages of the the eddas the helms kringle kringla Krin gla north the the the and others as luter sting stated it is to the sta but antas as above that the literary history rican dept abat of american labors of Ic elanders area are especial there is the sory odthe of the I 1 ly columbus to where buat alt 0 of of adventure learned of the strange he ericson and then traveled one of liet bristol thence thee to t 0 mad Sick again to ack a years rears late to america bisand few rid a of the traveler lC iceland eland TO the eye features of interest Inte resL many pr the arabic Arable circle OU on aders valla lit bc borders its wast fl a cal xa stream gives gk res alie aw but tu ae Inter interior lOr there W aar ra ls alsto TO A is thefil abb 1 irving d gamss az i f ponies jel OX axi tea 91 I 1 1 if fait C z v 11 ag t iff I i M t I 1 y the terrific power of the glEt glacier cler streams which by the way invariably 1 force the student of natural history to change bi hii route rut buz at such times the hardy natorp lature ot of the iceland pony I 1 pulls one out of many a difficulty dit culty the traveled routes are lost in this flood and tile the pony with Li nerring accuracy I 1 finds the shallowest lowest way ay iy to the land bridges are now however being constructed ted 3 over many of these streams making the travel much easier than a I 1 1 bell 1 5 5 I 1 I 1 I 1 U P 1 aa I 1 J I 1 TITI 1 i 1 I 1 1 ix I 1 I 1 11 1 I 1 7 1 I 1 lt 7 7 1 tl I 1 1 I 1 e I 1 I 1 1 5 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 z I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 14 1 4 0 I 1 15 I 1 17 I 1 1 I T I 1 it 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 ai J 5 iceland IV oab z in dy dres fe few w vears er back in ill fact tile two to great iro iron n bridgess brides ver the belfus and river art an iuar vels els of engineering aud and make a passage to the majestic Selja land cataract very easy NOW too one lind linds s government sov emment emow aloyes busied everywhere in building roads through the lava laa beds and this will during the coming year nake easily accessible the famous iceland gy geysers cy sers now infrequently visited by travelers because of the hard rocky roadway in fact it is strange that I 1 i 11 I 1 I 1 40 5 I 1 0 i tv il Z atz bic r Q i I 1 1 II I 1 I 1 P of VV 21 I 1 P I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 to N 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 aelva J mr ai iii i ai n Z w tw V 1 I 1 z I 1 az t c MW I 1 I 1 the of lebund this work has only just been begun for it is ia bound to mate male iceland a much traveled country for or summer tourists not alone will it make the famous geysers of the Hauka dalr acci accessible elble 1 1 but the entire country around about morat hecla with ith its innumerable craters and the famous plateau of thin van a with its magnificent en t lake lak e and lis its wealth of historical connections st louis globe democrat |