Vancouver Daily World from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Page 7

THE VANCOUVER WORLD SAYS THAT WELSH Friday, November 21, 1913. SITED AMERICA BEFOR COLUMBUS The Cash Refund Sale Comes to a Close on Saturday Next, Nov. 29th and the hundreds of our customers who have delaed bujing until this last week will have to hurr now. We expect this week will wind up with a rush, and to get it started right, we offer a list of bargains for Monda shoppers, the equal of which is found on! in our August Homefurnishings Sale. Every item advertised is good stock, dependable and reliable; every price reduction is deep, and bonafide.

STANTON, Nov. 22. A rusty, roughly made old knife blade, bearing the date "1257," and dug from an Indian mound near Sulphur Springs. by Charles H. Hebler, a druggist of that city, has given Thomas W.

Barton, an archaeologist of Stanton, the last link in a chain of proof showing that a shipload of Welshmen visited the southwest 200 years before the dlscovtsry of America by Columbus, and were assimilated by the Indian tribes of New Mexico and Arizona. Mr. Barton, who has the old Welsh knife at his home 1a Stanton, has r. i nt more than a dozen years among the Zunl. Moqui and other Indians of the southwept.

studying their traditions, habits, language, etc. The old knife blade, which came into his possession some time ago, was so heavily encrusted with sulphur that It was almost an Inch thick. When this was removed the iron blade remained and the date "1257" Is easily dis. ernlblv. To this incrustation Mr.

Barton credits the state of preservation in which the old blade was found when it was removed from the Indian mound. The water around the town of Sulphur Cash Refund 1 Cl vctsn rveiuna oaie oargains wmi nucu Sale of Dinner in Furniture $4.25 Values to Sell for 2.98 Wanted lines picked here and there from our regular stocks and repriced for Monday's selling only. The. prices in many instances are below wholesale cost. Sets $20 Value to Sell for $11.95 The greatest value in uovn comforters that was ever offered in this city.

Size 5x6 feet, light in weight and as warm as toast. They are filled with purified odorless down and covered with an excellent quality downproof sateen. The sale price is $2.98 Den and Living room Chairs Comfortable, strong, inviting and restful, built to last a lifetime. FUMED OAK CHAIR AND ROCKER, with roomy spring seat, upholstered in Spanish leather; regular price $17.50 each. Sale price, each $12.75 FUMED OAK CHAIR AND ROCKER, with upholstered spring seat and pad back, covered with Spanish leather; regular $19.50 each.

Sale price, each $13.75 FUMED OAK LEATHER SEAT AND BACK CHAIR AND ROCKER, regular $24.50 each. Sale price, each only $18.50 Incidentally this is one of the nicest dinner sets we've ever shown for $20.00. They are made of a good quality china, beautifully decorated in floral design, in pleasing colorings. The set comprises 97 pieces, made up of 12 cups and saucers 12 dinner plates 1 only salad bowl 12 tea plates 1 gravy boat 12 soup plates 1 cream sugar 12 bread and butter plates 1 slop bowl 12 fruit saucers 2 platters The set complete for $11.95 Cream Madras Mailing, 35c Values fo Sell for 18c 3000 yards of it all told, a special line bought at a great price reduction. Come in two widths, 40 and 45 inches, and in nice patterns.

Will giva excellent wear and satisfaction. Sale price 18f Solid Oak Actual $40 Value, Refund fk Li Sale Price Fancy Scrims Springs Is heavily Impregnated with sulphur and the Incrustation was due to the settling of sulphur crystals from the water upon the knife blade. Arrhneolofclst'a Proof. "From investigations I have made," says Mr. Barton, "I find that in the thirteenth century the Welsh were the only people In the world who made Iron articles and put the date on them.

But this is only one link In the chain of proof." The Welsh, according to the archaeologist, not only antedated the sailor of Palos, but they preceded La Salle and Marquette to the Mississippi, entered the mouth fit that river 400 years before d'Iberville ever heard of It, rowed or sailed against the swift current and around its shaggy bends several hundred miles, turned their way Into the then dark recesses of the Arkansas, and up that stream Journeyed to the Kocky mountains centuries before the goldseeksers footed a trail to Santa Fe. These white men were adopted Into the Indian tribes, and gradually the white strain disappeared, but today these same Indians cling to many traditions and words left behind by the Welshmen. An Old Tradition. "Thirty years ago," says Mr. Bar Ion, "while Id Arizona among the ln Jlans, I picked up the tradition that earlier day a party of men with white skins had come among the, were adopted Into the tribe and died.

They came from the eastward, up the Arkansas river. The white men had weapons and implements of a strange metal, but these gradually were broken or thrown away. It was many genera lions before that the whites had come and I gained scarcely more than the tradition. Hut I kept this tradition In mind. "Ten year after that I was visiting In a Creek Indian village.

There were many Welshmen In tie Western states and I had two of them In 'my party on that trip. Shortly after our arrival I was exchanging greetings with the liead men of the lrite and my two Welshmen bejrun making comment on the camp, speaking to each other In the Welsh tonstie. One of the head Indians stopped and listened to my men. Then lie ran over to them and embraced Urim both, at the san'e time speaking ripldly in Creek, which they did not understand. Then lie pronounced his words more slowly and wuh more thought.

My men looked at him in amazement. "'Here's something one of them ald to me. 'Here's a Creek Indian ilnlnn. his hail In Walah ami hf'n Sets ojf Dining Chairs at Big Reductions Four special lines picked from our regular stock, with solid oak frames and leather seats. The set comprises 5 and 1 armchair to match.

Price reductions follow: $25.00 sets to sell for $20.00 r27.50 sets to sell for $21.75 $32.50 sets to for $24.75 $51.00 sets to sell for 12.50 Guernseyware Pie Plates, 35c and 40c Values to Sell Monday for 18c 95 Finished in early English. Buffet top is 48 inches long. Case contains lined silver drawer, long linen drawer and three china compartments. A useful piece of furniture that is commodious and lasting. Sale price $27.50 Other values at $2 4.50 and $26.00 at 1.

reg. $2. 50 Value to Sell 1000 yards of them, all told, American manufacture, in 38 and 40 inch widths, and with neat stripe or crossbar patterns. Three shades to choose from, cream, white and ecru; make an excellent curtain for bedrooms, and wear and wash splendidly. Sale price per yard 18 $15.00 Mattress to Sell for $8.75 This i3 without doubt the greatest mattress value this store has ever offered, and possible only because of special arrangements made between the manufacturers and our This is a nine inch pie plate, set in a perforated nickel frame.

When the pie is ready for the table, simply put it in the pie frame, and the dish is tempting and pretty. A great snap at. $1.95 These 10 Piece Toilet Sets, selves, to get them introduced to our patrons. They are 50 pound mattresses, made of pure white felt, with roll edge, and covered with the best grade of art ticking. Sell 75 Nottingham Curtains the usual way for $15.00.

Cash refund sale price Real 4.50 Actual $1.35 Values to DEN TABLE. $17.50 Value for $12.75 3 Piece Parlor Suites $87.50 Values Sell Pair cr per Made in circular style, with 42 inch top, finished in early English. A rare bargain. Price only $12.75 JQ i Values to Mf Sell for LIBRARY TABLE, $23.00 Value for There's 200 pairs of them, that's all, so you needs be down early to avoid disappointment. They are 3 yards long and 45 inches wide, a.id come in cream and white shades, suitable for bedrooms and living rooms.

Sale price 95 $16.75 Made with birch, mahogany frames, and upholstered in best quality leather; will la.t a lifetime. Special $65.00 SAME SUITE, upholstered in silk damask, regular $85. Sale price $65.00 doing pretty well at it, I "1, myself, knew no Welsh, yet those I Made with 28x4f tup and fitted with drawer, paper rack, etc. Sale price $16.75 Airtight Heaters Cash Refund Sale Prices They are made of the finest quality semi made in England, and come in dainty floral $2.50 to $3.00 Values patterns in pretty shades of pink, blue and green. green.

$1.95 on Flnnrrfworinors That Same sets exactly as we usually ask $1.50 to seu for here Monday for 1 MJKWiiHWVIlEr Cash Refund Sale of Qve Excellent Service anges Just a limited number of them, the balance of the season'3 best selling lines. They are great stove3 to heat, are economical, and burn anything except coal. Made with a polished steel body, and extra inner lining, and have a cast top. The greatest heater value ever offered. The sale price I'll es ,0 We never did, and never will, try to convince cur patrons that no other store besides this sells good carpetings.

What we have tried to do and are still trying to do, is to convince our patrons that they save money when they buy floor coverings here. Monday you can save more than usual, for we offer values the like of which were never offered in this city before. Welshmen and that Indian managed to carry on a sort of conversation. Their pronunciation differed widely and the redman knew comparatively few words of the Welsh tongue, but he knew those few well and thoroughly. Afterwards he told me about It.

First was the tradition, and It was the same that I had heard among the Arizona Indians ten years before. There was, the coming of a number of white men In a big canoe up the river. They had been adopted Into the different tribes and finally the white blood entirely died out. "They had promised the Indians that come time more white men speaking the earns language would come, and had adjured the redmen to fanmit a few worJs of their language and their story to these whites. This tradition and these words had been handed dnwn from generation to generation, as the American redmin have demonstrated their ability to do.

word for word. According to the Creek chief the coming of the white men was about COO years aro some time about the year 1300. lavratlKsted in Wales. "Pome years after this I made Investigations In Wales and found that some time about the end of the thirteenth century three shiploads of welsnmen had sailed awey from that countrv fo the west, seeking adventure toward the sunset. They nevr returned.

There is nothing more probable than thnt these people, having neard the discoveries of Lief lck son, attempted to InH.iw In his ack. ut were blown t.iward and Into the Gulf of Mexico. From here they entered the Mississippi and then failed up the Arkansas. "But I had no proof. 1 had 'rad' tions of the Welshmen leaving Wales and never re turnlng.

I had traditions of white men coming from the Fist to these Indians. And 1 had found an Indian who could eptak Welsh, which tiad been handed down from father to son for S00 or 600 years. "Then, one day, I found myself In Sulphur Springs, Ark. There Charles H. Hebler, a druggist, told me he had an odd looking piece of thick sulphur which fce had taken from an Indian mound a short time previous.

He $35.00 Values to Sell for 25.50 $29Ji(l 92c 9x12 Wilton $40 value for Brussels Carpets; $1.25 values for ft $1.95 mm Beautiful rug for dining rooms, parlors, dens and living rooms, etc. Come in beautiful geometrical and Oriental patterns, on grounds of green, red, blue and fawn. British manufacture, and guaranteed to give good wearing satisfaction. Sale price $20.50 MODEL OAK HEATERS Convenient and serviceable. Come in four sizes, re marked to sell at these prices: $4.75 values for $3.75 1.50 values for S5.75 $7.95 values for $0.75 These are English manufacture, guaranteed wear and to give excellent satisfaction.

Come in geometrical designs on grounds of green, brown and fawn, and will make serviceable floor coverings for dinisg rooms, living rooms and bedrooms, etc. Sale price per pard 92 Axminster Rugs; MQ values to sell for A10 Nice rugs for halls, for bedside runners, for in front of the fireplace, etc Come in size 27x51, in mottled effects, and in colors of fawn btkI $13.95 9x12 Scotch Wool Rugs; reg. $17.50 at $10.25 $11.75 values for Just like the illustration. It has 6 hojes, duplex grate, high warming closet, and an oven, siza 20x15 by 14 inches high. It's an economical range, and a great baker.

While 20 of them last, we'll sell them on Monday, set up in your home, with coil or reservoir, for $25.50 brown, etc. Actual $3.00 Talues, for $1.43 Tomorrow a Sale of the Well Known Big Ben Alarm Clocks 85c Inlaid Linoleum; $1.00 quality for square yard. These are genuine, made of heavy Scotch yams, warm, serviceable and beautiful. Come in geometrical patterns, in colors of blue, green and brown. Suitable for living rooms, bedroom.

and dining rooms. Sale price 13.95 Carpet Ccttingt, 50c and up These are large size, suitable for good mat3 for kitchen or bathroom, etc. They are serviceable and desirable. Sale price 50c tnoned to me. It looked like a knife Reliance Cook Stov 16.50 Linoleum that will give years of wearing satisfaction.

Patterns and colors won't wear off beuse they are set in, as it were, like mosaic work. Suitable for offices, stores and kitrheis. J3.G0 Values to Sell for $22 Value to Sell for $1.75 etc. fl.2o value. Sale pnee BjP yj Tapestry Rugs; regular $9.50 values for $35.00 Wilton Rugs; regular $48.00 for Just a limited number of these, so you'll have to be down bright and early to make 6ure of getting one of them.

They are economical stoves, and good bakers. Made with four 8 inch hole3 and a 16 inch oven, and fitted with duplex grates to burn coal or wood. Real $22.00 value. Sale price $16.50 The Big Ben alarm clock is the most reliable alarm clock on the market. It's made in the United States, and keeps accurate time, and is equipped with an alarm that will raise the soundest of sleepers.

It's advertised to sell at $3.00. While 100 last, we'll sell them tomorrow for $1.75 Fourth Floor. Site 9x7.6, excellent rugs for bedrooms and dining rooms. They come in Oriental and floral effects, in colors of red, green and fawn. British manufacture and guaranteed to give satisfaction.

Special for $6.95 These come in Oriental patterns, in colors of fawn and green. They come in sizes 9x10.6 and 9x12, and make excellent rugs for the best rooms in the house. Great bargain 535.00 made We scraped away the deposit of sulphur, whiih was half an Inch thick on each tide, and there remained the 'ron blade of an old knife. Clearly tut on one was the date. It mv niiFsing link.

From I had made I round thU 6i'i or 700 years ago the Welsh were the only people who made Iron Implem, nts and placed the date tnereon Th's fact, the Welsh traditions of the three ships which never returned, the traditions of the Arizona Indians, those of the Creeks, the Creek rnief who spoke the Welsh tongue and the old Iron kn'fe with the date, all go to corroborate the story that the Welshmen beat Columbus to the gret discovery by something like I0 Among all the queer Implements' and relic a Mr. Barton has picked up tn his thirty years of archaeological research among the Indians, he values the eld knife above all. In fact, he keeps the old knife blade locked up a fireproof safe and guards It as if It were gold. "It'e worth far more than so much cold to me," he saya iSee our window dis fe l5f fYnYP fWl ffHTiniTiV fMT our window I plays for Monday sen II I I II ll II SY' II III 11 11 I li jil i III plays for Monday sell I aUIIIPPPP JNDfjtllMMm rf A kill.