The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-05
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tDin Nye, t1 New YesA Msrcnxy.l Probably tew people have been more successful in the discovering line than Christopher Columbus Living as he did in day when great many things l were Stin in an undiscovered state, the horizon was filed with golden opportu- mites for man possessed of Mir C.S pluck and ambition. His lie at first vas 6lled with Tebuffs aud cisappointmenss. but at last he grew to oe man of iuA- portance in his own pFotession, and peO- pie who wanted anything discovered would always bring it to him rather than take it elsewhere.
 And get the life of Columbus was . stormy one. Though he discovered . no attention, he himself was very poor, broad and beautiful land in whose me tropolis the theft of less than halt mil- hon of dollars is regarded as petty lar- ceny, Chris himself often vent to bed hungry. Is it not singular that the gray eyed and gentle Columbus should have added hemisphere to the history of our globe a hemisphere, too, where pie is a common thing, not only on Sunday, bu, throughout the week, and yet that he should have gone down to his grave pie essi
 Such is the history of progress in all ages and in all lines of thought and iu- vestigation Such is the measre reward of the pioneer in new fields of action. | presume that America to-day has a larger pie era than any other land in which the Cockney English language is spoken. Right here where millions oi native born Amen dwell, many of whom are ashamed of the fact tn at they were born here and which shame is en- tite'y mutual between the goddess of Liberty and themselves, we have q style ot pie that DO other land can boast of
 From the bleak and acid dried apple pie of Maine to the irrigated mince pie Of the blue Pacific, all along down the line of igneous, volcanic and s,rati6ed pie, America, the land of the freedom bird with the high instep to his nose, leads the world.
 O.her lands may point ~;:h nsdis.en,- bled pnde 10 their polygamy and their cholera, but we reck not Our poly gamy here is still in its infancy ana our leprosy has had the disadvantage Of a cold, backward spring, but look at our pie.
 Throughout long and disastrous war, sometimes referred to as a fratricidal war, during which this fair land was drenched ID blood, and also during which afore- said war numerous friahtful blunders were made which are fast coming to the surface-through the courtesy ot partici- pants in said war who have patiently waited for those who blundered to die od, and now admit that said participants who are dead did blunder sx ,eedingly throughout all this long and deadly struggle for the supremacy of liberty and right as was about to say when my mlnd began to wobble, the American pie has shone forth resplendent in the iu,l glare of monday sun or beneath the pale green of the electric light and she stands forth proudly to-day with her uu- dying loyalty to dyspepsia untrammeled and :e. deep and deadly gastric antipa. thy s,ill 6ercely burning in her breast,
 That is the proud history of American pie. Powers, princ'paiuies. kingdoms aud handmade dynasties may crum ,le, but the repu 'lican form of pie does not crunble. Tyranny may toiter on it's throne, but tue American pie does not toster Not tot. No foreign threat has ever been able to make our common chicken pie quail. do not say this be- cause it is smart; simply say it to fill up.
 But would it not do Columbus good to come among us '-day and look over our free institutional Would it not please him to ride over this contip ent which has been rescued by his presence of mind from the thraldrom of barbarian and foIked over to the genial and re6n- ing influences of prohibition and pie | America fills no mean niche in the great history of nations, and if you lisien carefully for few moments you will hear some American, with his mouth fall of pie, make that remark. The Ameyican is alw ,ys frank and perfectly free to state that no other country can approach this one We allow no little two for-a-quarter monarchy to excel us in the size Of our failures or in the calm and self poised delibera,ion with which we erect a monument to the glory Of a worthy citizen who is dead, and therefore i politically useless.
 The careful student of the career of Columbus will find much in these lines that he has not yet seen He will realIzs when he comes to read this little sketch the pains and the trouble and the research necessary before such an article on the lie and work of Columbus could be written, and he will thank me for ii {; bur it is not for that that have done it It is a pleasure foy me to hunt up and arrange historical and biographical data in a pleasing form for the student and II graufy the student and the savant how to sympathize with them
 BILL ME. P.S-I neglected to state that Coium- bus was married man. Still he d,d not | murmur or repine. B. N.