The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-02

e@A @nug Whsn tu8 oxC6pb1om O4 bn8 AtGAo cheap notoriety that brings me, other wise totally ignored, I want to know It right now, before things 70 any fnr- ther.
 "Is 1t just2" the man went on. els it just, want to know for folks to treat me this way9 I am expected to stand up here out doors all winter, with the lake wind blowing through my ring lets, and nobody but . few stray visi- tors ever giving me . moments no- tice, while another gets all the credit for my work and has comfortable in- side quarters and folks from all over tho world coming to see him7 I call 1t rank injustice. That's what call 1t"
 The reporter intimated that 1t would look ikea case of injustice from the way he stated 1t. Then he asked the figure to oblige him with his name.
 "Well I can't carry my pedestal around with me or would present 1t as my address card. You can read my name up there together with my ere dentials. I'm Lief Erickson and it's this counfounded Columbus Centen- nial business that am kicking about.
 "Folks appear to forget that dis covered America some hve-hundred years before Columbus ever thought of such place.
 "Pve been waiting patiently here, thinking people would come to see the ridiculousness of celebrating . dis covery that didn't discover, till see there's no use waiting any longer, and now Pm going to do something. Pm going down to Chicago and I intend to sec who's going to be recognized in this matter, me or Columbus" and Lief brought his foot down on the turf in a way to make the earth trem- ble.
 The reporter was astonished. He could scarcely believe his eyes or ears ; but he sized up the figure before him carefully and there was no mis- taking 1t. It was the old familiar shape of Lief Erickson that had for years back stood calm and emotionless gazing oil into the depths of some rn- known region from his pedestal at the head of Martin street. The reporter looked up at Lie7s pedestal, and sure enough, there 1t stood vacant.
 Before the Sia man had time to col- lect his scattered senses, the figure be- gan again:
 ""Tain't often I get mad, but when I do Pm riled clear through. don't remember being SO hot since l came from the bronze foundry. But this Columbus business has just gone far enough. I didn't say . word, did I, when they began naming towns for him all over the country, or even when they went so far as to put his picture on the dollar greenbacks, but when folks get to subscribing billions of dollars to giving him . grand blow out, it's time to say something. and Pm going to be heard. Pve e good met tie in me any day, e Columbus ever had, and I'm going to be heard in this matter. Whose funeral Is this, any how; I'd like to know9 Who discov- cred this continent7 All historians agree that did 1t, and still everybody goes to making all the fus over Co., lumbus, and expect to satisfy me with a pedestal to stand on, or something like that.
 "Very well, we'll let them SO, how Norseman acts when his blood is riled.
 "This road runs to Chicago, doesn't 1t? Very we'll; guess I can walk 1t by morning. On, by the way, loan me a cigarette. It's liable to be lone some along the road"
 And the figure strode of down the l- L. A