Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-11-13
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COLUMBUS DISCOVERED.
The Man Who Fonnd1 America Run to
Earth by Bill Nye.

Earth by Bin Nye.
THE NOTORIOUS aRNoEsE sURpRIsGD
WHILE INA WAxY STATE AMI
ONLY FARpLY CLoYHED-RENIA.
MIN FRANkLlN's BUReIARIoUs TEN.
DENcIEs AT LAST EXPOSED.
Wandering about the other day
and waiting for Otero to come forth
and dance at tho Eden Musee, the
manager said, all Of a sudden, as he
noticed thatlI was being mistaken
fora new wax figure, and that
seemed embarrassed by the way PEG.
pie, especially strangers, were feeling
of me and wondering if were hol,
low aCome up stairs with me.
want to show you something. Die
you eve go into the work room where
wax figures are made?"
emo"
swell, take tina elevator with me
Otero will not dance yet for AN hou,
and you can see the whole business
studio, work shop, eto.,--in that
time, and you will enjoyit just al
much as you would remaining here
with that vacant and guileless look
being constantly taken for Henry
Irving or the deathbed Of Napoleon
SO said yes we would 60. Ihad
never watched the process, and very
few people, as / understood it, were
permitted to go into the mysterious
chambers where great men were
made and unmade even. quicker than
the newspapers could do. it. The
principal works-wax works, l may
aay, OF tableaux foundry - would
seem to be facing Twenty third street,
one floor above the entrance. Quite
a number of people are busy there
all the time adding 9 figures and
tableaux to the great collection in
the halls below. Every time a mon
arch croaks and a new President il
elected the genius of the was sculp,
tor up there is called into use, and
before You know it the head of Q
new republic, in q neat fitting suit of
clothes, is inserting his nice pink
hand into the bosom of his frock
coat and trying to look far away,
while people are Watching him earn
estly in the great group of poten-
tates.
| was first introduced to tho main
worker and artist of the whole
establishment, whose name I wish I
had secured, because he was 80 cour-
teous and obliging. He showed me
all about it, 80 that I could now do
it myself if AT any time I should
decide to retire from literary pur-
suits and give myself up entirely to
art.
Tho artist of whom I speak makes
heads and hands and finishes up the
job, while another artist, whose name
| did not got accurately enough TO
print, unless I could at once escape,
makes the bodies. The process is
very simple indeed. Anybody could
do it. 1t is as easy rs running a
paper or perfecting the tariff so as
to be generally agreeable.
The sculptors were working on a
group Of Christopher Columbus.
The artist has seized upon the happy
moment when Columbus is just about
to discover America, and he is debat-
ing in his own mind whether or not
there is anything in it. Ono can see
readily by his deep, earnest look that
it is a problem in his brain which he
has not yet settled whether it will
pay him to discover q country which
will introduce the use of plug
tobacco and freedom.
Columbia was at this time very
poor. First he had sought to SECURE
a concession from the Legislature of
Spain, but in Spain it costs as much
to get a just appropriation as it does
in Albany. He went on to show
that If he did not discover America
somo one else would, and that the
result would be that some less desery-
ing and far palmer mar would get
his pictures on the American green
backs. But pooh! pooh! said the
Legislature, seeing that Columbus
had no means with which to promote
Legislative action, and he being n
plain man, entirely ignorant of whe-
ther a bill had to go to it's final pass
age or over to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, was guyed and fooled with
by mon who should have known bet
ter until his money was gone, and
our best Indian tribes were waiting
impatiently all the time to be dis
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