The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-25

Some OF them came on under four
months advanced pay and Others were
impressed into the service For sixteen
days the wind IN dead east, and that
pleascs the captain. because Il blow.
them further and further away from
the European coast, and further on to-
ward the shore Of another country, n
thero Is any After while there eomcs
acalm day. and the attempt II made 10
fathom the ocean, and they eau not
touch bottom though the line and lead
run down 200 fathomS More delight.
ful sensations for those who are no,
good sailors A fathom II six feet and
zoo tathomS 1900 feet. and below that
u may bc many hundred feet deeper.
To add interest To- the voyage, on the
twentieth day cut, violent storm
sweeps the sea, and the Atlantic Ocean
tries what IL can do with the santa
Maria, the rinta and the Nina
/ Some NJ YOU know something ~ what
n sea can do with the UmbriA, the Ma
/ lcstlc, the Tcutonic and the City Of
/ Paris, and you must imagine what the
ocean could do with those three small
ships of oldcn time. lou may Judge
what the ocean was then by what IL Is
now; IL has never changed it's habits
II can smile like the morning, but often
| IL is the Archangrl ~ Wrath and It's
most rollicling fun Is shipwrcck.
The mutinuuS crew would have killed
Columbus had It not been for tho gen.
| cral opinion on Shipboard that he was
the only ono that could take them back
homo In safety The promise of silk
waiStcoat and go in money To- the man
who should first discover land appcascd
them somewhat but the indignation
and blaSphcmy and threats ot aSSaSSi.
nation must have been awful, Yet God
sustained the grca, sailor commanding
the Santa Maria
Every evening on shipboard they had
prayers and sung vcspcr hymn. hut
after nil the patience ~ those on board
the ships had been exhausted, and the
great Captain or Admiral had been
cursed 10y every annthcma that human
lips could frame, one night n sailor saw
light moving along the shore, and
then moving up and down and then dis
appearing. One Friday morning at two
o'clock, just long enough after Thurs
day tn make IL sure that Il was Friday
and 81 give another blow nj the worlds
idea OF unlucky days ON Friday morn
ing, October IL. lava. gun from the
Pinta signnlcd Land Ahead" Then
the ships lay to- and the boats were low
cred, and Capt Christopher Columbus
first stepped ufen tho shore, amid
the song OF birds and the air u surge ~
rcdolcncc. and took possession In the
name Of the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost ~ the voyage that began
with the Sacrament ending with gloria
In cNcclsis dcu. From that day onward.
YOU saw there can bc nothing for Column
bus hut honurs. rewards, raphsodicS,
palaces and worldwide applause. No,
no, On his way back "a Spain his ship
was 30 wrcnchcd by the tempest and 80
threatened with destruction that he
wrote a brief account of his discovery
and put il I'm casl and threw IL over
board. that the world might not lose
the advantage ot his adventures lion.
ors awaited him ON the beach. but he
undertook a second voyage, and with
it came all maligning and persecution
and dcuunciation and poverty. lie was
called land.grahbcr. "A liar, IA cheat u
fraud, dcccivcr of nations Spccula-
tors robbed him of his good name,
courticrs deprecated his discoveries, and
there came To- him ruined health and
Imprisonment and chains, ~ which he
said while he turned Thorn ON his wrists
II will wear them ~ mcmento ~ the
u NH IRnn
appreciation uf the worlds abuse and
cruelty and with body writing In the
torturcS az govt he gruancd out his
last words: In manus tuaS Domino
commcndo Spiritum mcum;" into thy
hand oh, Lord, | commend my spirit"
or course he had r,gal obscquies That
IN the way the world tries Ia atone for It's
mean treatment ~ great bcpctactor>
Many u man has had u fine ride Ia his
grave who during life had tn walk all
the way A big funeral. and instead of
bread they give him u stone, that is, u
tombstone. Hut death that brings quiet
90 the body oi Others did not bring quiet
to his First buried In the church OF
Santa Maria Seven years afterward
removed Ia seville Twcnty.thrce
wears afterward removed Ia San
Domingo. Finally removed Ia
Cuba. -Four post-mortcm Journeys
from scpulchcr Ia scpulchcr. wish
his bones might bc moved just once
morc, and now that they have come ~
near to America as Cuba, they might
during tho grcat Columbian year, be
transported Ia our own shores, where
they belong. and that In the nth cen
fury after his deccasc the American
continent might build mausolcum
worthy Of hiln who picked this jewel Of