Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-10-11
Ating Of
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3 wheeis
....s. ., discovered the spinning
jenny. SO, my friend, go on faithfully
and promptly with your work, and IL
You do not get The success you seek, and
your plans upget, you will get some
thing just as good and perhaps better.
Sail ahead on tie voyage If life, keep a
correct logbook, brave the tempest, make
the best use of the east wind, keep a sharp
lookout, and warrant you, in the uame
of the God of Columbus, that If you do
not find just what you want of an earth
ly nature you will find heaven, and that
will be better.
What was wornout India, crouching
under a tropical sun, compared with
salubrious and radiant and almost IL
liniittble America, and what is all that
this little world in which we live can
AFFORD you compared with that supernal
realm whose foliage, and whose fruits.
and whose riches, and whose popula-
.icn. and whose grandeurs, and whose
worship, and whose Christ make up an
| afliuence that the most rapturous vocab-
ulary fails to utter?
ADother look at tho career of that ad
miral of the Santa Maria persuades me
that it is not to be expected that this
world will do its hard workers full JUS
tice. If any man ought to have been
treated well from first to last it was Co
iunbus. He had his faults. Let others
depict them. But greater soul the
celti1ries have not produced. This con-
inent ought to have been called Colum-
ia. after the hero who discovered it, or
Isabelliana, after the queen who fur.
.iishsd the means for the expedition.
No. The world did not do him Justice
while he was alive, and why should it
be expected to do him justice after he
@as dead2 Columbus in dungeon!
What a thought Columbus in irons?
What spectaclel
The wife of Robert Murray, after
whom Murray hill, New York, was
named, never has received proper credit
for OBTAINING at very rich luncheon the
officer of the opposing army until Wash
ington and his army could escape. Mrs.
Murray saved American independence.
How the wrong men and the wrong
women get credit that does not belong to
them, while Gods heroes and Gods
heroines go ungarlandedl You have
heard Of the brave words Of dying chief
aims, but You probably never heard of
what private soldier said, fallen at
Resaca and bleeding under shell
wound in his mouth, and who, though
suffering dreadfully from thirst, when g
cup Of water was offered him declined
to drink, saying, my mouth is all
bloody, sir, and it might make the tin
cup bad for othersr'
The world knows nothing of tho
brayest words and the bravest deeds. In
one Of the last letters which Columbus
sent to his son, he wrote this lamenta-
ton: II receive nothing of the revenue
due me. | live by borrowing. Little
have profted by twenty years of se1v-
ICE with such tolls and perils, since at
present do not own roof in Spain. If
desire to eat or sleep, / have no re-
course but the inn, and for the most
times have not wherewithal to pay my
bill"
Be not surprised, my hearer, if you
suffer injustice. You are in the best
Of company--the men and women who
wrought nightly for God and the
worlds improvement, and got for it
chiefly misrepresentation and abuse
while they lived, although afterward
they may have had a long row of car
riages at the obsequies and a gilt edged
set Of resolutions unanimously adopted
for the consolation of the bereft house,
hold. Do your full duty. expecting no
appreciation in this world, but full re-
ward in the world to come.
And aow, while am thinking of this
illustyious ship captain Of Genoa, let
me bespeak higher appreciation for the
ship captains now in service, many Of
them this moment ON the sea, the lives
Of tens of thousands of passengers in
their keeping. What an awful RESPONSE
bility is theirs! They go out through
the Narrows or start from Queens
town or Southaw. .pton or Glasgow not
knowing what Cyclone or collisions or