The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

In the woman's department of the great
exposition Isabella should not be per
mltted to hold the place which by rights
Queen Victoria should hold. Victoria
Il very different from Isabella. She is
upright as a monarch, and has never
once stepped aside from the path of
duty in order to crafty her own selfish
wishes. She has put in her little old
eight hours per day reigning just the
same as she would if God had told her
TO stand behind a counter and rap on
the show case and call cash for the
same number of years.
So the historian says that Queen
Isabella, hoping for new remains to
govern and for several new sealskin
sacques on the return of Columbus,
bade him godspeed and made him sign
a cast iron contract to turn over all of
his DISCOVERIES to her and Fes dinand.
Then, believing that the great traveller
would strike Asia, they gave him a
letter of introduction to the kahn of
Tartary instead of a letter to Sitting
Bull, as they should have done, and he
set out.
He was to be commodore of Long
Island sound if he succeeded, and gov
ernor general of Constable's Hook. He
w6s, by contract, permitted to retain
One-tenth of all gold, silver, pearls,
precious stones and pelt found on the
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Quoted.
The ~Eiographer of Columbus tells us
that the story about Isabella having
pawned her jewels to fit out Columbus
on his trip will not do at all. She and
Ferdie just simply cast an anchor to
Wiudward, hoping to get a controlling
interest is the Standard Oil Company
before anybody else did SC.
And so the story gradually comes
down to the spinal column of lust for
gold, not only on the part of his royal
hackers, but even Columbus and his
crew were out for the dust, and that
alone. What commonplace tale after
our school boy wonder and admiration.
Wherever Columbus landed he asked
if gold existed there. If not, he as
sessed the natives Sc much cotton per
head. When there was gold, it was a
hawks bill Of this motal per man and
a calabash of gold per chief. The
rotundity of the earth did not worry
him so much as his own rotundite.
Finally Columbus got to lying again.
He gave offices to his relatives, not
only to his wife's family, but at last he
got reckless and began to hand out
offices to his numerous children. 1t
~ +L tl~As Sc .caU a~ha1+ Hs tho.
local Genoa papers so truly said, and
when he offered to open up a slave
trade between Spain and the Bahamas
people lost faith in him.
1t is pretty well settled that Column
bus drew the prize for first seeing land,
when as a matter of fact n Of his
men was first to see it, and that he
put the money into a watch with q
peach stone charm on the chain.
Columbus had been dead 23O years
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was not a part of Asia. We can inn
agine him now, as he rode along the
Jersey coast, inquiring for the All
Khooned of Swat, to whom he had
a letter from Ferdinand. I can see
him now at the Potter building or the
Mills building asking for the khan of
Tartary, or trying to find his telephone
number On a pink phamplet at the
ferry.
Yet va might as we'll give to Column
bus the glory of his great discovery,
whether he did it accidentally or from
a m~ercenary point of view purely. We
will let that go.
The time is ripe for celebration. Let
us celebrate. When columbus came
here Patrick Henry had not even been
surmised; Henry Clay had not been
| thought of.
The application OF electricity had not
been dreamed of, and the pink tea was
vet unborn. On, what strides have
been made even in one century, and
in 400 years the change has been most
marvellous. The use of ensilage at the
time of the discovery of America was
yet in it's infancy. Lots of people did
not know what it was. It is even so
now.
Religion was at that time in a rudi-
mentary state. Now it is perfected
and painless in it's operations. Then
religion was a calamity; nov it is a
blessing, and is rarely as it used to be.
Cooking has advanced with giant
strides. Pie, both plain and engraved,
has been introduced. The brevetted
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