The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-12

for those who are not good sailorsl
fathom is six feet, and 200 fathoms,
1900 feet, and below that it may be
many hundred feet deeper. To add in
terest to the voyage, on the twentieth /
day out, violent storm sweeps the sea,
and the Atlantic ocean tries what 1t can
do with the Santa Maria, the Pinta and
the Nina. Some Of you know something
of what n sea can do with the Umbria,
the Majestic, the Teutonic, and the City
of Paris, and you must imagine what
the ocean could do with those three
small ships of olden time. You may judge |
what the ocean was then by what 1t
isnow; it has never changed its habits 1t
can smile like the morning, but often tits
the archaugel of wrath and its most
rollicking fun is a shipwreck. The
mutinous crew would have killed Co
lumbus had it not been for the general
opinion on shipboard that he was the
only one that could take them back
home in safety. The promise of silk
waistcoat and forty dollars in money
to the man who should first discover
land appeased them somewhat, but the
indignation and blasphemy and threats
of assassination must have been awful.
Yet God sustained the great sailor COM
manding the Santa Maria. Every even-
ing on shipboard they had prayers and
sung q vesper hymn. But, after all the
patience of those on board the ships had
been exhausted, and the great captain
al 1Nxya
anathema that human lips could frame,
one night a sailor saw light moving
along the shore and then moving up
and down, and then disappearing. On
Fridaymorniug Fat o'clock, just long
enough after Thursday to make it sure
that it was Friday and so give another
blow at the worlds idea of unluclSy
days-on Friday morning, October IL,
1902, gun from the Pinta sig
nailed "land ahead" Then the
ships lay to, and the boats were low
cred, and Capt Christopher Columbus
first stepped upon the shore, amid
the song of birds and the air surge Of
redolence, and took possession in the
name OF the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost So the voyage that began
with the sacrament ended with Gloria
In Excelsis Deo. From that day on
ward, you say there can be nothing for
Columbus but hcnors, rewards, rhapso-
dies, palaces and worldwide applause
No, no! On his way back to Spain tho
ship was so wrenched by the tempest
and SO threatened with destruction that
he wrote brief account of his discov-
cry and put it ina cask and thrsw 1t
overboard, that tho world might not
lose the advantage Of his adventures.
Honors awaited him on the beach, but
he undertook second voyage, and with
II came all maligning and persecution
and denunciation and poverty. He was
called a land grlbber liar, cheat, O
fraud, deceiver of nations, Specula
tors robbed him Of his good name, court
icrs deprecated his discoveries, and
there came to him ruined health ant
: Imprisonment and chains, OF which hi
said while he ratified them on his wrists
! II will wear them as a memento OF th'
gratitude Of princes" Amid keen ap
} preciation of the worlds abuse and cru
: city, and with body writhing In tho tor
: lures Of sout, he groaned out his las
words: "In manus tuas Domino oom
: mendo spiritum meum;" Into Th.
hands, o Lord, commend my spirit
OF course he had regal obsoquies
. That is the way the world tries to atom
, for its mean treatment OF great bone
: fsctors Many man has had hn
4; ride to his grave who during his life ha,
, to walk all the way. A big funeral
/; and instead of bread they give him
a bone, that Is q curbstono. But deaf
/. that brings quiet to the body Of other
a did not bring quiet TO his First burie
: in the church Of Santa Maria Sove
a years aftorward removed to Seville
a Twenty-throe years afterward remove
r to San Domingo Finally removed t
Y Cuba. Four post-mortem journeys fror
r sepulcher 10 sepulcher. wish hi
i bones might be moved just onoo more
t and now, that they have como so nea
t to America as Cuba, they might durin
C the great Columbian year be tran'
S ported 10 our own shores, whore the
It belong, and that in the ffth centur
, after his decease, the American cont
a nent might build mausoleum worth
IT of him who picked this jewel OF hen
n isphere out OF the seq, and set 1t In th
Is crown Of the worlds geography.
d But the bright MONDAY sun OF tht
d old sailors prosperity went down !
r. thiclest night, and though hero IN
d there a monument has been lifted in h
r memory, and here and there cit
,r called after him, the continent that !
II was the means Of founding was name
10 after another name, and no fitting cor
a, memoration of his work has beon pr
10 posed until nearly four hundred yea
es after his body turned to dust. May Il
c. imposing demonstration now beir
W made In his honor on tho Atlantic coas
10 and ~ b made next year In his hon'
n. mid-eontinent, be brilliant enough ar
r. far-resounding enough and magnificel
~ enough TO atone for the neglect Of ce
~ turies. May the good Lord allow tn
OF most illustrious sailor Of all time to loc
Is over the amethystine battlement lor
70 enough 10 see some Of the garlan
he wreathed around his name and he
he something of the hemisphere sho
TO that shall greet his memory.
IL What most impresses me In all tn
In vondrous life, which, for the ne
ey twelve months, we will be commemor
TO ting by sermon and song and militia
le- parade and worlds fair and congress
mi nations, is something have nev