The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-11

the shore Of another country, if there Is
any.
After awhile there comes a calm day,
and the attempt is made to fathom the
ocean. and they cannot touch bottom,
! though the line and lead run down two
hundred fathoms. More delightful SEN
sations for those who are not good sail
ors! A fathom is six feet, and two hun
/ dred fathoms. one thousand two hundred
/ feet. and below that it may be many
hundred feet deeper. To add interest 10
the VOYAGE, on the twentieth day out
violent storm sweeps the sea, and the
Atlantic ocean tries what it can do with
fbe Santa Maria, the Pinta and the
Nina. Some of you know something OF
what a 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 NAV Judge what the ocean was
then bv what it is now. 1t has never
changed its habits. 1t can smile like
the morning, but often it is the archanGel
of wrath, and its most rollicking fun Is
shipwreck. The mutinOus crew would
have killed Columbus 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 a silk waistcoat and forty dollars IN
money to the man who should first dis
cover land appeased them somewhat, but
the Indignation and blasphemy and
threats of assassination must have been
awful. Yet God sustained the great
sailor commanding the Santa Maria.
Every evening on shipbOard they ha<
PRAYERS and sung a vesper hymn. But
after all the patience of those on boarG
the ships had been exhausted, and the
great captain or admiral had been
cursed by every anathema that human
lips could frame, one night sailor saw
a light moving along the shore, and then
, moving up and down, and then disap-
, nearing. On Friday morning at two
o'clock, just long enough after Thurs
dav to make it sure that it was Friday,
: and so give apother blow at the world S
, idea of unlucky days-on Friday morn
= ing, Oct. -, 1899, a gun from the Pinta
9 signaled "land ahead"
1 Then the ships lay to, and the boats
= were lowered, and Captain Christopher
S Columbus first stepped upon the shore,
e amid the song of birds and the air a
= 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
c with GLORIA in Excelsis Deo." From
: that day onward you say there can ot
\ nothing for Columbus but honors, re
Il wards. rhapsodies, palaces and worlc
|. wide applause. mol no! On his way
+ back to Spain the ship was so wrencheC
, bv the tempest and so threatened Will
q destruction that he wrote a brief &C
:. count of his discovery and put 1t In 1
r cask and threw it overheard that thu
% world might not lose the advantage o
"a his adventures.
n Hunors awaited him on the beach, bu
e he undertook a second voyage, and witt
D it came all maligning and persecution
/ and denuuciation and poverty. he wa
y called a land grabber, q liar, cheat,
re fraud, u deceiver of nations. Specu
la+ors robbed him of his good name
E. courtiers deprecated his discoveries, ant
VI there came to him ruined health and I'm
" prisonInent and chains, of which he sal
2. while he ratified them on his wrists, -
N will wear them as IL emento or IN
I gratitude of princes" Amid keen al
,t nreciation of the worlds abuse an
~ cruelty, and with body writhlng In tn
al fortunes Of govt he groaned out his las
lt words, lin manus tuas Domino con
m mendo spiritum meum'-'Into tn
at hands. O Lord. l commend my spirit.
2 OF course he had regal Cbsequie:
60 That is the wav the world tries to alton
If for its mean treatment of great beuetat
IN TOYS. Many a man has had a fine rid
IN 10 his grave who during this life had
&c walk all the way A big funeral, All
instead of bread they give him stone
or that is a tombstone. But death, thu
,v brings quiet to the body Of others, did n'
MS bring quiet to his. First buried in IL
TN church of Santa Maria. Seven yeal
n afterward removed to Seville. Twent.
a three wears afterward removed to Sd
is Domingo. Finally removed TO Cub
ge Four postmOrtem journeys from sepu
IS. cher TO sepulcher.
tv | wish his bones might be moved Ju
hit once more, and now that they have con
cly so near to America as Cuba they mlgl
To during the great Columbian year
his transported to our own shores, whe
MS they belong, and that in the fifth ce
. tury after his decease the American co
he tinent might build a mausoleum worth
ed of him who picked this jewel OF a hen
,er sphere out of the sea and set 1t IN I!
off crown of the worlds geography.
he But the bright MONDAY sun OF tn
IA old sailors prosperity went down
to thickest night, and thoueE here al
in there a monument has been lifted in
,rs memory, and here and there city call
ds- after him, the continent that he was t
isk means of founding was named after a
ere other name, and no fitting cOnmemor
an ton of his work has been proposed un
ing nearly four hundred years ''i 'et ms -
ing turned TO dust. May 'he III loSliiS W.
not onstratlon now OelhS hltue III ms liz"
is on the Atlantic coast anu 10 Oe ma
go next year III MS hohoF naiucoii 'iiieiit =:
the brilliant enough anu lar Ieeo',ii'i
the enough ana Chrlsuah ehouSll anu iii'
IN nificent enough to atone for the negl'
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