The Newtown bee., 1892-11-11
Four Hundred Years Ago Columbus
Landed on the Shores of the
New World.

! HISTORY GIVES but meager details of thu
/ IL landing; therefore we have taken pains tC
! gather a few Evolutionary notes, thinking they
| may be OF interest just at this time, when the
/ whole world Is echOing SalvoS to his memory
! Tradition is the oral handing down, withou
record, from father to son, from generation Il
/ { 9neration All traditions must, after lapse
| { several hundred years, contain inaccura
| Ties Therefore, i'll peruSal OF the following
due allowance should be made when the ira
ditional account differs from the historical
When Columbus landed he found long CLAIMS
I Indians, and other large game in abundance
! Having foreign rags and an immense amount
| of homesickness and sea sickness on board,
he as unable TO present to the aboriginal
medicine men who boarded him clean bill
of health. He was therefore ordered to lie u
! days i'll quarantine outside the bar else
] come ashore and be fumgated after the Gus
| toms OF the country. He chose the latter, anG
firmly lashed to stake driven in the
| ground. Seven dollars worth OF dry hickory
| wood was piled about him, but before the
| fumigator's torch was applied Columbus re
considered and decided to go to quarantine
| Tue chief Immediately sent tour oarsmen and
Il yawl to take him to his ship and at O'Clock
| that afternoon they went to Quarantine three
miles Off the harDor- Columbus passed a rest
less night and at dayDreak the next morning
he divested himself OF all his infected cloth
ing and SWAIN ashore where he was met
| (seemingly according to appointment by the
chiefs daughter great pow-wOw was raised
when hisspresence became known in the viii
lage, and Dut tor the earnest pleading OF his
fair escort the fumfgating process would have
gone promptly forward. In the absence OF
carboiic acid and other chemical disintect
ants, half a dozeSl gas mains were turned loose
and Ii stalwart young bucks each dragged a
pole-cat to death at the end OF long poles
through the principal avenues OF the village.
The air was fairly blue, no microbe could live
in it l0 minutes within 90 feet of the earth's
surface, DutCOlumbuS feared it meant death
to human beings as veil and he compromised
by drinking quart OF jet black herb tea OF
special bacteria destroying qualities prepar-
ell by the head chiefs head " ife and two 9th
er old hags. Columbus gasped frantically tor
breath, and seeing IL tall pole standing in the
center OF the plaza he made for it, and amid
IA ne
ly to the top and planted himself on the board
above the cloud of disenfectants, but i'll doing
it he had uncohsciously performed great
teat; he climbed with the strength OF despair
and not with the hope OF reward, but as il hap
pened, this was CREASED pole that no young
buck OF the tribe had been able to climb during
games OF the previous days. This gave him
prestige over them at once. He was then Civ
en- the freedom of the town and a halt yard of
red flannel and asked to sit down and make
himself at home. He very weary from
his long swim and from the dearth of fresh
air about the village. But when he attempt
ed to Sit down he had to stand up Tor the
ground at that early morning hour was damp
and cold to a man dressed as he was. Not d
single chair could be found between san Sal
vadOr and the backbone of the Rocky Noun
tainS. (Baker was not running the furniture
business at Hawleyville then). Columbus
stood around in the hot burning sun all the
forenoon and brushed flies, to the great
amusement OF the tougher skinned natives.
He proposed sending Off to the ship for full
dress suit and one OF his servants. But one
clan of the tribe came from the vicinity OF
Fire Island and they swore that If a rag of
clothing or any of his men were landed they
would mob them and cast them into the sea-
have TN injunction served on the whole crew
and turn loose another dose of disinfectantS
The black herb tea was perineatiug Column
buss whole internal system with its nauseat-
ing bacteria destroying qurlities. The heat of
the sun was intense; he was swollen and dis
figured with fly and insect bites and was one
solid blister from head to foot. When he
came down from the creased pole he OF course
took all the loose sIIvers with him These
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he bore all without n murmer, in fact he had
become so Injured to pain that when he mad
rolled from the campfire tor cooking purpos-
es he did not know that anything was wrong
until an Old hag rushed i'll from an adjoining
tepee-where she had been awakened by the
smell OF burning meat-and pulled him OFT.
Columbus was compelled to fast and give the
herb tea tull sway in his system until the third
day at the eleventh hour, when he was served
with a bountiful repast, the very best the
camp afforded. He was ofcourse very hungry
muskrats and "a leg OF opposum besides num-
erous smaller dishes, after which he utterly
refreshing sleep be had had in weeks. Amer
ica was then discovered and the victory won.
He could well drop care and anxiety and give
up to the demands OF overtaXed nature. His
tory tells us how his men had mutined and
threatened time after time to cast him into
the sea. Every hour for weeks had been
traught with anxiety and peril. This had
been indeed an eventful voyage, full of hard
ships and hope long deferred. All honor to
the name OF Columbus. Let the bands play,
the professions form and the eagle scream !;
the name is well worthy the salvos and the
homage being paid in this and foreign lands.
We had intended to follow the stirring events
of his career tor 10 days longer, and also to
make a few remarks concerning the furniture
business at Hawleyvilie, but space will not
admit, and even the fuf ufniture business must
be dwarfed into insignificance and not men
toned in the same column nor the same
week that we ponder upon the ilustrious
deeds of that great man, who blistered his
back and slivered his limbs while discover
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ther particulars see Ancient History and No
Yemier issues OF TIE NEMTowN BEE, A. d.