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1t wasa great show, the greatest show
on earth, T reckon. I wanted to go and.
see it, but I didn't 60. I tried to get in
on the ground floor for myself and my
wife, butt couldent, and as I dident
have money enough for two I concluded
to stay at home. That's loyalty-con-
jugal loyalty. There was another rea-
son. heard man talking about an
other man and be said: "Yes, dogon
him, he can 60 to Chicago and take his
wife. but be can't pay me that grocery
bill he's been owing me for six months"
I owe a few of these darn little just
debts myself, and I dident want to be
talked about, go it's ali right, It's an
I awful time to be sending the money
out of the country anyhow and getting
nothing back but pleasure. It's we'll
enough to celebrate Columbus and
make great display, but the times are
unfortunate and the great United States
Senate won't do anything but draw
their pay, and everything is demoral-
lied. I wish now we had let Mr..
Columbus alone. LEAD US not into
temptation" is good prayer. If there
had been no fair nobody would have
wanted to 90 and our money would
have been kept at home. Columbus
wasent such wonderful man no how.
He dident mean 10 discover America,
and he dident know he had discovered
a new continent when he landed. He
was on the make. He stole Indians and
carried them away and sold them.
history does not make him a great
man nor good man, but he was an
enterprising navigator and was sue
cess, that's all. I would rather have
been Galileo than Columbus. He dis
covered far bigger thing and did it on
purpose. It was not an accident. He
discovered the universe, the solar sys-
tenn and declared it to mankind. My
admiration for him is profound, and I
wish the schoo!boys and girls to read
about him and think about him. It
was just 800 years ago this month that
! he convinced himself that the sun did
not 60 around the earth, but the earth
went around the sun. What stupen-
dous assertion for any man to make:
Just think oft! For thousands Of years
every body had seen the sun to rise and
set and rise again every twenty-four
hours, and nobody doubted or suspected
but what it went around the earth and
that the earth was stationary. 1t does
look that way. doesent it? No wonder
everybody believed it. Joshua believed
it when he commanded the sun to
stand still on Gideon. Solomon believed
it, and so did all the astronomers of
Egypt and of Greece and Rome. So
did Shakespeare and Bacon and the
wise men of England. How could any
man dare to say that the earth went
around the sun, making a circuit of
200, 100000 miles ina year and get back
to the same Identical spot from whence
it started? Columbus dident do any
thing or know anything to be compared
to it. Galileo upset and destroyed the
theory of ages and he challenged the
astronomers and the mathematicians
of the world to listen to him and to
come and examine his proofs. That
was only 800 years ago. Just think how
long the world had slept in utter igno-
rance Of the grandest thing the human
mind can contemplate-the solar sys
tenn. We ought to have celebrated Cali
leo in some way this very year. Colum-
bus discovered continent, but didn't
know it. Calico discovered a universe
and did know 1t. Copernicus had in
timid way declared the same solar sys-
tenn some fifty years before, but he died
without converts, and his theory died
with him. Even Galileo kept it Sc
cret for seven years. He was afraid of
the pope. and after he did announce it
lie was put in prison and kept in
dungeon until his health broke down
and his wife did like Jobs wife. She
begged him to recant and say he had
lied and he did it. It was a memorable
sight, the scene of that recantation.
The great philosopher down on his
knees before the pope aud in the pre-
sence of cardinals and priests and
learned men, swearing with uplifted
hands that the earth did not 60 around
the sun, but the sun went around the
earth every day. But as ne rose up and
retired from the pope's presence he
whispered to afriend, II have reeanted
and abjured only to save my life. The
earth does revolve on its axis and
around the SUM-" Then for seven years
be had to 60 before the prizes. three
times g week and recite the seven
penitential psalms as en- atonement for
his heresy. The pope and the priest
hood declared his new theory to be
heresy because it contradicted the Bible.
Galileo had made him a telescope, the
first one ever made. He made the tube
out Of an old organ pipe and got
spectacle maker to grind him a concave
glass for one end and a convex glass
for the other, and then to his surprise
and delight he saw stars, more stars,
new stars. he improved the telescope
uItil it magnified thirty times and he
saw the moons of Jupiter.
When he announced his discoveries,
wise men said be was crank, fanatic,
fool. They said that any star or
planet that could not be seen with the
naked eye was not intended to be seen
and it was sacrilige to pry into the