The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-11-03
STAYED AT HOME,

hEIT 81 "A l. I'D Il l HUH =,
Why lie Did Net see the Great Columbian
Exposition Small Dana Account.
Itwas a great show, the greatest
show on earth, lreakon. wanted to
90 ana see il. Jnt | didn't. tried to
get lnoa tie ground Goor for myself
and wife. ut [ cuuldnt. and AZ did
not have money enough for two con
clulyd to stay at home That's 10y
a.ty--cuniugll loyalty. There was
another reason. ! heard man talk
ing about another man and he said:
Yes. dogon him, he can 60 to Chica-
20 and take his wife, but he can't pay /
me that grocery bill he's been owing |
me for six months ] owe a few OF
these darn little just debts myself, /
and | didn't want to b. talked about, |
so it's all right. It's an awful time
to be sending the money ont Of the
country anyhow and getting nothing
! back but pleasure. It's well enough
to celebrate Columbus and make Il
great display, but the times are un-
/ fortunate, ,ani the great United states
Senate won't do anything but draw
their p9y and everything is democrat
| lied. | wish now We had let Mr..
Columbus alone. Lead US not into
temptation," is a good prayer. II
there had been no fair nobody would
have wanted to go and our money
would have been kept at home. Co.
lumbuS wasn't such a wonderful man
nohow. He didn't mean to discover
America, and he didn't know he had
discovered new continent when he
landed. He was on the make. lie
stole Indians and carried them away
and sold them History does not
make him a great man nor i good
. man. but he WAS an enterprlsiAg nav
iga or, and was success. that's all.
S would rather have been Calico than
Columbus. He discovered 4 far bigger
thing and did it on purpose. 1t was
not in accident He discovered the
! universe. the solar system, and de-
t c!arcd it to mankind. My admiration
for him is profound, and | wish the
I sch00lbOyS and girls to read about
him and think about him. 1t was
Just 800 years ago this month that he
4 convinced himself that the sun die
= nat 60 around the earth, but The
It earth went around the sun. What
a stupend0us assertion for any mar
!, to make. Just think of it! Fo
:, thousands Of years everybody hat
seen the SUN rise and set and rist
g again every twcnty-four hours. snt
y nobody doubted or suspected bU
, what it went around the earth ant
that the earth was stationary. II doe
M look that way, doesn't it.? No wen
pt der everybody believed it. Joshua be
}; liey2d it when he c1mmandel IT,
Z. san to stand still on Gideon. Solo
Us mon believed IL, ana so did all the as
IN tronomers OF Egypt and Greece IN
in Rome. So did Shakespeare and Ba
con and the wise men of England
he How couil any MA dare to say tina
N the earth went around the sun, max
=" ing circuit of 20O.000,000 miles in
year ana get back to the same ldent
Ia cal spot from whence II started: C(
elk lupbus didn't do anything or didD
M know anything compared to it. Ga
''g jle0 upset and destroyed the ii cory
ages and he challenged the astron
zen mers and the mathcmatieiaHs OF Il
ny world to listen to him and TO cen
OF aud cysmine his proofs. That W;
~ only 800 wears ago. just think hu
,at long the world hn slept in utter j
nnrWnce Of the grandest thing the h
all m IN mind can contemplate-the sol
HE system. We ought TO have celebra
'na ed Calico in some way this very yea
m. Columbus discovered il continent. b
X didn't know it. Calico discovered
'ht universe and did know it. Coperl
Gus had in d timd way declared Il
,he same solar system some fifty years |
,m, ~" fore, but lie died without convert
lis and his theory died with him. Ev
900 Galilco kept it secret for sew
Gus years. He was afraid OF the pope,a,
ay after lie did announce it he WAS ?
in prison and kept in dungeon un
.,,, his health broke down and his VI
nan did like Jobs wife. She begged n
iay to recant aud say that he had II
ser and he did it. II WAS a memorial
pp'" night, the scene Of that recantatt
GUS The great philosophers down on !
in knees before the pope and IN the pr
not encc OF cardinals and priests a
- =, learned men, swearing with upllft
hands that the earth did not