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would be. She sat there q long, long
time, her thoughts lingering tenderly
on the boy who had robbed his bank to
purchase sticking plaster for Harry
Burganaut's head.-Youth's Compan.
ion.
COLUMBUS NO GREAT SHAKES.
Bill Arp Stayed Away from the
Worlds Fair-His Bank Account
Was Small and He Couldn't Take
His Wife.
Y Atlanta Constitution.
show On earth, l reckon. I wanted ia
go and SEQ it, but / dident go. 1 tried
to get in on the ground floor for myself
and my wife, but I couldent, and as |
dident have money enough for two !
concluded to stay at home. That's
loyalty-conjugal loyalty. There was
another reason. I heard q man talking
about another MAJ and he said "Yes.
dogon him, he can go to Chicago
and take his wife, but can't pay me
that grocery bill he's been owing me
for six months" l owe a few of these
darn little just debts myself, and |
dldent want to be talked about, 30 it's
all right. It's an awful time to be
oSAoAhS ohS ihohSy ouO vi Ulc COuuIFy
anyhow and getting nothing back but
pleasure. It's we'll enough to celebrate
Columbus and make a great display,
but the times are unfortunate and the
great United States Senate won't do
anything but draw their paw, and
everything is demoralized.
I wish now we had let Mr.. Columbus
alone. LEAD us not into temptation
is d good prayer. If there had been
no fair nobody would have wanted to
J go and our money would have been
kept at home. Columbus wasent such
a wonderful man no how. He dident
mean to discover America, and he
dldent know he had discovered a new
continent when he landed. He was on
the make. Ho stole indians and carried
them away and sold them. History
does not make him q great man nor q
good man, but he was an enterprising
navigator and was a success, that's all.
would rather have been Calico than
Columbus. Ho discovered a far big
ger thing and did it on purpose. It
was not an accident. He discovered
the universe, the solar system and
declared it to mankink. My admi-
ration for him is profound, and 1 wish
the schOolboys and girls to read about
him and think about him.
1t was just 300 years ago this month
that he convinced himself that the
sun did not &c around the earth, but
the earth wont AROUND the sun. What
a ~stupendOus assertion for any man to
make just think Of it For thous-
ands OF years everybody 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 tho sun to stand still on
Gideon. Solomon beloved it, and so
did all the astronomers Of Egypt and
of Greece and Rome. So did Shake.
speare and Bacon and the wise men Of
England. How could any nan dare to
say that the earth went around the
sun, making a circuit of zoo, 600, 900
miles in Il 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.
Calico upset and destroyed the
theory of ages and he challenged the
astronomers and the mathematicians of
tho world to listen to him and to come
and examine his proofs. That vas
only 300 years ago. Just think how
long the world hrd slept in utter
Ignorance of tho grandest thing the
human mind a contemplate-the
brated Calico in some way this very
year. Columbus discovered a con-
%tincnt, but dident know it. Calico
discovered o universe and did know it.
C~Opernicus had in u timid way de-
clarcd the same solar system some
fifty years before, bnt he died without
converts, and his theory died with
him. Even Calico kept it a secret
for seven years. He was afraid of the
pope, and after he did announce it he
was put in prison and kept in a 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.
1t was a memorable sight, the scene
OF that recantation. The great philo-
sopher down OH his knees before the
pope and in the presence of cardinals
and priests and learned men, swearing
with uplifted hands that the earth did
not go around the sun, but the sun
went around the earth every day. But
az he rose up and retired from the
pope's presence he whispered to q
friend, 81 have rocanted and abjured
only to save my life. The earth does
rcvolve on its axis and around tho
sun" Then for sever years he had to
go before the priest three times a
week and recite the seven p%enitential
psalms as aneatonement for his heresy.
The pope and The priesthood declared
his new theory to be heresy because it
contradicted the Bible.
+, Calico had made him q telescope,
the first one eve made. He made tho
tube cut Of an old organ pipe and got u
spectacle maker to grind him a con-
cave glass Or n 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 until 1t magnified thirty
times and he saw the moons of Jupiter.
When no announced his discoveries,
the wise men said he was o. crank, q
fanatic, q fool. They said that any
star or planet that could not be seen
with the naked eye was not intended to
be een and 1t was sacrilege to pry into
the mysteries of God. They said there
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