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Show H tiii: mould's nut. H It It a llltlo more llisn half Jtnr H pit! the fout hundredth mile-pott on H the highway of lime since Iho famed M (leuocse navigator dltenibarkcd at Ban H H.lvador anil threw open the nates of m a new worlJ. rrevlous to that the H Azorei were the limit ol Toynitlois H westward and the slilra hsd Rone no 1 further south thnn to round the flirt H great projection Into tho Atlantic from H the African coast. With nil tbU and B the meagerneiis of the capacity of sail- H Ins craft at that timo considered, In- H getbtrwlth the prlmltlvo and Imfll- H olenttclcnlinoapparttui available, the B voyage serosa tho waste of wators was B like plunging Into the depths of space B In quest of a new tlar. It win ren- m dored all Hie more Irksome, d I 111 cult M and qtioatlonablo by rosson of every. B tiling resting on faith In ono man H through whom eriltence and B the providential Intervention! which BJs came, ships woro oMalntd and Hflf manned, followed by a sstlos B of reveries and dlssoursgoraenlt, each B tending to dlmlnlih the conlldence to long in forming and to Increase tho reluctance then iu pnvalent to render- M log nil. It was a herculean tatk lo PSA obtain anything, for thu niauea were Ignorant nnd poor, the others were haughty and self nullified. Mibon B contained tin only aclontlflo society and Portugal would o nothing. How many men lu this day of fait ships, perfected Instruments, willing crews, fl and societies and government, rtady to aid, presuming thereto bo an undla- BBM covered continent In somu unknown and distant quarter, could be found that, In the faco of rebull after rebufT, BB discouragements at every turn, poverty BB almost beyond expression and the H first attempt on which everything H seomed to hang proving a Ml- H ure, would not havo aban- H dontd the enterprise In deapalr and H let the soul's grand conceptlou perlah B whero It was born? Is It not plain H that where a superhumsn and appar H ently Impossible task Is to bo perform. H ed, there arises at the proper time H and In tho proper place the proper man H to do It one without whom It could H not or would not be done at all? B Christopher Columbus was an In- H aplreii mau; he had a work" It perform H and the melting away of all barrlera H irected by unyielding nature and B unfriendly man between him and It BBg must havo been as lain to him when BBw petitioning courts and begging for BbB bread as when with bis mortal vision BB he beheld It. Little by little InoreduN Bbm Ity gave way to thinking and rtaiou- BBl Ing, and eventually behold upon the BBl broad, billowy breast of the Atlantic BB a llltlo fleet with a gal- BBl Isnt crew bidding adieu to BBV the Old World and headed for no BBV one knew where, no one but Colum- BftB bus, and be could not tell! BBw That was tho beginning of the grand- BBl est consummation by man relating lo BBfl old Mother Karth. Today, amid all BBl the pomp, ride and circumstance BBp which the cultivated mind could de- BBf vIig or tho trained hand execute, tho BBl plnnaclo of that consummation was BBf reached and crowned. In the preseuce BBg of vast multitudes from beyond tho H seaaand from all pails of Columbia, B repreaentlng overy clime from tho H equator to the polct, evtry condition H from the prince to the pcaaaut, evory H form of worablp from Iho Intelligent B and devout follower In the footatepsof H tueJMastor down to and Including the H worshiper of graven linsgea or Ilia euu, H every occutatlon lu lift and well BBg nigh overy product of every land BBl the greatest and grandi.it capo- H eltlou of which history glvea ua H any account was opened, the gatts ol H tho White City were thrown ajar, thu H londeroua tnechaulsm was set lu mo- BBl Hon, tbucouutlias ubjeots ol lutcroat H nnd curiosity and mechaulaui nnd art H were brought Into view. BBg It was lu overy way lilting that the BBb chief maglatralu of thu United Htatts H should bo asslated lu the work of opiu- BBh Ing tho Fair by n lluinl dtscuudaut of BBl tho man through whoie mlaalou not B only the thow but Iho nation Ititlf BBh wero made potrlble. As nearly as H could be thu l)licoery and tho fruits H thereof Mere brought face to face. BjflB Tholulorveulng Incidents by whlih BBBJ the two aru oouneolud aru nutters uf H reoord aud familiar to most civilized H leople lu bolh hemlsi buret; but riolh- H Ing could give such vlvlJutm and H virility to the epochs of the Immedlalo BBS past as thu s octaclo of thedlacoverir'i BBS deicendaut mingling frtely with tbu BBS newt r racu brought Into bilug through BHB thu discovery. Aud how appropriate, BjBB how osllo It Is that one of the grand- BBl (StolJellBCDiilron'.lug hliu und them BHB st tho Fair Is a coiuiuoibus nud elt- BBV gantly uppoluttd structure by aud for BBV womunl Hut for the work nnd lullueiico BjBB of a woman tils nuicslor could not BjBB havu sailed, and had hu not sailed BBb there wbuld bu l.o aistmbled tlioukauda BBV admiring the Kondcrfiil and tho beau- BBh tllul In Chicago today, BBm Tho sincere hole that should II ud BjBB lodgment iu the brtart of iury cltlten BHB Is that no uufivorallo ikiuenU may H prevail and nolhlng uuproplllout or. H cur lu curtail lu tho slightest deguo H thugenural illcctof 111" tcenu or 1 10 H injojment of thoto uhwUlt It; lut H that all may be fr.vorablu ant uih H particular faturu boat its best. It !- H uoltsin patriotic tlmn u coiinlcnud H aclentltlo cxhlbltlou und as such wo H take pride and tloaturo lu It whether present or abtenl. I.ct tho declaim go forth from far and wide All hall nnd overy sneoess to tho World's Columbian Colum-bian KipMltlonl |