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Show H (IIW: HIM A IUIK hEAT. HKH IK a brief paragraph In yeiterday'a HjUC Nhvn It was noted how Induitrloue HHH aud untiring a worker tho Idol imathcr HJHJ l. Ho It truly Intatlable, and lila rauge HBH of operation! la without limit or bound Uflln io far aa known, He It now after no DHJR leiinpenon than Chrlttopber Colum- BlEm ",u W'UH nlelio In the temple of fame BJE1 hai been comldered eo ranch lower HHH than hit achievement! warranted that BMBH It waa deemed Impossible to dlelodgv flHSI hlmfromltunleit It wai to phco hlni BHWI higher, llut tho Iconocls.l will not BHHi havoltthat way; he does not work to BflH elevate or advauco but to drag down or HBH beninlrch. We all rtcnll how he hat HflBJ eoveral timet even tried hit mari"dlog BHOI hand on Qeorge Washington, w' i the BBH gratifying edict, howover, that io far IBHI the Kathr of lilt Country occuplca QBJH the pedettal on which ho waa placed a NHjM century or more ago. HHHj T''u 'luellon now atked by the pro HHH feetlonal undermluer U whether or not HHb Culumbut on hit third aud fourth IBhRI voyaget actually let foot on American HJjH toll. It biln; conceded that he wai HBUm not within hailing dl.tnnce not even HHjBlI In tight of the wettern ihorea on the HjUW Hrkt anl lecond oyager, of courie If HHHffl the (jutttlon itated U autwered nega. HHCJl lively and correctly to, Chrlttopber HJCl collaetand the romantlu and ruvu- BBffl entlal halo with which eucceedlug BBJH agea ha7e crowned lilra dliappvari Into HBH thin air llko the ml-ty ihadoxa of a HHH dream and then what? HJHu " ,tl'm that the literary uood BBHJ worrua base their conolutlout anent BBmH Columbutou the following ttatemeut HHH of (alleged) faitt: The navigator went HHH to the aouthern tide of Cotta Hint and HHIh there for the tint time he litard of the HHjK great ocean ahead; thltcauted hlmto be. HJHn "0, that he had reacbid a point beyoud HHc! which wai the Day of llengal, and he BKEi wai looking for utastngo way by which HHH to ellect an entrance luto It. A nd upon HHK thli etupendoui geographical error HHk herttei hltconolutlon that the globe HHQw vi' u0 " '"rB u1 ""l'l'toJ or that BBH1 iluco the early eatlmatei an awful BBjIll ihrluklug had taken place, lie thought HBbSi he waa but a fow dajt' till from the iHJHi mouth of the Qangei, when In reality BHjwt he waijutt that dlttauoe from the HjHJu: American maluland, aud that he IHHf I, never got any further wett. il HB Again wu uk, cuf lotto I All tucli UB ( accounta rnutt be moro or lebt lu I HB distinct, Imaglnatlvu aud difficult to I HB traco, Inveatlng Ihem with n cotrct. I IIR ponding degree of Inoredlbllltyi Where (I ulfR i a doubt arltee regurdlna the credit uf 'V Wm dltcovery, why ihould It not, a lu j H nj ' cu" ' he oouttrued In favor of .i,Vt HHBk bhhhihhhhh IhoonelnpHseaibn? It It not a Utile tlugular that tomo people will believe that an all but continuous chain of hltlory, beginning with the enrllett exploit! of tho nun lu question nnd coming on down with but slight Inter ruptlous to the prosont tlmo, It lets to bo relied on than an adverse concluilon con-cluilon arrived at by some Intellectual mlscblefinnker four centurlei liter? Ills now only ten daya till bands will be playing, flag! lljlnif, building! loaded with decoration!, doquiuceaud general detouatlmt cfleota rilling the circumambient air, the ttreeU lurrend eroJ to gaudy pageanla flanked by open-mouthed gamlm who wonder what It all means; an J It II with this lait-named class that 'the Iconoclast would havo us who know what It la for and why train. Lot ui ru'pcctfully dootlne. Let Columbus Day come aud go without eo much ajnn unpleasant thought or reflection re-flection to mar tho general tiled without oven a drop of that oil J fluid eo much of which tl allegod to have yawned Mwom Columbus' latt stopping place and the eastern sboro of North Amerlcs btlug thrown upon the proceedings. It will be to hero In our Mountain Homo where we rccognlre aud appreciate tho workt and merits of pioneering skill and fortitude, aud It ou?ht to he to everywhere. Let tbo IdoNwrecker liko a back teat for that day at lent I |
