Show PEARY AND COLUMBUS I In Hamptons Hampton's Magazine for br December E. E L. L BarI Bar- Bar ker sa s of Commander Peary We Wc o or oI the twentieth S Heth century are are arc too near this man in point of time to jee cc him in his true tru historical perspective but the labor of Columbus in giving to the world another hemisphere was easy and brief compared S with Peary Peary- Columbus had a vision raised the tile tileS S money for an expedition sailed straight out ont and andon andon on one dash discovered that the vision was reality To compare Pear Peary's s 's achievement to that of or Columbus Co co- lumbus shows how prone we are are arc to forget fa facts ts S aid d to chase the hero of the hour Pear Peary sought t reach a which was perfectly well l known tad old his achievement as a matter of physical and mental endurance urance is entitled to great praise e jut but ut utI j I it is not on tho tilo same plane with the work of Co Co- S. S 1 bus H ii II took in th the truth that the world being be ing ng round to sail to the west long enough gh wo woUd id bring back one to the point of starting though he lie would come in from the cast east Columbus made one mistake he did not estimate the proper size of the earth and to his dying day dayS S we believe his thought was that he had discovered S the other side of o India That a great new continent continent continent conti conti- nent had been uncovered by bJ him he h ne never neer er realized that he lie had demonstrated too that the old theOl theory of the earth was all wrong that it was a globe S that it was but a rolling world amid greater rolling rollingS rolling'S S 'S worlds he understood and his achievement was precisely pre- pre w j eisely such as it would b be toda today were some genius 5 t to declare that it was feasible to reach Venus or orS S j Mars fars and then to actually a accomplish it And to toS S think of what that would be for one moment dwarfs Mr rr lr Peary's achievement ement down clown to the com corn He was filled with that same spirit spir t th that t Henry Hudson was that other mariners have c 5 entertained for years ears but he lie did not dream of ofA A changing all all all' mens men's ideas about tile the world they live Jive in and the fact manifest mauiS mani maui making by a single voyage S fest that this world is with the rest in the swim and nade made clear the splendor of the universe and of the power that launched the worlds that float in the theether 1 ether into space and holds them stead steady on th their ir mighty might voyages u- u S |