Show GIVE HIM A BACK SEAT ix IN a brief paragraph in yesterday g alws it was noted how industrious a and nd untiring a worker the idol is ie he la Is truly insatiable and his banff of operations ta is without dimitor limit or bound so BO far as an known he lg 18 now after no less a person than christopher colum bus whose niche in the to topie temple pie of fama a has been considered so much lower than his achievements warranted that it was deemed impossible to dislodge him from it unless 4 it was wag to place him higher but the iconoclast will not not have it that way he does not work to elevate or advance but to drug down n or besmirch we all recall how he has several everal times even tried his maraud log ln hand band on george washington with the gratifying effect however that so go far the father of his hie country occupies the pedestal on which he was placed placelia pl a century or more ago the question now asked by the professional dro fess ional is whet whether er or not hot ca columbus on his third and fourth voyages actually set foot on Ameri american caw soll soil jt it being conceded that he be cami wa not within hailing distance dle tance not even in sight bight of the western shores on the chev brat and beconi voyage of course tf it the question stated is a answered negatively and correctly go BO christopher collapses and the romantic find and reve estial halo balo with which succeeds ages have crowned him disappears anil thin air like the misty shadows of 4 ft dream and then what t it seems that the he lit literary arary wil w worms base their cone conclusion ram a columbus on the following stated facts the navigator went of i side aide of costa ries bic and to the for southern the first time he heard of the there ahead thle this caused him to be fieve reat that he be had reached a p point beyond beve the BOY bay of bengal and he which was looking for a passage way by which wow waa an entrance into it and upon geographical error stupendous this he rested his conclusion that the globe as supposed or that was wag not so large an awful the early estimates since ince bad taken place he thought shrinking few days asil fro in the but a he be was when in reality mouth of the ganges that distance from the he was just american mainland and that he be west never got we any ask further wi cui borio boral all such again must be more or lessin lea sIB accounts imaginative and difficult to distinct investing them with a corresponding trace grace degree of incredibility where regarding the credit of arises a doubt should bould it not as in disco discovery aery why in favor of be construed of law a case IOD Is in it not a little in possess possession the one will believe singular that some people chain of but continuous all that an with the earliest history bistor y beginning of the man in question and exploits down with but slight inter on coming present time Is less to ructions to the adverse conclusion than an be rolled relied on arrived at by some intellectual maker tour four centuries later mischief ten days till bands only it is now 4 will be playing flags flying buildings f loaded with decolati deco rati 0 do eloquence and drifting rifting the detonating effects gg general air the streets surrena sur rend ered to gaudy pageants flanked banked by wonder gamins gaining who mouthed openmouthed i open and it if ie with this what it all means last lisot named class that the iconoclast who know what its it is would have us for and why train let us respect respectfully decline let columbus day come and go without so I 1 much as an unpleasant thought or re to war mar the general effect or of that old fluid 1 without even a drop so BO much 0 of f which is alleged to have dawned yawned between columbus last and the eastern topping g place shore bore of north america being thrown upon the proceedings doings it will be so here in our mountain home and appreciate the where we recognize works I 1 and merits of pioneering skill and it ought to be so JJ and n d fortitude everywhere let the idol wrecker take cake a back seat for that day at least I 1 |