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Show THE OLD AND THE NEW. In this day we arc likely to look back on the accomplishments of the past as being rather modi- ocre. Columbus sailed over the ocean blue, but we make the same trip nowadays in only a fraction of the time of the first voyagers; the pioneers of the west traveled by foot or ox teams, and later by stage coaches, but we now go over the same routes by rail or automobile. So we may get to thinking that the pioneer's in the western world did not do so very much, after all. that was worthy of them. However, a story which comes from Holland serves to show the bravery and sturdy manhood of the early voyagers over the Atlantic ocean. In Amsterdam Am-sterdam is building a duplicate of the "Half Moon," the ship used by Henry Hudson in his trip to Amer- j ica. This vessel is fi3 feet long and of tons bur- A den. They are building the boat to make the jour- ) ney across the Atlantic to take part in the Hudson- y t Fulton celebration, but so far they have been un- YC able to get anybody to attempt to sail the boat on its trans-Atlantic tn'p. With nil the knowledge of ' where the boat wants to go, with the laws of navigation navi-gation fully understood, no sailors can be found who are willing to take the same kind of boat out on a known ocean to a known destination that Henry Hudson and his hardy mariners took out on an unknown un-known ocean to an unkuown destination. We tlo t ' j not know that we blame the sailors of this day for -y f refusing to embark on a 60-foot boat, but the inci- ; I dent gives us a better appreciation of the hardships endured and the bravery displayed by the mariners ; of the sixteenth century. It was in just such ves- 1 j sels that the new world was discovered and the globe circumnavigated. To get the "Half Moon" to tbi side, the makers will be compelled to take her apart I in sections and ship her over in an Atlantic steamer. |