Show posterity erity unkind to two great conquerors it Is an J irony rony of fate that the bones of the two representatives of spain who had bad most to do with the establishment lish ment of the spanish dominion and the spanish tongue arid anil culture alture in the western hemisphere seem to have been strangely mislaid millaid in tio tho lands that these great men opened to the horld whether the remains of columbus lie at cavana or at santo domingo Is a subject of keen controversy tro versy and of a real historic doubt and now when the government of spain asks the republic of mexico to return to his native country tor for honorable burial the bones ot of iierman cortes the conqueror of At mexico exico it appears that nobody knows just where here the ashes of the conqueror lie ile in both cases Is a strange I 1 story of confusion and neglect both columbus and cortes illustrious discoverers cover ers and pathfinder path finders were more or less ungratefully scorned in their last years great honors were assumed to be paid their bones by a later generation but at santo domingo the record of the exact resting place of the world discoverer faded away to doubt while mexico having hav 1 n 9 claimed the body of cortes from ills fatherland and en enshrined it at the capital presently shifted it from pillar to post and now we fire are told that no one knows exactly where it ties lies |