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COLUMBUS DAY.
Dr. Tolmago Speaks of Columbus
and His Dlscovorlos.
Tha Urrnt Knvlfrntiir Wan Directed Iljr tioil
to Lift Up III i:yrs Wtururil-In-
clilcntu of tlio Vnyngo Graph-
Iciilly I)rrrlbpil.
Thu voyago of Columbus was the sul
jeet of n late discourse by Uov. T. De
WlttTnlmngo at Hrooklyi'i. Thu text
being Deuteronomy 111. "37: "Lift up
thine eyes westward." Dr. Tnlmago
n Id:
So Hod said to Moses In Illblo times,
nnd so he said to Chrlstoforo Colombo,
the son of a wooleomborof (lenoa, more
than -100 years ngo. The nations had
been looking ehlelly toward tho east.
Tho sculpture of tho world, tho
architecture of the world, tho
laws of the world, tho philo
sophy of the world, the civilization of
the world, the religion of thu world
came from the cast. Hut while Colum
bus, as his name was called after it was
Latinized, blood studying maps nnd ex
amining globes and reading cosmogra
phy, (lod said to him: "Lift up
thine eyes toward .the west." The
fact was it must have seemed
to Columbus a very lop-sided
world. Like a cart with ono wheel,
like a scissor with one blade, like a
sack on one side of a camel, needing a
sack on the other side to balnuco It
Hero was a bride of a world with no
bridegroom. When (toil makes a half
of anything, lie docs not stop there.
Ue makes the other half. We are all
obliged .sometimes to leave things half
done. Hut CSod never stops half way,
because He has tho time and the power
to go all the way. I do tint wonder
thnt Columbus was not satisfied with a
half uojl, ami so wont to work to Hud
the othoT half. Tim pieces of curved
wood that were floated to tho sh res of
Europe by a westerly gale, anil two
dead human faces unlike anything ho
had seen before, likowlso 'floated from
the west, were to him the voice of God,
saying: "Lift up thlnu eyes toward tho
west" Hut tho world then as now had
plenty of "can't bu dunes." That Is
what keeps Individuals luck and enter
prises back and the church back and na
tions back ignominious anddlsgustlng
and disheartening "can't bo dones."
Old navigators r.ald to young Columbus,
"It can't bo done." Tho republic of
Genoa said: "It can't bo done." Al
phonso V. said: "It can't bo done." A
committee on maritime affairs, to whom
the subject was submitted, declared:
"Itcan'tbo done." Venetians said: "It
can't bo done." lint the father of Co
lumbus' wife died, leaving his widow a
large number of sea charts and maps,
and as If to condemn the slur that dif
ferent nges put upon mothers-in-law,
tho mother-in-law of Columbus gave
him tho navigator's materials, out of
which ho ciphered America. After a
while tho story of this poar but am
bitions Columbus reaches tho car of
Queen Isabella, nnd she pays eighty
dollars to buy him a decent suit of
clothes, so that ho may 1)3 lit to appear
beforo royalty. Tho intervlow In tho
palace was successful. Money enough
was borrowed to fit out tho expedition.
There they are, tho three ships, In the
gulf of Cadi, Spain. If you ask mo
which have been the most famous boats
of tho world, I would say. first, Noah's
ship, that wharfed on Mount Ararat;
second, tho boat of bulrushes In which
Moses floated the Nile; third, tho May
flower, that put out from Plymouth
with tho Pilgrim fathers; and now
theso threo vessels that on this,
tho Friday morning, August 3,
14'J2. are rocking on tho ripples. I
nm boglad It Is Friday, so that tho prows
of thoso three ships shall first of all
run down tho superstition that things
begun or voyage started on Friday
must necessarily provo disastrous.
Show mo tiny Monday or Tuesday or
Wednesday or Thursday or Saturday
that ever accomplished as much ns this
expedition that started on Friday. With
tho idea that that thero will be perils
connected with the expedition tho sac
rament of tho Lord's supper Is ad
ministered. Do not forget that this
voyage- was begun under religious
auspices. Thero is the Santa Maria,
only ninety feet long, with four masts
and olght anchors. Tho captain
walking tlui deck is 57 youra old,
his hair white, fur when "tt ho
was gray, and his face is round, his
noso aquiline and his stature a littta
teller than tho average. I know from
his decided stp and tho set of his jaw
that ho is a determined man. That is
Capt Christopher Columbus. Near by,
but fur enough off not to run Into each
other, arc tho smaller ships, tho Plntu
and tho Nina, about largo enough and
safe enough to cross tho Hudson river or
tho Thames in good weather. Thero aro
two doctors In this fleet and a few lands
men, lid venturers roadv to risk their
necks in a wild expedition. Thero are
enough provisions for a year. "CapU
Columbus, where nro you sailing for?"
"I do not know." "How long beforo
you will get there?" "I cannot say."
"All ashore that aro going," is heard,
and thoso who wish to remain go to tho
land. Now tho anchors of tho three
ships nro being weighed and the rat
lines begin to rattlo and tho sails to
unfurl. Tho wind is dead east, and It
docs not take long to get out to sea. In
a fow hours the adventurers wish they
had not started. Tho ships begin to
roll and pitch, O, It is such a delight
ful sensation mi- landsmcnl They be
gin to bother Capt Columbus with
questions. They want to know what
ho thinks of tho weather. They want
to know when ho thinks ha will proba
bly get there. Every time when ho
stands taking observations of tho Run
with nn astrolabe they wonder what
he sees und ask moro questions. Tho
crow aro rather grouty. Some of
thcra camo on under four mouths' ad
vance pay and others wore impressed
Into tho service. For sixteen days tho
wind is dead east and that pleases tho
captain, because it blows them further
and further away from tho European
coast nnd further on toward the shore
of another country, if there is uny.
After uwhllu there comes a calm
day, nnd the attempt Is made to
fathom the ocean, und they cannot touch
tho bottom, though tho Hue and lend
run down 'J00 fathoms. More delight
ful sensations for those who are not
good sailors! A fathom Is six feet, and
200 fathoms l.uoo feet, and below that
it may be many hundred feet deeper.
To add Interest to the voyage, on tho
twentieth day out, n violent storm swept
tho sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries
what It can do with tho Santa Maria,
tho Pinta and the Nlun. Some of you
know something of what a sea can do
with tho Uinbrln, tho Majestic, tho
Teutonic nnd tho City of Paris, and
must Imagine wliat the ocean could do
with thoso three small ships of olden
time. You may judge what tho ocean
was then by what It Is now; it has never
changed Its habits. It can smile like
tho morning, but often It Is the arch
angel of wrath and Its most rollicking
fun is a shipwreck. Thu mutinous crow
would have killed Columbus had It not
been for tho gencrel opinion on ship
board that hu was the only one that
could take them back homo In safety.
Tho promise of a silk waistcoat and $10
in money to tho man who should first
discover land appeased them somewhat,
but the Indignation and blasphemy and
threats of assassination must have been
awful. Yet, God sustained tho great
sailor commanding tho Santa Maria.
Every evening on shiplnard they had
prayers and sung a vesper hymn. Hut
after all thu p.itlence of these on board
the ships had been exhausted, and tho
great captain or iiilintr.il hud been
cursed by every anathema that human
lips could frame, tine night a sailor saw
u light moving along tho shore, und
then moving up and down, and then
disappearing. On Friday morning tit 2
o'clock, just long enough after Thurs
day to make it sure that it was Friday
and so give another blow at the world's
Idea of unlucky days on Friday morn
ing, October 1J, 1 HU, n gun from tho
Pin tn signalled "land ahead." Then
the ships lay to, and the boats were
lowered, und Capt Christopher Colum
bus first stepped upon the shore, amid
tho song of birds and tho air n surge of
redolence and took possession in tho
name of tho Father and tho Sou and
tho Holy Ghost So the voyage that
began with tho snerament elided with
Gloria In Excelsts Deo. From that day
onwanl you say that there can bo noth
ing for Columbus but honors, rewards,
rhapsodies, palaces ami world wide ap
plause. No, no! On his way back to
Spain tho ship was so wrenched by tho
tempest and threatened with destruc
tion that ho wrote a brief account of his
discovery and put it in u cask and
throw It overboard that tho world might
not lose tho advantage of his adven
tures. Honors awaited him on tho
beach, but ho undertook a second voy
ngo and with it came all maligning und
persecution nnd denunciation nnd pov
erty. He was called a land grubbcf, a
liar, a cheat, a fraud, a deceiver of na
tions. Speculators robbed him of his
good name, courtiers depreciated his
discoveries, and there camo to lilin
ruined health nnd imprisonment und
chains, of which he said whllo ho rat
tled them on his wrists: "I will wear
them as a memento of tho gratitude of
princes." Amid keen appreciation of
tho world's abuse and cruelty, mid with
body writhing in tho tortures of gout,
ho groaned out his last words: "In
matins tuas Domino commciidosplrltuin
moumj" "Into Thy hands O, Lord, I
commend my spirit."
Of courso ho hud regal obssqulcs.
That Is tho way tho world tries to ntono
for its mean treatment of great bene
factors. Many n man has had n flno
rido to his grave who during his life
had to walk all the way. A big funeral,
and instead of bread they glvo him a
stone, that Is, a tombstone. Hut doath
that brings qulut to the body of others
did not bring quiet to his. First burled
in tho church of Santa Maria. Sovcn
years afterward removed to Seville.
Twcnty-threo years ufterward removed
to San Domingo. Finally removed to
Cuba. Four post mortem journeys from
sepulchro to sepulchre. I wish his
bones might be moved just once moro,
and now thnt they have como so near
to America ns Cuba, they might during
the greot Columbian year be transport
ed to our own shores where thoy be
long, and that In tho fifth century after
his dccciiso tho American continent
might build a mausoleum worthy of
him who picked this jewel of a hemi
sphere out of tho sea und act It In the
crown of tho world's geography.
What most impresses mo In all that
wondrous llfo, which, for tho next
twelve months, wo will bo commemor
ating by sermon nud song and military
parado and world's fair and congress of
nations, is something I have never heard
stated, and that is that tho discovery of
America was a religious discovery and
In tho name of God. Columbus, by tho
study of tho prophesies and by what
Zcehnrlah and Micah and David and
Isaiah had said about tho "ends of
tho earth," felt himself called by
God to carry Christianity to the "ends
of tho earth." Then the administration
of tho last supper beforo they loft tho
gulf of Cadiz, and tho evening prayers
during tho voyage, and the dovout as
cription as soon as they saw the now
world, and tho doxologles with which
they landed, confirm mo in saying that
the discovery of America was a religious
discovery. Atheism has no right
here; infidelity has no right hero;
vagabondism has no right here.
And as God is not upt to fall
in any of Ills undertakings (at any rate,
I have never heard of His having any
thing to do with a fulluro), America is
going to bo gospellzod, and from tho
Golden Gate of California to tho Nar
rows of Now York harbor, and from tho
top of North America to tho foot of
South America, from Huhrlng straits to
Capo Horn, this Is golug to bo Iininan
uel's land. All tho forms of irrellglou
and abomination that havo cursed other
parts of tho world will land hero yea,
thoy have already lumlcd and they
will wrangle for the possession of this
hemisphere, und they will make- great
headway and feel themselves almost es
tablished Hut God will uot forgot the
prophesies which encouraged Colum
bus about tho "ends of the earth seeing
tho salvation of God," nor the
Christian anthem which Columbus led
on tho morning of tho 19th of Octo
ber, 1 10'J, on the coast of San Salvador.
Tho great Italian navigator also Im
presses mo with tho Idea that when
one does a good thing hjguannot appro
elate Its ramifications. To the moment
of his death Columbus never knew that'
he had discovered America, but thought
that Cuba was a part of Asia. He
thought the Island HIsputitola wn.s the
Ophirof Solomon. Ho thought ho hud
only opened a new wny to old Asia.
Had lie known what North and South
America were and tire, and that he hod
found a country .'1,000 miles wide, 10,000
miles long, of 17,000,000 square miles,
and four times ns largo us Europe, tho
happiness would havo been too much
for mortal man to endure. Hu had no
Idea that the time would ooniu when a
nation of 00,000,000 people on this side
of the sea would be joined by all
tho Intelligent tuitions on the
other side the sea, for tho most
part of a year reciting his wonderful
deeds. It took centuries to reveal tho
result of that ono transatlantic voyage.
So It has always been. Could Paul, on
that June day, when ho wasdeeapltatod,
have had any ide.t of what effect hit
letters and the account of his life would
havo on Christendom'.1 Could Martin
Luther have hud any Idea of tho echoes
that would ring through the ages from
the bang of his hummer milling the Latin
theses against a church door ut Witten
berg? Could Ell Whlthey have realized
the continents of wealth that would bo
added to tho south by the Invention of
his eotton gin? Could John Guttenberg,
tolling year after year, making type,
and laboriously sotting them Hide by
side, and with presses changed now this
way and now that, und sued by John
Faust for money loaned, and many of
tho peoplo trying to cheat Guttenberg
out of his Invention, he tolling on until
he produced whnt Is known us tho
Mtir.nrin Hlble, have any Idea that, us
a result of his invention, there would
be libraries that placed side by side
would again and again engirdle tho
earth, or tho showers of newspapers
that 'snow tho world under? When
Manhattan island wus sold to tho Dutch
for til, neither they who sold or bought
could havo foreseen New York, tha
commercial metropolis of America, that
now stands on It
While studying the llfo of this Itiillau
navigator, I am also reminded of the
fact that whllo wo are diligently look
ing for ono thing, we find another. Co
lumbus started to find India, but found
America. Go on and do your duty dili
gently and prayerfully, and If you do
not find what you looked for, you will
find something better. Saul was hunt
ing for tho strayed iiulmals of his fath
er's barnyard, but mot Samuel, the
prophet who gave him n crown of do
minion. Nearly all the great inventions
and discoveries were made by men who
at the time were looking for something
else. Prof. Morso gone to Europe to
perfect himself hi chemistry, on return
ing happens to take tho packet ship
Sully from Havre, and whllo In conver
sation with a pusscngcr learns of some
experiments in France, which suggest
to him the magnotlc telegraphy. Ho
went to Europe to learn the wisdom of
others and discovered tho telegraph.
Hargrcavcs by the upsetting of a ma
chine, and tho motion of Its wheels whllo
upsot, discovered tho spinning jenny.
So, my friend, go on faithfully and
promptly with your work nnd If you do
not get tho success you seek and your
plans npset you will get somothing just
as good and perhaps better.
And now, while I am thinking of this
illustrious ship enptain of Genoa, let
mo bespeak higher appreciation for tho
ship captains now in service, many of
them this moment on tho sen, the lives
of tens of thousands of passongers in
their keeping. Whnt an awful respon
sibility is theirs! Thoy go out through
tho Narrows, or start from Queens
town, or Southampton, or Olasgow; not
knowing what cyclone, or collisions, or
midnight perils nro waiting for them.
It requires bravery to face an army of
men, but far moro bravery to fueo an
army of Atlantic surges led on by hur
ricanes. A more stupendous scene is
not to bo witnessed than that of a ship
captain walking tho bridge of a steamer
in tho midst of u cyclono. Ilemomber
those hcroos in your prayers, and when
worn out in the service, and they have
to command inferior craft or return to
tho land nnd go out of service, do thorn
full honor for what they onco woro.
Let tho ship companies award them
pensions w.orthy of what thoy endured
until thoy start on their voyago
from' this world to tho next:
Aye, that voyago wo must ull
take, landsmen as well as sea
farers. Lot us lxj sum that we havo
tho right pilot, and tho right chart, and
tho right captain, and that wo start in
tho right direction. It will bo to each
of us who love the Lord a voyago moro
wonderful fordiscovery than that which
Columbus took, for, after all wo huvo
hoard about tho other world, wo know
not where It Is or how It looks, and It
will bo as now as San Salvador wus to
tho glorious captain of thoSuntn Maria.
"Eyo hath not seen, nor car heard,
neither hnvo entered Into tho heart of
man." May tho light from that golden
beach flash on tho darkness, und wo bo
able to step ashore amid the groves and
orchards and aromas such us this
world's atmosphere never rlponcd or
breathed. Aye, fellow mariners, over
tho rough sea of this llfo, through the
fogs and ralstt of earth, see you not al
ready tho outline of the bettor country?
Land ahead 1 Land ahead! Nearer and
nearer wo como to heavenly wharfage.
Throw out tho planks nnd step ashore
Into tho arms of your kindred, who
havo been waiting and watching for
tho hour of your disembarkation.
Through tho rich grace of Christ, our
Lord, may wo ull have such blissful ar-rlvall
A Natural Huppoiltluii.
"Crulokshauks Is passionately fond of
blcycle-rldtng."
"Yea, I fancied as I saw him take a
header' last evening that ho must bo
hcols over head In love with It" Truth.
Optician "You havo a pretty bad
case of toxic amblyopia," Patient "Will
I havo to take glasses?" Optician
"Rather, you'll have to stop takibg
glasaea" Jeweler's Circular.
THE CANEY ROBBERY.
Tho IIuiiiHIi lt Hut l.lttlfi-The MrMon-
it Hurt.
CorTKYVif.t.K, Kim., Oct II. Un
warned by the fate of tho Dalton band
of desperadoes only a week ago, two
men held up u Missouri Pacific train
ncarCnney. a small town In this vicin
ity shot Express Messenger J. N.
Maxwell through tho arm, broko
opon tho express safe nnd secured all
tho money in tho enr. As tho regular
expre.vs money, except what was des
tined for way stations, had been trans
ferred at Conway Springs, tho booty
was of little value.
Just as tho train drew up at Caney at
10:15 o'clock lust night two masked
men, heavily armed with Winchesters
and revolvers, climbed on the locomo
tive tender from tho front of tho com
bination Kiggagj anil express ear and
covered Engineer Eggleston and his
fireman with thulr rifles. The locomo
tive men were ordered to pull slowly to
the switch, where all was darkness and
wheie thero wus no danger of molesta
tion. This was done.
At tho whistling post the outlaws or
dered tho engineer to stop and made
tho fircimiii uncouple the express car
from thu rest of the train. All this was
done so quietly that no ono In the
coaches was disturhrd.
The engineer wus then ordered to
pull ahead with the express ear and
obeyed, for tho Winchesters held close
to his head looked unpleasantly dan
gerous. When a deep cut, half a mile
further on, had been reached, tho en
gine was halted.
Express Messenger J. N. Maxwell,
who hud witnessed the uncoupling, had
In the meantime blown out his lights,
barred and barricaded tho doors, and
made ready for desperutu resistance.
The order to open up the cur elicited
no response and the robbers began Ur
ine into tlui sides of the car with their
Winchesters. Maxwell answered tho
shots with Ills revolver for a few min
utes, but finally received a bullet ill
his right nrm, which disabled him and
he was fain to surrender.
Tho robbers ordered him to light his
lamps und open the ear door nnd us soon
as ha hud done so they entered thu cur
with the engineer in front of them ns n
shield Maxwell was then forced to
open his safe and deliver up his wntch
and personal property. Thu men then
backed off tho car und disappeared in
the darkness.
Messenger Maxwell, who is now hero
nursing his wound which Is not serious,
declares that tho robbers secured less
than $100 all told
Tho men engaged in tho work were
probably tho sumo ones who last week
held up the stutlon agent ut Sedan.
BANDIT THREATS.
t'ortnyvllle KirltMl Ovit Tlirmt From tlm
Mirvlvora of tlm ltiilton (Inns;.
CorpKVVir.x.K, Kan., Oct U. Again
Is this town tho scene of greut excite
incut Another train robbery has oc
curred almost at Its doors and nil day
wild rumors of a contemplated attack
upon the city by the reorganized Dalton
gang have been afloat
Yesterday morning n telegram signed
by Detective Dodge, of tho Wells-Fargo
Express Co., and dated Wharton, L T.,
was received hero. It stated that a.
largo body of desperadoes had left that
pluco for ColTcyvlllo for tho purpose of
avenging the death of the Daltons,
Powers and Uroadwell.
Tho town was ut onco in nn uproar.
Informal meetings were, hold and tele
grams woro sent to Parsons and Kansas
City asking that Winchesters bo shipped
at once, livery thing Is comparatively
quiet to-day, und very few peoplo
really expect an attack; but if ono is
Hindu the invaders will get a reception
fully as warm as that accorded thu
Daltons October 5.
There Is every reason to bellovo from
tho actions of noma of the men who
havo visited Coffeyvlllo that if Emmet
Dalton recovers sorao steps will bo
taken to liberate him. Tho following
letter recolvcd by John Kloehr, tho
inr.n who has tho credit of killing three
of the Dalton gang, shows at least that
all of tho gang nru n ot dead:
Prom Arkanim City, Octobor, 16'J!;
To John Kloehr:
Uoar Sir: I take tho tlmo to tell you and tho
city of Cofloyvlllo thu all of tho Rang nln't
dsadyotbr a of uslcht and don't rou for-
jrot It I would havo Klvon all I over mado to
havo boon thero on tlm SUi Xhnre aro thrro
or four of thu cinij loft and wo uhull como to
soo you horio day. That (Ut tho Sth ot Octo
bor wo wcro down In tho Chlcltaiaw na
tion. Wo did not know It was coining
off so soon. Wo thought It win oomlns
off November ft, wo shall havo rcvcnw'o
ror your Kiuinz oi nooiinu urat nnd the rc. of
them. You peoplo had no cauio to talco arms
niMlnst tho uanj,'. The b inkers will not hrln the
widows of tho men that got killed thoroandyou
thought you wcro piny In? llro when you killed
threo of us, but your tlraj will goon oaini whan
you will noon go Into tho gruvo and pass In youi
chcchH for tho killing of IJobnnil Joe Uviuis and
Texas Jack. So take warning. Wo will leavo
you In tho bauds of Ood for this tlmo. Yourj
truly, DAtvro.i (UNO.
Tint riipo'a K'lVoy.
Nkw Youic, Oct 14 Archbishop
SatllH, who arrived hero yesterday
morning on tho steamship Majestic,
comes on an important w'sslon. Ho is
.iccompanicd by Mgr. O'Connoll.hlsscc
rotary and interpreter. Tho general
good of the Catholic church will bo con
sidered by the representatives of tho
vutlcrn. Thoy will Investigate tho con
ditio of tho church in this country, its
membership and recent growth. Tho
Faribault school sytom will also bo
studied. A visit will bo first mado to
llaltlmore, and later tho prelates will
go to Chicago and attend tho dedication
of tho Columbian fair. Archbishop
SatllH will represent tho holy see nt the
Columblun exposition.
Shut From Anilnuh.
Nkw Oiilkanh, Oct 14. Tho Times
Democrat's San Antonio special says:
Tho first news reached here two days
ago of tho death under mysterious cir
cumstances of Enrique Palaclos, an
American civil engineer of prominence
in Mexico, at a remote point on tho
Tecolutla & Papantla rullwuy.
A number of tho Amorlcan colony in
this city boton foot an investigation In
to tho cause of tho man's death and dis
covered that hu was murdered and
robbed, being attacked from ambush
by u band of outlaws as ho was making
his way through tho country on a burro,
accompanied by a Mexican servant
PORTRAITS OF COLUMBUS.
Thnv Ar Aliiunt nn lViinirniii as tho
PAiiitu li) tlm sriiiliurr,
The numerous portraits of Columbus,
presenting such wide extremes of up
pcurumv hh to seem absurd, yet hare
enough features In common to provide
good material for creating a mental
picture of Columbus. In jnirson ho
wus tall and shapely, long-faced and
uqulllnc, und had very pule gray eyes. In
early life his complexion wns very flue.
irk- - '-jam
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l.oTtos cot.uwnirs.
In tho generally accepted historical
pictures ho Is represented nn possessed
of mustache and pointed beard.
At thirty his hair was quite gray. Ho
was temperate In eating, drinking nnd
dress, und so strict In religions matters
that for fasting and saying till divine
olllc s he might be thought professor
In some religious order.
Notwithstanding all lie has done for
this count rv some American writers
f
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cuiiisioi'iiim cot.u.Miius.
From a portrait In the Mnrlunmuicum, Madrid.
Lave recently sought to provo thnt his
moral conduct would nut stand the high
test ot a comparison with that of a
New England Sunday school teacher.
Ho was really so devoutly religious
that his slgnaturu Is a duller, said to
moan "Scrvate me, Xrlstus, Maria,
Yoscfus, Chrlstofcrens."
In his later years he suffered from
gout, ophthalmia and other miUndles
which his many hardships brought on.
IDRAT. rOJITIIArr OF COMMML'S.
His night and hearing were quick
and his sense of smell extremely deli
cate, and ho had a great fondness for
perfumes. Even on his voyages he was
fond of having his llnon, which was
very flnc, and his gloves scented with
essence, or moro often with dried
flowers. Otherwiso he was moderate
und simple in diet aud apparel, from
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taste and on principle; he mny bo udded
to the list of great men who confined
themselves as far us possible to vege
table diet and preferred wntor to wluo.
Ho was scrupulously careful of gnrb
and person, even when ho woro tho
garb of an associate of tho order of St
Francis, as ho did whenever clrcum
stances permitted.
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The oldest engraved likeness of Co
lumbus nppoars In a Latin literary
work by Paolo Glovlo (Puulus Jovlus,
in Latin form), dated 1575. This wood
cut is thought to havo been copied from
a plcturo which Jovlus had placed in a
gallery of notable peoplo which ho had
formed in his villa at Lake Como. Tho
ollection is now scattered, but tho por
trait is kuowu to have figured in it
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THE WIFE OF COLUMBUS.
Min Wu a Meiiilinr ot Noliln I lot Tor
tliKtinxo I'll 111 1 1 jr.
Columbus allied himself by marrlngo ,
with an Halo-Portuguese family. Mho
whom ho wus to choose und tako to
wife was named Fell pa Munlz Peru
troll o.
nhe belonged to u uoblo houso asso
ciated with Doin Henry, of Ariz, In hit
explorations und discoveries us well be
cause of their family station ns by tho
grace of the Infante.
Laws llko thoso which In chomlstry
govern thu nfilnlty of combining atoms,
In social Intercourse produce personal
lllultlo8. Tho greatest of all discover
ts was himself destined to wed the
daughter of a discoverer.
Columbus often went to muss on Sun
days anil other obligatory days. His
residence lu Lisbon being near tho con
vent of All Saints, hu resorted thither
to perform his devotions and In his as
siduous attendance there It was his
fate to lw attracted by Dona Fellpa
Muni, until ho sought und obtained
Iter In marriage.
Tho affection of Columbus for tho
young Lusltuuian doubtless possessed
practical features also In view of thu
sailor's desire to live for the realiza
tion in liis riper age of the work ul-
tfpHFr
Tin: win: of coi.mimrs.
ready fully planned in tho latter year
of his exuberant youth. Moreover,
crediting his contemporaries as wo
should, tho Incomparable pilot din
played two trolts capable of turning
tho head I will not nay of Douu Fellpa
but of every woman eloquence and
personal attractiveness.
Ills many graces captivated her
senses, his eloquence her mind. Fellpa
Muni., daughter of Philltpono Pc re
tro! lo, and Christopher Columbus were
in ml e one, In conformity with religion
and Inw, In holy indissoluble wedlock,
In tho year U71. Tho year following
their union a son was born to them
who was baptized in Lisbon nnd named
Diego.
COLUMBUS' DEATH.
lie Ktplred Itobod In tha Hnmbar Habit
of a l'riuiclicnn.
The groat world-finder, to whose
memory much honor la duo and given,
wns in his tlmo variously linown ns
Christopher Columbus, Cristobal Colon
and Chrlstophoro Colombo. Colon is
tho one which appears on tho inner lid
of the small leaden caso which contnlns
ull that now is left of the mortal part
of the great navigator.
He, worn out with nge, hard work
and bad treatment, died on Mav 'JO.
1600, at tho ago of seventy, and was
burled at Valladolld, in Spain
Tha Feast of tho Ascension was tho
day of his death; and ho died robed in
a Franciscan hublt, as his beloved
queen and protector had done
Tho cold and heartless Ferdinand
gavo Columbus u grand fuuarul, think
ing to do himself honor by It, und
seven years afterwards ho reared to
Columbus a marble tomb, whoso in
scription has sinco become famous,
both for Itself und tho memory of him
who lay beneath.
Ills remains wore afterwards taken
toSevillo and placed with tha body of
COMI.MIIUB' HONKS.
his sou Diego in the monastery of Lus
Cuovas.
In 1530 they were exhumed thoso of
father and son nnd transported ncross
tho Atlantic to tho islnnd of San Do
mingo, which had been named by Co
lumbus Hlspunioln and wns the princi
pal settlement of his own discoveries
in his own time.
In 1700, after the cession of San Do
mingo to tho French, they were again
dug up und plucod in tho cathedral of
Havana. There they now repose under
a peculiar monument Thero is u clulm
that tho real remains were not re
moved. Thero would bo poetic justice in
placing the tomb of Columbus In San
Domingo, tho island with which his
greatest activity as a discoverer is as
sociated, and tho place where with the
timbers of his wrecked flagship he
built the first European habitation in
America. Tho chains placed on him by
llobadllla during his imprisonment,
and which ho declared should be re
moved by no less authority than that
of his royal master mid mistress, he
kept in his study afterwards us u mem
orial und ordered that they should be
burled with him.
IVoulifilo Worth a Fortune,
During n severo storm on Columbus
return journey from tho new land ha
had found ho, feeling that his frail ship
must go down, committed u nurratlvs
of his discovery to tho sea. What a
rich treasure It would bo if it could bu
fished up in its oil aud tur envelope to
day and given to the world; f '
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