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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
By LOG AX <f- GLEN.
DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTE,
VOL. I
OE CLEVELAND. WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST 0EOROIA.
TERMS:-One Dollar I'er Year.
CLEVELAND. WHITE COUNTY, GEORGIA, JfEJDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1892.
NO. 44.
-THE-
North Georgia
Dahlonega, Georgia.
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Fine Toilet Soaps.
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wWe propose to build up a trade by selling at
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We are centrally located in the richest mineral section in Georgia.
Gold, Iron, Granite, Etc.,
IN ABUNDANCE.
DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE,
Peculiar to the Noted Piedmont Section.
Finest Tobacco Lands in tie Sontl.
Oorrospondenco Solicited.
F. B. SUTTON, Manager.
Sash, Doors and Blinds!
CLARK, BELL & CO.,
-Manufectutera and Dealers in-
THE UNKNOWN,
Thero floweth once in the lifo of all
Homo chancing streamlet full of gloo,
TV hose waters taken with the fall
Would lead us ouward to the sea,
Unpluok-Hl the blossoms change to brown,
The autumn leaves full ono by one;
Ungathorod chances flutter down
Or vanish with each setting sun.
Untouchod are chords that would unfold
Sweet music rolling on the air;
Unfound, the brightest gems of gold
Lie hidden roun 1 us everywhere.
Unknown, the golden way to win
Is ever nigh, yet fa lin ; fast;
Unseen, tho thing that might h.wj baea
Is lost forever in the past.
Not every rose that bloometh fair
Is warmed by beauty’s smile, I trow —
Not every ono has for his share
To wear a star upon tho brow
Yet this is truth that all shoul l know,
There is somo honor for each state,
And should we rule or plow or sow,
'Tls doing duty makes us groat.
—W. A. Havener.
The Missing Emeralds.
Sash, Doors, Blinds,
Mouldings, Brackets.
SITIWGX.FS and LUMBBU.
Also SEWER and DRAIN PIPE. Price* an low i-a the lowest. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
CLARK, Ji^LL & CO., Gainesville, (in.
11Y INA LKO.N CASSIUS.
WANT to sco Mrs.
Campion—I suppose
I can go upf The
speaker was a tall
young lady, hand
somely but quietly
dressed in black; the
place the ontry of a
largo hotel at a fash,
iouablo health resort;
tho person addressed
a page to the estab
lishment. Tho lady
lmd been making
straight for tho grand staircase, when
tho youthful functionary ’nterposed and
asked her who it was she wished to sec.
I am an old friend; I have been hore
before,” the lady added, as tho boy
looked dubious.
Her sweet smile was disarming) not
less so her handsome apparel; the boy
said, “Very well, ma’am,” and the vis
itor passed on.
Half an hournfterward the lady passed
across the hall on her way out, almost
unnoticed—there arc so many people go
in and out of a big hotel—and the Royal
was tho hotel at St. M—. Almost un
noticed, uot quite; a commissionaire
nsked a waiter staudiug near him who
that lady was.
“She isn’t staying here,” lie remarked.
“No—a visitor, I suppose," replied
tho waiter, and he walked oil.
The lady was by this time out of sight,
aud the commissionaire, for tho timo,
forgot all about her. but lie had, half
consciously, photographed her face’ in
hia mind. Those who are in tho linbit
of constantly seeing now faces acquiro
either a habit of quick and keen obser
vation, or lose almost all power of in
dividualizing. The commissionaire was
of the former class. He was an Irishman,
too, and the Irish aro proverbially keen
observers of the human face.
Mr. and Mrs. Campion were n young
couple ou their honeymoon, landed peo
ple, Mr. Campion having nn estate in
Devonshire, Mrs. Campion presumably
of the same class ns her husband.
They occupied n handsome suite of
apartments nn the second floor of the
hotel, aud hud already made) several
agreeable acquaintances in tho hotel and
in tho town.
Between half-past one and two they
returned, after a drive, to luncheon,
which was solved privately in thoir owu
apartments.
Mrs. Campion was a remarkably pretty
woman of ubout twenty-four, petite in
figure, and with smalt regular features,
ller husband was quite ten years her
senior, nnu had a good deal of the coun
try squire in his air and mnnners—the
sort of n man to ride straight to liouuds,
nr.il know the points ot u horso hotter
than tho insides of books.
“Any one called?” he asked of the
waiter, as he rat down to luncheon.
“No, sir; I believe not, sir. I’ll in
quire.”
In the afternoon the pair strolled out
for awhile, aud at live ennio in to tea.
At six o’clock Mrs. Campion’s bell
tingled with as much violence as an
electric hell is capable of betraying, and
when the page responded to the sum
mons be saw Mr. Campion looking n
whole thunderstorn, and Mrs. Campiou
very pale, reclining on a fanteuil.
“Tell Mr. Wilson (the proprietor) I
must see him at once," said Mr. Cam
pion .
Mr. Wilson wns speedily on the spot,
to learn that Mrs. Campion's emeralds,
valued by their owner at £201)0, had
been stolen. They were, it appeared,
secured in a large trunk or chest in Mrs.
Campion’s dressing room. She herself
kept the key of this trunk. The other
jewels were in the same place, but none
of them had been touched, probably be
cause of their inferior value. The
thief had, by some means, opened the
trunk, and the casket containing tho
emeralds—a necklace. bracelets and
ear rings—had been removed.
Mr. Campion did not rave or storm;
he simply said that he should hold Mr.
Wilson responsible for the loss. The
host, on his side, replied that the guests
had not taken reasonable care of tho
jewels, and refused to make good the
loss.
Inquiries resulted in disclosing the
fact that a lady had called that morning
and had been allowed by the page to go
up to Mr. Campion's rooms.
“Wc don’t know any such person, 1 ’
said Mrs. Campion. “It was inexcuabie
to allow her to coma up to our rooms.
I dare say one of these hotel thoives
heard of the emeralds—I have twice
•worn them at parties sines I have beeu
here—and laid a plot to obtain them.
Information was at once given to the
local police, and a description of the
“lady” who called wired up to Scotland
Yard.
The next dsv Mr. and Mrs. Campiou
' 1 .t i. c
conimonccd nn action against Mr. Wil
son for the vnluu ot tho Btolon jewels—
£2000.
The enso camo on in due course, but
as the crime wns not of a Specially sen
sational order, and tho parties woro not
known to the general publlo, itt excited
no particular intorest. k
Tho plaintiff, described ns of Waldon
Hall, Devousliiro, deposcdmto -tho facts.
The emeralds hnd been in the [^session
ot his family for mnny venrs; Ihoy had
been valued by experts at £2000.
A witness, who had !«i Mrs. Cam
pion wearing them at St. M—, nnd was
well acquainted with' tho value of
jewels stated iu evidonca that £2000
was rather undor than over tho mark for
gems so rare and so lino nVthose emer
alds. Mrs. Campion swore that the jewels
were locked up in a triinkCif -which sho
alone hurl tho key. Itjtwns n pateut
lock. Sho hnd put tho cablet away af
ter attending a party at wliich sho had
worn them. On tho dqy of tho theft
sho hcrselt unlocked the trunk for her
maid to lay out those jewels;, and tho
loss wns then discovered. The maid Co-
loste Bardot, who had beta, fix years
with her mistross, corroborated this evi
dence. Tho Indy ia blank; who lmd
got clean off with lier bpoQq was evi
dontly an export thief. ’ ,T
was “contributory negli
Campion ought to have
els into tho personal care
otor; but there could b
about tho negligence of
lmd allowed a stranger freeAocc'sM'o tho
rooms of tho guests. ThWv^r'dyrt Was
for the plniutiffs for tltnAjtll'-atnount
claimed. As soon as tli ’ '
given tho commissioimiri
was one of the witnesses,
tho lady iu black, \vh
Wilson:
“Pardon tlio liberty, si
you, sor, I'd appalo."
Wilson staried. “V
would only bo a waste of
“Oi'me not so sure, sor
toimo."
“Wlmtnreyou driving!
“I don’t know mosilf, solV--_ - .
pnlo If it was me, Younfcm»dotif ; e
Somehow the man's m(finer—p^liapi
because of its mystery-Hqapiflssjtl hia
master. Ila instructed niij, * tffcjjmsol to
give uotico of appeal, andJ Ask/or a stay
of execution meanwhile.f Counsel was
incliued to advise against ^Sjit seofned to
him a usele-S and expensfpa cou’rse to
his client, but Wilson waj Arm, and ho
gave tho required noticed. The Btay o(
execution was opposed by Mr, Cam
pion's counsel, instructed by his cliout;
Imt tho judge would onlyy/rder that tho
£2000 bu paid iuto coutt peudibg the
appeal, , -
Daly bonmod. “Tlntfl rolght,” he
srtllct' was
Jlily. who
hg noticed
ocy to Mr.
lA wits
said to himself, nnd wliJfmMr. ^jfjlson
left the court ha tonic tbifwMNtn with
him to tho sollcltorj^^^^^^^^
“Now, Daly,'l^flMHiiiK:IUeirtwo
goritlemon were seated
time private in tho Irish
ing respectfully “at atl
have you got 1 u. th
“Why, flor'’—9'dntinjHHBW: been
think in’ adale.SftoUt
wane tiling an’ anotnet
sor, I’d set a dRictive on
tloninn, he's \ gintleinai
gintlemcn, sor, iWo-an ’
hut the lady, she’s not
sor. .1 was takm’-a good,look at her in
the eoort; an’ ye moight jjenftber foind-
in* out, sor, whether the glntlemsti’s got
the big ostimto in Divoashiref ye sue,
sor, if I may make so bawld, ye don’t
know it, an’ havin’ pliutjf O f . nfonej; an’
there’s more than wail jr#y av gifting
that—." lie paused. ..
“Well, Daly?” said Mr. Wilson'; tho
solicitor was listeuidg attentively.
“Well, sor,” ho went’ “it don’t
seem loike a gintlemaij tpj. want the
money paid down at wanst;'' does it?
Wid any one loike yersell; he couldn’t
think ye’d ruu away wident payin’, an’
lie looked Week, an’ InS, looked at tho
lady. Maybe, sor, if you waa to pay thu
money now therc’d be no rnoro heard of
Mr. Campion."
“Do you mean to suggest,” said tho
solicitor, “that Mr. and Mrs. Campion
aro swindlers?”
“Faith, an’ I’wouldn’t wondher, sor.
There’s a many tilings strangor done
than Btulin' yer own propertby."
“But, my good feilovv," said Mr.
Wilson, “tlio man would have got £2000
for the jewels by selling them.”
“That depends, sor,’’ said the Irish
man, dryly; “there’s two sorts av iin-
craldi.”
Wilson sprang to his feet.
“The man may be right in his suspi
cions!" he exclaimed, excitedly. “I’ll
go to Long (a famous privato detective);
it will do no harm, anyhow.”
Ho went off at once with Daly to
Long's office. That shrewd person lis
tened to the whole story, and to Daly's
suggestions, aud askedgytat person more
particularly what by Mrs.
Campiou not being a
“A gelftleman, you
“draw out” the coratnl
marries a little out of hi
“Faith, sor, more’s the
Daly, “but it’s this wit
seen lots av both sarts,
av this wan that gives tj
may be the wrong t
sthand?”
“Perfectly.”
“He’s a duced keen
rty,” the detective sail
Air. Wilson. “Well, sj
case in my hands, I th
disappoint you.”
For live days Mr. Wi
ing more of the matter,
forgotten it already. _ '
detective presented hio^4li
Wilson.
guard—my personal description ol him
was at once recognized—and at tho ago
of twenty-live loft his home, such as it
was, and went abroad. That disposes of
the honeymoon businoss. As for family
jowols, thero haven't boon liny within
living memory. Bo it’s elenr that this
mnu nnd woman aro a cuiplo of swind
lers, tho visitors’ and tlio maid prabably
boing in tho swim. The emeralds are
probably paste; and the cnlt of the lady
Hint morning an arranged thing. if
that lmd failod they’d have worked tho
job seme other way. As like ns not the
jowols are in tbeir possession now, to bo
used in the future plant. You sco they
were clever enough to Hash thorn -about
a bit, so that they woro soon by Inde
pendent witnesses.”
“But,” exclaimed the amazed Wilson,
“ono of ttiese witnesses was an export;
he swore to the valuo of tho gems."
The detective smiled. “Don’t you
know there’s a paste that, will deceive a
Jewolor, unless submitted to certain
tests? Tho witness was honest enough,
hut doccivoil, ns any one would bo, under
tho conditions, if tlio gems were real,
tlicso people wouldn't dare to advertiso
them so openly, for they could only bo
stolen, niul emeralds don't lio by the j
roadside; whoever lmd lost them would !
bu on the trail at once. Now, sir, not a
word to nuy one. I've got to follow
this up.”
The dotcctivo went over to Paris and
there discovered through the polico, that
Celeste Ilardel, the maid, was known to
tlio soorat police under several names.
Mr. Campion and his wife wore also sus-
poeted of certalo swindles, but nothing
had boon proved. About a year ago,
however, nlnily answering to the descrip
tion of Airs. Campion, but giving another
name, had purchased a paste emerald set
—ncoklucc, brncolets and earrings—of a
jewolor in the Ruo do la Paix. Tho en
tire set was sold for £28. There was no
doubt whatever that Mr. Campion, of
Waldon Hall, was a cunning and ac
complished swindler, his good birth and
education enabling him to appear to
.advantage, Of oourso tho money with
which ho cut a dash at St. M— was
got-iu soma dishonest manner, but Air.
Wilson was uot concerned t.o raku up
his late guest’s whole career; his last
coup was sufficient for mine host at tlio
Royal Hotel, to bring nction for attempt
to' defined, nnd Air. and Airs. Campion
found themselves in the dock instead of
in tho witness box, together with their
accomplice, Celeste; the tall, fair lady
retnnine I perdue. Sure enough the
“emeralds" were found m the possession
of tlie worthy couple, who were com
mitted for trial; the regular detoctives,
iu tho Interval, taking up thu matter,
with tho result, that it was discovered
tho gentlemen with tho family jewels
aud his wife wore “wanted” in Berlin
(ttld Ymunii for remarkable clevor frauds.
HU* OW&te ■msEyHim mm_ to tho
Fronoh police under an extradition war
rant, aud Mr. and Mra. Campiou
passed a long and not altogether pleas
ant “honeymoon” in an English prison.
Mr. Wilson did uot forgot to reward
the keon-witted Irishman, whoso ap
parently “unreasonably" suspicion had
saved his employer £2000.
I mi OH MM,
A BRIEF BUT BRIGHT HISTORY
OF CHRISTOPHER,
Some Account of the Way He Started
Out in Life
And Neman to Have Ilia Picture Taken He*
aldea Thinking; About Discovering
America—Mostly Facta*
Atlanta Journal.
nit great demand for more and more
Columbus literature has brought
out many new facts regarding the
great discoverer, aud yet many inquiries
aro recoived at this offlee overy day regard
ing tho personal history of Columbus, bit
f
frWl oT course elated over tlio discovery'ol
the blister, hut tho day will come when I,
loo, shall ho looked lip to, nnd people will
somo for miles to oat their iunchos over
my grave."
Little did ho know then that his nshes
would he shipped hack and forth hotwoon
Spain and tho West Indies every time
there wns a revolution in Cuba for half a
century.
It wns now sottlod that Columbus should
iiudortako the discovery of Amorlcn, hut
he nooded capital. Ho must co-operate
with some ono who hnd means. He flmt
approached the senate of Genoa. Ills ap
plication was referred to tho conunittoo on
Indian affairs. The paper read as follows:
To the Honorable Semite cf Genoa:
(lentlcrcen—It lias occurred to mo that if we
me going to discover America it is high time
wo should go ubout it. If we dolny, England
will do it and get her namo in the pnpers. At
tho present time I uinoutof employment, and
could go if I lmd the moans. I have a chart left
mo by my fnthcr-in law which I am taro will
aid mo in discovering America and making ol
it u popular resort for sporadic cholera and any
overproduction ot leprosy or orimo which may
bo socking un outlet In a now country.
If you should not soe tit to aid mo in opening
up a new world, which will hold its exposition
In Chicago, l hope, 1 shall have to at ply to John
II, who has already partia ly promised to tit me
out and also to keep my family in groceries dur
ing my absence.
Trusting that you will take hold of this mat
ter, authorizing mo not only to discover Amer
ica, but anything else I can lay my hands on, I
cum a in, your obedient sorYani.
Chiiistophha Columbus.
Care Lotos Club, Genoa.
Tlio sonata fooled along from day to day
with this matter, tabling it, referring it,
postponing it, reporting adversely and re
committing it to oilier committees till Co
lumbus got weary and wont to John II,
who treated him tho sumo way, only
worse, inviting friends iu on ColumhuH
days to hear this great, original "rainbow
chaser" go on about what ho could do if
ho could only got money enough to dis
cover America.
An Olivo I'lant itioii.
Tbo finest plantations of olives aro in
tho Nablil* district of Palestine, but
neurly overy village has it? larger or
smaller grove. There is no doubt that
the olive tree is one of tho most valuable
products of tho couutry, and that it
could bo made a still greater source of
revohuo than it is at present. It requires
but little and Uvea and yields fruit even
when nogleotodi It only roquiros graft
ing and a little digging up aud clearing
out, and this done, it yields a plentiful
crop in return for the small amount of
pains bestowed upon it. The fellaheen
say that the vine is a sitt—a dollcato
town lany who requires a greut deal of
care and attention* The fig. on tho con*
trary, is a fellaha—a strong country wo
man who cau flourish Vithout sucli tou-
dercare; but tho olivo tro3 ia a bold
bedawijo, who, in spite of neglect and
hardship, remains a strong und useful
Arab wife.
The olives ripen towards tho end ot
tho summer; the trees are then beaten
with long sticks, care boing taken not to
destroy the young leave aud shoots. The
fruit is collected aud spread out on tho
roofs or other convenient places,and then
put into heaps for a little while iu order
that it may slightly ferment, after which
it is taken to tue oil pros?, where it is
crushed under a heavy millstone, and,
packed in little straw baskets, is finally
pressed. The oil (zryt) runs into a lit
tle cemented cistern, from which it is
drawn in leather bottles or largo ourthou
jars for carrying away.
The fellah uses it both for light and
nourishment. If he has nothing better
lie contents to eat some bread soaked in
oil. It is also used a great deal iu town
cookery, but as a means of light it has
been almost superseded by petroleum.
Much inferior olive oil is exported to
France and Italy. The jift, or refuse of
the oil, is used for fuel, having great
properties of heat.—Detroit Free Press.
A Yery Peculiar Notion.
Borne one has estimated that at least
one-fourth of tho world knows nothing
of the use of forks, and fully onc-q mrter
of the men, women and children in it
eat with their linger. The Egyptians
and Turks pride themselves on their
cleanliness in the use of their fingers
rather than forks, and give a very in
genious excuse for the practice. Forks,
d noth j they say, have been in spme other man’s
public had j mouth, and you have to depend upon
tho i y 0ur servants for their cleaniug. These
hffoj^AIr. ! people wash their hands before sitting
down to table or squatting around the
COLUMDUS BITS FOB HIS PORTRAIT.
education, etc., notwithstanding tho fact
that overy newspaper and magazine for
tho past six months has ransacked the old
and new worlds for data regarding him.
It may not he out of place, therefore, to
summarize regarding tho great navigator
for the benefit of tlioso who have no timo
to road voluminous biographies, but win?
are in search of something torse, yet trust
worthy.
Columbus was the oldest son of Domlu-
loo Colombo and Ruzanna Fontanarosna,
and ho was horn, it is thought, in 1435, at
Genoa. He died May 20, 1506, at Vallado
lid, from collapse and coma, brought on hy
having tried to resemble his different por
traits.
Tho most reliable biographer of the great
Admiral who so soon noted the value of
America as an opening for the soiled and
oppressed of tho old world, where th«y
could como and bring their cholera with
them, wns Fernando Colombo, the son.
Christopher Columbus was eduoatod at
the normal school in Paria, where he stood
well iu mathematics, and espeoiully in
trigonometry, or the science of trigs.
Antonio de Tercago wus his tutor, it is
said. De Terzugo was the originator of tho
mathematical discovery that iu addition
a great saving of time and also n greater
aomiracy may he secured by setting down
tho right hand figures and carrying the
tens to the next column.
At tlio ago of fifteen Columbus became a
sailor And began sitting for his picture.
There wore three sons in the Columbus
family and one daughter, who niarxiod a
butcher. Her brother, it is said, on Ills
first voyage brought with him from America
a dozen softshell cruhs and a diamond
back terrnpiu for his sister's husband, hut
no one would purchase them and they
perished on his bauds. This brother-in-law
afterward wrote a piece for tho paper,
stating that reciprocity with America wus
not what it had boon cracked up to he.
Another biographor says that Columbus
went to sea at the age of fourteen, but this
may lie because of the conflict regarding
tho year of his birth.
Columbus wus soon placed iu command
of a cruisor and visited tho archipelago.
Ho also went to Iceland, hoping to flud an
opou polar sea. This is not generally
known, hut I get it pretty straight aud
have no reason to doubt it.
lie visited what was then called Files-
land, or Ultima Thule, from the Latin
tongue, nnd signifying tho jumping off
place. It was what is now called Icelund,
and Columbus was one of tho earliest nav
igators to penetrato to the region of the
polo and loave a pantaloons button on tho
axle of the world. On his return he suid
that the only thing In favor qf that coun-
ry as a homo was that there woro neither
mosquitoes nor malaria there. lie staked
off a town, hut tho claim was jumped hy
u polar hear and reverted to tho original
owners.
Las Casus describes Columbus as having
a long fnco, ruddy in places; an ficqullino
nose, clear gruy eyes, a quick, command-
ng glance and light hair, which had begun
to grow gruy at thirty.
He fell in love with and married Filipa
Monis de Palestrello, who was in tho con
vent where ho used to pray of a morning.
Her father wus vary poor, being governor
of Porto Santo aud trying to live on his
salary. This hud never been tried before
and has not been attempted since. Ho
died leaving little except a chart of the
world, together with what was supposed
then to he an accurate drawing of the un
derpinning upon which it rested.
Not long after this Columbus confided iu
Paolo Taacarelli his belief that it would
now be a good time to discover America.
Tascarelll was a physician and coamog*
rapber of that place aud a man rather in
advanoe of bis time, as was Columbus.
YaseareJIl lived on his practice as a physi
cian and relied very little on what be could
j make as a cosmograpber.
He was the first physician to diacover
“Well, sir,” he be^qa.'“I thidk this is ! meal on the floor, aud tney take up the
.i plaut. I’ve found • Waldon , morsels of food with thm pieces of bread, , u 8 the first physician to aucover
there is such a piacs-iatid Csinpiou it rolling it around such food or soaping it thftt uy of Spain, if collected in large
your nuest’e naiie bujfthe hall is u 1 in the soup. They use their hands m , quantities aud placed ou the huroau skiu,
tumble down place, ini such bad repair • aiding iu fuc earring aud tear rather , would make a blister. Let us not, then, In
that nobody will take or buy it, with • than cut their roasted torvls. | our enthusiasm over Columbu* lorget the
flbqut two acres of rvotthless laud be- I the blister and per-
longing to it. The late' Mr. Campion t The United States uas more tflau 500 - I Co i UIoblIS and Xascarell, were great
father had wasted what property .there 000 bearing banana plants, friendg aud one day the former *ajd to
ras. His sou finished tb 6 .business. , bearing lemon trees, 4,000,000 orange , Taacarelli:
TM1C LANDING OF COLUMBUS.
Let ns pass over this sad era iu the life '
of Columbua. It is too pathetic to dlsouss.
Ho was on liU oars, as Taacarelli said at
the time, and oarning nothing. He was
well fitted for the position to wnicb he as
pired, but thero wus so little demand then
for discoverers that ho waa well nigh dis
couraged. This should teach us that we
must fit ourselves for somethiug for which
thero is a deiuuud.
It is t»-uo that the glory of discovering a
world is something, but it comes too late
to be used as collateral at the bank. To
have ii large variety of attention four hun*
drod years after is a good thing—better
than to be forgotten—but it does not sur
round the childreu with all wool under
wear at tho time.
Indignant at Portugal, and left a widow,
er at au early ago, with one son ana no
money whatever, this sorrowful advance
agent of freedom aud prosperity—this sad
eyed prophet of happy aud well protected
industry—dropped down hopelessly in the
Franciscan Convent of 8t. Mary's of Rab*
ida, In Andalusia, worn and weary, sor
rowful and despondent.
Tho prior, who was leading a very busy
lifo uhooiving Ferdinand und Isabella
twice a week, took Columbus to these
monurchs aud also put him up at the olub
for two weeks.
Columbus spoke about how well the
queen'd dress wns draped, and admired it
b<> much that ho was asked to come and
drive with them on Friday and meet a
well-known English author, who was iu
town over night with a view to writing a
hook on it.
Tiio great navigator made a great im-
premdou on both sovereigns, and ore loug
they had agreed to lit out three entboats
for tlio work.
Ferdinand had no moans ut. hand, how
ever, except an English breech-loading
gnu, a red setter und a pair of high rubber
boots. Isabella also reported the treasury
to be insolvent, but she was a woraun ol
great resources at such times, aud although
uh a matter of fact the vory throne sho sat
bu was being paid for iu weekly install-
rneutd, she gave music lessons, gavo read
ings from her own works and ran errands
till she bad tlio money.
Columbus took it with tears and went at
once to have hia picture taken. When not
discovering America this was his sole rec
reation. Every time ho shaved or cut his
hair ho hud h cabinet picture taken of him
self in u now attitude.
Getting a steamer chair near the place
whore his picture was taken, he went
aboard tlio boat at once, and was soon a
mere speck on the Itorison.
On tlio l*2i ii of October. 1492. after a long
wot tramp over on unknown sea, a man
camo down into the steerage, where Co
lumbus was eating a watermelon, and
calling him to ono side and drawing his
cur to him said in a low voice, "Land,
ho!" it . . .
' Si, senor!" said tlio man, "if you wish
to discover America you will never have
i hotter tim ...
Ho Columbus went up on dock and at
tended to it. Columbus was'far in advance
•)[ tho times iu which be lived, but thero
were many tiur's when lie could uot get a
buck ot nour. ne was a great genius, DUt
had very little fun.
When he wanted to make a hit every
body called him a crank, and after lie had
made it all bi» neighbors said they put
him up to it. .
Jealousy put him in jail and subsequent
ly fought over his boues, and it is only. 4W
year* after his discovery that special rates
are to he made over the railroads on ac-
count of it. .i
Columbus found also the West Indian
slave trade, but was sorry for it afterward.
' He was also tried on bis return for hav
ing discovered Fire island, hut was ‘sue*
cessful in proving an alibi and was ac
quitted.
Mr. C
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r, I feat almost onrtnln that I, *oo,
P. B.—Tho abovo »re mostly facts.
Gold has been found near Frankenberg.
in Hesao, Prussia, near the old gold mines
which war* in operation a thousand year,
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