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CHAPTER XVI—Continued.
"I suppose that is a rebuke to me,"
Margaret made answer to tho Doctor.
•\ou see, I am always ready to improve
everything and everybody but myself."
"Which needs improving sadly," in
terposed Brian, entering at this mo
ment. "I have a scolding for you, Mar
garet. I thought
'I know," answered Margaret, rather
sontritely. "I am really very Borry.
Doctor Wilson has excused me, and I
have promised to do better for the fu
ture. So no more, please."
"No more. That is always your cry
tvln you.-need a lecture. I see you and
Wilfon are friends -already. I thought
fou would be. Effects of kindred tastes.
Where did you walk this afternoon? To
the end of creation?"
"Oh, no. Only within the bounds of
New York. I wfs not gone so very long,
really but I decided to go so late
that
Another inopportune decision. I won
ier when you are half way to heaven if
fou won't turn back and try the other
place, just to differ from the rest of the
world. Wilson, behold the very incar
nation of self-will. Leaving out this
little failing, she deserves Bertie's eulo
jries, and I am wonderfully proud of
ker."
"Very consoling. I thank you, sir.
For reward I'll give you your dinner. I
Bare say you are ready for it."
"Decidedly, Margaret. I had a
wrctched lunch and my appetite is now
In prme condition. I wish Wilson would
tnake a like admission just to keep me in
countenance. I don't expect much from
fou. Shall we progress?"
"I have been telling »Mrs. Leigh how
tou.h I admire your charming home,"
remarked Wilson when they were com
fortably seated about the table. "I
fcave always had a prejudice against
apartments, but this one has thoroughly
converted me."
"I like them," said Brian, following
Wilson's glanco around the room.
"Much more cozy than a house. This
cne was 'my choice, though Margaret
gave me the cue. I must let her have
the ere lit for all these fixings, however.
Th room was much more empty when
tve first moved in now it seijms real
homelike. It is astonishing what a
woman's hands can do."
"Astonishing," repeated Wilson, mus
ingly. "Don't- mane me bewail my lone
ly estate more deeply, I beg of you.
l'hink how these delightful rooms com
pare with my dull quarters. No wonder
rou don't «are to show'' yourself there,
i'ou are such a stranger that I was won
dering to-day wha't you do with your
self."
"What?" repeated Margaret in her
owu mind, while she gave Ibrian a rather
searching glance.
He pretended not to see it, however.
"Oh, I'm around generally,* he an
swered rather unsatisfactorily. "I don't
find any difficulty in occupying my time.
I'll run in upon you sonie night. Though
while Margaret is here
"You will be taking her about a great
deal, of rourse. Under those circum
stances don't consider me. 1 hope you
like sight-seeing, Mrs. Leigh. Other
wise you must find it extremely tire
some. Or perhaps you are one of those
fortunate individuals whose endurance
is always equal to the emergency."
"Endurance," repeated Margaret,
starting from her train of thought. "Do
you know, Doctor, I think endurance is
nothing more than determination or
will. It is with me, at least. If I make
Up my mind to bear a thing I always
bear it, and if I don't, I don't. You
eeeai amused, Brian, but I'm sure you
can say the san\e thing if you would.
When I was a child I used to pinch my
arm to see how long I could stand the
pain without crying, but a reproving
tap from my old nurse sent me into
spasms of weeping. That was all wiU,
you see."
"All will," repeated Brian. "I thank
you lor telling us, Margaret. I can
Imagine how you tried that poor old
nurse. What are you intending to illus
trate?"
"Simply that our wills have everything
to do with our feelings. Dr. Wilson
wants to know if I find sight-seeing
tiresome. I am afraid I do. But I like
It, and so I quite forget that the hard
pavements tire my feet most dreadfully,
and that when I ride I'm jostled almost
to death. Rrally, Doctor, you may say
what you please about your wonderful
city, but I think its streets are an ever
lasting disgrace to any civilized town."
"I have nothing to say in their de
fense," admitted the Doctor, with a
laugh. "They are bad. Does your idea
of endurance extend to social duties
also?"
"Yes, certainly. Why should they be
called duties, I wonder? I haye a special
distaste for that word. It carries with
it the sense of obligation, and obliga
tion is«lways disagreeable."
"Always?" questioned Wilson, rather
quizzically. "I dare eay you are right,
though. Duty can be most unpleasant.
We are queerly constituted at best."
"1 think we are rather natural," added
Margaret. "It isn't to be expected that
we women should like to do what we
feel we ought. Just put must before a
request and it grows disagreeable im
mediately for me. I might go to a ball
and dance all night with a raging head
ache, but I wouldn't think of going to
church in the same condition. I'd be
much too ill. I'm giving you a dreadful
example, am I not? Well, I can only
advise you to do neither as I say nor as I
do."
"I always thought you religions, Mar
garet.
"You have never thought anything of
the kind," returned Margaret, meeting
Brian's mischievous eyes. "Why should
you think so? Simply because I'm a
woman. What a reason. I believe the
world does think religion was made for
Women rather than men, though It is the
tnen who really need it. Poor women!
They are obliged to walk stiff and
•traighD in a certain beaten track. They
*iw-»tn'tde this, they mustn't do that.
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and they mustn't do the other, until they
are so encompassed by a wall of musts
and mustn'ts that I wonder they have
any individuality left."
"Thank heaven you haven't lost your
individuality yet, Margaret. Wilson, you
were regretting your lonely estate
awhile ago after listening to such re
marks from the mouth of one woman,
beware of all others and rejoice at your
esoape."
"Come,-Doctor," said Margaret, be
fore Wilson could reply, "we will go to
the parlor, and I promise to be very
quiet ^nd sedate for the rest of the even
ing. No doubt, you will find Brian's
conversation much more instructive and
entertaining."
When WiisonJiaS taken his departure
an hour or so later, Margaret turned to
Brian with the remark:
"I am so glad you brought him, Brian.
I like him so much."
"Then I don't believe I'll bring him
again. I'm jealous of him. But, seri
ously, Margaret, he is quite a fine fel
low. I wish I were half as fine. You
should have heard the nico things he
said about you. He is very anxious
that you should see more of New York,
and he mentioned several places that I
had forgotten about. He says you would
like to see them, and so you shall. I've
left you very much alone lately, but I
intend to be more attentive hereafter."
He knew that Margaret was pleased,
from the happy light that stole into her
eyes.
"I believe that I shall be glad of the
day I met Doctor Wilson," thought Mar
garet, as she crept into bed un hour
later.
CHAPTER XVII.
A LIFTING OF .THE CLOUDS.
To Brian, the knowledge that Mar
garet had not lost all feeling for him,
and that her faith in him was strong,
notwithstanding his "many falls,
brought new strength and courage.
With the power of strong determina
tion he eeemed to be gaining a, victory
over that old habit. Not an entire one,
of course. Margaret could not expect
so much. Sometimes a friend could
lure him away, but this was seldom,
and never since their talk in her room
had he lost the entire command of him
self.
Under these circumstances Margaret
felt her heart considerably lightened.
She could look forward more hopefully
to the future, and her letters took on
something of her own cheerful spirit.
Brian could not fail to see the change,
and it was equally apparent to Wilson,
in his few brief visits. He only dropped
in upon rare occasions now, seldom
stayed long, and always claimed that he
was too busy even to find time to see
his friends.
"I suppose we must accept your ex
cuses, Doctor," Margaret replied one
evening to his usual plea. "Can't you
teach your patients some idea of the fit
ness of things? Why should they all
get sick' together? I think a few might
wait until the others are well."
"So they might, Mrs. Leigh, if they
could see the matter from your point of
view. Unfortunately, however, illness,
like time and tide, waits for no man.
We have had a Very trying winter, and
pneumonia is very prevalent. That has
added considerably to my labors. I con
fess I am thoroughly tired out when
night comes, and only too glad to creep
into bed."
"And sleep in the comfortable sense
that your rest is well earned."
"Yes," he laughed, "though that is no
proof against its being broken. The
only time my profession brings a regret
is when I hear my night bell jingling
and I am called from a delightful
nap."
"Just as I've always said," observed
Brian, with a side glance at Margaret.
"A doctor's life is all work and no
play."
"And you like the play best don't
you?" she rejoined, quickly. "Still, play
or not, Brian, it is a very noble profes
sion, and when I was a child I always
declared I should be a doctor's wife."
There was a decided question in the
eyes she fixed upon him.
"Poor Margaret," he replied, joining
in Wilson's laugh. "What a miserable
concern ou managed to get. Only the
beginning of one."
"Don't ba so generous with your sym
pathy, please. A beginning is better
than nothing. An acorn is only the be
ginning of an oak, bti\ we don't despise
the acorn because it is not an oak—
yet."
Wilson, as well as Brian, caught 'the
delicate emphasis on the yet, and he
answered with a half smile:
"Brian will become an honored mem
bar of the profession before his days are
nded. I predict that, Mrs. Leigh."
"Ah, I have quite decided it," re
turned Margaret promptly. "Brian
knows that as well as I do. I
couldn't have all my childish calcula
tions upset. 1 used to think., Uncle
Stephen the very personification of all
things good and noble, and I wondered
then if his son were anything like him.
You see I had not met Brian."
"And now, Margaret, that you have
met him?"
Brian came behind her chair with
this question. She glanced back at him
and smiled.
•"I never form an opinion of a book
after reading only its first page. I must
go deeper to see if it will realize or dis
appoint my expectations. Besides, I
don't air my views in public. Speaking
of views," she continued more lightly.
"I have some I want to show you, Doc
tor. You must promise to think them
very beautiful, or I shall be disap
pointed. Brian, will you get them,
please?"
At this request Brian got out a small
folio of wood cuts and pen pictures of
various scenes about Elmwood and the
surrounding country. They were all
excellent, and Wilson's appreciation was
was warm enough to satisfy even Mar
garet's enthusiasm.
"Do you wonder that I am proud of
Elmwood?" she asked, after an ani
mated description of several of its finest
points. "Do you wonder that I should
love it so dearly? My wonder is that
Brian doesn't care for it as I do, for he
was born there. I think he has the
least bit of fondness for a Bohemian ex
istence. I am sorry for him, because I
do think It a most unsatisfactory sort of
life. I agree with George Eliot that
we all should have one home spot that
shall stand clearly out in memory, and
to which our minds and hearts may al
ways return, no matter how far we may
have wandered from it."
Margaret broke off with a sigh "This,
she added, taking up another ploture in
some haste, "is aside view of The Cedars,
Colonel Barton's home. Brian and I
wore speaking of Bertie when you came
in. He has finished his book and the
publishers predict a great success for it."
"Yes, I read it in the manuscript some
time ago. I thought it excellent. Bertio
is lull of pluck and deserves success.
By the way, I met him to-day. He waft
in cheerful spirits. He tells me he has
a charming wife. You know her, of
course, Mrs. Leigh,"
"Almost like a sister,'I may say. I
hear from her quite frequently. She
writes very delightful letters. She is
constantly expressing the fear that I
shall become so infatuated with New
York and its pleasures that I shall for
get what she calls their rural delights.
I try to convince. her that there is no
danger of that."
"No. 1 fear you are too firm in your
opinions evjsr to be converted, no matter
how earnestly we may try."
As he spoke, Wilson left the table and
drew a chair close beside her, and Brian
busied himself in gathering up the
scattered pictures.
"I acknowledge that I like your city
the least bit better than I did," ad
mitted Margaret, "but further than that
I can not go. I torgot to tell .you that
I saw your little cripple to-day. I
should think she was very ill."
"Her life is a matter of but a few
weeks at most," was his answer. "I
thank you for your interest in her."
"Please don't thank me. I'm won
derfully self-satisfied, and I may begin
to think I've done something meritori
ous. Brian, do come from behind my
chair. You make me think of Satan.
Get in front of me, please."
"Thanko for your compliment. Your
candor is really lefreshlng. I want to
hear about the new unfortunate. I
guessed from your face a»t dinner that
you had been on sdme errand of mercy."
"I am sorry my face can not keep a
secret better. Don't persuade Dr. Wil
son that I am an indefatigable St. Eliz
abeth, ever bent on charitable missions,
when I an merely a young woman who
wants—who doesn't quite know what
she wants."
"Doern't she? I think she succeeds
vory well in getting it. If you will
play St. Elizabeth, I suppose no words
of mine will have any effect. I can
only mildly hope that you will not quit«
kill yourself. But seriously, I do not
like to think of you going around in all
sorts of neighborhoods and meeting all
kinds of characters. Of course, wher
ever Wilson recommends, is all right.
Don't go entirely on your own judg
ment, though. I shudder at th«
thought."
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Bis Weight In Gold.
The ancient annual ceremony of
"Talabbaram," or weighing the
Maharajah of Travancore against an
equivalent weight of gold, has come
round again. It appears to have
been conducted this year with great
pomp and ceremony, for the present
Maharajah is a Hindu of the ortho
dox type, who aspires to keep up the
traditions of his house. Some months
before the ceremony the Government
purchased through its commercial
agent at AUeppey about two thou
sands' weight of pure gold, the great
er part of which was converted into
coins for this purpose. After pre
senting an elephant and offerings to
the shrine, the Maharajah entered
the building prepared for the occa
sion, and having completed the p're
liminary ceremonies, mounted one of
the scales. The sword and shield
were laid in his lap in the other side
of the scale gold coins, struck for the
occasion, were placed by the first and
second princes, till it touched the
ground .and the Maharajah rose in
the air, the priest meanwhile chant
ing Wedic liymns. Volleys were
fired, the band played, and the troops
presented arms. The Maharajah
worshiped at the shrine, and then
went to the palace. Subsequently
the Dewan and pther officials distrib
uted the coins from the fort gates to
fifteen thousand Brahmins.
Care of the Eyes During Early Ilre.
Dr. L. Webster Fox (Medical and"
Surgical Reporter) formulates tin
rules on the preservation of the vis
ion: 1. Do not allow light to fall
upon the face of a sleeping' infant.
2. Do not allow babies to gaze at' a
bright light. 3. Do not send chil
dren to school before the age of ten.
4. Do not allow children to keep
their eyes too long on a near object.
5. Do not allow them to study much
by artificial light. 6. Do not allow
them to use books with small type.
7. Do not allow them to read in a
railway carriage. 8. Do not allow
boys to smoke tobacco, especially
cigarettes. 9. Do not necessarily
ascribe headaches to indigestion the
eyes may be the exciting cause. 10.
Do not allow the initerant spectacle
vender to prescribe glasses.
For the Complexion.
Ten to fifteen grains of magnesia
sulph. taken in a tumblerful of water
every morning before breakfast will
cause the most unsightly complexion
to become clear in a short time.
Generally, a month suffices for a com
plete cure, the skin having all the
softness and clearness of a baby's.
The application of a solution of mag
nesia sulph. externally is said to be
very beneficial also—say, one grain tJ
the ounce of rosewater, applied every
night and morning by means of a bit
of soft sponge or linen cloth. It'is
said that blush-of-roses, a South
Bend nostrum, is only a weak solu
tion of magnesia sulph. in water.
Black Eye.
There is nothing to compare with
a tincture or a strong infusion of cap
sicum annuum, mixed with an equal
bulk of mucilage or gum arabic, and
with the addition of a few drops of
glycerine. This should be painted
all over the bruised surface with a
camel's hair pencil, and allowed to
dry on, a second or third coating be
ing applied as soon as the first is dry.
If done as soon as soon as the injury
is inflicted, the treatment will invari
ably prevent the blackening of the'
bruised tissue. The same remedy has
no equal in rheumatic, sore or stiff
neck.—Medical Times.
THE GLORY OF AMERICA
SILVER TONGUED ORATORS
EXTOL OUR LAND.
Praises of Columbus Song on the Four Hun
dredth Anniversary of His Achievement—
Grand Import of His Work to the Chris
tian World.
The Vice-President's Speech. ,•
Vice-President Morton accepted the
Columbian Exposition buildings and
dedicated the great undertaking in fit
ting, well-chosen words. He said:
Mr. President: Deep Indeed, must be the sor
row which prohibits the President of the
United States from being the oentral figure In
these ceremonials. Realizing from these sump
tuous surroundings, the -extent of design, the
adequacy of execution and the vastness of re
sults, we .may weU Imagine how ardently he
has aspired to he officially and personally con
nected with this great work, so linked to the
past and to the present of America. With
what eloquent words he wonld have spoken of
I'the
heroio achievements and radiant future of
his beloved country. While profoundly
anguished in his most tender earthly affec
tion, he wonld not havens delay or falter In
these dedicatory servioes and we can orfly offer
to support his oourage by a profound and uni
versal sympathy.
The attention of our whole country and of
all peoples elsewhere concerned in Industrial
progress is to-day fixed upon the city of Chi
cago. Tills Is due not only to the Columbian
Exposition which marks an epoch, but to the
'marvelous growth and energy of the second
commercial olty of the Union. I am not here
to recount the wonderful story of this city's
xise and advancement. These are known of all
men. I am here in behalf of the Government
of the United States, In behalf of all the
people, to bid all hail to Chicago, ail hall to the
Columbian Exposition.
What a spectacle have we here! Look upon
these magnificent erections and consider their
beauty and rapidity of realization. They seem
Jo be evoked at a Wizard's touoh of Aladdin's
lamp. They are worthy shrines to record the
achievements of the two Amerioas. Columbus
Is not now in chains, nor are Columbian ideas
In fetters.
We may not antlclpfte the character and
value of our national exhibit. Bather may we
'anticipate that a conservative award will be
made by the world's criticism to young cation
eagerly listening to the beckoning future. Wo
cau easily predict those who will come from
every region of our country to. make the ex
hibit. They will be the descendants of the
sturdy and venerable immigrants of miiny of
the men of his time who made their mark in
history.
We are neaf the beginning of another cen
tury. and if no serious change occurs in our
present growth in the year 1935, in the lifetime
of many now in manhood, the Engllsh-speak
'ng republicans of Ameiiea will number more
than 180.000,000.
The transcendent feature in the character of
Columbus was his faith. That sustained him
in days of trial and darkness, and finally gave
him the great discovery. Like him, let us
have faith In our future.
Mr. President, in the name of the Govern
ment of the United States, I hereby dedicate
these buUdlngs and their appurtenances, in
tended by the Congress of the United States
for the use of the World's Columbian Exposl-
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON.
tion to the world's progress in art, In science,
in agriculture and in manufactures.
I dedicate them toJmmanity.
God save the United States of America.
Henry Watteraon's Oration.
Among the wonders of creative and con
structive genius in course of preparation for
this festival of the nations, whose formal and
offlolal inauguration-has brought us together,
will presently be witnessed upon the margin
of the interocean which gives to this noble
and beautiful city the character and rank of a
maritime metropolis, a spectatorlum wherein
ithe Columbian epic will be told with realistic
leffects surpassing the most splendid and lm
.presslve achievements of the modern stage. It
traces the strange adventures of the Genoese
seer from the royal camp of Santa Fe to the
very moment that beholds us here, citizens,
freemen, equal shareholders in the miracle of
American civilization and development. Is
there one among us who does not thank his
Maker that he has lived to join in this univer
sal celebration, the jubilee of mankind?
We look before and after and we see through
the half-drawn folds of time as through the
solemn archways of some grand cathedral the
long procession pass, as silent and as real as a
dream the caravels, tossing upon Atlantic'
billows, have their sails refilled from the east
.and bear away to the west the landls reaohed,
find fulfilled Is the vision whose- actualities
are.to be gathered by tfther hands than his who
planned the voyage and steered the bark of
discovery.
We look again and we see In the far north
east the old-wOrld struggle between the French
•and English transfei red to the new, ending In
Ithe tragedy upon the heights above Quebec
.we see the Bturdy puritans in beU-crowned
hats and sable garments assail in unequal bat
tle the savage and the elements, overcom
ing both to rise against a mightier
foe we see the gay but dauntless
cavaliers to the southward join hands
with the roundheads in holy rebellion. And,
lo! down from the green-walled hills of New
England, ont of the swamps of the Carollnas,
come faintly to the ear, like far-away forest
leaves stirred to music by autumn winds, the
drum-taps of the revolution the tramp of the
minute men, Israel Putnam riding before the
hoof-beats of Snmter's horse galloping to the
front the thunder of Stark's gunB In spirit
battle the gleam of Marion's watch-fires in
ghostly bivouac and there, there In serried,
saint-like ranks on Fame's eternal camping
ground, stand
"The old continentals,
In their ragged regimentals,
Yielding not,"
as, amid the singing of angels in heaven, the
scene is shnt out from our mortal vision by
proud and happy tears.
We see the rise of the young republic and
the gentlemen in the knee-breoches and
powdered wigs who signed the declaration and
the gentlemen in knee-breeches and powdered
wigs who made the Constitution. We see the
little nation menaced from without. We 'see
the riflemen in hunting-shirt and buckskin
swarm from the cabin in the wilderness to the
rescne of country and home and our hearts
swell to a second and final decree of independ
ence won by the prowess and valor of Ameri
can arms upon the land apd sea.
And then, and then—since there is no life of
nations or of men without its shadow and its
Borrow—there comes a day when the spirits of
the fathers no longer walk upon the battle
ments of freedom and all is dark and all
seems lost, save liberty and honor, and, praise
God, our blessed Union. With these surviving
who shall marvel at what we see to-day thii
land filled with the treasures of the earth this
pity snatched from the ashes to rise in splen
dor and renown passing the mind to precon
C61T6
Truly, out of trial comes the strength of
nlhn ont 'of disaster comes the glory of the
state!
We are met this day to honor the memory of
Christopher Columbus, to celebrate the 400th
annual return of the year of his transcend
ent achievement, and, with fitting rites, to
dedicate to America and the universe a con
crete exposition of the world's progress be
tween 1492 and 1893.
No twenty oentmies can be compared with
those four centuries either in importance or
In interest, as no previous ceremonial can be
compared with this in its wide significance
and reach because, since the advent of the
Son of God, no event has had so great an in
fluence upon human affairs as the discovery
of the western hemisphere.
Our republic represents the letter and spirit
of the sublime declaration. The fetters that
bound her to the earth are burst asunder. The
rags that degraded her beauty are cast aside.
Like the enchanted princess in the legend, clad
In spotless raiment and wearing a crown of
living light, she steps In the (perfection of her
maturity upon the scene of this the latest and
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proudest' of her victories, to bid a welcome
to the world. From wheresoever he oometh
we weloome him with all our hearts. All na
tions and oreeds be welcome here. Tho Ameri
can, loving no country except his own but lov
ing all mankind as his brother, bids you enter
and fear not bids you partake with us of these
fruits of 400 years of American civilization and
development and behold these trophies of 100
years of American independence and freedom!
At this moment in every part of the Ameri
can Union tho children are taking up the won
drous tale of the discovery. See—
"Our yonng barbarians all at play."
for better than these we have nothing to ex
hibit. They, indeed, are our crown jewels—
the truest though the Inevitable offsprings of
our civilization and development the repre
sentatives of a manhood vitalized and invigor
ated by toil and oare, of womanhood elevated
and Inspired by liberty and education. God
bless the children and their mothers!' God
bless our country's flagl And God be with us
now and ever. Goa in the roof-tree's shade and
ii!
HEXRV WATTERSON.
God on the highway, God in the winds and
waves, and God in all our hearts!
Cliauucey Depew's Address.
This day belongs not to America, but to the
world. The results of the event it commemo
rates are the heritage of the people of every
race and clime. We celebrate the emancipa
tion of man. The preparation was the work of
almost countless oenturies, the realization
was
the revelation of one. The cross on Calvary
was hope the cross raised on San Salvador was
opportunity. But for the first, Columbus
would never have sailed but for the second,
there wonld have been no place for the plant-'
ing, the nurture and the expansion of civil and
religious liberty. Ancient history is a dreary
record of unstable civilizations. .Each reached
its zenith of material splendor and perished.
The Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian, Grecian and
Roman Empires were proofs of the possibili
ties and limitations of man for oonqnest and
intellectual development. Their destruction in
volved a sum of misery and relapse which made
their creation rather a'cutse than a blessing.
God always has in training some command
ing genius for the control of great crises in
the affairs of nations and peoples. The num
ber of these leaders are less than the centu
ries, but their lives are the history of human
progress. Though Caesar and Charlemagne,
ana Hlldebrand, and Luther, and William the
Conqueror, and Oliver Cromwell, and all the
epoch makers prepared Europe for the event,
and contributed to the result, the lights which
illumine our flrmanent to-day are Columbus
the discoverer, Washington the founder, and
Lincoln the savior.
Neither realism nor romance furnishes a
more striking and picturesque figure than
that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery
about his origin hsightens the charm of his
story. That he oome-from among the toilers
of his time is in harmony with the struggles
of our period. Forty-four authentic portraits
of him nave descended to us, and no two of
them are the counterfeits of the same person.
Each represents a character as distinct as its
canvas. Strength and weakness, intellectual
ity and stupidity, high moral purpose and
brutal ferocity, purity and licentiousness, the
dreamer and the miser, the pirate and the
puritan, are the type's from which we may
select our hero. We dismiss the "painter, and
pleroing with the clarified vision of the dawn
of the twentieth century, the veil of four hun
dred years, we construct our Columbus.
The perils of the sea in his youth upon the
rich argosies of Genoa, or in the service of the
licensed rovers who made them their prey,
had developed a skillful navigator and intrepid
mariner. They had given him a glimpse of the
possibilities of the unknown, beyond the high
ways of travel, which roused an unquenchable
thirst for adventure and research. The Btudy
of the narratives of previous explorers, and
diligent questionings of the daring spirits who
had ventured far toward the fabled West,
gradually evolved a theory, which became in
his mind so fixed a fact that he could Inspire
others with his own passionate beliefs. The
words, "that is a lie, written by him on the
margin of nearly every page of a volume of
the travels of Marco Polo, which is still to be
found In a Genoese library, illustrate the
skepticism of his beginning, and the first
vision of the New World the fulfillment of his
faith.
To seoure the means to test the truth of his
speculations, this poor and unknown cre mer,
must win the support of kings and overcome
the hostility of the church. He never doubted
his ability to do both, though he knew of no
man living who was so great in power, or line
age, or learning that he could accomplish
either. Unaided and alone he succeeded in
arousing the jealousies of sovereigns, and di
viding the councils of the ecclesiastics. "I will
command your fleet and discover for you new
realms, but only on condition that you confer
on me hereditary nobility, the Admiralty of
the Ocean, and the Vioe Royalty and one-tenth
the revenues of the New World," were his
haughty terms to King John of Portugal. Af
ter ten years of disappointment and poverty,
subsisting most of the time upon the charity or
the enlightened monk of the Convent' of Rl
bida, who was his unfaltering friend, he stood
before the. throne of Ferdinand and Isabella,
and rising to imperial dignity in his rags, em
bodied the same-royal conditions'in his peti
tion. The capture of Granada, the expulsion
of Islam from Europe, and the triumph of the
Cross, aroused the admiration and devotion of
Christendom. But this protad beggar, holding
in his grasp the potential promise and domin
ion of Eldorada and Cathay, divided with the
Moslem surrender, the attention of sovereigns
and bishops. Franoe and England indicated a
desire to hear his theories, and see his maps,
while he was still a suppliant at the gates of
the camp of Castile andAragon, the sport of its
courtiers, and the scoff of its confessors. His
unshakeable faith, that Christopher Columbus
was commissioned from Heaven, both by his
name and by divine command to carry "Christ
across the sea" to new continents and pagan
people, lifted him so far above the discourage
ments of an empty purse and a contemptuous
court that he was proof against the rebuffs of
fortune or of friends. To conquer the preju
dices of tho clergy, to win the approval and
financial support of the state, to venture upon
that unknown ocean which, according to the
belief of the age, was peopled with demons
and savage beasts of frightful shape, and from
which there was no possibility of return, re
quired the zeal of Peter the Hermit, the chival
rlo courage, of the Cid, and the imagination of
Dante. Columbus belonged to that high order
of cranks who confidently walk where "angels
fear to tread," and often become the benefac
tors of their country or their kind.
It was a happy omen of the position whioh
women was to hold in America, that the only
person who comprehended the majestio scope
of his plans, and the invincible qualities of
his genius, was the able and gracious Queen bf
Castile. Isabella, alone of all the dignitaries
of that age, shares With Cplumbus the honors
of his great achievement. She arrayed her
kingdom and her private fortune behind the
enthusiasm of this mystic mariner, and pos
terity pays homage to her wisdom and faith.
The rulers of the old world began with par
titioning the new. The northern continent
was divided between England, France and
Spain, and the southern between Spain and
Portugal. France, wanting the capacity for
colonization, which still characterizes her,
gave up her western possessions and left the
English, who have the genius of universal
empire, masters of North America. The de
velopment of the experiment in the English
domain makes this day memorable. It
is due to the wisdom and courage, the
faith and virtue of the inhabitants of
this territory that government of the people,
for the people and by the people was inau
gurated, ana has become a triumphant success.
The Puritan settled in New England and the.
Cavalier In the South. They represent the op
posites of spiritual and temporal life and
opinions. The processes of liberty liberalized
the one and elevated the other. Washington
and Adams were the new types. Their union
in a common cause gave the world a republic
both stable and free. It possessed conserva
tism without bigotry, and liberty without
license. It founded institutions strong enough
to resist revolution, and elastic enough for
indefinite extension to meet the requirements
In government of ever enlarging areas of
population, and the needs of progress and
growth.
The Mayflower, with the Pilgrims, and a
Dutch ship laden with African slaves were on
the ocean at the same time, the one sailing for
Massachusetts and the other for Virginia.
This company of saints, and first cargo of
slaves, represented the forces whici -wcifi to
peril and rescne free government. The slaver
was the product of commercial spirit of Great
Britain and the greed-of the times to stimu­
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late production in the Colonies. The men who
wrote in the cabin of the Mayflower the first
charter of freedom, a government of just and
equal laws, were a little band of protestauts
against every form of injustice and tyranny
The leaven of their principles made possible
the Declaration of Independence, liberated the
slaves, and founded the free commonwealths
which form the Republic of the United States.
The scope and limitations of this idea of
freedom have neither been misinterpreted nor
misunderstood. The laws of nature in their
application to the lise and recognition of men
according to their mental, moral, spiritual and
physioal endowments are left undisturbed.
The sum of human happiness has been infin
itely increased by the millions from the old
world who have Improved their conditions In
the new, and the returning tide of lesson and
experience has incalculably enriched, the
Fatherlands. The divine right of klngcrhaa
taken its place with the instruments of medl
teval torture among the onrioslties' of the
antiquary. Only the shadow of kingly au
thority stands between the Government o!
themselves, by themselves, and the people
Norway and Sweden. The union In one emjf
of states of Germany is the symbol of Tenter
power and the hope of .German libei alism.
petty despotisms of Italy have been merfoa
Into a nationality which has centralized Its
authority in its ancient capitol on the hills of
Bome. France was rudely roused from the
stillen submission of centuries to intolerable
tyranny hy her soldiers returning from service
in the Amerioan revolution, fhe wild orgies
of the reign of terror were the revenges and
excesses of a people who had discovered their
power, but were not prepared for Its benefioent
use. She fled from herself into the arms
,of Napoleon. He, too, was a product
of the Amerioan experiment. He played
with kings as with toys, and edu
cated France for -liberty. In the pro
cesses of her evolution from darkness to
light, she tried Bourbon, and Orleanist, and
the third Napoleon, and cast them aside. Now
in the fullnless of time, and through the train
ing in the school of hardest experience, the
French people have reared and enjoy a perma
nent republic. England of the Mayflower and
of James II., England of George IIL and of
Lord North, has enlarged suffrage and is to-day
animated and governed by the democratic
spirit. She has her throne, admirably occupied
by one of the wisest of sovereigns and best of
women, but it would not survive one dissolute
and unworthy successor. She has her heredit
ary peers, but the House of Lords will be
brushed aside the moment it resists the will of
the people.
The time has arrived for both a closer union
and greater distance between the Old World
and the New. The former indiscriminate wel
oome to our prairies, and the present invi
tation to these palaces of art and
CHAUNCEV M. DEPKW.
ing for the Union and its perpetuity, have
rather intensified than diminished their love
for the land of the shamrock, and their sympa
thy with the itsplrations of their brethren at
home. The Italian, the Spaniard, and the
Frenchman, the Norwegian, the Swede, and the
Dane, the English, the Scotch, and the Welsh,
are none the less loyal and devoted Americans
because, In this congress of their kin, the ten
drils of affection draw them closer to the hllla
and valleys, the legends and the loves associ
ated with their youth.
Edmund Burke, speaking in the British Par
liament with propnetio voice, said:' "A great
revolution has happened—a revolution made,
not by chopping and changing of power in any
of the existing Stages, but by the appearanoe
of a new State, of anew species, in-a new part
of the globe. It has made as great a change in
all the relations and balances and gravitation*
of power as the appearance of a new planet
would in the system of the solar world." Thua
was the humiliation of our successful revolt
tempered to the motherland by pride in the
state created by her children. If we c'.alm
heritage in Bacon, Shakspeare, and Milton, wa
also acknowledge-that it was for liberties
guaranteed Englishmen by sacred oharters
our fathers triumphantly fought. While wise
ly rejecting throne and caste and privilege and
an Established Church In thjeir new-born state
they adopted the substance of English
If interest in the affairs of this world in
vouchsafed to those who have gone before,
spirit of Columbns hovers over us to-di'
Only by celestial intelligence can it grasp tL
full, significance of this spectacle and ceri
monial.
From the first century to the fifteenth coutf
for little in the history of progress, but in the
period between the fifteenth and twentieth 1a
crowded the romance and reality of human
development. Life lias been prolonged, and
its enjoyment intensified. The powers of the
air and water, the resistless forces of the
eleinents, which in the time of the dis
coverer were the visible terrors of the
wrath of God, have been subdued to
the service of man. Art and luxuries which
could be possessed and enjoyed only by tha
rich and noble, the works of genins which were
read aad understood by the learned few, do
mestic torn fort? and surroundings beyond tha
reach'ot lord or bishop, now adorn and illumine
the homes o' our citizens. Serfs are sovereigna
and the people are kings. The trophies and
splendors of their re gn are commonwealth*,
rich in every attribute of great States, and
united in a republic whose power and pros
perity, and liberty and enlightment are tha
wonder and admiration of the world.
All hail, Columbns, discoverer, dreamer, hero,
and apostle. We here, of every race and coun
try, recognize the horizon whioh bounded hi*
viBton and the infinite seppe of his genins.
The voice of gratitude and praise for all tha
blessings which have been showered upon
mankind by his adventure is limited to no lan
guage, but it is uttered In every tongue.
Neither marble nor brass can fitly form hia
statue. Continents are his monuments, and
unnumbered millions, past, present, and to
come, who enjoy in their liberties and their
happiness the fruits of this faith, will rever
ently-guard and preserve, from century tc
century, his name and fame.
THE Enterprise made the first steam
voyage, England to India, 1825.
A Va
indtr.^t—
mark the passing period. Unwatohed and
healthy immigration can no longer be pei
ted to our shores. We must have a natl_
quarantine against disease, pauperism^
crime. We do not want candidates for our
hospitals, our poor houses, or our jails. We
oannot admit those who come to undermine
our institutions and subvert our laws. But
we will gladly throw wide our gates for, and
receive with open arms, those who by intelli
gence and virtue, by thrift And loyalty, are
worthy of receiving the equal advantages of
the priceless rift of Amerioan citizenship
The spirit and obfect of this exhibition aTe
peace and kinship.
Three milliohs of Germans, who'are Among:
the best citizens of the republlo, send greet
ing, to the Fatherland their pride in its glori
ous history its ripe literature, its traditions
and associations. Irish, equal in number to
those who still remain upon the .Emerald Isle,
who have illustrated their devotion to thelr
adopted country on many a battle-flold fight-
M-
liberty
and'the body of English law. Closer rel^t'^j
than with other lands, and a f.nmmnm
guage rendering easy interchanges of cntl
cisms-and epithet, sometimes irritate and ol
fend but the heart of republican America
beats with responsive pulsations to the hope*
and aspiratious of the people of Great Britain.
The grandeur and beauty of this spectacle
are the eloquent witnesses of peace and prog
ress. The Parthenon and the cathedral ex
hausted the genius of the ancient and the skill
of the medieval architects' in housing the
statue or spirit of Deity. In their ruins or
their antiquity they are mute protests against
the merciless enmity of nations, whioh forced
art to flee to the altar for protection. The
United States welcomed the sister republics of
the southern and northern continents, and tha
nations and people of Europe and Asia, of Af
rica and Australia, with the products of theix
lands, of their skill and of their industry to thla
city of yesterday, yet clothed with royal splen
dor as the Queen of the Great Lakes. The artisti
and architects of the country have been bidden
to design and erect the buildings which shall
fitly illustrate the height of our civilization
and the breadth of our hospitality. The peace
of the world permits and protects -their effort*
In utilizing their powers for man's temporal
welfare. The result is this Park of Palaces.
The originality and boldness of their concep
tions, and the magnitude and harmony of theli
creations, are the contributions of America to
the oldest of the arts and the cordial bidding
of America to the peoples of the earth to coma
and bring the fruitage ef their age to tha
boundless opportunities of this unparalleled
exhibition.
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