Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1892, Page 10

RO—— - RN Y O AN s AN A S W i YAY - him was shaken, Tn vain did ho antounce that he had found (14} Isnd of Ophit whence Solomon procured . hi{ gold”—hrs faisohood and fraud but turgad o plague the inventor. OCTOBER 3, 1892-TWE 1un | they brongnt & 1anguishing distempor witn | contatned a harbor capable of holding all the them, caused by thelr sufferings at soa, and | shios of Christendom. | of which they could not recover by the kind | Retaraing to Spain after bis first vorawe, usage of Colon, they all happened to die in | Columbus lsnds at the island of St. Mary, THEATERS ¢ The appearance of Ciara Moreis at Bovd's theater on October 24 and 25 18 an . ABOUT AN IGNOBLE COLUMBUS ~old Snap. ‘ event in bis nouse, leaving their labors for his in- | where the Commander Castanelds, wbo | For a vearand a half he boeged for ships; o o é -’ k A Dark Medallion Drawa of the Discoverer | heritance, the which he improved with | knew him in his former days of biaoy. ar- | and finally on May 30, 1405, ships wero “'f""'"‘\“""""""’ once notable and attract % ot such readiness of mind that he undoer. | rested tho entire party (A. 13, Becher, Laoa- | granted him, and''tho prous oxplorer | IVe Miss Morris is unquestionably the v of America. went more and greater than they, in_regard | fall of Columbus, page 26%): but finding nim | sailed on his third'¥ofage in the name of tho [ greatest emotional actress. In the peculine a that thoy Iasted longar: and at lengih ho 80 | “leadin a new Iife,” he was released, and | Holy Trinity; and,’ on the Istof Auzust, | lines of deamatic characterization which she | Don't take cold— well succeoded in his euterprise that ho be the great by mistake, 1408, for the first tung beheld tha continent | essays sho navigator, ' sights : has no equal on the English . stowed the ne 1d, with all its riches, | Lisbon, where he spres oport thas the | of Amerion, which ,Amerigo Vospaec had ’ . o SCATHING REVIEW OF A DARING CAREER | J0ncs Jin, new world: Kl wat oxaes. iowe. wiih go1hc ARd then | VAR th procsumy Sour. cosmnng from | Sreaking staee. Cnikomany of the suaee | \With the Columbus festivities a frisky rther & al Fernando writes: “He' (Columbus) hed | hostariea for Barcoelona, where Fernando | Honduras to Chesapsake bay, aud which | favorites of the day, her success bas been - & S ICStivities a 1ris \) norther h Without u | TIWAYS proposed to himself to fiod laud ac | Would havo it bolioved that thero was much | Sbastian Cabot reuvhied Juna &, 1417, coust- | won by inherent gonius combined with sours has st 1 little | vy v ot A Man Without a Country and Without ® | cording 1o the piaco they wero then in, as | joy g the shores fromf Labrador to Forida. | of stuay and obsorvation, She has tho fac as struck us— s IIES ¢ WSPOCLL , Cotiselence—~Crael, Avaricions, De tuey well know he had often told them he |~ Mr. (isorga Summer, the eminent auti- | (Vanhagon Analyss Gritiqus, pago 04, Ban. | o T REE AORIRVR O P00 B PR RO L Little fresh, aint 1t, « Spec l-l”) W Woods never oxpected to find land until he was 750 | quarian, however, gives the following in- | dini Vit di Amerigo’ Vespucei, ehapter TIL, R e A . . ' ! et leagues to tbe wostward of the Canaties.’ formation page 45.) 80 completely that her realish seldom fails | [TIOrNINGs and evenings 1)1'0((‘L‘t youself with a i thirsty. In the journal of September 20, 1492 18 | “Judging from the brilliant veesption | On his arrival % San Domingo, this man, | Lo command the tribute of tears. There is £ S ot 3 S e writton, “Martin Alonzo Pinzon conferred | giver by Irving and Prescott on the ar- [ Whom his enthusiastio advocats, M. de | no shammine in her acting: no simulation of wart oar - o~ - with the admiral on tho chart in which lands [ rival of Colunbis ot Barcolona, and | Lorgues, wishod to canonize, reached tho | feoling. Tler toars aro as ganuine as over | Vv L 11 garment-— r 18 the fast number of the Arena A, P. | Wers isid down, as tho ships were Inthat | of =~ bls roception by —the Oatholio | Summil. of ~hls orimoes At 18 ono | feil from the oyes of a sorrowing woman, It 4 Ame seoplo an | Deizhborhood’ s and on Octover 3, 149 10 | sovereigns, it seomed to mo probable that [ of the most disgraceful —pages of | jo° thig thut so ondoars her to | () - Duslop presents to tho American peopl admiral considored tho ships wers to the | some contemporary account of their arrival | 8 disgraceful bistory, and illustrates | woman, and her nudiences are always largely ur overcoats— interesting compilation from historic data | wosiward of the islands marked on the | and roception, as well as of the sojourn of | the treachery, cowardice, inability, ¥ concerning the real character of tho man chart, Knowing the but withont Columbus, might be tound in Barcelona; and gross tvranny of Christopher Columbus, mado up of her own On SOX. Monday night “Camille” will bo given,and on Tvesday night s D scovery of specitic spot, aud whilo there, i the spring of 1844, | On all sides were murmurs of dissatisfuc. 8 2 M l h.lt S \\'ll;ll’ 7OL nee b e ave o Amerion. self as ignorant as o aves ln s writing, ot | Aragon, and also thoso of Baroelona, for | ton Adrinn do Moxioa was' oneof many | titied, ~Ciras Tho flowing 15 the cast | SULE VO all styles and fabri ' It I During the coming celebration of the dis- | Andres Bernal, known as the good curato of | such notice, but without any success. I could | who feariessiy aceusod Columbus of bis | for “(amille” for Monday evening S you i all style and fabi 1CS, and at prices o | covery of America not a single memver of | Los Palucios, in whoso houss Christopher | not find so much as a mention of tho name of | crimes that ‘had brought miscry to the | o 0T 0 L 12 Gatville 4 [3 | the race discovered will ve present to partici- | Columbus lived, writos that he was A man | Columbns, #5900 the date of | islunds. In an outburst of passion, the | frmind Duval..... N Soaae| that talke— : | pate in the rejoicing, The swift destruction | of much mina, but with little learning,” and [ November 15, 1402 (in the Dietaria,) is tha | saintly Columbus kicked the prisonor from | Count e Varville. .. Wilier U, Kelioy () of the Carib raca hus no parallol i the | i must bo horue 1 mind that the Arabs tad | followlng entre Lo bigh wiuly of tho fortress into tho fosn | Gusto g Hirdio Kipkinnt g u world’s history ; and yot, according to Chris- | for centuries enlightened Spain, that the | “Tuo king and queen and promogenito on- [ below. (See Minoz, West Indies, decade 1., | Gustave Cliatles Vi atwe ¢ . ¥ o i » TR BEiot Caiei e s 13ttaty A the 00U | olles OF Cortov At DAMARER" PoEsSad | tAKGA the S dos end 1adius ochs talans | DOOK 1V, oRABtAE 1) VoS e Whatwe can do for you—OQOvercoats at$ $3.75-— 1 ments left by !wum-\rvlnl\ I||~\nr\:ms‘n!| tnat | spheres, zodiacs, ote., and that n..; :4[vy1rl|vV;l of oll:hn bishop of Urgil, in the Calle Ancha.” i Lrving \)‘I\lle |I|4I|L \'z;lmnluu, xm\n.:» all p‘a Madl m"!;{\rl;:”mm “‘i;; !:nrrvl";' ‘-»r_*ll co . l] I ] = -‘v [ day, tho 1slands wera densoly populated. those schools had & correot idea of the antip- | %1483, 4th of Kabruary, king and quoen went | tience, ordorad “the dastard wrotell to bo | N g sicirs. Fred Hooker | ¢ 3 ree shades - e y ‘Columbus, who was said 10 have been dis- | odos and of tho sphericity of tho globo, [ to Alserat” 14th, Kine and queon roturned | Aunie headlong from the battiements.' LT SL IR T ome in three shades and stunners- hcy o posed to all kinds of agrecable impressions, | while Columbus said thap the world was | to Barcelona.”” Nob n word about Columbus, | I'te murder of Moxica was, however, but and are woole . 1 il \ Feritos that howas ael/ghted with thepurity | “pour shape. T | Ol naRa Bnd pebeAYe Lk 1E Chat Clote | 1S BORNNIE. WHSRSYEF Lhby aatb: ool | Otnes Meteidha came | @€ Woolen goods with and without velvet col- @ and suavity of the atmosphicre, the cry llfll The story of tho dead pilot | uicbus was received by his soveraigns and al- u! dissatisfied .\h.u}mrd‘hu l\\'x\s m‘./oai —_— l . ] 1d Ztrausparency of tho ses, and the cxtraordi- | might have brought conviciion to | lowed totell the story of his vovages, tho | the priest confessed him, and | Parnam Street Thentor—*The Operator.” | [a1'S orav—Dbrown - b T X hary beauty of vogotation”s and yet, within | those savants, but thls Columbus rofused to | burden of which his historlans writo, was | he was hung forthwith, in' order | Introducing tho only twia stars in the worid, s, 1n gray yrown and oxford *vl]]() are 111“) the fncredivly short lapse of twelve vears, | give, fearing he might be deprived of his | thut ho assured their majostics that those ho | that tho “admiral's enomiss might give ovor | Willard and William Now the Carib scemns to havo boun exterminated, and in 1520 was made necessary an oxped tion, uader Da Avllon, to the Carolinas, “for slaves to work on tho plautations and in tho miues of San Domingo.” To approximately estimate the number of this race that inhabited the Waest Indics when Christopher Columbus landed would be impossibic; but Sun Domingo alone must have been thickly populated, for in o lettor from Christopher Columbus 1o *Their High- nesses,” ho writes: “Thetown consisted of 1,000 houses and more than 3,000 inhabitants. * % @ ho country was cultivated overy where * * * fhe paths wide and comm: dious. Thus thoy ure well fitted to oe governed and sot to work to il tae land and do whatover is necessary. * * ¢ ‘e houses ana towns are very hundsome, and the inhabitants Live in each seitlement under the rule of a sovereign. ‘I'hese magistrates are persons of excellent manners.” When Columbus returned to presented himself pain and betore the royal pres- enco of Kerdinand aud Isavella he was accompanied by several of those native slanders, “arrayed in their simple barbaric costume, and decornted with collars and oracelets and other ornaments of gold rudely fashioned,” showing at least that they haa a partial knowliedge of working the procious mineral, which, however, was nover found in great abundance on uny of the ‘West Indian islands, In researches mado during the past Lwenty yoars on wost of the islands for the dis- covery of n trace of this exiinct race, abso- lutely nothing has been found; and tradi- tions, which on all of tho islands aro care- folly banded down, throwing sometimes a glimpso of several centuries back, fail even 10 whisper that the imported slave ever found the nativo siave. The avaricious, bloodthirsty but pious discoverers, in their greed for gold, enslaved this kind hearted yeople, and by the lash whipped millions of them from the face of the earth. How this was doue is shown by the documents of the good Dominjcan friar Las Casas, who says that 40,000 of thom perished on one group of islands “in @ short time by tho sword of the soldier or the lash of tho driver.” How much Commbus has to do with this ocold-blooded sud cowardly massacro and with the discovery of America, is well worthy of thourht ata moment when bis name and nchievements are being wafted over the civilized world, ana _especially honored by the United States of America, with the discovery of which he had person- ally nothing o do, and with which his namo should never be connected. An honest wool carder, Dominie Colou, is made to stand in history as tne father of Columbus, while i‘ernando, Columbus’ son, writes that bis father's family always “traded by the sea.”” In the lifth chapter of Fernando's history he writes: “A famous man of bis name aud family, called Colon, renowned upon the sea, insomuch that they made use of his name to frighten children in the cradle. * * * This man was called Colon, the younger.” Ho further writes that his father sailed “‘for a long time™ with this Colon, and describes an encounter between these pirates and some galleys from Flan- dors, in which Christopher barely escaped to Lisbon with his life, He also writes that his fathor was a “Jight-haired mau,” and speaks of a physiolo- gical, phenomenon, as “at 30 his bhair was white.” At the time of the capture of tho galleys, Columbus is, howover, saia to have been 50 years old; and in a lotter written by him to he Spanish sovereigns he says: *Most Se- reue Princes: | went Lo sea very young and bave covtinued 1o Lhis any, now forty years. * % @ Our Lord * * * has made mo very skillul in navigation; knowing enough in_ustrology, and so in geometlry and arithmetic. God has given me geniws,” eto. Columbus also wrote that he made & voy- age for tue king of Naples to capturo a ship, #ud the principcl fact on which he dwells is what he *'changed the points ot the compass,” and doceived the wen, “'so at break of aay we found ourselves near Cape Cartegua, ail aboard thinkiug we had certaiuly besn sail- ing for Marseilley’' una this furnishes the cluoto the character of “tho discoverer,” falsehood mna deceit being its prominent traits, Heo also professes to have mudo a voyago to ‘an hundred leagues beyond Tbule, whose southern port is 73 degrees distunt from the eguinoctial. As he preteuds then tobave been a skilled wapwaker, it is difficult to understand why bo did not “dis- cover & treatise thero calied the “‘Descrip- tion of tho wuolo Iarth,” in existence in Tceland at tho cud of the thirtcenth ceu- tury. Columbus swam ashore with the aia of an oar from tho burning galleys, and went 1o Lisbon, whero ho married Dona Fetipa Muniz db Perestrela. His wifc's tather leaving her Bome pussessions i Madeira, the impecunious Columbus sovn alterwards took up his abodo an that country. About bis history on that islund the following 1s an extract from “The Royal Commentaries of Peru,” written in Spauish by the luea Garellasso de la Veg and translated into Euglish by Sir Paul Ry* cautin 1685: “About the year 1484, a oo tain pilot, native of Helva in the county of Niobls, calica Alouzo Sanches, usually traded in s small vessel from Spain 10 the Cauaries, aud there land- g the commodities of that coun- try culled the Maderas, and thence freighted with sugar and other couserves, returned home to Spain; tuls wis bis constant course aud trafick, when, in one of these yosages, meeting with & wost violent tempest and not able to bear suil, he was forced Lo put vefore the wind for the spaco of twenty-eight or twenty-ning days, NOL KnOWIug where or whither be went, for u all that twe e was nOL able to tako an observation of 1he height of Lhe sun; uud 50 griovous was the storm that the mariners could with uo convenience either eat or sleep. At lougtn, after so many long nud tedious days, the wind abated, Lhoy found themselves near au island, which it was, not ceriwinly known, but it is be- Meved to bhave been San Dowmingo, because that lyes ju west of the Canaries, whence “a storm at ast had driven tho ship, which 1s the more Btrange, because the easterly winds seldom Dlow hurd in thoso scas, and rather mako | fair weather than tempestuous, * * * The master, landing on tho shore, observed the height of the sun, aud so noticed particu- Igrly in writing what be had secn and what Biad happenea on this yoyage out and boue, and baving supolied Limself with fresh | water aod wood, he put Lo sea again; but | having not weil observed his course tuither, bis way to rewurn was more diticylt, and made @ voyaze so loog that he began to want both water and yisions, which being added to their former | sufferings, tho peoplo fell sick aud died in that munner that of seventeen persons which eawe out of bSpain there remained but five only alive when Lbey arrived at Terceras, of master was ohe. These come il the house of that fawous Giconese vistopher Colon, bocause they know i?.'n‘“&‘fi'. :rlml seaman aud cosmograpber, and one who made soa charts Lo sail by for this reason b veceived thew with much ‘kinduess, sud 1reited thew with all things WOCORSBEY, wat A0 he might from them the pariiculars which occurred aud the discoverins they bad made Jo this laborious voyege. Bub fu zegard | 1t was nigut, made such o roarix and | roward: and just how shrewd this ‘‘holy” discoverer, who uft tho “Christbanver crwards stvled himseif was oan be gatbored by the terms finally azreed unon by their Cath- olic majesties A pril 17, 1492 Pirst—Tneir highoesses, as sovereign of the ocean, constitute Don Christopher Colum- bus their udmiral 1n all those islands and coutinents that by his industry shall bo dis- coverea or conquered in the saia occan dur- ing biis own lifo oud after his death to his liewrs and suceessors, one by one, forever with ali the pre-eminences aud prerogative to that office pertaining: and in thosamo manner as Don Alonzo Houriquez, their grand admiral of Castille, and his predeces- sors 1 said office had enjoyed the sume within their districts.” Then follows the terms wiich the discoverer demanded: “That he have and onjoy the tenth part of it for himsalf,” ote.—not a bad bargain for a pious discovorer setting sail for ‘‘the conversion of savages to our holy faith.” During the voyaze Columbus gives himselt undue credit for deccit. Ho writes that ho kepr one log book for himself and a false ono with which to decetve his crow. ‘This could scarcely have been true, for both the Pin- zons wero skilled nuvigators, anda on Sep- tember 17, 1492, he contradiots his statement by writing that he oraerea the vilot to make observations of tho heavens. Neither is the ymputation of mutiny evident, for Columbus’ own log book saows that Martin Alonzo Pin- zon and VincentgYanez kept the vessols ahead during the ontire vovage, baving often to wait for the approach of the Santa Mar and this they certainly would not have don had there been any desire to turn back, At 2 o'ciock on the morning of Octover 12, the Pinta being far abead, fired a gun, in signal of having sighted land, first seen by Juan Rodriques Bermejo. In order, how- ever, to wet the ) crowns o year, promised by “Their Highnesses,” Columbus said he had seen light at 10 o’clock the nigh' before, According to the log book, Columbus must have seen tuis spiritual heht at a distance of fifty miles; that is, a torch 1o the hauds of a savage upon the flat shore of the island of San Salvador, and through the globular torm of the earth, ' Irving, whonoticed this weon- sistency, writes: “Had Columbus seen a light ahead, four hours' swift sailinig would have brought nim high and dry upon the shore.” The fraua is, however, too plain to leave doubt as to the baseness 1n Columbus in defraudiog Bermejo out of his just re- ward, which was aftorwards paid yearly to Columbus at the shambles of Seville, When Christopber Colutibus, as lrviog tells us, landed in “hisscarlet dress’ and the eviaently false account of the crew’s fawn- ing and kissing the discoverer’s feet, and the ceremony of receiving the oath of allegiance to him was over, ho proceeded at once to converse with the “Indisns and was directed by them to lands whero goid is found.” Meecting a raco totally aifferont from lis own, he on the same day writes ‘‘tueir highuesses” all the information about them, asif they were educated people verfect! able w converse intelligeutly with him and, before leaving, carried off seven of thew, 1o et as interpreters. Noxt he ssils to St, Mary of the Concep- tion, where he pens the amaziag fuisek:oods 10 ‘‘their highnesses,” that he enbuled tnhe odor of rich spices of Asia,” and that night. ingales are so numerous as, in their fhgut, to darken the sky. The utter lack of truth of Columbus is, however, best seen in a letter to Sutagol, now in the archives of Spain, in which be writes ‘one of the provinces is called Cavan. Men having tails are born thore,” (Columbus’ letier to tho Iscribano do Racior, February 15, 1493) Mark his de- ceit and cunning duplicity’ when he made it appear thst he was on tho borders of Cathay, and despatched an emovassy to the grand ktun. That Columbus ~ did not then imugino thut he wasin Asia, is proveu by bissou, who tells us that his “father did not give thew that name (lndi- ans)” because ho thought them to be the Indies, buv because all men were sensible of the riches and wealth of India; and there fore by that name he thought to tempt their Catbolic majesties, who were doubtful of his undertakinz. teiling ihem ho went 10 dis- cover thn Iudies by way of the west (‘*His- toria del Almirante,” chapter V1), On Decemver 7 Columbus aiscovered tho 1sland of Haiti-—~the chief scene of nis inbu- manity and crime. The first cupture was a young woman with a small gold ornament in her noso, This awakened the covetous greed of Columbus, and here he remained. Poter Martyr thus deseribed this island: It is ceriain that the land among these pe ple is us common as the sun and water, and that “mine and thine,’ the seod of all misery, have no placs with them, Taey ure coutoit with 50 liitle thut, in so large a couutry, the: havoe rather a suporfluity than scarceness; 50 that they seom Lo live in the goldon worid without toil, lving in_open gardons, not in- trenchied with dikes, divided with hodges or dofended with walls, ‘They deal truly with one another, without laws, without books, without judges, They vake him for an ovil aud mischevious wan who taketh pleasure in doiug burt to another; and, albeit, they delight not iu superfluities, yev taey make provisions for the. iucrease of such roots whereef they make bread, content with such simple dict whereby healun is preserved and deceuse avoided.” (Peter Martyr, Decade I, Book 111,) Yeot, as soon as Columbus has stationed himself at this beautiful isiaud, he imme- diately writos Lo Santangel that *La Navidad is convenutly siuated for commerce with tho grand khan and offers graud faciliues for tho export of slaves,’ (Letter Lo tho Escribauo de itacion, Febraary 15, 1493,) At the poiut Columbus agsin—as he often atterwards aid—shows bhimsell as o navizalor, His own words wre as follows, always garpished with piety HOn the 24th of December, waile lying off the coast of Hispuuiols, it pleased the Lord seeing e o to bed, and we beiu in the dead calm as still as water 1o a dish, all the men went to bed, leaving the heim ton grumete (boy). Then itcame to pass that the current easily carried away tbe suip upon one of those shoals which, though uoise, that lhfln"»: might Lo heard aud discovered a league o Tuis sheer carclessness of “the admiral of the sea’”’ thus wude the St. Martha, the best and largest of his vessels, s total wreck; and but for the chiof, Guacanagari, who cawe with ail his canoes to their assistance, many lives would bave peew lost. L carelessness is excused by the historiaus in a man who was coustantly ‘deluding him- sell” (Irving) into the velicf that he “saw threo mermaids™ (Herrera, West ludies, De- cade 1., Book I1, chapter L) and *two islkads opposite each other,the onesolely iubavited by women of warlike uature, the other sololy by men.” It would be botter to believe that Co- lumbus, lustesd of being the deluded, the deluder, and Lhat the fables of mermaids, mon with tails, dogs' heads and “oue eye,” are out from the samo cloth as his statement thiat the small, Hat island of San oalvador *Washington irving frankly admits that the veracity of this docuwent “would de- stroy all his (Colwmbus'i meriis as 3 orlginul giscoveror.” (Lrviag uppendix No. X1}, but to give an extract from all the old wrilers who corrcborate his story of the Cend pilot would slone il & valuwe, such | was | had left behind him would collect a ton of #old belore his return ; thavho taiked of being 5001 able 10 raiso such an army as should re- leaso the loly sepulchre from the infidels, Ho declared that wealth conld be gathered without cost ot labor, and that the riches of Asia wera at the command of Spain, He was equipped for u second vovage after the bull of Popo Alexander VI had deedsd the lands to Soain *sololy on tho testimony of Columbus,” the iuhubitants of which are “numerous, live poacefully and, it is affirmed. go naked and feed not uvon human flesh.” No sooner had be, however, returned to the now world than he sees that the ‘“‘ton of gold” he promised was not collected, that the spices of Asia could not be found, and then his mind turned upon the wentlo savage, and his reminiscouces of the Guinea slave trade are brouzht to mind as a source of wealth. To establish slavery ho must reprosent his victims as monsiers, feeding upon human flesh, and tuus make out that to enslave was to civilizo them. On tho second return to tho island he despatced a document to ‘‘thoir high nesses,’” in the seventh paragraph of which he boldly begins his proposal to enslaye the Indians. He tells *‘their highnesses” that he herewith sends some slaves, adding that “their highnesses mizht fix duties on the aves who might be taken ovor, upon their arrival in Spain.” In one paragraph, after making the false charie of cannibalism against the natives, ho goes Into A systematic plan for his project He shows that the isiand 1s in need of cattle, and proposes that ships be seut to the col- ony laden with oxen, mules, ote., and relurned to Spain with a cargo of human live stock from the cannibal vortion of the population. Buuin his eagerness to estab- Lish this slave trade on the grounds of can- mibalism he stultified himself by praisinz the intelligence of the 1uhabitants, losing sight of tho fact that those wno eat human flesh ave ulways among tho most debased races, and but one remove from the Lrut Yet in his first lotter to his ercigns he had written: “I not find, as some of wus exoected, any canuibals among them, but on the contrarv, men of great deference and kindnoss. Noither are lhey black like tho Isthiopian; their hair1s smooth and straight.” Never wasslavery more deliberately pianued, and yet “the sweet queen’ of “glorious mem- ory” after being shocked, signau an order in 1503, whereby she compoiled them to work as only slaves are compelled, On his second voyage Colunbus brought hundreds of young Spaniards, who left their luxurious home, tured by his tales of gold, and to them his falsetioodssoon becamo mani- fest. With charactoristic selfishness, Col- umbus first builds a house for himself (Her- rera, Decade L, chapter XI.,) leaving the gentler born 1o die from the effacts of the hardship they endured. Rebeilion becawmo ripe, and to quell it, Columbus sent 400 of toe less sickly into the interior, with the instruc- tions that *‘the Lwo-fold object)’ of the expo- sov- did sition was awing the natives and feeding the men without drawing on tue colony for supplics.” Don Pedro Margarite, at the head of this huugry band, marched throush the island. Their avarice, licontiousness und brutality exceeded all bounds and caused sucll dis- may to Bishop Boyle, anpointed by the pops as apostolic vicar and head of the church in thoe western lands, that he desired to return to Spain. In his capacity he had before re- monstrated with and excommunicated Columous, wherouvon *‘the Loly navigator” refused to furnish the pope's viear with pro- visions, and Le was literally starved out of the islind Both N Spain_on avice and Boyle left cno of the ships that brought Hartholomewy Columbus f and after that Columbus 15 found battling with the Iudians, *50) or them being taken prisoners and sent to Spain at one time,” (Spotorno Historia Memoria, p. 86.) Afier tuis no talk is made of enslaving cannibuls ouly, as prisoners of war becamns mora availabie When Columbus supposea he had s ecured tranquuliiy, he saited ou further expeditions, Aprii 24, 1494, discovering Jumaica, Ou thii voyage, though he knew ho was nov in Asia, for had ana was unwilling to trust to furiher dis- coveries, bo seuta public notary, Fernand Perez do Luna, 10 cach of s vessels, de- maud formally o every person an afirmation *that the land he- fora him was @ coatiuent, tho beginning ana the end of the Indies, by which any one inight return by laud to Spain,”’ (Irving.) Lest they skould sub- sequently, out of malio or dict the opinion tuus sole was proclaimed, oy tho nota. ever stould offend insuch’a manner, if an ofticer, should pay the penalty of 10,000 muravedis: if & shio boy or a persou of the like rank, he shouid receive 100 lashes and have.his tongus cut out!” (irving.) It goes without saylug that the docuwoent was sigued, aud that the “salouly admival of tho ocean sea” becamo guilly, not alone of a g falsehood, but of suvoruntion of par- Jury, and thus the “aumane Columbus” de- termined the latiwude of Cuba, When the ships, with 5)) sold in bpain s slaves, hud left tho new Hoyuan settlement, ulluough the native are no' sald Lo have wolested the B Columbus sallied ont 1o attuck them, had with bim,” says leving, “twouty blood- nounds, fearicss and [orocions; Wien once ey seized Lthelr prey nothidg could compel them to relwguish thoir hold. Tue horsvs, urged on by their cruel ridess, bore down upou the unarmed aud defenceless people, striong them to the carth and tramping upon them. ‘Iho borsemen deult blows on all sides, with spear or lance, and the blows were not returaed; none of these buteue and territicd | ludins mude least resistance, whila e bl hounds, Scarce more suvage than tneir musters, sprang upon the nuked hodies of e prosirate and fleeing, draggiog them to tne earth and tearing bul tucir bowels; those who escaped the slaughtor were sold to slavery worse than death. (Washingto Irving's Columbus Hook VIIL,g cnapter VI,) Aftor this, began the real plunder by tno Sigreat man.” Always ‘“greedy for goid, he caprice, contra- auly wyowed, it ¢, ibal whoso- Irdiaus to be required every person ubove 14 to pay the amount of that metul which wouwid fill Flemish bawk bell” (lifteen dollars) ©very toree mouths. In vuin did they offer to il tho Helds, which Las Casus suld would “feed Spain wilh broad for ten years'; in vam did | they run to the wountaius, only Lo be brought back to the nost abjeot siavery the world bhos - ever known, Tuey dured neitber bunt oor fish, #u famished and fainthearted, they sank by the wayside, or died 1o the mines of the “Curistbeurer.” Yol this W00 America culogizes i o and hoids up us an example for imitation On duly 11, 14%, Columbus made his see ond retura Lo Spaiv, but the cautidence iu 1s tho man school booKS, *ietor Martyr, & contemporary, and one of B0 oSt Brode weiters of Lis Uine, thus Le- lutes the afalr to Fernundo de Talavora, Fobruary 1, 10 “Fho Kking and gueon. on the retdrn of Columbus to Barceions i his honoratle entergrise, appointed hin s wiral of the ocean sor wud eaused biu, oo weeount of s Iiustriods eeds, L be sesto | 1o thelr prose wondoriui 1 I'bsis alisiid o uption which ¥ Jut tho tundo, Her- Fora ind overy bougus Ving wriu Ahe aduwilrs was tho valk of u of the worul der the lash | | railing.” Bt his barbarous rule was soon at an end, His enterprise, which ho haa promiced shoulu enrich Spain, had cost much ana paid nothing. Hundreds ot returncd adventur- ers clamored around the king and queen, shouting, ““behold the son of the admiral of Mosquito land, tho discoverer of falso and deceitful countries to bo tha ruin and burial place of Spauish hiaalgos.”” Columbus was thorefore relieved by Francisco de Bovadilla, by au order from Madrid, May 21, 1100 Columbus refused to obey the royal com- mand when presented. An investigation was hold and Columbus was imprisoned, **his own conk riveting tho fotters with as much readiness and alacrity,” writes Las Casas, “as thourh he was serving him with tho choicost viaads T'ho ship which bora tho “saintea” discov- erer from his scones of crime reached Cadiz 10 1500, whon he was immeaiately released, Isabella not wisting to publicly denounco tho man by whose parjury sne hoped to have obtained a continent. For four gears Columbus remained in Spain, agnin borging for vessols with which to discover a “strait between the lands’ which he was aware oxisted. Tho cupidity of thequeen was again excited, and at lenzth, on the Uth of May, 1502, he uude took his fourth 'voyage, expressly forvidden to touch at Hisvaniola on his outward voyage, and 1f nccessur: only for a short stav on returning, (Nav retie, Colece, Dip. Vol. 1, p. 425.) This order ke disopeyed, immediately land- g on the island; and Ovando, then in com- mind, refused to admit him to the harvor of Sun Domingo. He set sail for the Mosquito const, after which he visited Jamaica. On'the 25th of Jupe, one year after his landing at Jamaica, ne embarked for His- panioln, leaving thenc lanaed November 7, ) for Spaiu, where he at Sun Lucar de la 5, Barcameda, ‘‘bedrodden, and had himself carried to Seville," Tho court was weary of the “pauper pilot,” promiser of realins. Ho had failed in overy promise; he had not futtilled one. Ho had not visited the graiid khan, ho bad uot zht tons of gold to Spain, he had not opencd the commerce to tho east, he had not discovered the strait. Finaily ho proccedod ‘o the court, then beld 1n Segovia, whera ho was kindly ro- eived in May, 1505, #ordinand recommond- ing him *10 rest and nuvse his infirmities,” and May 20, 1306, Columbus died at Val ladolid. The faisehood Columbus bogan did ~ot end at his deach. Mr. Charles Summer writes : ““Ihroughout all Spain 1 know of no inscrip- tion to the memory of Chlumbas, and it 1s no- tico able that the government of Spaiu has overabstamed from any spontaneous recogni- t1on of Cotumbus; and” when Hispaniola was ceded Lo France, o 1536, no roservation was made of “his ashes.” It is only on the brazon door of the uational capitol that congress deemed it proper to Linport a bronze to symholize u fiction—the fabled outry futo Bar- celons, which never took place; und it is to eulogize this man that Europe, Asia, Afriea and Oceanica will be invited—n mau who robbed the dead, falsely catlea himsolf and aestroved a poaceable race, striking them out of existence, Irviug writes that bo was not willlne to leave Spain; a tie of atenaer nature still held him Lo that country. Like his whole beiug, his name, his purents his birthplaco, his life, this incident is wrapt 1o obscurity. Tho ideas on seicnce of this bearer of the gospel to the heathen natives may be summed up as follows : “Lufirm that the globe 1s not spucrical, The world is but smail. Out of seven divis- ions the dry part occupies six, and thoe seveuth is enuirely covered with water. Ex pericace has shown 11, and I bave written 1t with quotations from the holy scriptures.’’ (Letter to his soveroigns, July 7, 1503.) Las Casas calls him “an_unlettered ad- miral;”? Humbolat writes, “He was but lit- ue familiar with mathematics and in abso- lute want of knowledge of natural history,” whilo M. de Lorgues, who would mnke lim 4 suint, is “astonished with the iguorance of Columbus.” Waar did Coluwbus then oviginate but fic- tion! Gain was his ereat object and love of gold his motive power. Gold was his d, and be sought it 8s @ pirate, as un Afrl can'slave aeaier, and us a Wost Indian slave stealor. Gold, e thought nad wrote, could purchase his entranco into heaven, *(Gold is e most precious of all commodities ; gold con- stitutes troasure, and he who possesses it has all hawnecds 10 this world,and also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory and restor fog them 1o the enjoyient of paradise,” no years ago 4 monument was to be erccted ab Gonoa to the memory of Colum bus, although the following towns claimed him: Monferrat, Boglasco, Chivvara, Oneg- lin, Quinto, Aivisola, ) Pradello, Cogo- leto, Savonn, Farrary, Piaceuza, Genoa and within the last year Corsica, = Fernandois notavle to decide, IHervera says (ienoa; Salinero, that any one who would deny Gonos that honor “would a monster’’ Au sccurato bivih ister was kept mm Genon, b but the nume is vot to be found in it. namo was Nicolo Griogo, “'someumes calloa Columbus,’” e was probably Greels, There ure numerous portraits of Columbus, tut on examination none looked like another. Prof. Maur- sand, on examing Jhew, said they iwere all false, and Spotorna claimes that “Spain could not produco a true picture of Coiumbus.” Feruawao does not mention that his fatner sat fof & porirait, thougn the art of portrait painiipe, in that day, was at its hoight, and copics prevery important per- sonagn are extant; butzin his “Historia del Awmirants,” chapter 111, Fernando says “his Visugo was long, bis 8yes were white, he bad @ hawl nose.” Otherssay that he had red huir and toat he bad Jumm on his face. De Bry claims that il possessed a portrait soeu in_the council ¢ the ludies, fromn whence it was stolen §9d sent to the Nuther lands for sule, aug’, finslly oought by bim. Thav ho was yof arrested and the portrait confiscated by-the Spauish govern- ment, is proof enough against his claim Phis picture bhas beei tsed by Marguis Du razzo in bis "Il~|ln>:ueu§‘u! Columbus,” and by Bry in s “Amepidp,” but as ivis not positively known if Galymous’ ashes rest on the island of San Domingo or on Cuba, 50 no 1he myriads of one can now tell if any of spurious likenesses havs the faintest blance o the living Cotumbus, em The invent- ors of his glory have also invented his portraivs, But no true picture of Columbus has been left bebind for admiring posterity, neit has the bistorian furaishod us with jis t name. — A Cholera seare, A reported outbreak of cholera at Hel metta, N.J., created much excitement in thatvicinity. Tuvestigation showed that the but a violent dyss A sovere anu danger- disease wus not ¢ tery, whick is almost ous ws cuotera. Mr. Walter Willara, & promivent merchant of Jamesburg, iwo pules frow ilelmeua, says Chamberiain's Colie, Cholera ana Diavrbiea lemedy bas ven great satisfaction 1o the most severs Bisos of aysentery. It is certwioly one of | the best things over wade. Kor sale by | | draggists. | Do | 11, which its appearance at Faroam Stred next Thursaay evening, is a clever play of the modern melodramatic school, abounding in stiering dramatic situations and replete with hamor, patnos and comedy. Tho Mossrs, Newell uro 8o oxactly aliko that they continuously ksep their most intimate fricuds guessing which is whicn, The plot of the blay 15 based to a very large oxtent upon the perfect resomblance between tho two leading parts, and it will ceriainly prove a striking novelty. The Newell Twins hnve staged the play both as repards scenery and wonderful mochanical effects in & most mag: nificent and realistic manner, Of tho many eflects to be produced, oue will consist of mukes theator v writton o fullrigged steamship, porfoct in detail, which, owing 1o tho break- ing of & shaft, becomes unmanave- able, and being caught in a ter rific storm, is cast upon the rocks, where sho brenks to pieces and sinks o full view of tho entire audienco, Another great effect will bo the perfoet presentation of the railroad telegraph ofice, showinz tho operator at work. as well as thoe woriing of the switches and the block signal syste.n. Duriug this scene the 1 exoress is see! to cross the stage at a lightuing speed. After this sceno foliows one of the most realistic effects ever attempted on the American stage. In this scena 1s shown a trestle bridge standing sov enteen feet high from the stage, and upon which dasnh ) engine and tender twenty two feet loug and nine feet and ten hizh, capablo of carrying four or fivo pe in the cab without 1ho slightest ecrowdine, eugine goes throngh the bridge, and, ing, tho voiler explodes, makin of the most sensational and realisuic 1M0s that has ever Leen attempted, In 0of tho mauny extraordinary cffects und matic situations and climaxes of the piece, thero is still ro amount of bright co 1.ed laughablo situations. n left for v and a larg pleasing and “Romeo and Juliet,” s pitiable fate, 1n ' a world whose atmos- phere is too rough for this tenderest blossomn of human life. ‘T'wo boings created for each othor feel mutual love at first glnce, ever consideration disappoars bofore the invis bie influence, they join themselves socretly under hostile circumstances to the uuion, relying merely on the brotection of an invisiblo power. By unfriendly evenis the heroic constancy 1s exposed to many trials, till, forcibly separated from eaci othier, they arc united 10 tho gravo to meet awain in an- other world, Such is a brief consideration of that wonderful love tragedy of Shake- speare’s which Miss Marlowe will produce ai the Boyd theater on Tuesday night of next weok. Her eastern reputation in tho character of Juliet is ono that in the present day is not cqualed. Tho other proauctions of tho en- gagoment will bo: Monday, “As You Liko 1L and Wednesdav “Cymboline,” whilo “As You Like [t will bo repeated at tho Wednesday matinee picture of love and Patti Rosa, endowed with an abundarce ot the gitts und graces of nature, comes to the Boyd theater next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, producing her bright and merry com- dolly Varden” and “Miss Dixie,” bed as appropriate venicles y of Miss Rosa's stage work, and at tho same time afford scope for the use of the abilities of an excellent company, “T'ime-nouored traditions in the writing of plays for soubreite comediennes hayo not been wholly discarded by the author, The plot may be never so slight, the incidents may be of every day order and the charac- ters may be sach &s have veea seen in simi- lar plays from time immemorinl, but all this is lost sight of when once jolly Patti tosa has beamed upon the audai- cnco. Her spirits are infectious, her gayoty is catching and tue witchery of her art places eriticism at o disadvaniage. She has the bappy faculty of placing herseif at once 10 exact touck with her audienco, Her com- panv includes Joe Cawthorn, Maurice Darey, Gerald Griftin, ar S, ' Halstead, David' R. Young, Idgar Weir, Carrio Fran- cis, Fiorence Ashbrooke, Fannio I, Jacobs and others, *Doily Varden" will bo played Friday night. Tbe closing performanco of “Dangers of u Great City” at Boyd’s will bo given tonigit. Nine people out of ten want “A Barrel of Money ;' wo cannot all have one, but we are to be given an opportunity of beholding the and disadyantiges of such a pos- at the Purnam strect the Tho orican stage has had nearly eve kind of reality imaginable, ngine 1o suppose that the stago me been tested to its utmost, ment that in B. D. Starr’s American charac- ter comedy, A Barrel of Monoy,” thero 1s a fully equinped una actually woskiog station ary stedm engine u ina scone depicting the machinery room of an iron mill in full operation, with real shafting, wheels whiyl- ce, and one would hanic's skill had But the announc ing, belts buzzing and steam escaping, de notbs that 1o this age of *hustiingology’ thero 15 uo limit o the stage mechanic's in- | genuity or the scenic artist's skill, In this 10 tho hervine (Miss Grace Emuett) is actually bound to a huge beit, the monstrous engine'is set in motion by tie villain, the | wachinery starts, the belt moves and tie immense revolviug: drive wheel promises certain death to the horror-stricken vietim, who is being carried onward, Of course thero is tho opportune rescue and the stop- piig 0° tho machinery just in the nick of time. But the thrill® of the effect lasts for some tine, aud the amuzed auditor exclaims: “Well, what will they do nest!” great tall for next weelk ot the mencing Monday an of prozram will take place. The Mackey Dramatic company his been secured and will present the thrilling four-act arama, with prolc entitled he Danites, or the Dostroving Angeis,”’ a play written on the stirrine incidents conneeted with the Moun- tain Meadow massacre. 1t is ful: of stastling situatious and lively chwaxes. New | scenery has been pamted, and it will be elegantly staged and beautifully cos- tumed, Besides the dp: a the usual olio of | craities will be prosented, The artists aged arve without equals on the vau ville stage, among them being the great Pen. Another has been prepared Bijou, Com- entire chango ton brothers, eccentric lIrish comediass, | Millie Cerito, the fomale equilibrist, and her | dancing table and barrel, the Nicuols Bros., | marvelous and dar robats, Herworth & Rinley. vocalists and daucers, and the Ier. gusou sisters, disciples of Terpsichoro, ‘Phe | program is over three hours in length, Touc | tho cfforts of the new ma ment to pl 1 ure appreciated 18 atested by the lurge usudiences that gather every evening, Her after a special feature will be wmade dies' day, I'riday, onwhich occasion every Judy will receive s souvenir of value and o useful artic Saturday will continue to be children’s matineo day ———— | DeWitt's Sarsaparilia aestroys sucn pole sous as scrofula, skin diswases, oczems, rheu watisw. s timely uss saves many Lives. ——— Wagonways . Harper's Weekly: It will astonish a AL many persous to learn what o & U mad At $7.50 in tans, blue and black— Overcoats in— Meltons- Heavy underwear— A special sale of 4 case —heavy ribbed full close—30c cach-=2 backs to civilization may be logicnily piled up on account of bad wagon road s, A forcible movement isbeing pressed for a comprehensive exhibiv at Chicago of everything which entars into road-imul- ing and maintenance, and the persons who are contributing to the effort have gathered together somo remarkablo arguments to impress upon our country men the importance of improving our intornal highways. he movement is called **an uprising against the bondage which is upon the people that are ham- pered by poor means of communication— a protest against a tax indirectly pliced upon every article of consump- tion.” Tnhe tendency ol population toward the cities, the abandonment of farms, and on the odern development of 8*slums,” are lurgely :ribed to bad roads, which are smd to be worse and more numerous here in any other ciwvilized county roads, it1s argued, cause 100 churchs to be neglected, prevent intercouvse in the country, and lifo in the rural districts che isolated, and narrow. The movement now under way isaimed toward utilizing o part of the éxposition ground at Chicago com- pleto exhibit which shall show the peo- plo how to build and how to keen good roads, ns well as teach them tho alinost vital need thereis that we shoullall of us them. Very many of the imple- and materinls in use in road posse: ments building are included in tho ovigi classification of exhibits for tho fair, and all are to be displayed thero, I3ut the movers for good roads say that the force of the displ not destroyed, by is greatly diluted, if | the manner in wh it is to be made. It is to be scattored about n five butidings. In the agrvicul tural section will he shown methods of construction, machines and apparatus for roua muking, samples of wood paving and the methods of treating wood to cause it to resist decay. Ir the mit building will be collected the stones and stone mixtures or compounds und thoe rock crusher tems of drain classified for exhibition in the transpor tation building, while conduits, drains, sewers, bridges, working plaus for pav- ing and drainage, und the construction > uro of vonds and their maintenance, all be long to the department which oxhibits in the wmunufuetures and liberal arts puilding. It would seem that the exhibitions in | tho agricultural and liberal arts build- ings either conflict with o ! one another, but this is not t} 18 one deals with roads from the s und the other from the engineer’s point of view. Bither might be elaborated 1o comprehend the entir exposition officials, while they ful s the scheme, but tho orting that importance of | the subjec! lare thit this is not prac ticablo.” Those who ure combining for an effective display ist that they should haven ouilding cspe voted to it, but the reply to this is that tngro o oo room for ch o Lullding 19 Jackron par’, will bo n giest i this best of all opportunitics to edud e the pubiie in this airection c: nnot be fully er ced We may feol su.e vhat ifivis not, it will not be due to any lack of energy and ardor on the part of tho presont reforme ers. In thatcaso we shall not be sur- prised to see road-making and main- tenunce made the subject of a subse- quent und cspeeial exposition. T'he knaowledge of what is lost by the neglect of our wagon ways is daily extendin angd with its spread is certain to com \ more and more pressing demand for ue tion that shall remove what is not merely & hinderance 1o progre ita blot upon our national charact - Moo Much It isnot nuusual for colds contracted in the fall tohwng on all wiate In such Sus catarrh or chrouic broachitio are almost sure t0 result. A fiity-ceut potule of Chamuver la's Cougu Lemedy will oure any col (‘an vou afford 10 rlsx 80 much for 0 il awmount! This remedy s intended e lly for bad eolds ana_croup and can Lo dupended upon, FoF sale Ly drug wRink. crushing wuss of iniquitios and draw- worth §6—call and examine them 3.75, with yradual rise in price of 50¢ a coat till you vet to 30, the highest, which fit as well as cus > and wear as long— r N h . - We have overcoats running from Our $14 Overcoat is a world beater, Cheviots— Cassimeres—Wide Wales —Stockinette Serge and silk lined—Box or long cut Colors—-tan-—brown— oxford—Dblue— black Single and double breasted - of shirts and drawers finished—French shirts-——pearl buttons, worth fully 350c cach to Columbia Clothing Company— Cor. 13th and Farnam— SH@or=2s Suscessors to M. [Hellman The f2S AN ) phildnthropis than is he who is OChampion Qg SRS SR A ) Ol the sk vietims of di Teomplicat d pocinlists [re CRSGREBN San B SR P land_can comp Such di ease The RS W onrld L R s iltation free, Betts & Betts 119 So. 14th Strec OMAHA, NFB JAMANE S P LLE CURE iva Cure for b Bupnositorie: 01y i nevor bian c———————emesm———— Thin, slim, oval, dounle sloeve buttons sro th pars and & small be or 1o gilded dots on while sur- Jf gobd, are new hite enamel v deviee in gold rounded with twisted rims DeWitl's sarsapartiis is relisbles