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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 1891
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fore the fire. Herbs and bunches of pepper
with bams caring hung from the ratters,
which were simulated over the fireplace,
and the wooden settee was not wanting iu
the chimney corner. Other sides of the
room were hung with flags and the arms ot
the six New England States. The tables
were set out in colonial deli and on them,
,to be terred by prime Puritan maidens,
stretched out "the array of good things
popularly supposed to constitute an early
colonial larder, baked beans, pumpkin pic,
mush and milk, doughnuts, cider and the
rest. Margaret H. Welch.
FRANCE'S ATLANTIC CITY.
iw the Tretty Trench 'Women Bet on the
Horse Ibices Sunday the Gala Day or
the 'Week The XVhions There Xew
Millinery.
COr.nESPOSDO'CK or the DISrATCH l
OXDOK, Sept 15. During our stay in
ris e felt somewhat cheated by not see
' more French styles as they are worn by
ench people. There,as in London, every
ly was out of town, and the few million,
re or less, that were left over did not
m t in lashiondom.
'Gone to Trouville" was the inevitable re
to our inquiry after these everybodies;
we concluded to follow the fashionable
ial and go likewise to Trouville, for if
re was one place that we wanted to see
re than another one here, it was this so
led queen of French watering places,
e uere told by some Pittsburgers that it
- much like Atlantic City, and so we
nd it, only more so. There seems to be
c'.i of the chameleon in human nature,
ne unconsciously take on the color of
surroundings. For instance, we found
rlish people at Trouville doing as Trou
,e people do, and not at all as they do at
chton; while the Americans, well, they
'"alf and 'all" wherever they go, and
'id extremes, a hard thin; to do, by the
, at Trouville.
The Trench People Are Enthusiastic
V'uh what gusto these French people
nw themselves into their enjoyments!
r people seem happiest when making
aey, while these seem happiest when
tiding it. And they are the least self
cious of any people we have seen.
e arnved'at Trouville at the close of
racing season, on the last day in fact.
' close, like the opening, took place on
i lay, of course, since this is France, and
ring the unintelligible jabber of French,
di- reminded us ol an Atlantic City
iday durin: the excursion season. Coun-
people had come in from all directions,
ijrin. the whole family with them.
one of the good traits of a French-
cIe shares his enjoyments with the
2tis household. The country folks
ght their breakfasts with them,
it mind breakfast is the mid-day
je) and with it picnicked on the
Others, a few grades higher in the
1 scale, breakfasted right oat in the
t at the little tables which furnish the
ment of every city and village in
.Cf. A cozy fashion this, and one I am
rised ha- not been introduced at our
mer resorts at least, though many of
cities Lave boulevards wide enough to
ut ol them on their pavements.
"Women Betting: " the Races,
f races 1 know no more than a man does
i millinery opening, therefore of the
lity ot these 'Irouviile races world fa
is, I am told it is not my business to
ik. Indeed I w as even upon this ex
ng occasion more interested in fall mil
ry and the people, having come solely
ce Paris .ivay from home. I discovered,
ever, tt at I "was alone in this objeet,
e e i' stly all the others had come to
pj i'c races. Fathers, mothers and
, children who had lunched on cakes,
l-s and cider put up their money with
inch zest as those who had enjoyed meat
wine lor breakfast. I am speaking
of the Frenchman in hib collective
icity, for the difference between ona
I and another is quite microscopic
je difference in the women was mainlv
3e cut and color of their gowns, which
j of every cut and all colors. French
ten look much alike. The expressions of
r faces do not vary, and they act alike
s much as they gamble. "We had never
women take a "business interest" in
s and racing before, and we have not
7 recovered from the shock even yet
rever, we made such strides in three
that v, e now tremble to think what
at have happened in a week's time. No
it, we would have been there yet bending
the "petits chevaux" or mimic race
se of which women are the most assiduous
ons. All day long their pretty laces
be seen bendine over the green cloth,
we were told that when American
en once begin the game they go crazier
i any other. This form ot gambling is
led on under the protecting wing of the
lcli Government, and is just now more
liar than baccarat, which will of course
iyb hate its votaries.
Dresses Seen on a Monday.
ith the close of the races the rank and
return to the cities or find new excite
t elsewhere, and only the more qniet
lent is left, and we have the opportunity
tudying the Trench swell. Monday
seems as much like Sunday as Sunday
seemed liKe Saturday. To be sure,
le ate, drank, rode, bathed and gambled
ley had done the day before, but in a
ter way. These people will remain
until the season opens in the cities.
,sing among this class is elegant and
live and, of course, to be relied upon,
was niv gocd fortune to become ae
nted with Madam Carlier, who, I un
and, has one of the largest millinery
iteles in Paris. Kot unmindful of this
mn, I took occasion to interview Madam
ie lall and winter bonnets and hats.
hats are still larjre and bonnets small
rtainly nothing new, but that bats are
; worn rather far back on the
s to show as much of a bald
jssible, I am Bure will be unwelcome
i. I know I have not felt so inclined
icide for many a day as when Madam
ler said: "Oh, yes, there is no doubt
t it this time; hair is to be dressed back
the forehead, for the bang, which has
such a long reign, has entirely gone out
.sliion."
ook a sly glance about the Casino Hall
e we happened to be at the moment,
while large hats galore were there, not
e forehead was within the range of my
n, so I concluded even an autocrat of
on in headwear could not regulate the
lgement of my lady's hair though to be
the style of hair regulates the shape of
or vice vera. They must agree.
The Decline of the Bang.
much I ventured to suggest to
This statement was, of course, put broadly.
In every community 'there are a handful,
proportionately, of book readers among -the
male citizens, which, in social circles, is
supplemented with the society men, who
keep up with the fashionable literature
of the day, but men, taken as a
whole, are very desultory book lovers.
A college professor not long' ago asked to
define the aim of education put it down as
the ability to discern between good and bad
literature. If such he the case, the con
stantly increasing proportion of college
bred men is certainly not fulfilling its
destine I end so far as. books are concerned.
A further point which the speaker made in
uever was a stvle of hair lms connection was the unaonbtea mnu-
euuc ui newspapers against tne reauiug ui
books. A man may find nowadays every
branch of literature represented in the
columns of bis daily paper, which becomes
his library.
A cooking class recently formed includes
men as well as women. There is a note of
warning sounded in this. Bachelors have
hair and we then consult our historic rec
ords, which we always have ready, and eet
an idea which we modily or extend to suit.
But above all we use our own ideas. 2fow,
you notice many ot the handsomest large
hats have a trimming under the brim. This
is to take the place ot the bang."
I did notice also that the cute little
bows of flowers always nestled warmly
down upon a fluffy bang. And long may it
-nun, lor there
dressing so universally becoming, nor one
so likely to remain in vozue until the rule
is reversed and prettv, round, wrintless '
faces are in the majority.
A remarkably stylish woman passed us
and Madam Carlier called my attention to
her bonnot to illustrate a point she was
makinc in retrard to the rieht new thins ot
changeable velvet in headwear. "You see
ho the velvet is bunched at the top and , aiready become Ekuled in the lcicnce of
that it is of a dark prune color, while the chafin dlsh cookerj.. if they enlarge their
scope in this direction it is one more stone
lower part of the brim is of a lieht mauve.
Such toques are made to go with the new
changeable materials in dress goods such
as the Russian velvets."
This gave me a chance to ask if Eussian
styles will be seen this winter,
to which the autocrat replied, "Not
pure Eussian. It is much too
severe, but we shall have a modification of
it. We shall UBe Eussian ribbons and em
broideries, for instance. In capots we shall
combine such colors as water-green and
gold; torquoise blue and byzantine.
A High Opinion on Tor.
"It seems early for much lur, yet the
weather here admits of it, and very many of
the new bonnets are fur trimmed. Another
novelty is a leather brim; and the chapeau
de grand chic u ill be broad-brimmed with
table or otter in narrow stripe." I
have never liked fur on hats
and I made quite a protest
against it when Madam was talking, but
she considered me wholly uneducated in
millinery and arzued that lur was charm
ing on hats since it "lightened the Telvet."
I hope that you understand that for I do
not, but when it is remembered that
Madam Carlier is one of the lour Parisian
milliners that regulate the fashion in this
important line ot dresi, then it is we ap-
Ereciate her oninions, While Paris has
undreds of milliners they are considered
copyists.
I asked Madam if designing shanes in
millinery was an especial trade, and if it
was one peculiar to women. She astonished
me by sarin?, "quite the contrary; it is con
sidered a man's employment "and in all
my experience I have known but seven
women who made designing hats and bon
nets a success. Furthermore, some ot the
most artistic trimmers in Paris are men."
Small wonder that women in this country
are to be found sweeping streets blacking
boots, pushing carts and attending to rail
road snitches since the men have usurped
their occupations. A large importation of
American women is needed in this country
to teach the men their proper places and the
women how they are well able to run every
thing from a prayer meeting to a political
campaign and trim their own bonnets be
sides Mart Temple Bayard.
in the wall
mony.
between celibacy and inatri-
If you have an old-fashioned copper
warming pan. don't gild it and hang it by a
ribbon, or stand it in a corner a la guitar,
but put it up simply and honestly, un-
GOSSIP FOR TIIE FAIR.
"The other evening," related a woman
recently, "I went, having an appointment,.,
to see a woman who has been a well-known
writer for 20 years, and who has the repu
tation of being very helpful and encourag
ing to youthful aspirants. I had never seen
her, and knowing her to b a grandmother,
had a vague expectation of meeting an old
lady in a cap or something of that sort I
bad been shown into a room that was a cross
between the library aad lounging room, de
lightfully cozy and attractive and lighted
by the flickerj brightness of a wood fire
and the soft glow of a shaded lamp on
the table. In a moment a light
footfall sounded and 1 rose to meet my
hostess, repressing with difficulty an excla
mation of surprise as I did so. The old
lady with a cap was not there; a graceful
woman with snowy hair, parted and waved
loosely back into a becoming coil and clad
in a house gown of white cashimere, of sim
ple but charming style, stood before me.
A iVw Tiling in Screens.
adorned save for its decorative flavor of
antiquity, somewhere about the chimney
piece. Then sit back on the low chair op
posite and reioice that you have a bit of
modish bric-a-brac.
Handsome and Useful
mi who promptly said, "Quite rieht.
ything depends, in millinery upon the
re. We at once see the kind of bat
pote that will suit a particular style of J
She was dazzling in her whiteness as she
came in and during the call the charm of
her appearance grew upon me. There was
no attempt to hide her age; her gown
was not be-ribboned and be-laced,
but made with a certain dignified
simplicity that seemed suitable with
her hair; it was ber daintiness of attire
that was striking. Yet, why, I asked my
self afterwards, shouldn't a woman be
dainty till any age? In my rural simplicity
I had always associated years with lals'e
fronts, false teeth and caps ageressirely in
evidence at this glimpse of urban reversal
of an established order of things I felt sud
denly as if my own life had received a sud
den gift of extension. Certainly, to wear
one's natural hair, a white gown, silk StOCk
lntr. and ulinnn tliflf fit is e voptf lia.ml...
head, so way of meeting the years, and it certainly
forehead j mitigates the dreariness of their arrival to
to those who have to look at us.
The accompanying illustration is not, as
one might fancy, a diminutive shawl case,
but a full-sized receptacle for impediments
intended for use in the traveling bag. It
holds a spool each of cotton and silk, a roll
of darning cotton, scissors, thimble, a paper
of needles and the couple of buttons and
hook and eye that are apt to be in sudden
demand when away from one's permanent
workbox. The model, owned by a woman
who declares it to be the most useful gift
she erer receired, is of gray linen, the
edges bound with self-color silk braid put
on with feather stitching, the pieces then
neatly orerhanded together.
In a talk on the modern norel before a
woman's clnb recently, the speaker spoke
of the decline of literary taste in men. Few
men nowadays read novels or books at alL
The screen is being as much abused as the
tea sown. Combination screens hare devel
oped nntil one may have a music rack, pho
tograph album, china closet, writing desk,
book shelves and possibly washing machine
combined with one's screen. A screen has
a simple cause for being. It is valuable to
keep off draughts, or to shut away the too
ardent flame of an open fire; it is useful,
too, in protecting an unsightly corner
or doorway, and in the sick room
a screen gives a grateful isolation
to the nervous invalid. Its office as its
name indicates is interposition, and as soeh
it should be lieht and readily moved. To
make it a whole set of furniture is incon
gruous and inartistic in the tense of per.
verting an obvious use. A screen becomes
cumbrous as a thing of beauty if It is more
than two-fold: it ceases to be a screen and
becomes a partition when it takes to itself
numerous leet oi height and breadth and
multiplicity of panel. A simple model is
the one illustrated with an upper halt of
the panels ot glass or embroidery and the
lower Bwung with a curtain of heavy stuff
Tapestry with glass or a plain watered silk
upper with large initial or other design in
couched embroidery make a beautiful com
bination. The growing interest among women for
legal knowledge enough to protect them
selves is a step in the progress of the sex
A woman's club, doubtless there are more
than this one, will hare several legal meet
ings during the winter, to be addressed by
representative women in the profession, on
practical everyday legal points. In the
matter of servants, for instance, a woman
often finds her ignorauce ot the lawi gov
erning mistress and maid extremely annoy
ing and costly. Police sergeants aud jus
tices will tell any one who choses to make
injuiry that there are plenty of unprinci
pled servants everywhere who make a fair
living with little work, constantly taking
places tor a stated period and within the
first 48 hours making themselves so obnox
ious that their discbarge is provoked, when
they claim and can legally get wages for
full contracted time. This is but one of a
number of legal points upon whioh women
need enlightenment for their own sakes.
"Window seat shoeboxes are "on tale now
at the furniture shops. They come long
and tquare, and the lidt are upholstered in
muslin to be covered with any desired ma
terial. When put in a parlor or sitting
room they are useful for xausio ornewipi
pert or work.
A new gift for a new baby it a band of
ribbon to keep the small person in his car
riage or chair. If it is desired to have it
especially dainty and pretty it may be of
white ribbon embroidered with some small
flower, little Johnny-jump-ups in natural
colors being especially attractive. It is
lined with white silk and interlined with
Canton flannel Either end is finished with
a full rosette of narrow ribbon, which hide
the fastening of two ribbon ends designed
to tie the band in place. For more serv
iceable wear golden brown or some similar
darker shade may be substituted. One
seen measured about 15 inches in length and
was made of 24 ueh ribbon.
Chnrch entertainments in these days
bare become almost a cult The care and
detail expended to produee an effect for two
or three evenings or a week seem almost
disproportionate to the end desired, bat it
in keeping with the excellence which is
striven for now in every department of life.
At a rainbow tea last tprfng the frame of
the rainbow which spanned the room took
seven men a day to build, and cost undec
orated $50. Whole pieces of cheese
cloth in the prismatic colors were
then drawn over it with wonderful
effect. A New Eogland tea for a church
extension fund was held in New York last
week. The decoration of the room was
given over to an expert with a most satis
lactory result. On on sidt was an old
colonial.firaplaea with thi crowed musktU
above" and the spinning whtel udiaxlM
A COLUMN Ofr SMALL TALK.
rwnrrriH tor thi dispatch. i
Although mourning garments are mnch
more generally worn than they once were,
conventionality is losing its hold upon
many of the old rigid rules in this respect.
Not only has the unhealthy custom of wear
ing a heavy crape veil over the face for the
first six weeks of the mourning period en
tirely disappeared, but many minor laws
are more lax. For instance: A piano until
recently was nerer opened tor from six
months to a year in a home where there had
been a death. Now, although delicacy
must naturally eschew all music that might
jar by its gayety, the sad in heart deem it
no sacrilege to soothe their troubled spirits
with soft symphonies in the first flush of
their grief.
Miss Euth Gentry, who won the fellow
ship in higher mathematics of the Associ
ated Colleges, is pursuing her chosen study
at the University ot Berlin, which no Ger
man woman has erer succeeded in entering.
Miss Gentry is a pretty Western girl, pare
and quiet, and of the most unassuming
presence. In the late controversy auent
feminine creative faculty, this young
country woman of ours was cited as an in
stance of positive original talent, put iorth
by one of the sex who the other side de
clared were in- possession of no such
power.
If it were generally known that bangs
frizzed with a hot iron will stay in curl in
finitely better if fanned up till quite cold
after the crimping process, clouds in the
sky need not necessarily mean clouds upon
lair feminiue faces.
It should be more generally known than
it is that a slice of lemon, rubbzd over the
hands, will remove the most obstinate of
stains.
A Philadelphia girl displays two gownB
of solid crochet work that she has fashioned
for herself with patience and "30 cotton."
one of these toilettes alone bciug the labor
ot two entire years.
a. society juts. iMrtmgton, ot this vici
nity, thinks it seems 'good, after her sum
mer outing, to get her house open again,
and "the burlesque oft the furniture."-
Very little .is expected of guests at pres
ent. The latest interpretation of enter
tainment brings people together solely to
be amused. A popular custom provides a
whistler, a harpist, an elocutionist, a pro
fessional singer, or some other attractive
hireling, when fashionable companies are as
ssmbled. The only advantage in this sort
ot thing would seem to be that people who
can amply afford to pay for good amuse
ments are furnished gratuitously with a
wek solution of footlight joys. However,
though society's demands would thus seem
to be growing less upon our women's mental
poirers, on the other hand utter idleness
was never so universally condemned as it is
now. Behold the latest fad of the wealthy:
a sewing class. It meets about at the
sumptuous homes of its different members
with the purpose of studying dressmaking
under a competent instructor.
There is a lively feling now a days,
anent bpoon vs. Fort, that this rule may
be remembered to advantage: Nothing ex
cept soup should be eaten with a spoon.
No one has ever explained, yet many
people must have noticed, the peculiar
odor which is attached to all things belong
ing to San Francisco. The very stationery
coming from there is impregnated with it.
jLiiose wno nave once detected it often sar
afterward over apollection of mail matter
"What is that peculiar muikv smell?
There must be a letter from San Francisco
in this pile." There always is.
"
Mrs. Livermore tells this anecdote of her
husband. They were traveling in France
where he left most of the conversation to
her althoueh he picked up a few laborious
phrases. One morning he rung up a ser
vant and turning to Mrs. Livermore said:
"I want some boiling-hot water. What is
'hot water,' anyway?" "L'eau .choid."
"L'eau choid," he repeated to the maid.
Then hesitating: "Et-et-et tres l'eau, s'il
vous plait" (and very water, if you please)!
"
A quaint sort of entertainment, called
thimble teas, is popular just now with socia
ble femininity. Evtry woman brings her
fancy work and appears at her hostess' not
later than 3 o'clock. A long afternoon is
thut provided for conversation, and at 6
o'clock tea is served upon small tablet that
accommodate a talkative quartet.
One of the chance acquaintances one falls
in with at the club said the other night
over his cigar: "I have only written one
book in my lite. That was the result of a
wager; but I won the bet"
Something in his tone awakened curi
osity, and he was asked: "What was it,
and with whom?"
"With my sister-in-law. You Americans
know her or your women do as The
Duchess.' We were discussing her style,
which I granted was odd, but not as odd as
she thought, for she thought it was beyond
copying. At last I laid her a wager ot 10
that I could write a novel to be sold under
her name and that the public never would
detect the fraud. It never has. "
"What was the book?" his listener in
quired. "It was called 'Mrs. Geoftrer.' "
Ruth Hall.
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE.
A Plea for More Honor to the Memory of
Mrs. Christopher Columbus.
We are almost surfeited with talk re
garding Christopher Columbus, his pictures.
oi wnicn no two are alike, illustrated his
tories of his lire, relics of his birthplace,
etc., writes H. Amelia Tutell, of Allegheny,
to The Dispatch. All this, she says, is
right and proper, now, and on the anni
versary of his discovery, October 21, for
which elaborate preparations are bein?
I- made,' but probably lew persons know that
there was a Airs. Christopher Colum
bus. Why has this fact been over
looked? And in this woman's century?
Miss Palestrello of Lisbon, whose father was
a noted navigator, married Columbus in
147a A part of Miss Palestrello's wedding
dowry was a large collection of valuable
charts, maps, journals and important mem
oranda. From childhood she dis
played a marked interest in geoeranhy
Lisbon was the headquarters of the
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WRITTEK FOR THE DISPATCH.
BY L. H. WEEKS AND PAUL LATZKE.
Copyright, 1892, by the Author.
CHAPTER X.
THE LAST VOYAGE AND DEATH.
The sight of Columbus and his brothers
in chains at Cadiz caused public sentiment
to take a sudden turn in favor ot the Ad
miral. For the moment hii cause was as
warmly championed as he had before been re
viled. The people turned upon his enemies
with fury.
"Why do you seek thus to degrade one
who has done so much for Spain?" they de
manded. "Is this a fair return for his work,
and is it thus that you expect to encourage
others, to enter the service of Spain? Shame
upon those who have brought him to this
low estate."
The people welcomed Columbus with
much affection; they followed him as he
walked from the ship in irons aud cheered
him; they demanded of the authorities that
he should be released and they threatened
to take the matter iuto their own bands if
the wrong was not righted at once. But
Columbus with dignity and sadness refused
all favor except at the hand of his sov
ereigns. That was soon forthcoming, how
ever. Alonzo de Villejo reported to them his
arrival and his version of affairs in the
colony and other information ciuie to them
favorable to Columbus. They promptly re
pudiated the tyranical action of BoWlllla,
ordered Columbus to be released and di
rected that he be escorted with honor to
the court in Grenada. He was no longer in
disgrace, but more than ever fn favor, but
the remembrance of his sufferings and the
indignities that had been Inflicted upon him
could not be entirely effaced. When he ap
peared before the King and Queen, Isa
bella was moved to tears, while Columbus
gave way to his emotion in a storm of tears
and sobs.
The charges against Columbus were dis
missed without investigation and he was as
sured ot the complete confidence of his
sovereigns in him aud his enterprises. His
desire to return to the New World was
readily granted, but the plan was not to
readily carried out There was evident in
tention to. repay him for what he had suf
fered and to straighten out adairs in the
colony, but the time had passed when Col
umbus could be allowed to stand in full
possession of the New World. Other ex
peditions had been sent out from time to
time and many had returned with gold and
other riches." Cabnil lor the Portuguese
and Cabot for the English had also made
discoveries in the Western Hemisphere.
The idea of a great kingdom across the sea
was in tne minus oi an people oy una ami
Columbus and his ambitions were fotced
into second place.
But a ereat expedition was organized at
once. There were 35 ships and 2,fi00 men
many of them with their families. The
fleet was in chanre of Nicholas de Orando.
who had orders 10 supersede Bobadilla and
send tliat officer home, and to see that the
property of Columbus was restored to him,
and that he uas pai 1 tor all that he lost by
the outrageous cruelty of the usurper Boba
dilla. The Admiral himself was detained. at
Grenada for nearly nine months on one pre
text or another. The discovery by the Por
tuguese of India, with its vast treasures of
gold, silver, jewels and costly goods, bad
excited the jealousy and avarice of Spain,
and Colnnibus' plan to sail this time in
search of a strait that should lead from the
Western to the Eastern side of the land
that he had found, and which was still be
lieved to be Asia, was listened to with re
spect With a squadron of only tour small
caravels and 150 men he sailed' away irom
Cadiz May 9, 1502, on his fourth and last
voyage. With him were his brother Bar
tholomew And his son Fernando. He was
given full powers of exploration, but he
was forbidden to touch at Hispaniola. His
sovereigns refused to allow him to go back
at all to the colony that he had left in iront,
even though they" had not listened to the
charges against hun.
That very prohibition brought upon him
much sufferinr,for no sooner had he reached
the New World than he was in need ot as-
no further than Jamaica. There in a fierce
gale hit ships nearly foundered and he was
compelled to drive them ashore. High up
on the beach they landed, and when the
gale subsided the sailors proceeded to for
tify the wrecks and prepare for a long stay
therein. They were at a distance from ail
their countrymen, and no immediate means
of escape could be seen.
In this desperate situation Columbus re
mained for a year before relief came to
them. The company suQered much from
lack of provisions, hostility of the natives
and sickness and from the recklessness of
many of the mariners. There was a revolt
of part of the company, headed by Fran-
What Columbti Brouihl to Spain.
A TrtiuUcd Life Ended.
cisco de Porras, who led his followers oft on
a career of wild and tyranical excesi among
Jhe Indians of the island. In the hopes of
securing help from Ovando, Columbus sent
Diego Mendez, at that valiant and loyal
captain's own request, in an open boat to
try and reach Hispaniola, but days and
weeks and months passed away in weariness
and anxiety without a sign of help Coming.
After a time the company was threatened
by starvation for the Indians upon whom
they depended for supplies refused to fur
nish them any longer. Then the cleverness
of Columbus served him well. He sum
moned the Indian chiefs for a conference on
a day when he knew that au eclipse of the
moon would occur.
"We are favorites of the great Dcitywho
rewards those who do well aud punishes
those who do wrong," he said. "He has
looked with dislavor upon your refusual to
supply us with food and will, punish you
with famine and pestilence. As a sign of his
anger he will came the moon to-night to
change its coror and become black."
When the eclipse began the Indians were
ierrified.Ther sought Columbus and begged
him to plead their caso with the angry
Deity.
After a time the Admiral pretended to
accede to their request and told them that
the Deity had expressed willingness to for
give them upon condition that they would
never again violate their promises to the
Spaniards. When the eclipse passed off
the Indians were wild with joy and hence
forth never failed Columbus whenever de
mands were made upon them.
Finally after eight months a vessel arrived
from Hispaniola, not to relieve the ship
wrecked mariners, but only to give notice
that help would soon be sent by Orando.
When this messenger had departed rebellion
broke out anew, and there was a bloody
battle between the opposing factions, in
which several were killed, but this put an
end to the revolt, and all was quiet
from this time on. Four months more
passed, and relief arrived in the shape of
two vessels, one of which was commanded
by the faithful Diego Mendez, who bad
been kept Irom coming sooner by neglect of
Ovando and the schemes of " Columbus'
enemies at Hispaniola, who had hoped that
he would perish.
The company gladly embarked in one of
these vessels and sailed for San Domingo,
where they arrived safely in August, 1503,
Diego Mendez meantime going directly
home to Spain. Columbus was received at
San Domingo with many evidences of popu
lar sympathy, but he found hit own affairs
and those ot the crown in such a bad state
that he sailed tor Spain depressed and
saddened in mind and sick in body. In
November be reached port in the harbor of
San Lucar.
Poverty, ill health and royal neglect now
combined to make the creat explorer's life
miserable. He was carried ashore from his
ship sick nigh unto death and sought rest
and care in Seville. But no rest came to
him. His financial afiairs gaze him much
anxiety for the money that was dne as his
share of his enterprises had been kept from
him by the schemes of his enemies with the
court. Eepeated applications to the sover
eigns of Spain for justice produced no satis
factory responses, and his urgent suggestions
that something should be done tor those
who had been his companions and to pre
serve the property and protect the Interests
of the crown in the New World, seemed to
fall upon deaf ears. His enemies were
again in control and were able to influence
Ferdinand and Isabella against him. It
was harsh treatment lor his long and faith
ful service, and in a letter to his son Diego,
he plaintively put his case in these words:
"I receive nothing of the revenue dne me.
I live bv borrowing. Little have I profited
by 20 years of service with such tolls and
perils, since I do not own a roof iu Spain.
If I desire to eat or deep I have no resort
but an iuu; aud for the most times, hare
not wherewithal to pay my bilL"
He attempted to reach the court in order
to present his case in person, but the gout
with which he was suflering prevented him
irom continuing the journey. Then Queen
Isabella died. She had been the firmest
friend of Columbus, and he had learned
that he could always in the end rely confi
dently upon ber sympathy and strong sense
of justice, so far as she might be able to
control affairs. With her perished all
chance lor Columbus with the court of
Spain.
With the spring be was able to travel and
receiving the royal permission to appear at
court, he journeyed to Segovia -in May,
1505. Fer.iinand listened to him patiently,
but did nothing except to make promises
aLd Columbus, overwhelmed with despair
and confined to his bed with the gout, was
forced to give up all hope, saying:
"It appears that His Majesty does not
think fit to fulfill that which he, with the
Queen, who is now in glory, promised me
by word aud seal. For me to contend for
the contrary would be to contend with the
wind. I have done all that I could do. I
leave the rest to God to whom I have ever
found propitious to me in my necessities."
That death had set its seal upon him was
now lully evident He made hit will, put
hit affairs in order so Jar as it lay with him
so to do and calmly awaited (he end, which
was not long in coming. On May 20,
15u(, having received the holy sacrament
and said farewell to the left sorrowing
friends who were at his bedside, he fell
asleep forever. His lite bad been full of
turmoil, poverty and diappolntment and
he had been deprived or the just reward of
his great services to Spain and to the world.
But the generations that hare followed him
hare done full justice to his memory, and
now no name stands higher than that oi
Columbus upon the roll of fame of those
who bare done great deeds tor mankind
and contributed to the progress of eiriliza
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dition of his vessels; so li put into San Do
mingo and asked for relief. This was re
fused him by Ovndo,who was now in au
thority, and he uas even denied permission
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rumors of extensive mines in the interior
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dians rose in revolt and war ensued. After
several of the Spaniards had been killed
the settlement was abandoned and all the
mariners returned to the ships to sail again
for home. It was impossible longer to c0u
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