."--Harrisse.]

Columbus and Columbia.

COLUMBUS.

Look up, look forth, and on.
There's light in the dawning sky.
The clouds are parting, the night is gone.
Prepare for the work of the day.

--_Bayard Taylor._

_A Castilla y Leon,
Nuevo mundo dio Colon._

To Castille and Leon
Columbus gave a New World.

Inscription upon Hernando Columbus' tomb, in the pavement of the
cathedral at Seville, Spain. Also upon the Columbus Monument in the
Paseo de Recoletos, Madrid.

COLUMBUS

REVERENCE AND WONDER.

JOHN ADAMS, American lawyer and statesman, second President of the
United States. Born at Braintree (now Quincy), Norfolk County,
Mass., October 19, 1735. President, March 4, 1797-March 4, 1801.
Died at Braintree July 4, 1826.

I always consider the discovery of America, with reverence and wonder,
as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence, for the
illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of
mankind all over the earth.

THE GREATNESS OF COLUMBUS.

WILLIAM LIVINGSTON ALDEN, an American author. Born in Massachusetts
October 9, 1837. From his "Life of Columbus" (1882), published by
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., New York City.

Whatever flaws there may have been in the man, he was of a finer clay
than his fellows, for he could dream dreams that their dull imaginations
could not conceive. He belonged to the same land which gave birth to
Garibaldi, and, like the Great Captain, the Great Admiral lived in a
high, pure atmosphere of splendid visions, far removed from and above
his fellow-men. The greatness of Columbus can not be argued away. The
glow of his enthusiasm kindles our own even at the long distance of four
hundred years, and his heroic figure looms grander through successive
centuries.

ANCIENT ANCHORS.

Two anchors that Columbus carried in his ships are exhibited at the
World's Fair. The anchors were found by Columbian Commissioner Ober near
two old wells at San Salvador. He had photographs and accurate models
made. These reproductions were sent to Paris, where expert antiquarians
pronounced them to be fifteenth century anchors, and undoubtedly those
lost by Columbus in his wreck off San Salvador. One of these has been
presented to the United States and the other is loaned to the Fair.

COLUMBUS AND THE CONVENT OF LA RABIDA.

(ANONYMOUS.)

It was at the door of the convent of La Rabi