Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1912 Page: 7 of 8
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EVERYBODY’S PAGE
America's Name.
How many people know why this
continent is called America? We
(parts (of the world) have been more on an expedition that never sailed
extensively explored, another fourth managed in this lying world to sup-
part has been discovered by Amer- j plant Columbus and baptize half of
icus Vespucius (as will appear from th earth with his own dishonest
name.”
But Emerson
have all been taught in school that '5liat follows), wwherefore I do not
America got its name from Arneri-j aee ’s rioht y to hnr cr us
cus Vespucius, a Florentine discov-
erer, a contemporary of Columbus,
and considered by many as his rival.
But why was the western hemis-
phere named after Americus in
stead of Columbus? One would im-
agine that Europe would have has-
tened to reward the discoverer by
calling the new world Columbia.
In 1507 the name America ap-
pears for the first time as the des-
ignation of a part of the woyld. But
j from calling it Amerige or America,
i. e., the land of Americus, after its
discoverer, Americus, a man of sa-
himself would be
th first to take back those words
now chat recent discoveries of man-
uscripts, etc., have conclusively
gacious miifC', since both Europe and | proved that Americus Vespucius was
Asia have gotten their names from not only a remarkable discoverer,
women.
At first, however, the name of
America was applied to only what is
now known as Brazil; then it grad-
ually extended to the whole of South
America, and only several years la-
ter, in 1522, do we find it applied
to North America also, when, for
ica is made showing it as separat-
ed from Asia.
Brazil was finally given its name
because of a certain kind of red
-T—
to find the reason for this designa-
,, . . the first time a map of North Amer-
tion one has to go farther back
than that. The world was suppos-
ed to be flat, and Columbus started
to prove that it was round by sail-
ing west in order to go to the east
to the Indies. Another theory was
formulated by Pompeius Mela, who
wrote a book in which he discussed
the antipodes. The equator was
the line which was supposed to di-
vide the world into two, and Pom-
peius Mela gave glowing descrip-
tions of what the people who lived
on the other side of it looked like.
Needless to say, the ecclesiastical
authorities frowned upon the idea
of the antipodes. Such a theory
was against the holy writings, as it
would presuppose the existence of
people who could not be reached
by Christian influence.
Meanwhile Columbus and other
explorers set out on their voyages,
among them Americus Vespucius.
Columbus strove to get to the East
Indies by sailing west; Vespucius
tried to find the antipodes. Both
considered themselves successful,
Columbus thinking the West Indies
to be part of India, Vespucius think-
ing that after crossing the equator
the land he came to must be that
of the antipodes.
As the Europeans thought that
the world was a round, flat cake,
Vespucius’ achievement seemed
more wonderful to them than that
of Columbus. After all, Columbus,
they thought, had merely hit upon a
new way of reaching an old conti-
nent, Asia, but Vespucius had come
across a part of the world entirely
unknown hitherto. For the learned
men in mediaeval times thought
that what they had heard of North
America was part of Asia, not sepa-
rated from it by an ocean or even
sea, while what we know now as
South America they considered en
tirely separated from every other
part of the world by the equator.
Thus the discovery by Vespucius
caused great excitement, and the
letters he wrote about it attracted
wide attention and interest; manu
script copies were taken of them
and they were translated into many
languages and widely published:
In 1505 a young man, Martin
Waldseemuller, was appointed pro
fessor of geography. He was born
in 1470, at Fraiburg-in-the-Breis-
gau, and died in 1514. In 1506 he
and several compatriots matured
the plan for a new edition of the
geography of Ptolemy.
When Waldseemuller communi-
cated his plan to Rene II the lat-
was most enthusiastic and set
bout to procure for the professor
all the texts and documents that
could be of service to him. It was
thus that he managed to procure
copy of a French translation of the
second letter that Americus Vespu
cius wrote about his discovery of
the antipodes, and this letter Wald
seemuller appended to a little
treatise which was to serve as an
explanation of the revised edition
of Ptolemy.
The Interest in geography was
widespread at the end of the fif-
teenth century, so much so that
from 1477 to 1490 there were six
Latin editions of Ptolemy. The duke
of Lorraine agreed to pay for the
expense of revising the work of
Ptolemy; he also paid for engrav-
ing maps, notably one called the
Tabula Terre Nove.
Waldseemuller’s treatise was
written in 1507 and was printed on
the college press the same year un-
der the title of Cosmographiae In-
troductio. In this work Waldsee-
muller explains that a “fourth part
of the world has been discovered, a
part of the world the ancients nev
er dreamed of. Americus called
this part the “New World,” because
wood which had previously been im-; ter anything lower than royalty sug-
ported from the East and had gone
under the name of Brazilian wood.
When this same wood was found in
South America the country was dub-
bed accordingly, Brazil for some
time went under still another name,
the Land of the Paroquets,” but
this was soon dropped.
The new edition of Ptolemy, for
which Waldseemuller had written
the preface, was published in 1513.
In this appears the famous map.
Tabula Terre Nove, -which was en-
graved by Waldseemuller or under
his direction. Since then America
was the name given to the north-
east part of the present South
America on almost every map that
appeared notably on the Globus
Munda, published in 1509.
The theory that Americus had
usurped the honor due Columbus
persisted for quite some time, even
down to modern times. In fact,
many treaties were written on Ves-
pucius’ dishonesty in the middle of
the nineteenth century, and one
caused Emerson to exclaim: ( A demonstration of farming by
“Strange that broad America dynamite will be given the Bee
must wear the name of a thief! . County farmers at Tuleta this
Amerigo Vespucci, pickle dealer at month. Five acres of land will be
Seville, who went out in 1499 a sub- blasted on the experimental farm
altern with Hajeda, and whose high- of the agricultural high school of
est naval rank was boatswain’s mate that place.
who made three notable expeditions
to the new world and discovered
South America, but that he made no
attempt to win immortality by forc-
ing his name upon the continent.
Numerous names have from time
to time been suggested to replace
America and the United States, but
few have any advantage over the
present ofte, such as Cabotia, for in-
stance, or Sebastiana or Alleghania.
A Spaniard who thought that the
new world should not be called af-
WITH THE STORYTELLERS
DIRECTORY
AT THE CHURCHES
First Baptist Church.
Identified.
sia had been photographed in six dif-
A man who was “wanted” in Rus-
sia had been photographed in six
different positions, and the pictures Sunday School, iu:00 a. m.;
were duly circulated among the po- | Claude Isbell, Superintendent,
lice departments. The chief of one | Preaching, 11:00 a. m. and 7:45
of these wrote to headquarters a'p m > each Sunday
few days after the issue of the set j B. Y. P. U. at 7:00 each Sunday
of portraits, reported as follows: “I evening. D. W. Hightower, Presi-
have received the portraits of the six dent.
miscreants whose capture is desired. Ladies’ Aid Society Monday after-
I have arrested five of them, and noon at 3:00 p. m. at the church,
the sixth is under observation and Mrs. Isbell, President,
will be secured shortly.”—Mack’s Prayer meeting each Wednesday
Monthly.
gested Fer-Isabella. Another wish-
ed to remember the deed of Charles
V by calling the country Orbis Car-
olinus.
America would probably have been
discovered some time even if Colum-
bus had not been impressed with
the writings of the Cardian Pierre
d’Ailly, but one can not be sure that
present day Americans would not be
called Fer-Isabellians or Cabotians
or Golden Indians if it had not been
for Martin Waldseemuller and the
College of St. Die.
Yet to the minds of the time Ves-
pucius’ achievement seemed more
wonderful than that of Columbus.
And after all, we should be thank-
ful to Martin Waldseemuller that
we are not Fer-Isabellians or Cabo-
tians or Golden Indians, and the
American tourists who visit St. Die
might do worse than to take a look
at the birthplace of their name.—
New1 York Times.
She Didn’t Know Sheep.
“Now Harold,” said the teacher,
“if there were eleven sheep in a
field and six jumped the fence,
how many would there be left?”
“None,” replied Harold.
“Why, there would,” said she.
“No, ma’am, there wouldn’t,” he
persisted. “You may know arithme-
tic, but you don’t know sheep.”—
The Standard.
evening at 8 o’clock.
J. B. Fletcher, Pastor.
Lord’s Day.
Bible study each Tuesday nighV
7:30, led by Bro. J. F. Pursley.
Song service each Thursday nighty
led by Bro. J. W. Gaskin.
WITH FRATERNALORDERS
Dates and place of meeting as fat
low:
K. of H.- -2nd Saturday
Thursday.
and 4&
I. O. O. F.—let and 3rd Saturdays
The Valentine Rebecca Lodge No.
98 meets every 2nd and 4th Friday
nights in each month.
I. O. O. F. No. G16, Antelope, T«x.,
meets every Fridas’- night.
The Relative Cause.
Services at the Methodist' Church.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.; Walter
Isbell, Superintendent.
Public Worship, 11:00 a. m. and
7:00 p. m.
Junior League, 2:30 p. m., Miss
Loretta Atkinson, Acting Super-
intendent.
Senior League, 4:00 p. m., Wi’l-
iam Turner, President.
W. H. M. Society meets first and
third Mondays at 3:00 p. m., Mrs. J.
H. Timberlake, President: Mrs. E.
K. O. T. M.—1st and 3rd Tuesday*
W. Circle—1st and 3rd Thursday*
Meet in their ball, northwest corns*
Eastbum building.
meets fourth
Masonic Directory.
B. L.—First Monday night ln-
each month. J. P. Simpson, W. M.
Chapter and Council—First Thurs-
day night each month. J. A. Rick-
ies, H. P. & T. I. M.
Godfrey Commandery — Second
Monday night each month. S. O.
Callahan, E. C.
All Masons in good standing are
Mondays at 3:00 p. m„ Mrs. J. G. j cordial's invited.
Mullens, President; Mrs. C. C. Bock,
When daddy came home he found
his small son sitting in the nursery ' Gwaltney, Sec.
with very red eyes. TV. F. M. Society
“Why, my poor little man,” he in-
quired, “what is the matter?”
“Nuffin’,” sniffed the small boy.
“But something must be wrong,’
persisted daddy. “Do tell me.”
‘Oh, well if you want to know,’
said the little boy, “I have just evening of each month, at the \y. o, \y. Directory for the County.
Secretary.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 7:00
p. m. ^
Official Board Meeting, last Tues-
Homesteaders meet every 2nd and
4th Thursday nights of each month
at Hensley Hall.
been having an a-wful row with your
wife.”—Holland’s.
All But One.
The little girl was studying her
geography lesson by lamplight and
it was getting close to sleepy time.
“Done your lesson, Kitty?” asked
her brother.
“I’m done it all but one. I can’t
find the Tropic of Kaffircorn.”
church.
Sunday School Workers’ meeting
each Thursday, 8:30 p. m.
Jacksboro Protection Camp, No. 427.
2d Monday and 4th Saturday.
„ . . , _ _ Post Oak Camp, No. 870, 1st and
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper 3rd gaturday Dights
each First Sunday, ll^OO a. m
J. F. Alderson, Pastor.
TEXAS NEEDS GREAT MEN
To the Point.
“William,” she said, “means good;
James means beloved. I wonder—”
A flush mantled her cheek. “I won-
der,” she softly murmured, “what
George means?” *
“George means business, I hope,”
said mother, looking up from the
wedding announcements in the even-
ing paper.—Home and Country.
Presbyterian Church.
Sabbath School, 9:30 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m., and at the
usual evening hour.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday even-
ing at the usual hour.
Ladies’ Aid and Missionary Soci-
ety meets every Tuesday.
J. C. Brown, Supt. Sabbath School.
Hardin Mallard, Pastor. T
You are cordially welcomed to all
these services which are held reg-
ularly at the First Christian Church.
Sat-
and
XXI. QUARRELS
HE neigh of a horse made Darius King of Persia, the six
contending powers for the throne agreeing among them-
selves that the one whose horse should neigh first should
possess the kingdom. This ancient method of settling disputes
among politicians could be revived with profit in Texas today.
If our partisan factions and petty politicians could only settle
their disputes by the neigh of a horse, the bark of a dog or the
bray of a donkey, it would be a great blessing for Texas and
would give our citizens a better opportunity to pursue the voca-
tions of industry free from political strife.
He Wasn’t Afraid.
“No, WPlie,” said his mother;
“no more sweets tonight. Don't you
know- you can’t sleep on a full stom-
ach?”
“That’s all right, mama,” said Wil
lie; “I can sleep on my back, can’t
I?’—Judge.
Cundiff Camp, No. 927, 1st
urday night.
Bryson Camp, No, 780, 1st
3rd Thursday nights.
Oakdale Camp, No. 2 S3 8, Satur-
day night before 2nd Sunday and-
Friday nigbt before 4th Sunday,
Joplin Camp, No 1117, Thursday
night before 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Gibtown Camp, No. 834, Saturday
night before 1st and Friday night
before 3rd Sundays.
Finis Camp, No. 1291, Saturday
before 2nd Sunday, each month.
Los Valley, Camp No. 1839, Jer-
myn, Saturday nights before 1st and
3rd Sundays.
Antelope Camp, No. 673, 1st and
3rd Saturday nights in each month.
Newport Camp, No. 842, -
it was unknown to tbe ancients.
This new world corresponds to
what we now call Brazil and which
at that time also went under the
name of Land of the Holy Cross.
Waldsemuller did not call Brazil
the “New World,” however, but
“America.”
“For,” he says, “now that the
Life Sentence.
An old negro was brought to trial
in a Southern town for stealing a
chicken, says the Philadelphia Rec-
ord.
“Rastus,” said the judge, before
pronouncing sentence, “I’m about to
give you two months in the work-
house. Have you anything to say
for yourself?”
“Good Lawd, boss!” exclaimed the
darkey. “Two months! For stealing
one hen!”
“Have you anything to say?” re-
peated the judge sternly.
“All I got so say is, boss,” declar-
ed the negro, “tain’ no use to sen’
me to no jail for two months for
stealin’ one chicken, ’cause ef I
spent two months in jail for every
chicken I done stole, I mought as
well done been bawn in jail.”
Church of Christ.
M. W. A. Directory.
M. W. A. meet the second and
fourth Saturday of each month.
Royal Neighbdrs every 2nd and
4th Saturday afternoon.
First Christian Church.
Bible School at 9:45 a. m., J. P
Simpson, Superintendent.
Communion Service every Sundaj
at 10:45 a. in., followed by preach-
ing Service at 11:00 a. m.
Senior Christian Endeavor meet
ing at 6:30 p. m., followed bj
preaching service at- 7:15.
Midweek Prayer and Praise Ser
vice, Wednesday night at 7:30
Choir practice after prayer service
Ladies''Aid Society meets every Old Soldier Tortured.
second Monday of each month
President, Mrs. Henry Hensley. “For Years 1 suffered unspeaka-
J. H. Mathews, Pastor. b torture from indigestion, con-
stipation and liver trouble.” wrote
A. K. Smith, a war veteran at Erie,
Pa., “but Dr. King’s New Life Pills
fixed me all right. They’re simply
great.” Try them for any stomach,
Bible study 10:00 a. m., and Com- ijTer or kidney trouble. Only 25c at
munion Service at 11:00 a. m. teach Dealers.
Happy!
Marshall's Big Gum Tree.
There is a gum tree a few miles
south of Marshall, Texas, that com-
pares favorably with the famous big
trees of California. This tree meas-
ures 27 feet and 8-inches in circum-
ference 18 inches above the ground,
and 24 feet and 6 inches 6 feet from
the ground and for forty feet has no
limbs, and measures about the
same.
DARIUS MADE KING OF PERSIA.
Let those who pick political plums by raising rows and who
flash swords dripping in the blood of industry understand that
they cannot turn the public forum into a political arena and by
a clash of personal aspirations still the hammer and, stop the
plow and that their quarrels must be settled in the back alleys of
civilization. Texas Needs Great Men.
Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound
is a reliab’e family medicine. Give
it to your children, and take it your-
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It checks and cures coughs and co'ds
and croup and prevents bronchitis
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Happy the girl, or woman, who has never suffered from
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1912, newspaper, January 18, 1912; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729536/m1/7/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.