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People always judge of measures by their effect; hence the act should have fair play. "Now that it is safely in the shape of a law, I thought The Tribune might indulge in a little horn-blowing as per enclosed article, "Hotel Ponce de Leon, "St. Augustine, Fla., "March 13, 1888. "Hon. S. M. Cullom, "My dear Sir:
His ashes are also kept here, in a leaden case, for Ponce the Lion-Hearted was a great man in his day and cleaned out the Indians of this island with a thoroughness that earned him an exceeding great reward.
He had a stormy passage, and when he and his men landed they met with such fierce resistance from the natives that after several encounters and the loss of many men, Ponce himself being seriously wounded, they were forced to reembark. Feeling that his end was approaching, the captain did not return to San Juan, but sought a refuge in Puerto Principe, where he died.
"Did you ever hear of the 'Fountain of Youth," asked Doctor Heidegger, "which Ponce de Leon, the Spanish adventurer, went in search of, two or three centuries ago?" "But did Ponce de Leon ever find it?" said the Widow Wycherley. "No," answered Doctor Heidegger, "for he never sought it in the right place.
They were dazzled, dazed. On their native heaths, perhaps as shrewd as any, here they were pleased, hopeful children in a master's hands. Ponce de León's Fountain of Youth, a plot of land in perpetual sun, where crops grow without work or worry, big land profits, easy money, something for nothing the lure is as innate and potent as the eternal lure of gold!
From the time of the chimerical cruising of Old Ponce de Leon in search of the Fountain of Youth, the avaricious expedition of Pamphilo de Narvaez in quest of gold, and the chivalrous enterprise of Hernando de Soto, to discover and conquer a second Mexico, the natives of Florida have been continually subjected to the invasions and encroachments of white men.
In late years much has been attempted to improve the highways connecting the principal cities, and more has been accomplished than in Spanish colonies. There is a good made road connecting Ponce on the southern coast with San Juan the capital. Other good roads also extend for a short distance along the north coast and along the south coast.
General Miles' Landing at Ponce The American Army Received with Cheers and Open Arms by the Native Puerto Ricans News of Peace Stops a Battle and Brings Hostilities to a Close.
Ponce de Leon was so delighted with the beauty and fertility of the island that he imagined he could find there the fountain of perpetual youth for which he so long sought in vain. In this chimerical idea, however, as in Florida, he was doomed to disappointment.
"When I take the rainbow from the sky when I leap to meet the moon and find the silver damsel in my arms indeed when yonder sea hath washed away all the blood of the earth when I find Ponce de Leon's spring and speak to the nymph therein: 'Now free me from this year, and this, and this, and this! Make me the man that once I was! Then I will go a pilgrimage to Wilton."
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