The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-09-06
NORPH0GRAPHICS.,
Potency of Pictorials...
~ PROF. j. d. BUTLER

ON the 18th day of May 1906, Levi, and
| Clarke, heading the first party OF whites VINO
ever crossed the continent in our latitude,
held a council with the Chopunnish Indians,
| far UP the Columbia river. Half the day
passcd before they could convey much intor-
nation, for, said they lin the first place We
spoke IN English to one of our men, who
translated it to French to Chabone0u, he
interpreted it to his wife in Minnctaree, and
She put it into ShOshonee, and Sho,honce
prisoner explained it to the Chopunnish in
their own dialect
Atlcngth. however, the pale faces bcthought
themselves Of the universal language, and
drew Il map of America showing situation
of its parts and places on mat with "A piece
of coal. The difficulty Of communication
was half rome. and the yivdnc,s ofimprcssion
doubled
The age of picture, completes what the age
of printing began. 1t rises upon it like
another morn risen on mid-noon." The
Harper, alone, have produced more pictures
than all the presses in the world had yielded
before their time. In our most voluminous
dictionaries the illustrations Outnumbcr the
parc>. In Honolulu | met with an editor
who, during our rebellion had tour-tolded his
circulation 10y clarifying each Of his issues
with one or two block prints which he bought
of the Iiarpcrs for tritle.
Ona solitary ride throughout the jungle
and lava UP The volcano of Kilauea, | came
to Kanaka grass house." ten miles from
all other dwellings. The owner hearing my
horses hooi~, stood at the entrance, dressed
only in u narrower girdlc than Father Adam
ever wore and bcckoned me in. had some
! little fear of Cannibalsm, yet accepted the
invitation As soon a. | entered the savage
pointed admiringly to London paper with
4 full page illustration tackled on the inside
of his door.
oman Oriental tour from Dan to Bccr,hcba
daiV marvclcd at one OF my Yankee fore
runners, who, though doubtless ignorant of
all languages but two, namely English and
protanc, had left on every ruin AN cPi-tIc
known and read OF all men How could
that be- He had carried in his pocket
"A stencil plate, showing a locomotive bearing
FLAG with stripes and stars, and by that bit
of copper and a little red paint had made his
meaning ineligible to all nationalitic-
But photography rivals the pictorial lcrtil-
ity of the press. It may well be doubted
which of these sisters will prove the most
prolific ofthc one hundred ard one pilgrim
Fathers of New England who landed at
Plymouth, no single one has LETT lis his por
trait, while we have those of every individual
Of their defendants who composed the con-
grcga,ional council which was lately photo
rraphcd at the rock of landing-thc 1nkcc
Blarncy stone
As to this matter also. the Catholic j. more
than u match for the puritan. lie tells us
that before Raphael painted he who would
behold the Madonna must go To heaven
that after Raphacl'~ time, one could see her
by wOing 10 Rome; and that now thanks TO
photography Il very few dimes enabled all
who will t0 set up ~ their household god, a
NOT unworthy prcscumcnt Ct "our tainted
natures only boast No wonder then a
poet sing:
BE, niue 10 prli-c that rare Mechanic skill,
Which STAMPS repeats and muItidGc- ut viii,
And chcaply prapagatr~ TO distant Clim"-.
The lairc>t pro$nct, oI the nohle-t uin'-.
\ NEw DEPARTURE
The Burlington and Missouri River railroad
COMPANY are in 1nthn. behind the are; IN
pictorial they are before it. They have OBJ
iaincd views ct all that chiefly interests a
traveller who surveys thc Missouri slope
both in Iowa and Ncbraska--the valleys OF
the Platte and she three BlucS,-yiilagcs Ike
Red Oak. Ashland ana Crete, cite, Ike
plottsmouth and Lincoln. with characteristic
succimcnS of tbs agricultural country through
/ the South Platte region, rolling prairicS
Ibnttom land and timberSkirtrd streams
where three thousand buyers of railroad land
land more than ten times N many homestead
er, and prccraptors have lately found, ant
! founded new homes. Some OF these views
, illustrate. that j., bring into lu>turc the let
her press of the B. n NJ railroad land CirCu
lars. ~siN hundred thousand more Of which
have lust bccu issued trom Darlington anC
4 Lincoln.
!, From thus showing nj, land, Land Com
, missioner G. : Harris, will find letters iron
land hunters ~ multiplying that hc will nee,
I, more clerks than ever in his Offices in eacl
! of those cirie-. The eye atccteth the heart
5 Twcntv,igM Chinese women, impurtc'
a for slaves, arrived in san Francisco shoI
: time since. and the women. gaudily dcckc