The Ottawa free trader., 1873-09-06
nORPHoGRAPHICS.!
Potency of Pictorials..,
BY PROF. j. j. BUTLER


On the 18th day of May, 1906, Levi, and
| Clarke, heading the first party of whites who
ever crossed the continent in our latitude,
held council with the Chopunnish Indians
| far up the Columbia river Half the day
passed 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 Chaboneau, he
interpreted it to his wife in Minnetarec and
She put it into ShOshonee and "A Sho>honce
prisoner explained it to the ChOpunni-h in
their own dialect
Atlcngth however the pale faces bcthought
themselves Of the universal language, and
drew map Of America showing a situation
of its parts and places on a mat with a piece
of coal The difficulty Of communication
was half gone and the yividncss ofimprcssion
doubled,
The age Of pictures 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 ull the presses in the world had yielded
before their time. In our most volumnOus
dictionaries the illustrations outnumbcr the
pages In Honolulu | met with an editor
who. during our rebellion had tourfoldcd his
circulation by glorifying each of his issues
"
Of the llarpcrs for tritlc.
ON a solitary ride throughout the jungle
and lava up The volcano of Kilauca, | came
to Kanaka grass house, ten miles from
all other dwellings. The owner hearing my
horses hoots, stood at the entrance, dressed
only in u narrower grdlc than Father Adam
ever wore, and bcckoned me in ! had some
little fear of cannibalism, yet accepted the
invitation AS soon as | entered the savage
pointed admiringly to London paper with
full page Illustration tackled on th" inside
of his door.
Oman Oriental tour from Dan to Bccr,hcba
| daily marvclcd at one of my Yankee fore
runners, who, though doubtless ignorant of
all languages but two namely English and |
protane, had left ON every ruin IAN cpi-tlc !
known and read OF all men How could !
that he? He had carried in his pocket
Il stencil plate, showing locomotive bearing
a flag with stripes and stars, and by that bit
of copper and IA little red paint had made his |
ineligible to all natonalitic-.
But photography rivals the pictorial lcrtil- |
ity of the press It may well be doubted |
which of these sisters will prove the most
prolific Ofihc one hundred ard one pilgrim !
fathers Of New England, who landed at !
Plymouth, no single one has left lis his por-
trait, while we have those of every individual !
Of their defendants who composed the con-
council which was lately photo |
graphcd at the rock of landing-thc Yankee |
Blarncy stone
A. to this matter also, the Catholic j. more
than match for TIA" puritan He tells us !
that before Raphael painted, he who would |
behold the Madonna must go 10 heaven |
that after RaphaCl'~ time, one could see her
by "oing To Rome, and that now, thanks to |
Il very few dimes enabled all |
who will, to set up H. their household cod, a |
not unworthy prcsemtment ct "our tainted /.
natures only boast No wonder then a
poet sings:
BE mine to pr1,c that rare NEE hantc skill, |
Which stamps repeats and muiudl.c- at VIII, /
Aud chcaply prapagate~ to distant climc-.
The lairc,t pro%ncts OF the nohle~t times.