The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-10
SITTING FOR 4 PHOTOGRAPH.

the cloth. His back IS toward you.
The indexfnger of his unoccupied hand
mutely marks the place for your eye.
Every nerve in your body is braced for
the ordeal. The cloth is drawn, and
the noiseless and unseen fingers of the
prepared plate are picking up your
features one y one and transferring
them to its mysterious surface. What
an influence is this you are under and
which you cannot explain, which weak
II every nerve and unlOosens every
cord and muscle, and sets free upon
and over you a myriad of sensations you
never knew before. The eye of the
camera glares upon you like the eye of
an offended and threatening power.
Prickling sensations are felt in under
your scalp, and a heat evolved within
with amazing rapidity fiushes to the
surface of your body and leaves it
pierced with a thousand pains. You
stare at the mark with an intensity that
threatens to obliterate your sight
Heavens! how slowly the time drags.
Your eyes grow weaker and weaker, fill
ing with water as they die out. You
know that they are closing but you
cannot help yourself. Will he never
put back that cloth? A thousand re-
Elections upon your appearance, on the
sounds in the streets,o on things irrever-
ent and disastrous to Your composure,
flood your mind, and take such hold up
on you that you cannot shake them off.
and yet no move to restore that cloth.
He stands like u statue cut from flint.
And you-quivering from the sole of
the foot to the crown of the head, with
eyes blinded by tears, with prespira-
ton oozing from every pore, and every
muscle strained until it seemed ready
to snap and let you down upon the
floor a mass Of disfigured and palpitat-
ing flesh. He need not put up the
cloth nOw The opportunity which he
controlled to reproduce you in perfec-
ton is gone. 1t matters not now how
it looks, only that You get away and be
at rest. You grow hysteric in your des-
pair. 1t settles down upon you like a
cloud COMPRISING your throat within
its grasp until your breath surges back
on to yourlungsa as if it wouldrend them.
A weigh is pressing upon You. You
struggle to wrench yourself free from
the dreadful oppression. and yet not a
muscle of your body is in motion.
What dreadful thing is this You must
shrek you, The cloth is up--the
thirty seconds have expired, and you
are photographed.-Danbury Ncws.
WINE PROrERBS.
/. In rinO reritas.
.. 4 heart for wine is q heart for
kindness.
B. A real wine drinker laughs with
his eyes.
4. Beware of the wine vault, .fiacitis
dcscensus Auerni.
). Burgundy smiles, hook winks,
champagne laughs.
6. Port for the people, claret for the
gentry, burgundy for princes.
Z. Good wine should drink smooth
like liquitied velvet.
s. Love stole its purple light from the
wine cup.
8. Cupid and champagne exchange
many a glance.
10. OF wine and love the first taste is
best no second sip equals it.
IL. The bottle is of the aristocracy /;
treat it like n gentleman.
II. The Caliban of wine is port, the
Ariel champagne.
ID. The bottle is the most v~oluptuous
of assassins.
IA. The religion of wine is Catholic.
u. Value wine like women-for ma
turity not age.
10. Whisper 70 ~gallantries at the ia
bic till the champagne has gone round.
II. Wine wit is the souls rainbow.
Is. Wine and youth are fire upon
fire.
10. Good wine is milk for the ages.
20. Wine is a turn-cOat, first n friend,
then an enemy.
81. Wine of the second bottle is q
bad story-teller.
%. The drunkard's fault is not the
wines, but his own.
"a. Your stomach ia yOur wine cellar.