Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-07-30
Adam interviewed.
BY JOEL SLOPER.
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up the megatherione, and pointing
east ward, Edison said:
"Now, Sioper, look through while |
turn the crank, and tell me when
you have the right focus"
Hold on; easy now; Dawin's
missing link just passed before the
lens"
"Oh, no, it was only that chap
with the eye glasses" replied Edison;
"l'll have you ont of the range of
/ Washington Square soon"
A few more turns of the crank
spread the rosy Orient on, before
me; and drew aside the curtains of
its dreamy past, as mighty centuries
were passing in review like IA piano.
rama before the monster lens of
Edison's latest invention. Oh,
beautiful, grand and glorious were
/ those pictures of the dead and misty
ages, in their tints aud lines of pur'
pie aud gold; there they were, rushing
past with the centuries; seen for "A
moment in the fash of FURNISHED
steel; heard for moment in the clash
of arms. the blast of trumpets and
the shout of conquest; crnmbling in.
to ruins as they vanished away.
Ten, twenty, thirty centuries,
they rapidly whirled along. |
caught a passing glimpse of Joseph
going into slavery, and then the
sound of the timbrel "o'er Egypts
dark sea-" backward, time swept
away over the dust.
II think we have got him. said
Edison, as, far away over the plain,
a solitary object stood at the last
outpost of human existence.
1t WAS Adam! lie was sorting
beans. lie shook hands with me,
and invited me TO dinner. | sug.
gpsted that we 20 at once.
He said. "No, it wasn't ready"
WAS disappointed in Adam, but
hoped The dinner would be all
right. Adam gave a shrill whistle,
and the hired girl came out of a
clamp of bushes. Said be:
awe are going to have Mr.. Sloper
to dinner, Nancy; 80 boil nice cut
OF hippopotamns, and warm mp the
elephant stew"
: III am glad TO see you,' lie con
! timed. turning again To me. 81
have wanted to talk with you for a
. long time.
! lie apologized for the absence OF
Eve; she hadn't got her suit, and
, was trimming her spring bonnet.
, He explained many things to me
, that had never fully understood
, before, and asked numerous ques,
, tons. He wanted to know II the
r cherry tree ever sprouted after
+. George Washington cut 1t down
. Giving a sigh, lie said that George
. always reminded him OF his little
/. Abel, and he believed if the little
f fellow had lived he would have been
! President of the Uuited States.
f "Ab, yes,' said !, "if he had lived
!, How old was he"
!. "One hundred and seventy-twt
d years, lacking a few days
:. We talked of many weii.khowt
G persons.
|. "Mark Twain" said he, trying t
e refresh his memory. 'oh, tie u
e King of the Sandwich Island, isn'
l. her
e "No, no,rf answered.; she is tn
2. fellow who went with "a lot OF othe
!. chaps to visit you few years age
e and. when they told him you wer
It dead, he Jumped mp, kicked the col
fee. pot over, and exclaimed: Il don
Ie believe il! Great Scott! when did b
10 dier-and then he began 10 hun
D. for YOUR will, and threatened I
=, contest it; said he had evidence I
& his possession to prove you incaps
IL BILE OF making u will; could prov
Of insanity in your family
Of Well, Adam laughed heartily o,
e. or that. He then asked IT Bre
re Harte WAS travelling with a circu'
OF | replied that he was.
III never was much Of a man ft
of circuses,- he said; "but | always n
ts GREETED that didn't send Cain q
a with one. What a splendid targ'
ia Dan Rice's nose would have been tt
of CAIN =,
~ The conversation changed, aud
al mentioned the walking match.
Id "Ah,- replied Adam, 81 made Il
st most celebrated walk on record"
BIZ "Indeedl- replied. "What WI
m. thatT
nd nWhea I walked ont of the Garde
Or. of Eden
N. "You call that a walking match
Il. nYes. of course. What else wOu
m. YOU call i'll" he replied. -.
he Well, l should call it a Lucif
~. match