The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-01-09

Our town Is getting TO be fuil OF lee
turers. Mr.. Travcrs says that they
spread all over the country. just Ike
cholera. and that when one lecturer
comes to town, another Is liable 10
break out at any time.
The last lecturer that we had hap
pcncd week ago. He was magic
lantern one, and they are not so bad as
other kinds. He had magic-lantern pic
lures Of Europe and Washington and
other towns, and he showed them on
big white sheet, and talked about them'
/ made a lot Of magic-lantern pictures
when l had my camera, and some OF
them were real good. The lecturer
came to our house to spend the night
and the afternoon before the lecture he
went out to walk. and left the door OF
his room open.
Tom was at my house that afternoon,
and as we we're going upstairs we saw
tremendous lot of magic-lantcrn pic
lures living piled up on the lecturer
table Most Of the pictures were houses
and mountains, but some OF them were
people. and then there were lot OF real
funny ones, such as man falling over
a pig. and big goat knocking boy
over. Tom and had a very nice time
looking at them, and we were very care
full TO put them back on the piles just in
the same way that the lecturer had pu'
them. Only once in while Tom woulc
forget Just where picture belonged
and we had to put il in the wrong place
This was what made all the trouble, anc
If any one was to blame for it, Ton
, was the one.
We didn't tell the lecturer that We
had looked at his pictures, for that
. might have troubled him, and we ought
I never to give trouble to people that are
I older than we are Tom and went 70
I the lecture. and 80 did almost every
!, BODY else in town, and when the lee
!, turer began 10 speak you would have
J, said that he was one Of the incest men
I You ever saw. he looked so pleased
The trouble began when, after having
: showed us lot Of pictures. he said
: 1.-The next picture, ladies and gentle
!. men, is portrait Of Her Gracious Ma
J. icsty. Queen Victoria Now 1t hap
: pened that the next picture was large
! cat with d dozen kittens, and somehod,
!. said s.Haw. haw! is that the Queeng
The lecturer knew he had made mis-
!, take. but he pretended it was all right
and said that the cat belonged to his Lit
!, tie girl, and its name was really Quecl
!. Victoria.
y The next pictures were mostly right
4 though what the lecturer said woul
= be a picture of steamboat o
the Rhine turned out to be
man on bicycle, and what h
, called view of the battle OF Waterlo
q was boy being knocked over by
= goat. After awhile he asked all n
~ German friends present-but don
2 believe he knew a single one Of them
~ TO admire beautiful portrait Of ths
o. hero and patriot Prince Bismarck. an
y, when the portrait appeared on the shes
~ 1t was picture Of pig running ava
ne from fat butcher. You should hay
vs. heard the lecturers German frient
"A howl, and l believe they would hay
ue thrown something at him besides heaS
an German words II he hadn't begge
~ their pardon and said 1t was =
&c n mistake, and he feared that some eyl
AZ, minded person had wickedly mixed !
- his pictures.
en- Well, the Germans stopped sayir
oc- things after awhile, and the lectnr
ast went on. His pictures got worse al
ne worse. His lovely view of Venice,
n he called it, was picture Of herd
'en buffaloes. and what he told us would
n a picture Of wedding in Egypt was
nc cat and dog fighting and an 2
a Woman beating them with club. III
MO made him nervous. and he kept putti
ar pictures into the magic lantern upsi
inc down. and making the King Of Gree
m and the Queen Of Italy stand on tn
~, heads. and asking the people to excu
IN any mistakes, and wishing he could +
lue his hands on the evil-minded perso
ian who had mcddled with his pictures.
'nc nallv he told the people that he wo'
ere show them the picture Of two innoc'
ear and lovely children. Tom hit me
'er' the side with his elbow when the !
70 turer said this. and whispered TO y
me- .Bc All ready to run / didn't hi
leu: the least idea what he meant till 5
kcd ~ .s;s..,. ,,a,,a, vas more asts
and -. 4, IN. ia Nv II was \ pictur,
~ had made Of MIR. Travcrs and sue
ting on the sofa and holding each
the cr's hands. II had got mixed up
iese some way with the lecturers own Y
in urcs. and believe Tom had someth
ney, to do with it. though he won't own
rom Tom and ! went out as soon as
i saw the picture, but we could hear
reap people laugh and yell when we
|ong half mile away. heard aftcrw
the that the lecturer didn't show any m
ricd nicturcs. and that he jumped out Of
Their hack window. with Mr.. Travcrs 9
: 70 after him. Anyway, he never q
Their hack ~ our house. Mr.. Travcrs. W
'vcr- he found that | really hadn't put
mar picture Of him and Sue among the 9th
the forgavc me, but Sue says she never
binc | think Tom ought TO own up, an