The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-08-13
THE MAGIC LANTERN.

VHE MAGIC LANTERN.
He and His frie.d Caused aa InnocsnA
Lecturer.
Our town is getting to be fun of leo.
.urers- Mr. Trsvers says that they
spread all over the country, Just like
cholera, and that when one lecturer
comes to town. another is liable To-
break ont at any time.
The last lecturer that we had hap
penod 3 week ago. He was q 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 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 US we were going upstairs we saw .
tremendous lot of magic-iantcrn pic
lures lying piled up on the lecturers
table. Most of the pictures were houses
anu mountains, but some of them werS
people, and then there were lot of rsar
funny ones, such as q man falling over.
a pig, and big goat knocking boy
over. Tom and had = very nice timo
looking at them, and we were very care
ful to put them back on the piles Just in
the same way that the lecturer had put
them. Only once in q while Tom would
forget Just where . picture belonged.
and we had to put 1t in the wrong place.
This WAS what made all the trouble, and
If any one was to blame for it, Tom
wss the one.
We didn't tell the lecturer that Ne
had looked Ak his pictures. for thae
might have t1subled him, end we ought
never to give trouble to people that are
older than We are Tom and went to
the lecture. and SO did almost every
body else in town. and when the leo
furer began to speak you would have
said that he was enc Of the incest men
you ever saw, he looked so pleased.
The trouble began when. after having
showed Us . lot Of pictures, he said
The next picture. laslics and gentle
men, is a p0rtrlit of Her Gracious Nnr
jesty, Queen Victoria" Now it hnpe
pened that the newt picture was IArRp
cat with dozen kittens. and somebody
said: ''Haw! haw! is that the Queen?'
The lecturer knew he had msn, 8 mis-
take. but he pretended it was all right
and said that the cat belonged to his liz
tie girl, and its name was really Queen
Victoria.
The next pictures were mostly right
though what the lecturer said would
be picture of . steamboat on
the Rhine turned out to be :
man on . bicycle, and what he
called view of the battle Of Waterloo
was . boy being knocked over By =
goat After awhile he asked all hia
German friends present-but | don't
believe he knew q single one Of them
to admire q beautiful portrait Of that
hero and patriot Prince Bismarck. and
when the portrait appeared on the sheet
It was picture of pig running away
from . fat butcher. You should heve
heard the lecturers German friends
howl, and believe they would have
thrown something at him besides heavy
oG1|lou WOfu5 uc Hs4uu UcB80
lkeir pardon and said it was ~
mistake. and he feared that some evil
minded person bad wickedly mixed Up
his PictureS
Well. the Germans stopped saying
things after awhile. and the lecturer
went on His pictures got worse and
werse. His lovely view of vepice. .
he called il, was picture OF herd of
buffaloes, and what he told Us would ~
q picture Of wedding in Egypt was
cat and dog fighting and an of9
woman beating them with a club- Jhle
made him nervous, and he kept putting
pictures into the magic lantern upside
down. and making the King VI Greece
and the Queen Of Italy stand on their
heads, and ssting the peop'e to exctse
any mistakes. and wishing he could put
his hands on the ev.l-n:nded persons
who had meddlcd W tn his pictures. ft
nsily be told the people that ke woul4
shoF ihem the picture of two innoceat
and lovely children. Tom hit me u
the eide with his elbow when the leo
&urer said this, and Whispered to mes
YBe AL ready to run" di5a't have
the least idea what hs unaat till saW
the picture. never WAS more astQn-
ished in my life, for it was . picture !
had made Of Mr. Traycrs and Sue ~
ting on the sofa and holding each Oh
er's hands. 1t had got mixed mp -
some way with the lecturer own pict
ures, and believe Tom had somethim4
to do with it, though he won't own mp
Tom and went out ~ soOn ~ NJ;
saw the picture. but we could hear tn
people laugh and yell when we weF9
half mile away. l heard aftefwnr1
that the lecturer didn't show any moto
pictures. and that he jumped ont of -
hack window. with Mr.. Travers o1oG1
sfier him. Anyway. he never CO.
back to our house. Mr.. Traverz, Whe1
be found that really hadn't pqe u
picture Of him and Sue among the otkGl1
.orgsvc me. bat Suo says she never WI
| think Tom ought TO own up and =
Mr Trayers catches him | think he vii
--..Jimmy B.ous." in Harpsr's xon[i
People.