The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-26
PEN PICTURES,
The BackWoods Philosopher
Signs for the Brush
0 PAINT HIS PICTURES
In CoIors - A Funeral In the
Country.

who can so 6KlIluIly CATCH tue pictutSS VI
nature as they pass and have them transferred
to the printed page so that the millions may
Bee what he saw and feast upon the scene.
What n stlll greater gilt it is to use pen
ind pencil as Porte Crayon did in the
dong ago, and delight the mind as well as the
eye. IL wo could sketch what vase with our
eyes and describe the surroundings as we feel
them in our hearts, 1t would be a double pleas
IRE to mankind. / wish / had little pocket
Camera that would take photograph in an
Instant, and attract nobody's attention, one
that could Just draw n focus on a novel scene
on landscape or pretty face. or oven dog
fight, and take picture no larger than dime,
and then have 1t expanded 10y larger instru-
fnent. 1 read in the Scientific American that
fheFrench artists viii take a sheet of paper that
Is six feet square, and has 5000 words written
upon it, and viii photograph it down TO two
inches upon a slip of thin vcllum and tic that
round the long feather in n carrier pigeons
tail and send the bird 800 miles in day, and
then have the yellum magnitiod SO that every
word can be read
Last Sunday morning two hardy country
men called at tho commissary store to borrow
pick and shovel wherowith TO dig grave.
They said that old man Wade was dead, the old
man with the dropsy, lie had been as good as
dead for n long time and his wife and their in
valid daughter had nursed him for years. They
were poor very poor. and the old woman work.
ed out when she could and SO they had kept
out Of tho pOorhonse and kept the wolf from
the door. Not long ag0she took n contract for
splitting rails and without help OF any kind cut
and split 100 n week and pocket ted her two dol
lars on Saturday with thankful heart and
"Bless God for his goodness" For years this
Btrong-armed and stroug-heartcd woman has
maintained the family and comfored tho suf-
fering inyalids. She is rs much n heroine as
was Joan of Arc, for she did what she could
and does al She can aud never complains. She
Al. F.lf ia.
Sunday evening the funeral procession came
by and il was then that j wanted Horace
Bradley with his sketch book. The cortege
was yoke Of oxen drawing dirty ore wagon
wagon with strong, straight frame that the
ore haulcrs use. a nabor had loaned this
humble hearse. and pale faced boy Of sixteen
had volunteered to drive. A plank seat had
been placed across in front of the old woman
md her daughter, and the black stained coffin
took up the space behind them. The pale
faced .boy walked and drove the oxen. Slowly
the slow team moved along the sandy road,
sad and silent the old woman and her daughter
leaned to each other with folded arms and their
old-iashoncd sun bonnets almost touching,nnd
their homespun garments showing that even
poverty can be clean ! wanted to look upon
their care-w faces, but they turned not
neither to tho right nor TO the left. They too
seemed dead-or almost dead, and SO did tho
oxen and the boy--so still, so slow, SO sad so
solemn. Never was there n more touching
picture for the aItars pencil We thought
this team was all, and we wondered, but by and
Inv another OK team came in sipht and then n
buggy with the pre achcr and then some more
of the humble people walking, and by the time
the country graveyard was reached, there was
quite a gathering of those who had come to
lOin with simple prayer and song and help to
nut the old man in the rtound. Verify il does
not cost much TO die and he buriod-at the
mines. and there Is no difference 10 tho dead
They sleep as well rs Mt Greenwood.
There was another picture that would
have reioieed Horace sndlev. IL was n
court scenc--a trial BY n mapistrate. n trial
ofsa man iorsgagsault with intent 10 kIl
n man. The prosecutor wa4 n blacksmith and
fbo defendant was a ,ybifesulifb who hoI
se,zed n boicet and ordered Inc blacksmith to
cot out Of his store or quit cursinr. whcrennon
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