Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-05-29

had been raised In his own esteem 10y
Mr.. Evcttts hnunsss, AMI hns never
forgotten the lesson u taught him.
Sir Thomas Lawrence was one ~ the
great portrait painters In England.
His parents were poor, his father boinl
country innkccpcr. One Jay LORI
Shanesbury's father and mother
stopped ut the inn. having their young
son, the future lord, vith them. In
conversation the innkeeper spoke 81
the genius u his boy In drawing, aud
wished them 10 test II by picture OF
their sou. they aseented, thinking to
glatiiy fathers pride. but not look
Ing Tor any evidence ofsuperior talent.
The boy came ia modcsily, with cbask
aud PAPER and In lew minutca had
drawn a picture Of their son, on Which
the parent. looked with wonder. They
recognized the genius and the PROMISE
future greatness, and befri.udcd the
young artist, giving the helD needed
10 devolopc his wonderful gin.
The poet Percy Bysshc Shelley "a a
small hoy was an eccentric little being.
He used 10 dress his four sisters to
represent nunda, and, filling n fire.
stove with some intiammahlo fuld aud
setting Il ailame, he would mafshal the
diabOlicnl procession 10 the back door.
Asa boy vi Eton he would watch the
livelong night for ghosts and consulted
biz hooks how 10 raise one. His diet
Ia after year, was meagre enough 70
bfiAg him weird fancios. Bread be-
came hi. chief sustenance and HE
pockets were well stored with II.
a circle upon the carpet clearly de-
flned by an ample verge Of crumbs,
often marked the place where ho hal
long snt Mt his studies, his face nearly
In contact with his book, devOuflng
bread nj Intervals amid profound nb.
stractiOns. Sometimes he ate faisius
with II, and his sweet tooth was Inc
mense.
IL was In the year 1910 that La
fnyette, not yet nineteen years old, at
n dinner party ut Metz, whore lac was
stationed with his regiment, heard
that the American colonies had dc.
clafed their iniupendoncc. Tho dinner
at which he vas present was given 10y
the commandant Of the garrison 10 the
Duke OF Gloucester, n brother OF The
Ming OF England.
Young Lafayette had heard much
before OF the cause Of tho difficulty
between England aud her colonies aud
he had made up his mind they had
been badly treated. His youthful
Imagination took fire nj this news and,
separated from the old world by 5000
miles of ocean, and which 10 him was
Invested by IL distance with n halo Of
romance, and his generous natu'e I'm.
PEELED him 10 take sides with those lac
thought oppressed.
Before ho lcft the table he resolved
to -raw his sword la thu cause Of
American Independence. He acted
upon this resolution Mt once. Going
Immediately 10 Paris no sought an In.
tcrvlow with the American commits.
Hi0ncTs, Franklin, Dean and Arthur
Lee, and told them OF his Intention Of
going 10 America.
These patriots sadly Informed him
that Washington was rctreating
through Now Jersey from the British,
and that this offered aid from France,
though kindly and nobly meant,
might very likely arrive too late. Re.
sides Lafayotte's family and powerful
friends In the government did all they
could 10 tn wart his purposes, but the
young hero was determined. The op.
p ,.I lon, delayed bin, but 1t did not