The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-10-23

the world, and who has never done
anything for her but to give her a
ring and books of poetry and little
French candy now aud then. We had
to give her up to him, and as Tom
Hood said:
''Sho took our daylight with her
And the joys that we love best,
With morning light upon her brow
And pearls upon her breast"
Dos uerre WAS benefactor to the
emotional side Of our nature. He was
n French artist-a painter of pano-
ramas of cities like London and Paris
and Naples. He used the rays of the
sun through colored glass to heighten
the effect Of his paintings, and kept on
experimenting with sunlight until in
1889 he caught it on the king and
made it stick to metallic plates and re.
fleet the images thrown upon them.
His success was partly accidental, part
ly design, and he himself was aston
ished ut his discovery. In IS40 Arago
made the. announcement to the acade-
my Of science end Daguerre was maze
IN officer in the Legion of Honor and
voted pension OF b,UUU francs year.
He died in 1851 and n monument was
erected to him In Paris.
But like all inventions. Daruerre's
was crude and imperfect. Paotogra-
ply has grown out of it and seems now
TO be the perfection of art. 1t is used
in making the exact likenesses of all
tho great works of art aud nature and
bringing them in reach of the millions
who have never zen and never will see
the originals. All tho monuments,
pyramids, churches, cathedrals, bridges,
mountains and watcrfalls-nll the
grand old paintings Of Raphael and
Rembrandt, all the sculpture of the
old masters and even the aspects Of
the moon and eclipses of the sun and
tho reproduction of the ancient manu-
cripts of the Old and New Testa-
ments. The lightning itself cannot
more instantly speed it's way than pho
Biography now catches n bird on the
wing or a race horse on the turf or a
meteor in the heavens. just 30 it WAS
with the locomotive, the spinning
jenny, the sewing machine, the tele-
graph and telephoAe. All wete i'm
proved from time to time by the cum
hand until they now seem to be per-
feet, but they are not.
On the mantle near me SEQ cabi-
net photograph Of well preserved old
man who has q sweet little black. eyed
grand. child on his arm, while her head
E, SITS trustingly upon his shoulder and
touches his venerable cheek. She
looks shyly and timidly at you, but
clings to the old man as the tender
wire clings to the old oak that the storm
hns r;yen. The old mans face is CAIN
and serene. like those pictures for
the chlldren's sake, and wish that l
was SO coupled with every little grand
child and that my wife had somo to
match them. l WAS 1uminatipg that
when / am dead aud gone and that lit
tic girl is mother, maybe she VIII
show the picture to her child and say ::
"I never knew my father, for he died
when I was very young, but that old
man was my grandfather and he was
uWod to me and I loved him very
dearly" Maybe when l am in the
spirit land will some times be near her
and hear her talk that way-mnybcs SO
who knows? Flowers and music ore
the sweetest gilt OF God to ma"klnd
and pictures and painting the sweetest
that come from the hand of man.
But of all tho cameras that catch
! and hold fast the images of art or ma
| ture there are men of science who ns-
sert that none are equal to the retinn
| Of the human eye. They say that ev'
cry look or glance or vision makes on
| impression there. An impression
| 20 delicate and unpalpnble that
millions may lie upon it's CLASSY
surface and the last thing seen is on
/ the top. They say that if man Is
murdered while he faces the murderer
the assailants face and form Will b.
found upon the victims eyes. Some
experiments have been made to prove
THE, but they were imperfect and un
satisfactory. Maybe it will yet bt
proven. BILL ARP in Atlanta Consti
tuition.
| a DcspOIiG Osti:tistrrS+.
She was postmiStrcsS nf Penz:c'c q
Cornwall. ard ruled hcr office with :
hand of steel. Sh" Fad two rules which
admitted of 10 "xccpti0li-Shc never
gave change, anG she would not opel
the office window when BOX Closed
or Mail not Sorted was plaCarded
The sport loving gentry often tried Il
break through her c&st-iron rules. Tive
such attempts Mr.. EaineS sometime
Inspector general OF her majesty:
mails. chronicles in his book. "On til,
Track Gf the Mail-CUarh:"