The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-11-30

always and do now acknowledge with pleas
ure the great superiority in this regard, of
Davy, Sprengle, Johnston, Turner, Bates
and others of their day. They are all
dead" peace 10 their ashes They have
each in their turn left on record works (which
the corroding tooth of time can never destroy.
The great general statements they made were
correct. But the system of nomenclature,
the atomic Law, quantitative analyses, DC,
were comparatively unknown in their time.
Indeed. chemical Developments within the
last eight years have far outstripped all
previous conception. Now we have only ]
to name compound and its constituent
elements are told in the name itself; give the
constituent elements and the name of the
compound comes into the mind unbidden.
The truth that you have been unjust in
these articles is clear from the heading of
your last. You state that which is false
(perhaps ignorantly) in order to divert the
public mind from the subject under dis
cussion TO fancied trait in my character.
Read your words "Prof. w. F., Pro-
fessor of Chemistry in the farmers high
school, situate in Waterloo, Breckenridge
county, Kansas" Do you believe there is
such a school in Waterloo? Or did you
volunteer an unmitigated false statement
(not lie in order to mislead the public.
I take it as postulate that the man who
will wilfully make false statement about
one thing will about another if his interest,
fancied or real. seems to demand it.
You quote Scripture-"No doubt ye are
the people; wisdom shall die with ye."
The Devil quoted Scripture to the Saviour
upon the Mount, but the Lord of Glory
treated his majesty with the same cavalier
ness that design to you.
You illustrate your matchless) ability by
comparison, thus: Suppose committee
of lawyers, on examining would-be law
yer, should ask the question, Have you
read Blackstone, he should answer, never
heard of one Blackstone don't you sup
pose they would call him humbug ?"
I answer, yes +! But suppose the young
man answers, Yes, have read Black
stone, Chitty's Pleadings, Chitty's Crimi
nal Law, Starke on Evidence, Massachusetts
Reports, &C." The committee hold their
breath till ne completes the list. when one
breaks silence by asking him to give Black
stones definition of law. Can't answer.
''WelI, will refresh your memory" claw
is rule of action, and may be applied to
| oil nd &c hath
inanimate, rational or irrational" ''Well,
sir, what is a fee 2" "Can't remember"
&c What is fee tait" ''Don't know"
'c.Wbat is fee tail special 90 Cant
say" What is fee tail general" New
er heard on't.'' IS What is an estate tail 90
Sc Don't know" .'What is an executory de-
wise 2" Don't exactly know" "What
is resultant trust ?" ''Don't know"
What is a contingent use?'' Don't
know" ssWbat is tenant in common 2"
IS Can't answer
The patience of the committee is finally
exhausted. Do they not naturally infer
that the young man is an arrant pretender =?
This is precisely your case. You profess
great familiarity with books on chemistry,
and at the same time you are totally igno-
rant of the first laws of chemical combina-
ton. You show it at every turn. Your
last article shows you to be befogged with
chemical eqaivalents-atoms are myth
and opponents humbug
The strain Of your two articles is clearly
to prove me an ignoramus and yourself
a paragon of wisdom. Now, if you would
fairly do this should have no reason to
complain. But you garble, warp, twist,
discover single sentences, in order to pro-
duce false impressions. Specimen You
first say used the expression, " one spren
gle. and then base upon it the lawyer illus
traitor. when the truth is, never USE the
expression. What ] did say was this -
''A And now to your tables. which you say
are from man by the name of Sprengle. !"
Is there not great difference in the respect
shown this author, whether the sentence
reads one Sprengle. or man by the name
of Sprengle. AS well might ! assert that
because one Baker graduated first at the
Fire Points, and then as a fireman IN a Phil
adelphia machine shop. and finally was able
to deal largely in such literary gems as
+" verbaukem ct i.eTfemkem," batch of
eophis,ry,'' IS yarnIng it again. - billings
gate,'' DC, was not hereafter TO ELL the
chair of chemistry in the agricultural
school tn he established in central Kansas