The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-12-21

OF peOpi0s no OHS Regrets IL mOTe bildu my
self; whether he does or not you must de-
eide for yourselves.
He challenges me to meet him in EN-
poria, and says if refuse to do so I prove
myself unworthy of his steel '' Why
should I meet this man in Emporia ?. Has
he not already proved that heDot only has
no "steel," but is coUard? How can he
challenge me until he has disposed of
NINE? He has left on record that wheat
is composed of three per cent. of potash,
and afterwards asserted that he said three
| per cent. of ashes. Now, let me reduce
his language to a syllogism He has
made an assertion in the next he as
serts the opposite-why not call one or the
other back ? Because neither Country
man" nor THE NEWS can discover the err
ror Ergo, they are fools.
But again. asserted that sickly wheat
might produce chess; in other words, as
serted that chess came from something.
This "W. F." denied, taking the position
that chess springs from nothing. and in the
next breath charges me with saying that
man springs from tadpole. That part of
of bis masterpiece that relates to chemistry
amounts to nothing more than this: When
he went to school, he was taught to say
that twice times eight are sixteen, and l
was taught to say TWO Fights are sixteen.
Don't laugh, reader; this is all in nut
shell.
He SAYS that he will not call me liar,
but uses language Synonymous, and
strongly intimates that 1 should acknowl-
edge myself liar. Well, l suppose l
must get down on my knees and make con-
fession. admit that did lie when l in
tmated that there was farmers high
school in Waterloo, and again when I not
only called him chemist, but PROFESSOR.
Now, after this confession I think he should
make JAKE SToTLER come down on his
bones and confess, for some time since
Jake called him a gentleman, scholar, a
chemist, Professor, and an AUTHOR of a
work on chemistry.
The editor has politely requested me to
be brief, consequently shall pass the bal
ance without notice-but as it is very je-
june, it is not important that should.
AS the character of this discussion has
changed, you may wish to know when il
is going to stop, as it has ceased to be in
teresting. When Mr.. Foster will quit.
cannot tell; but he knows that I have the
closing. can only speak for myself, anc
here pledge my word that I shall never
again take up my pen to reply q knowing
it to be from his penn, no matter how great
the errors, or how fallaciously couched, un.
less, lst, he exhibits written or printed
certificate from his mother or some respon'
sible wet nurse, that he has dotted the tri-
angular appendage. Cd. That he is old
enough to govern his temper.
That part of his communication charg
ing me with seeking notoriety, is, to say
the least, laughable. Is there man in the
, State of Kansas that has ever known me t.
solicit an Office. either by appointment oil
election? And the fact of my signing my
name "Countryman," instead of David H
Baker, goes far to prove that l was no
seeking notoriety. But how stands Bro
Foster on this subject? Has he not beer
standing candidate for the last twelV'
neutrality-suspicious. for Sheriff, sometimes
for something else ? And when he pub
lished his nodule of chemical nomenclature
. he signed his name 'W. F." which il
D equivalent to signing his name Watson
a Foster.
Q Now, gentle reader. shall close. ALLOW
f me to say that have been compelled, from
I the tone of Mr.. Fosters article, to be more
? sarcastic than have wished; but it coult
e not be avoided, in replying to that wonder
: full productionl When l next meet Mr.
D Foster, expect to meet him on the FTV
8 Points, for can assure both you and him
f that have visited the Five Points, both il
n New York and Baltimore, and nasty. filth
a places they both are. OF course it woulc
S be depression for me to say that met
S fellow, Foster, in one of those places, ant
in no enviable company.
4 am not German, neither do urder
: stand the language to perfection, but dis.
0 cussion of the text in my last would be in
? teresting to farmers, particularly the farm,
: ers in Kansas, where the land is level. II
t English, it reads in substance as follows
g That if, on an extent of level ground sowr
; with grain, some fields be married. Una
nuredl. and some left unmarried, the grain