The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-12-10
A CURIOSITY.

We commend the seeker after the "Curiosl
| tiss Of Literature" to the fourth column OF
| the second page of this weeks AHeghaniGn.
| He will there find production which is
neither '6sk, flesh nor fowl"-neitber prose
nor poetry-neither English nor any other
anguage-neither rhyme nor reason''-
sense nor-no, it does not rise to the digni-
| ty of respectable nonsense.
We cheerfully acTuit the real editors of
this abortiop-this wanton homicide on the
Queens English-this outrage done upon
the naapes Of the departed poets. We say
the rial editors, for neither Mr.. BARKER nor
MD/SINGLEToN could beget such a produc-
! ton; and though the names of 81. Todd
Hutchinson, Ed. Jan es, Editors" appear
under the head of the paper, they do not
pretend to edit it-nor does either of them.
Indeed, they are not in the least to blame
for this, but rather 10 be praised for secur-
ing the services Of those who can write.
Mr.. BARKER, the proprietor of the die
ghanian, did not write it +; for he has taken
the wise precaution Of appending his name
to what he does write.
Mr.. SINGLETON, the general editor, writes
in the English language, and writes a very
fair, readable editorial. Besides, he never
affects poetry, and the writer Of the thing
in question must have thought he was writ
ing poetry, for we fDd that each line COM
mences with q capital letter.
Neither IiJ tba al; 20
it; for he is a young man of decent habits.
Then who did write it? 1t is highly i'm
portant we should know, for the writer
should get it patented az once as new fea-
ture in composition.
Take this production. then, OIL reader,
and examine it, provided, always, that your
wife, or sister, or daughter, be not present,
as the thing is not very chaste, as ace under
stand it, ana then guess at the name of the
inventor. and II you can solve this conun-
drum, you may perchance drag him into
the light.
Of course it is not for us to point out the
author of this unique performance. We
have been speaking of it merely on its mer
its as a performance. 1t is intended as a
low and vindictive attack on the editor of
this paper. Providence, in creating certain
creatures in the form, and with the attri-
butes of a serpent, has. by stroke OF
Supreme Wisdom, bereft them of the fangs,
whereby they might otherwise give pain, SC
that the poison, instead of being inserted in
their victims, remains to consume them
selves.
Hence, every winding of the scaly SER
pent in his abortive production shows that
while be, or II, can do what a man could
not do, make jest of the physical infrmi-
ties of another-infrmi'ies inflicted by the
same hand that made US a cripple and him
a suake-he still feels his inferior con 1ition.
That while his snakeship gloats upon the
| fact that we ''walk upon wooden peg" he
still feels and knoe0s that we are peg
above him. Though lame, we can still walk
erect, whereas he is doomed by Omnipo-
teuce: Upon thy belly shalt thou go. and
dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life -
| This is his inheritance. Poor serpent he
cart be other than he is. God has willed
it So.
Who the author Of this famous thing is
we know not; and we are glad we do not
| know. 1t would not pay as to find out.