The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-03-11

AN ESSAY. BY PETROLEUM v. Massey,


! Dir. Editur-If YOU take notis. old vim.
min and yong winlmin tew remember best
what they talk abeOut the most. Fur in.
STAINS, my grandmother, by my grandfather's
slde, could Tell amost every ybody's relations.
lou couldn't menshun q name but she
would up and tell who was their unkel and
nslew, aunt and neece. Even the Roysl
family uf Great Britin wouldn't choke her
of. fur she could run threw the House uf
Tudor, the House uf Stewart, and the House
uf Hanover, like a child sayin' uf it's a,
b. c's The resin vus she wus eterpally q
talltin' 0beout It,
The old sojers uf the Revolushun didn't
read mutch history, yet they could tell
amost morn historian abeout the battles
that tux phase durin' that war; The battle
IF Bunkerhill and Waterlew and Utaw
Springs, the Invinsibel Armada and Perry's
Victory. all American battels, Wus diskuss-
ed at the blessed harth stun. every Satur-
day mite, and fot over and over agin, and
often some smart skool techer would git his
comb fotcheG doun by these old tars, that
knowed more abeout history than Rollin
himself. Wall, now, how old they know
so mulch .? Simply bekase they talked
dbe0tt 1t.
We know somthin uf Noahs' flood bekase
we larned it from the bibel, but the pagan
pepel, that never seed or hearn tell uf the
bibel. know uf that hood tew. only they
call it the Deukaleon food. The old man
told the story of the food onto his sons, and
they told it orto their sons, and so On, add
irtinit item- l think pepcl call this ira
dishun. At any rate, put the kwcstshun
how dus the hethens know of that food 2
The anser is they "talted abe0m It,"
Now these PY1mrles il Pnuf Fnr illT,SbYIp
and iliustrashun. Let me 60 on, fellow
techers, and tell yew that uf yew want tew
know any thing. tax 06eot 1t. Suppose
yew want tew know what sine qua non,
or an ultima thule, or a ne plus ultra is, Jest
talk abeout it. Git the kwestshun up at
yewer lnstitoots and diskuss it pro and con,
and then con and pro, till yew larn it.
Thinkin' is fur no yuse. A man may think
onto a subject till he takes mania potshu,
but he won't understand it till he talks
Gbeout It.
Fur instans, elecktrisite carries news frum
1hgland tew Amerika onto a ire rope, and
yew have thunSk about this fur FIVE years.
Now, let ne ask kwestshun onto yew Is
that ere rope alters full uf that ere elek-
trisite, like beads onto string. SO that when
yew let litteI pulsashun onto one end, it
pushes Jest as mutch off uf the 'tother end,
Ol 10 lIAdt GIG anu lu0 JIdCh
clear, SO that when pulsashun is let onto
one end it travels amost tew thousand miles
in a twiukel, and makes pu lsashun onto
the 'tother end 2 Which is which ? If yew
don know jest talk abecut it.
Agin, this, all agree, is the queerest world
that we ever lived in, and it's purity old, but
how old il it 2 Eff yew talk abeout it yew
kan tell. When the "sons of God come
deown tew see the daughters of men, they
were in their bare feet, fur there wus no
leather then, and uf course they made tracks
onto the sand, and in dew time that sand
settled dJun and wus baked onto a volcano
till it got as hard as biskit. Wall, age
after age, and sykei after sykel. other for
mashuns settled onto that ere sand rock. It's
called red sand stone, bekase the blood uf
Abel was sprinkled cnto it. Now ef yew
want tew know when that meetin' tux phase
Jest dig up some uf them tracks and make
a kalkulashun by the "D0ubel Rule uf
Three" and yew hav it. But you must
talk abeoW 1t. Thinkin' won't do. Yew
must talk and yew must act.
When | was young man teChin' skoOl
me and the boys where l boarded would
take 6eoun a Dickshunary every mite and
define words. | would AK words awhile,
and then sum one else would AK, and go on,
till the hui dickshunary was consumed. If
anybody wants tew know then why and
where l larrt tew spell end rite with such
fasility. l would say that when young
talked dteoHt IL.
Yours in the wool, Nasty, JR.