, 1872-09-07

and restore some Of the requisite equanimi-
ty to crack has Joke, he family calculates
that X is amusing. But, although he thus
consoles himself, his colonial ioCularity is
gone, and there only remains the other part
OF his productions, his Interpretations. The
very first quotation comes under that cate
CORY, 1t will be remembered with what
gusto he had repeatedly spoken of St. Tho
mas as q Mich Cow. Now, a Mich Cow
is neither more nor less than q Mich Cow.
In my reasoning on the inability (or is it
unWllllngness p on tie part of Thomasians
to comprehend certain truths, said that the
intellect Of St, Thomas MAY not be equal
to the task of graphing with principles
above the capacity of an average Mich
Cow. BecIouded by self-interest, or per-
haps another kindred motive, he forgot the
little 'may." Some people have q way Of
their own OF forgetting Whalit is convenient
to forget. He complains OF my calling him
q bantering upstart, and, may be, l shall
have to correct that endearing term to
"would, be upstart - for "the cramped in
tellect Of the peddtng land" only rides"
in imagination what the Tidende, most en-
dearingly, in the name of the I'LL, called the
cramped intellect of a grinding land. The
Tidende amusingly thinks that broiIing a
fellow in his own fat means ~misapplying
quotations, and shows but little wit and
less originality. The witless Tidendo bar
barously or stupidity exacts wit and Origi-
nality from quotations from that hopeless
heap of chaff and rubbish raked and scraped
from every speck on the ocean Except the
one it ought to know and say something
about, for The sole purpose Of turning and
twisting the thing, be it ever so correct or
even sacred, into something ludicrous or
spicy in the conception Of the ocular
crowd.
The Tidende says lit is a pity that rage
should becIoud my intellects," for other
wise | might have understood that the
agreement which the Tidende showed to be
existing between itself and the Avis was
on the point that Sta. Cruz ought to pay a
sum of money towards the expenses of the
general Government and not that st. Tho.
mas ought to have paid Sta. Cruz $1,000.
The facts of the case, however, are the toll
lowing The Avis had gone to the trou-
BILE oflaying before the sapient Doctor Of
the Tidende how St. Thomas came to pay
$1,000, and showed, as | have already
stated, that according to the same princi-
piles we should now pay 1906, under the
supposition that the relation between the
Government of St Thomas and that of St.
Croix was to be the same as formerly, that
ofthe latter to the former, which tits known,
it is not. To this the superficial banterer
replied: "There is actually no difference
of opinion between the Avis and the Tiden-
de-" Was his intellect then beclouded, or
is it so now?
I cannot undertake to wade through that
whole heap of rubbish and refuse of those
Colonial Notes. | shall try to pick out a
few grains of such intellect as you see de-
veloped in them. Here is one: "The most
yain-glorious Crucian will scarcely pretend
to say that the service rendered St, Thomas
by Sta. Cruz, such as it was, was worth
$1,000 per annum." 1t may not have been
worth one in the opinion of the Tidende,
and the services we can expect from st. Tho
mas may not be worth l cent in my opin-
ion, but the poor Colonial Crab sticks so
hopelessly in the mud that it cannot per-
ceive the difference between subjective
opinion and principles, although it talks q
plenty of both.
The Tidende opines, why not "snbmis-
sively" for such terms please the vulgar,
&hoR T hove curnocood +rutb ond iuctioa in