The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-08-15

hair some flow. and En0Ws not
how to extficoto himself Well, I
believe i Wili hage 70 keep tha nu
olens s0f myself. ou acooupt Of its
greater soiidily. and leave him the
coma. however oatiqHdted that
name might be-
The wou1, by tie by, 4 8nd like
the weird Sigma, in that poor an-
tiQnai6d Ainsworth, To whom my
young friend II The moon makes
allusiop, and q whom Re seems to
have So much objections. I say
young. not Ola account of bus looks
Oh years, but simply because Of
these objections to Tie antiquity Of
Ainswofth and the Latin language
TITS evident he has not been
there long; however. bio got there,
Cor his very propositions show
that he is not the same man that
wns there before, ind whom we
used to look up "a with d sort Of
a8flQ00ied veneration, ard show 10
our children Otherwise, he would
have looked down with more pity
On our poor earth. and seen that
andquated Latin was properly ok
planned bY antiquated Ainsworth;
or. at least, be ought To have point
ed me to better authorities and
have told me about what time
we have changed ali that" VIII.
thy friend Sigma please give g
better definition Of a more modern
date2 I have often heard of mod
ern Greek, but modern Lain,
never.
/ Nill myself, point Stigma to q
more modern authority which he
seems t0 have overlooked: / mean
Websier's English Dictionary.
which I would advise him to study
little az his leisure time that
i. when he has nothing better to
d.. He can take my word for il,
| iti Is better than The sparring Of
wits in politics; ond whilst he is Ait
it, he might just as we'll look al
the word coma, also, he might
save himself another what shall
I call it-faral mistakel 'sf0r I am
one that would treat the devil
himself with courtesy. ia bis
allusion to the antiquity of Aims
worth, Sigma reminds me Of the
character DC Sganarelle, ID Molten,
who. in describing The characterof
tho disease OF his patient Ia her
father, represented the heart as
being on the right side, and the
liver Oh the left side; and when bis
attention was called 70 The fact,
said. Yes, IL was 50 formerly,
bnt we have changed all TINT, and
we now practice medicine ia an
entierIV new way. I pity the
Latin language if If has "a be
changed and psacticed u an en-
tirsly new way by Sigma. Bat 20
return to that comet; Unjust have
had a very malign and pestilential
influence on The mind Of Nj. Sig
ma; for whilst II impressed him
with the idea Of It's sOlidity or nom
sslidity, it seems 20 have robbed
him of aii notions of consistency.
For instance, he starts by saying
how ] flashed into a fury, etc,
and Immediately afterwards goes
on to say that in "plaintige ard
pathetic tones" / 90 about crying
who IS Sigma? Why did he not
say that / was tile roaring lion,
roaming about seeking whom to
devour, and, 10 plaintiye and pa
thetic tones, asking where ID that
pley Of mine. Sigma
But. 80 Ieaye this keen eneoun-
ter Of our wits and fan somewhat
info . slower method, I would
simply say 4 few words of facts
and of common sense to AI. Sigma,
10 reply to bis queries. / have
no doubt that under the influence
IF Tie solidity of that same comet,
be imagines that they are posers.
Out Of sheer good nature. aud not
gu account Of the sonndest OF SCI
robustness of the questions pro-
pounded. vii answer directly ID