The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-04-07
A REPLY TO "STANIsLAs.'
A Member OF tho "Hsntor" Class
Gives Him n Rafting Over
tho HlnReRs.

| hShiSo Va vVAy bhhi ShCukhAVot 0SSoAoS ~
their persistent disposition to annoy.
This must be the excuse OF . senior tor
noticing the very weak, and altogether
unjust criticisms Of the productions Of
some Of our class, INDUCED ln by cor
respondent Of the Argus, Journal. refer
to "Stanislas" who Is either not overs
bright boy, or is else very mean man.
If n boy he may grow into better uan>
ners u man, his attack upon school
girls, entities him to the contempt OF
every pers on who Ia fair enough to be-
lieve that the struggling efforts Of youth
should be encouraged and not retarded
by false complaints and abuse.
Some time ago TX. A." published in
the BULLETIN school composition on
the "Value OF Learning" upon which
"Stanislas descended with little vigor
but much unfair criticism. This pur-
pose to prove so clearly that even STAN
islas" will admit that have convicted
him Of either stupidity or meanness.
In the composition appeared this SEN
tence: "Man is the being for whom the
earth, Its creatures ard all that Il brings
forth. was created"
This, says" Stanislas." is an ungram>
NAUTICAL sentence, because verb mast
agree with its subject in number and
person. 1t Is probably true. that little
more care IN the Writing Of this sentence
would have resulted In putting the words
"its creatures and all that It brings
FORTH" Ia parenthesis, or the word
with" before the.word dts - but even
as the word stands, with comma be.
tore and one after the words, the sentence
may, according to fair construction, DO
pronounced. grammatical Earth" a
singular noun, being the subject, and in
agreement with "was" singular verb.
But the meanness OF "Stanislas"
great nntairness--must be apparent 10
every one when we call attention TO the
fact that he has changed the sentence by
emitting all the punctuation marks from
it-bangling 1t by making 1t read as toll
lows:
"Man is the being for whom tho earth
Its creatures and all that II brings forth
was created"
Why did "Stanislas" resort to this
trick in an attempt to make good his
charge that "k. A." was an ungram>
NAUTICAL writer? A critic 40
unfair is, in tact, the utterer
OF a falsehood-a literary
counterfeiter, who makes q counterfeit
bill to abuse it-a dealer In literary Boz
gus coin, who makes the coin aud then
denounces 1t as bogu. for the purpose OF
getting the reputation OF II good judge OF
coin.
The next sentence "Stanislas" calls at.
tention to is as follows:
Gold, the richest metal OF the earth.
ia OF great value to man, for with IL he
buys the comforts and luxuries OF liie."
This sentence the unfair "Stanislas'
publishes, emitting from II all commas,
and then adds:
THAT the fact that with gold. we can
purchase the comforts OF life is no proof
that the metal is rich"
Well, who said that it was? *. A."
said; Gold is of great value
TO man because with it be
can buy the comforts Of life :"
and when "Stanislas" says that TX. A."
said that "Gold was the richest metal of
the earth because with 1t man can buy
the comforts of liie," he asserts what
even Bill Lee, who spells as he reads.
would at casual glance know to be
false. But We acquit "Stanislas' of un.
kindness In this criticism. He did not
iatend to be unfair. The fact is he can.
not understand good English. He Is
stupid, and therefore misunderstood the
sentence. II he were senior he would,
for this manifestation OF stupidity, be
laughed out OF countenance. He would
be placed by the professor in charge OF
some one skilled In the work OF building
up feeble minds, aud, after being dleted
upon the milk and pap Of the most
elementary books, might with great
caution, be admitted within the portals
Of the third reader and strengthened
into ordinary comprehension by
! easy lessons in sentences OF
I short words. If he Is q
man, he Is probably young at the law
pin-feathery in legal lore and Is In all
likelihood, attempting to get revenge on
the seniors because, when on one occas-
ion. he asked them with mincing mouth
il Lycurgus was not contemporary OF
Pericles, he was laughed at by the little
girls who knew that Lycurgus had gone
to his account some eight hundred years
before Perlcles was baby, mulIng and
puking in his nurses arms, but with
more sense in his swaddling clothes than
"Stanislas" has. .dressed In well-A.ting
coat and pantaloons.
The next complaint Is, that in one
paragraph Of TX. Asp composition the
transition Is so sudden 1t requires
several perusals before the writer's mean
ing becomes eyidsnt. Probably! There
should be no surprise at the assertion
that "Stanislas" could not understand
the composition, II he were to