The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-01-21
COMMTNICATIONs.
hose ..speIItng MATCH Prizes Again.

/ Those ssspeIIfng Match" Prizes Again.
EDITOR FREEMAE-In your last issue Ger
/ tain w a Watkins, in quiet, innocent and
most dignified manner disposes of the book
awards at the!late Teachers Institute to his
/ own satisfaction at least. | was also inclined
! to be satisfied with it until / learned that
/ your correspondent was an eloquent preach
{ er of a qospel-a shepherd of a flock. Then
! concluded that the distribution OF garbled
literature was at all times part OF his busi-
ness. and that the present instance is but one
evidence that his desires and abilities are not
circunscribed by parocbiai limits, and that
{ he is impressed with the Importance Of that
/ gospel which refers to the sheep which hs
/ must bring into the fold. Hence he goes
about scattering crumbs Of comfort to his
! own in his Westinghouse when others fail,
and to all when occasion offers, even though
/ to make the occasion he must intrude upon
! a decorous Teachers Institute.
He is sorry, / presume, that by Offering
I such prizes Mr.. Berg was placed in an awk-
ward position; otherwise he would not have
/ assumed the responsibility lie does not,
however, intimate that he himself is sorry
or even feels in the slightest degree the gra-
! tuitous insult offered to many of the teach
ers. Does the knowledge that the objection
able offer was made by Mr. Berg az the
suggestion Of q JOhnstOwn preacher less ef-
fectivelv point the affront? l should think
! it was an aggravating circumstance. Yet no
word Of regret is expressed for an adront he
would have us believe was unintentionally
! offered. Gan II De Llal DIS interest," III Nilt
distribution of garbled and falsifed history
I is so intense that it has blinded him to the
amenities of society, or made BIN deaf to
the suggestions OF good breeding? An in
/ suit ALWAYS demands an apology, and an apOl-
( oCy for an unintentional insult can always
/ be gracefully made and graciously accepted.
From my reading OF his communication to
the FREEMAN | would Judge that Watkins
made eatspaw OF the County Supetlntend-
ent in throwing the chestnuts into the fire,
and that Mr.. Berg burnt his fingers IN draw
The plea that no thought was taken of the
religious complexion OF the works avails hiIn
nothing. a man of Mr.. Watkins supposed
reading knows that in selecting works for dis
tribation in mixed assembly the greatest
care should be taken. This is especially true
of works relating to the Middle Ages, as near
ly all of them bear the marks of the interest
and prejudice Of the writer's Hence it was
an insult to offer works relating to that peri
od as rewards to an assembly of persons o1
different cTeeds without being satisfied as tC
their unObiectionable character.
| The knowledge that a Protestant preacher
= and not the County Superintendent selected
the awards goes but short way in excusinI
the act. There are none OF our public insti
tutious looked upon with such diStrust o
he guarded with such jealous care by our church
oine people as the public schools. Engraft
''oH' as they are on the Organicilaw Of our com
Tex tIiwealth they must be accepted and main
enc was as a means for the diffusion of secu
a fro
Branches taught therein. Let all
ch hahd, eVtsmicably and during the schoo
atures pale, here. A, y, C's, their arithmeti
Il lips parted with an ?ut any religious refer
ere at her feet, weltering IN go 5iishe
ood, his bosom literally riddled with shoi;V
i'll the all-dreaGed duelist Hiram Shore, fc
sping in the last agony. He articulated la
1t a single sentence Tel my mother that Sc
am dead and gone to hell % and instantly al
-pired. to
'In Gods name, who did this ?" eXclaim- d'
the appalled, spectators. cl
Il cid it, - said the beautiful milliner, in it
II sweet, silvery accents, Il did it to save ol
Y honor - fC
Such is a brief abstract of the essential al
as developed on the examina- to
IN of witnesses. The testimony closed and in
e pleading began. al
First OF all, Fowler, Pike and Ashly (aH h:
nous lawyers at that time in the South
est) spoke in succession for the prosecu- pl
1n. They about equally partitioued their
Oquence betWiXt the prisoner and her adj eC
,cate, covering the latter with such sarcas- tC
wit, railiery and ridicule as to make it
after of doubt whether he or his client was 81
e party then on trial. As to Denton, how
-er, he seemed to pay not the slightest at q
ntion to his opponents, but remained mo- 81
onIess, with his forehead bowed on his
lnds, like one buried in deep thought or in d
umber. cl
When his time came, however, he sudden
sprang to his feet, crossed the bar and b,
ok a position almost touching the foreman b
the jury. He then commenced in a whis- c'
sr so wild, peculiar and indescribably dis
net as to fiji the floor from hail % galleries al
At the outset I've dealt in pure logic. anal g
ing and combining the proven facts, till X
e whole mass Of confused evidence looked "
ansparent as a globe of crystal, through W
hich the innocence of his client shoue lu- al
nous as sunbeam, while the jurors nod g
I'd to each other signs of thorough convic- Il
on. That thrilling whisper, and concen- h;
ated argument, and language simple as a e,
lids, had satisfied the demands Of the in s.
lect, and this, too, in only twenty minutes. cl
was like the work of a mathematical dem
lstration
He then changed his posture so as to Il
weep the bar with his glance, and, like
eing lion, rushed upon his adversaries, 81
airing and rending their sopbistTies into q
oms. His sallow face glowed like red-hot I'll
on, the forked blue vein swelled and with Ii
on his brow, his eyes resembIed I've Goals, h
I'd his voice was tie eIangor of a trumpet fC
have never. before or since, listened to a
Ich appalling denunciat0n 1t was like
)ve's eagle charging . flock of crows. 1t c;
as like Jove himself hurting thunderbolts W
the shuddering eyes of inferior GODS Il
nd yet in the highest temper of his fury he
emed wonderfully calm. He employed no Il
.sture save one, the flash of a long bony e'
refinger directly at the palIid faces of his +,
gal foes. He painted their venality and Il
lmanly baseness in coalescing for money
crush friendless female, till shout of tf
ifed wrath broke from the multitude, ana d
me of the sworn panel cried ''Shame - e'
nd thus the orator had carried another p
aroused a perfect storm of indig-
ltion against the prosecutors-and this, !
So in twenty minutes.
He changed his theme once more. His fl
ice grew mournful as a funeral dirge and tC
5 eyes filed with tears, as ne traced a vivid
cture of mans crueties and woman's te
rongs, with special applications to the case
his client, till half the audience wept like
lildren. N
But it was in the peroration that he reach II
the zenith both of terror and subImity.-
is features were liyid as those of a corpse u
S very hair appeared to stand on end; his u
srves shook as with palsy he tossed his
lnds wildly toward heaven, each finger g
read apart and quiveTing like the flame of d
candle, as he closed with the last words of
e deceased Hiram Shore, "Tell my mother s.
at I am dead and gone to hell - His en- tC
lasis of the word he'll embodied the els- u