The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-20
Anntbnr Richmond in the Field.

crat contained another communication |
over the now familiar nom de plume of |
prof. San Grado," in which Is plain |
intimatinn of more TO follow. Well |
may one exclaim, "where Is this thing |
to end.u
Who is "Prof. San Grdclo7' BY |
their earmarks shall ye Know them. |
Seeking to establish ms identity upon |
this hypothesis we fiud the evidence
40 Distinctly marked as to prove him |
to be the same doughty Knight Who'll
for the past three months has, week by /
week, inflicted his lucubrations upon |
readers of the Dessocrot aud the
ADVOCATE over convenient and
annonyfrious signatures, his
favoritp chosen pseudonynls being
respectively "ITrof. San Grado,n "A
Woman - IA Man." "A Director"
"Mcrely a Woman" "a Child" IA
Republican" and "***," in the ag-
grcgate making q mass of matter fill
ing many columns.
Now what is it all about? A patient
perusal Of all these vonminous articles
has led to the following discoveries,
viz: That this man of mutfarious
literary titles first introduced himselfl
to the public in the Democrat of Jan.
10 and after remarking in elegant
D1lIuSC llldJ lc WIS li'tN plpCtcuti
to verify his assertions by 'cynically
criticising the proceedings Of the then |
Just held Teachers County Institute.
indulgiug iu unlnanly filings and in
nuenhos aimed at those worthy
young ladies from abroad who gave
the Evolutionary and vocal music
parts of the evenings entertainments
which constituted 2 feature OF the
! institute, giving as his conclusions
| that their efforts only learned the
teachers of opposite sex the art OF f1irt-
| ing. Following on he makes Il viru-
lent thrust at The Dutch who some
times come down from st. Marys with
fiddle under their arm, interfering
extremely uuencOuraging illusions tn
thoge worthy young men who fondly
| hope to do some good in the world by
| fitting themselves and becoming school
| teachers. He then comes tugging
| along at that Worcester's indcXed
Dictionary, which seems, like an in
cubus, to lie heavily upon his over
| burdencd mind. Anon, as no one
seems to think his personal attacks
worthy of n reply he ingehiously sets
! up the mythical "a Man" as do
school boys on warlike deeds intent,
sometimes build up snow man that
| they may valiantlS knock him down
again. A valuable contribution is
next furnished to the current high
! toned and choice literature of the day
in the form of personal reminisGtnce,
which might be entitled, "Thc
Legend of the Fly Speck." Shades
Of Dickens! What genius SO long UNI
| developed!
And now he makes a charge that
| HE ADVOCATE had divulged certain
state secrets, in short, had given him
away. The sequel proved THE AID
voCATE abundantiy able to repel this
base charge and vindcate its honor
upon that point. a lot of stuff then
follows about snobs and snobbery, aes-
thctic culture, the divine Oscar, etc,
etc, which go far as any relevancy or
pertinoncy TO the subject matter he
has in hand goes for nothing,
"rwaddle my Lord, the merest twad-
dle.p Well. what next? the greatest
surprise of all Behold the child! Il
UOntlrOus child! "At first an infant,
mewling and puking in the nurses
arms" but now a whining child, its
incoherent pratings affording the most
unmistakable instance on record of q
bad ease Of diarrhea of words accom-
panied by extreme padcity of ideas
(see ELK ADVOCATE, Feb. I'd. third
column ihside).
But enough of all this. 1t only re-
mains necessary to say that this self
sufficient superserviccahle gentleman
has seemed Mortified for fear somebody
might say something personal not en-
tirely complimentary to himself. Arc
there no personalities discernablein his
own profuse and exhaustive produc-
tions? Nothing personal in his
indicate illusions to the elo-
cutionist and the songstress?
Or the not even covert attacks
upon a public official of the county,
sworn to execute the law as he finds
1t, not rs this bogus Professor might
wish it to be" Nothing personal in his
vile epithets applied to the editor of
THE ADVOCATE? Oh, no. Nothing
personal in all these.
1t is difficult to divine the precise OBJ
ject of this chivalrnus Bob Acres OF
questionable methods, in his
persistent efforts to create animosity
and social strife in this quiet, peace
loving community, who resorts
to the miserable subterfuge of employ
ing female as anianuensis, that he as
we'll as his chosen editor may he able
to say that certain published article
was really iCritten by a woman. He
also seeks to destroy our faith in
the long cherished traditions associ-
ated with the thoughts Of beautiful,
, innocent childhood, by ascribing to il
such nonsensical gibberish as this writer
endeavors to make "A childn response
BILE for. 1t is suggested, however, that
the principal object sought is notoriety.
If this be so, and the current conf
ments of our people on this subject
afford any appreciable indication, one
might he led to belive he had already
received aboutall of that kind of thing
he could desire, and it is hoped he
will now generously surrender the
columns of our local press to other and
more legitimate Use, suggesting that
the same persistent efforts hitherto
expended in endeavors to stir up tur
mol and social strife, if applied ex
clusively to the manipulation of the
tripod, the setting of lines and running
of tangents, might in the course of tim,
secure a competency, and also th'
pardon and adulation of a patient anC
long suffering people. A. PLEBIAN
RnchaSfar G. DiffShuruh Railroad