The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-01-12
Perrzyins LsttSk
PAnnf1itt.E, Jan. 9th j asa.

1 fAHRFNiLLk Jan. etn 1854
To the Editor Of the CARBoN AnyochrE; e
W. W. Reber, In reporting the minstrel
exhibition In your last weeks edition,
wrote a very lengthy preamble TO the reRu
lar report, which, as far .sa, grammatical
errors, disconnected sentences and miss.
PLACED twenty ave cent" words Are oon.
cernod, is not likely eyer to be equslled.
As II was intended for slur on the mau.
agomeut ei the entertainment, we think
that we are justiaabls ia trying 10 reply to
Il, and see what il all amounts 10. In the
first place, he wants the stern boundaries Of
Parryyille society banished. Ho evidently
realizes that he is not recognized by the
society. He, therefore, wants tire standard
of admission reduced low enough to allow
him 10 JOIN in.and he one ofthem.i Then,
he says, "they are TO be commended"
What he means by "they" is too diffeult
for US to understand. Then he wants leach
person to try and sensibly weigh such reR
son before they condemn anything that
such effort may be-" What the fellow tried
to get of here, the good Lord only knows,
we don't. lie also wants US to seriously
regard the influences Of a tninghnE N the
people upon society. Here, he evidently
got little too deep into the mire as he fails
TO explain what the influences would be;
very likely he will take this as a subject
for future consideration. Further, he wants
US to produce facts to prove a thing to be
ingenious aud detrimental at the same time,
as this would require the mind Of phil
osopher, we give it up. Then he says the
Saturday nights exhibition was a failure
because personal feelings controlled the
selection Of material, or in other words 10
cause he was not invited to take part in the
exercises. Had Willie been one Of the dark
les, the exhibition would have been most
Curious achievement Poor fellow, how
bad he must have felti And now he tells
us that he cont saw this to vent any per-
snnal feelings. If.this was not his object,
why was 1t necessary to say anything about
it. Why didn't he give report of Satur-
day nights entertainment the same way ss
he did Of the Christmas nights entertain
meut This is rather too thin to stand
washing. He continues, and says, il seems
to be chronic state of mind of some Of the
the participants, that yindictiveness is our
sole trait. Here he has the cart before the
horse. Why should he be vindictve to
parties thatneyer injured him in any way
| or form. The parties that he deliberately
injured, and continues to injure ought TO be
vindictive to him. Then he says, 1--WE are
citizen of Paryvlle," this is fact. But
If he were a man of his word, he wouldn't
be citizen of ParryVille, at least be would
not practice his profession here Then, he
don't want to be considered a mocker or
cynic in connection with any effort the
people may attempt. By this no doubt he
means, that if the people of ParryvilIe want
to get up anything, he ought to assist. He
must have very good opinion of himself.
He says he will sacrifice anything to help
them along, he will even GO so far as to
! 6''S a IA VI tOHdTu5 Duy-
ing parsonage for the German minister.
The performance, he considers to haye been
too heavy an undertaking to be successful.
Well, il he wants to take Bairds troop as q
comparison, we were grand failure; but we
didn't expect to be compared with anything
of the kind. We claim, considering the
limited opportunities for practice, inexperi.
ence of the performers, small stage, ETC.,
that the entertainment was success. And
nine out Of every ten that saw it, were
pleased, and perfectly satisfied. To sum
up W. W. Reber's elforts,lt amounts to this;
he was very much offended because he was
not invited to take part in the entertain
ment, and to give vent to his exasperated
feelings he wrote that monumental piece of
literature. MINSTREL.