The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-06-13

sUaARTowN, La, May 81, 1895.
Isait.,u LIZ. rl,-rAasE Enhr,

q Good morning, Mr.. Editor. WoiH
up, have yon? Well, white you
mind Is fresh aud vigorous, allow m
to beg the pardon Of your unquestioU
able congeniality.
IA Kind~sir, j certainly had not tn
least shadow of allusiom to your saw
: dust article: in tact, nrver read il
i neither did j know that Won bad eve
e published sHeh. This oversight is il
nowise consistent with my customarl
reading habits, and especially do
CLEAN from every nook and corner o
the Reno, though not always in qaes
; of Kicking material. Both in the yea
7 and out of the gear, ] am accused o
Kicking. But our eminent editor diC
not humiliate to point out the differ
ent examples, nor where I kicked in
consistently too much ''wool over hi
eyes" too see clearly, guess; but i
my Kicking were so conspicuous that ]
should be ''what The boys would call 8
regular kicker" it appears that he
conld at least point to one example
where ] had kicked at something "out
of sight" No, Sir, want none of
your guess.work, the labor Of kicking
is too hard to make a miss, after all,
for want of good aim, as isasyinced by
your wonderfully wild blows.
When our SRgartown friends, in the
employment Of Messrs. Richardson &
Lyons, ! suppose, accosted your cor
respondent, rs he passed the field
where they were applying the wonder
fnl stuff, saving, I'VE want to see
something about this in the Echo"
certainly had not the least conception
of Mr.. Editors kicking quality, or else
they would not have made the propo-
sition. OF course ! was not forced to
comply, and certainly would not had
l thought of such misrepresentation.
The next time Won feel symptoms of
such a terrific spell coming on, please
give three days notice of it, and
then turn your callous heels toward
the lake shore; but be sure the
sch0oners have cleared the way.
That subscriber who faulted the
editor with the bursting of his wife's
corset, was, no doubt, "barking up the
wrong stump" for that should have
been attributed to her accumulation of
flesh, which very reasonably was due
to the exceedingly sound logic to
which she had access. But there are
some that can never see the point till
ii is too late, and are always on the
old Quaker preachers style, willing
for everybody to hold their own views
provided they believed as be did.
With highest respects,
D. L, H.
I'D L. H." in the above, headed
''An Ideal Spurer," in which a good
deal of venom is displayed, denies
having ever seen the article we pub
lished on ''Sawdust As a Fertilizer"
and this settles that question at once,
for we have no reason for doubling
the veraeity of our Sugsrtown cores
pondent. AS his parody appeared in
the next issue after the article in
question WAS copied hy us, VIC. very
naturally, supposed that at it his dag
gers of sarcasm were thrust, and we
dismiss the subject OF "sawdust" 10y
saying, it is one Of those strange coin
cidents which prove the saying true,
that Truth is stranger than Fiction"
We will, however, SAY few words
in reference to the kicking" qualities
Of him who reads the Echo so closely.
He says We did not condescend to
point ont the different examples, nor
where he had kicked inconsistently.
In answer 10 this we would say we
were presumlng upon the intelligence
of our readers, and thought it not nee
essary 10 call special attention to what
must be easily seen by even the most
obtHse reader
No, we don't suppose you would
have written as yon did had you have
known oar kicking qualities, and we
must confess that we were little sur
Prised at that spell of ours, as We had
stood by and watched the violent
kicks of our correspondent 50 long
that the conclusion MAS reached by
both him and ns that we had forgot
ten how to kick.
Now, in conclusion, as this kicking
process which i. l. H. and the Ecso
are undergoing is of no interest to our
readers, we do not propose to bore
them longer with anything further an
the subject.