The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-07
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The next thing and some light
hearted American viii be quoting
Shakespeare as saying, 'Bre7ity is the
e. @. W.
The speaker wa5 Col. Solomon Bugg,
late of Kansas, and editor Of the Ell
Dorado Spleen. The colonelwas seated
at lunch counter with his heels hung
ona high round and his bentlegs manu-
featuring two large bags in the knees
of his trousers, a function for which
lunch counter stools are justly famous.
He took Off his broad-brimmed hat
and, surveying it casually, continued:
Where is the country going to, gen
tlemen? what's going to become Of
us? i ask this in all sincerity. Has
the American nation respected the
sanct;ty of anything? Do the Ameri-
can people hold anything inviolable?
Is there any pride in the preservation
ofany art il the national eonglomerate
called Uncle San?' Show an Ameri-
can beautiful pastoral painting and
he viii ask the artist how much wheat
to the acre the field over to the right
Of the picture is intended to produce.
Take him to classical concert and
be will pick TIE biggest horn for the
best music.
s.And look at our language. Just
think kow it has been juggled and
jumbIed. There is no respect for
purity, for form or precedents. It is
abom;nable, seurFilously abominable,
sir. How many citizens Of Chicago
speak English to-day? Just now I
asked the waiter to bring NE a cup Of
coffee right a6ay and he said: Cert,
! 2. D. O. Could Dick Steele or Addi-
son or old Dr.. johnson understand
such English as that?
Sometimes when get to thinking
about Columb!s being the gem of the
ocean I conclude that she has degen-
Grated into 8 secoEd-class rhinestone
and feel like packing up, absquatu-
lating and emigrating to land where
the gyasticutus gyasticutes, the snag-
gle-toothed tigle-dewug swims in the
swish and the sozzling swirl of the
slubberly slime aud the whangdoodle
mourneth his first born.
81 went toa railroad Office the other
Gay ond asked over what roads I could
reach st. Louis. Did the man behind
the counter answer mein English? No,
cir. Heshot the English alphabet at
me as if it had been fred from blum
derbuss.
e tSt. Louis he said, Over the G. B.
and Q. c., RI. and P; A. T. and S. E;
G. and A.; i. C.;J. and S. W.?'
~ looked at him in astonishment.
DO you want a tiekets he asked,
coming back to English.
81 didn't, as I spoke English, and
was not versed in American. But as I
walked out he turned to another clerk
and said, d. H, Isuppose:.'
z rambled over to take an elevated
train tothe base ball grounds.
asIs this the elevated?' I asked Of the
men at the gate.
It is the L, said he, correcting
me.
More American abbreyiation,'
thought I.
"Mind your P's and Q's,' heshouted,
grabbing me and pulling me on the
train.
"'Doyou Ike this better than the
cables" I asked, drawing the guard into
conversation.
Gable n. Co. he answered to my
misery.
.sDid you leave the cable volunta-
rilye'
"sNo, got the 6. b.
"Abbreviation everywhere; nothing
but the alphabet with disordered
stomach.
II dropped over to the base ball
game. I have always heard that it is
the American national game. I guess
that is true. It is impossible, at least,
to understand it with the English
language. opened the score book. This
is what greeted my eyes: A.. E. P. o.;
II. B.;P. B.; S. B.; / B.; A; B.; R. 3.
on b.; 81. by P; ID on E.
Sand this il country that claims to
speak the English language! I might
as wei have been in the yill65ffrt tors
Iooperignis sa Ss;stsssa CA ! SsEatch- mod
the native tribe of Bigeonoperas 100
ing a game called dissertations. "l
fed for the race track, only to find facil