The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-02
A short Horse Soou c.rr,ea

short Horse Soon Curried.
Here is what the GOsIing has TO say this
week:
| We return our thanks To our "old enc
| my" the Fat and Greasy, for the loan OF
| their marvellous numbering machine
| which proved so unreliable that we had 10
hire cheap boy TO oversee its operations.
Cheap boys are plenty in that establish
ment. There are none other.
For the few sheets of paper purchased
| from you at your own price. which allows
! you handsome margin, We have paid bat
also return thankS-that there wasn't
more of it.
Stop little. Are you not mistaken?
| Who did YOU paw? The FREEMAN's cash
account has no account of the item. We
! are, however, in no hurry.
For the use of the second of your family
! OF feeders for three days we signed IA
check Tor 500, and in this manner re-
| leased ourselves from any obligations in
the matter, but still We return thanks
that we are not of nature which would
permit us To cast upa tritiing favor granted
at any time 10 contemporary.
No; the editor of the Costing is not of a
| nature TO east up a trifling favor-but he
would borrow counter; borrow a num-
bering machine; borrow pauer; beg for
help and then attempt to kick the FREE
MAN or some other gh-pIiced concern
that he had borrowed from before he had
returned his borrowings. He is by nature
a daisy.
Come down and borrow our AUDITORS
statement again, Gibby. Tear up our
forms To secure the four columns of nom
pareil type which it would have been i'm
possible Tor you 10 set up at the time. run
il through your old wind mill four times.
battering the type up and running SER
l9uS risk OF Dying il; present your bill TO
the commissioners, draw your Doodle. and
then turn around and KICK at your bene-
factor because he successfully carried
through job under the weight of which
you would gladly have seen him bun led.
Did we go down To borrow or did the ed
itor of the Costing come to the FREEMAN
Office and volunteer 10 lend? And was not
the inducement for the tender the fact that
there was not sufficient type in the Cos
IjHgs office To set the auditors report?
When the editor of the Costing found the
commissioners intended publishing the re-
port in the Costing, he Immediately order
ed a new font of type. By offering To set
up the report and both offices use the same
matter, the FREEMAN was under obliga-
tiOnS to throw tin, which AN employe has
since done. Ii is L custom that prevails
generally in country printing Offices. But
il put the GOSIilg in the position that if
their new type failed To arrive in time.
they could use what type they had and
then finish by borrowing from the FREE
MAN. Their type arrived and they did not
need to borrow. but it was well understood
the object of the tender. As to it being
impossible for the FREEMAN 10 set it up al
the time, il is all boSh; we could have set
it up as well then as we have done many
II h.fA in. foo H..
Costing, this being its first attempt.
Then come again, old boy, pack up the
Sheriff'S proclamation with its manifold
intricacieS accurately arranged in solid
type from the MOItntdiHceT'S forms, tote
the prize back and forward to and from
our office couple times, smear it with
ink, run the road roller over il cou-
pie thousand of times go and draw your
money. earned through our diligence, and
then kick in your Fat and Greasy because
your boys. who seem TO bean Improvement
on YOU. loaned US your insignificant little
numbering machine. You might also
write another communication to the Johns
town Democrat stating how magnanimOuS
you are.
The sheriff's proclamation was another
voluntary offer of the GoSling, and under
the custom, the FREEMAN should have
thrown the type in, but they did not give
FREEMAN the chance. In order To try and
put the FREEMAN under obligations by
getting something for nothing, they threw
the matter in themselves aS soon they
were done with it.
As to writing communication to the
Democrat we will state that we never
wrote "a communication To the Democrat
on that or any other subject.
As To drawing our money for publishing
the proclamation, we must also demur.
We plead not guilty. We intend TO draw
it, however, but the amount, like the bill
for the paper furnished the GOsliHg. re-
mains unpaid, the assertions of the Cos
ling 10 the contrary Notwithstanding. We
are, however, not uneasy about either, bnt
there seems To be some misunderstanding
between the editor of the Costing, who
does the paying, aud the man who wrote
the article.