The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-10-20
Dufur DOIng3.
DUFUR, Oct. Is, 1894.

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| TINES -MoUSTAINEER.
The ..personal explanation" of DR.. Die
trich in your issue of Tueseay received and
translated. It you will allow me just one
| line of Latin to cast back at his devoted
head will append the translation and not
offend again; "Lopuendum ut uuigus, senti-
endum ut docti;" I've should speak as the
common people. we should think as the
| learned
l never mentioned anv one IN connection
with any rheumatic attack at a convenient
| tlme-do not know just what would he
called a convenient time to have rneuma-
tism, and had not the learned NJ. ID. at
once fitted the shoe to himself no one would
| have connected him In any manner with It,
If this Contemplated inslnuation" or
| .'muddy Inference" as he termed If, did
him no injury why rush into print about 1t.
why compare my poor forlCru looking purse
and my little wad of brains to his gigantic
financial losses while hobbling around on
one leg for a couple of days. Bat there Is
one great consolation for taking his own es-
timation Of the value of myself. brains and
all as the sum total of his great loss it can
not possibly more than cripple his building
speculations for the time.
But what call was there for an explana-
tion at all more than little more free ad
vertising os his superiority over ordinary
beings such as this little world of ours is
crowded with? why Was II not written ID
plain, common, everyday language when he
knew he possessed the only volume of Latin
a .otateus' ia Dufurf There is but one
theory that can low advance and that ls
based Oh the fact that there are men who
cannot tell the truth IN English, and 1t is
very strainn4 on them to tell it in any
language Now I don't want to b. mis-
understood in this matter-I don't say Dr.
Dietrich cannot tell the truth In En glish.
BECAUSE after six months acquaintance | |
must confess that never heard him make |
the sli ightest attempt to do go. !
So far as his statement that his energy in |
the direction of building distillery or
brewery origin ated in Keno's Imagination is
and his yirtuous denial OF ever
encouraging such wicked enterprise, ] can
prove by euv number OF reliable citizens of
Dufur that he spent most Of bis time for
weeks boasting OF the certainty of his snc-
less in esta ablishins distillery or brewery
u Dufur. There was no crime iii his efforts
n that direction, only mentioned them
IS news items and that they were still on
,aper. The learned NJ. D. Acknowledges
hat is So Where was my wrong? To be can.
lid IN the matter, ! woRld much sooner
atronize either of them taan a hospital
gbIch he assures me will materialize, and in
act, If he has accidently stumbled unto the
ruth and Hlny heart is full to owe; flowing
nth brewery" / deH'G believe | would are
,r the hospital at all unless where there
as such an institu uti ~ connected d with it. =
As to improving "Webster" and using
lie word sour" paregoricalty causing the DR.
search out four line stauza with two
mes of Latin in it to express his ADVICE,
have no apology to make. wanted :
ord that was soothing and at the same
me harmless if taken iD broken doses. |
anted to use this word in the same sense
Uncle Tom" used it, kind of soothingly as
l was personally interested. PAregoric is
soothing and at the same tine harm
IS nature, 50 Just added few letters to q
II the taste--made paregoric mixture RI
easant to take as it were, apd after look
g at the new word complete, AMI noting
W well it expressed my meaning, actl- Is
y shed tears tor to think how proud old n
ebster woald have been to have cap q,
red this to put with bis other expressive W
,rts. d
Just think my Dear DE-. D-how the III
rit of the departed Webster must wipe ,e
ay great pearly tears when it looks upon o.,
ur Personal Explanation, and finds he lad III
t left words enough in the English Ian h;
age to express the thoughts of your mas ia
e brain in thirtY.five line article. Don't h,
q on my account DR.. have sent for ri,
tin book. KESo. ar
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