The San Francisco call., 1898-04-10

must pay for 1t to kick In valh' 0o 'llS modern Solomon declared when ah oi fender was brought before hlHl, apo the testimony adduced. The pFisone' had been seen to take the paper, to Se crete it. and when arrested lC found under his coat. where he h been observed to thrust It. GroeIiiisel gave an imitation of thinking anu 'iieA promulgated the piece or ldlocy |
 done him the honor to cite. II i peculiar condition of affairs WHICH m peIs one to pine for the return oA Campbell.
 I am accused of having repileo III 25S words to an indictment oi
 words. It is added that the answer was made up of epithets. There are ses points about this which are lncoliee In the first place the ten Woros tuted neither an indictment nor ah i formation. They simply afforded leA1 for a dissertation upon parlicuAi style of ass to which the author or mem clearly belonged, and, far from peins abusive, the dissertation contalneu nothing more violent than dencate il- timation tending to gently and con- siderately place the author aroresalo Ill his class. Yet I confess his return TOT this courtesy gives me new impres- sion of his intelligence. He can count correctly the words in forty lines or type.
 One who from some feeling which seems to him to be modtsty, hides De- hind a fictitious name. cannot reason- ably expect serious notice Yet ] Will do a specimen Of this sort the honor to call attention to an irritating weak ness of his, manifest in a tendency to correct the English of others and em- ploy bad English himself He would better, with a view of improving h1s own style, read the work Of Emanuel Elzas appearing in this paper, than do it with the idea that Mir. ElzaS needs to take lessons from him. In the pen product of the anonymous person III question there are grievous errors al- ways. so bald and distressing that child might perceive them T object, afirms this authority, 'to the "oro 'subjugate' in the sense of suooroi- nate" Why? 4 gentleman of literary repute, by name LongfeNoW, onea translated the Inferno" and in doing so made bold to employ the following expression:
 understood that unto such 6 torment
 The earnaI nalefactors were condemned Who reason subiugate 10 appetite
 But it is to be charftably remembered that IongfeIlow lacked the advantage of basking in the peculiar mentality which essays to shed light upon Elzas and the rest of us and fails through having no light to shed In the same scathing paragraph of the carper oc- CUTS the phrase: Tt is only when s1ch writers miSuSeS the Queens English" To fall into the ex- pressive methods of the unknown might add that such writers do not, as a rule, unisuses.
 to get hold of lawyer named others money and clinging to the same, failed to hedge himself about by processes rendering the operation legal For this professional oversight he IS clearly in need of rebuke. He ought at least to be brought back and induced to divide the purse But the interest ing point 10 the puDnc VIII Dt iIAcN OA his bonds for 5000 are two men who are not worth any such sum. who ara also on other bonds, and who in each instance could have got there only through perjury. There was never a better opportunity for putting pair of rogues in jail. Personally l have not the least idea they will be thus treated. The straw bondsnan seems to be immune so far as punishment IS concerned I have not the slightest doubt not only that these particular ones will escape. but that they will go on more bonds any time they can get s for doing So. In many cases prison CTS are let out on bail known in ad- vance to be worthless When the bonds are declared forfeited the incident closes. I do not impugn the honesty of Police Judges. Perhaps they are ig- norant of these facts, yet it is strange that they should fail to be aware of that which is familiar to everybody else