Show THET THEY BIT I 1 we have made the somewhat amusing discovery that we only need to bait our book it N ith etli a bit of flannel ra rag 9 in order to catch all our esteemed contemporaries scrambling over each other in their anxiety to lite bite at it any feeling of chagrin therefore which we me might otherwise feel at making a self evident mistake is more than healed by the gratification of knowing from their instantaneous criticisms how uneasy they all are until thy they have a copy of our paper before them to digest or pick at in the matter of ex presidents our associates of the tile journalistic persuasion lament our in alluding to mr cleveland as the only living specimen they evidently did not wait to learn that we had promptly telegraphed an apology and received a complete forgiveness forgie from Mr Hayea who shares with his democratic ex excellency the honor bonor of having once been prominent in official circles if they had known n that our peace nith ith the tile alighted slighted cockeye buckeye had been fully made they would surely have spared us the lite barbed arrows of their wit but we forgive them even as we have been forgiven it is one of the sorrows of a it man mall with his name naine at the head of a column that the vulgar world led on oil by remorseless inora mor elesa seless critics always ascribe to liis his personal pen every item which the columns contain they allow no leeway for individual ov opinion and in the case in point seem wholly to overlook that there are art in the ft orld recalcitrant and unrepentant democrats who ever and anon sneak their way into the tile most closely read and best beat appreciate appreciated public prints the recollection 1 action of this fact will bo be useful to them la in their future criticisms we WIC REPUBLISH this mort morning ling the interesting ter te letter on ogden written b by y bickley and waters the tile two Orph orphans atis of the minneapolis triune subscribers to the fund which secured elio publication of the tile letter will he accommodated with copies of tho tribute on calling at this office where we w havo have a few for distribution trib ution the same invitation extends to other gentlemen interested in the cites welfare |