Show SMALLSOULEI AMI rETrY EVER now and again In the sessions ses-sions of the City Council soma Jackanapes Jack-anapes exhilarated with the presumed sumed Importance his official Inflation In-flation forgetting his liability t be suddenly plunged into the Juice of his normal insignificance jerks out 1 some Insulting reflection in relation Ito I-to the methods of the city government govern-ment of the past t These smart Alecks are either prompted bj a coxcomblc desire to S create an impression of their own greatness compared with the alleged I incapacity of their predece iorp or they are too advanced iu Idiocy to comprehend that methods which would b beneficent and applicable now would hive been Imprudent and even Impossible years gone bj A person who docs not umler stand liat new conditions require new modes of administration has not sense enough to preside over a poultry poul-try yard t say nothing about doing business for an important municipal corporation sow we make I a rule never to precipitate an initiatory a ult but occasionally we try t take a hand in an aggressive polemic defense and I certain upstart members the Council Keep on manifesting their utter lack of official courtesy t their predecessors in office who r not in a position to defend them selve wo will be compelled to wield a Faber In their behalf by ex blbltlcg the fact that the luMnuat ors would 0 more consistently engaged en-gaged in sawing small wood titan in their present tfliclal occupation We do not anticipate any special difficulty In performing this feat Men if thy can b 8 designated who arealwayslooking backward in search opportunities for throwing mud over their shoulder are not of the genuine stamp and constantly afford plenty material t enable tho observer t show up their smallness |