Show from the dally 0 28 SELF FLATTERY AND SELF SACRIFICE bob claims with some grandiloquent intimations tons as to its excellence the authorship authora hip 0 a receda piece of bombast which appeared appe Ardd in hia logan journal concerning TUB STANDARD his claim a to alie worthiness ot the article to be called excellent is a p cco of self flattery which is rather in one of ins well known modesty but its egotism ia dwarfed by the belt bacri acing elint which animated liim in a owing authorship of sentiments so foreign to hiis former views and of ut BO unjust and farfetched and chidi displayed a inget contemptible spirit possibly the ganse is not worth the candle but vie will risk the space and time necessary to make a few cerious observations to the journal during the temporary absence of the editor of this paper there appeared in these columns a pissing pleasantry concerning our friend boba attitude toward the bothwell Both nell canal in the half lines devoted to the subject there was no word advocating the both well project there was no talk of boom tor ogden nor of iron dollars and there was no exhibition hibi tion of spiteful hatred either poli acal or personal tow ard anybody in the lengthy reply 0 the jondal was exhibited this state of facts the ay writer had something some lhing rankling m chiq bosom something against ogden THE STANDARD and its editors which he was eo wildly anxious to express that be could not an ait a seasonable opportunity to give it voice but must rush in w ith a mess of mingled platitudes and innuendoes as inappropriate as unjust we eay platitudes because under alie circum itan es such utterance a we herewith re quote is nothing but a platitude to euch though thi ecla hunter may scout at the idea there a notion that the u oran contains aume eume north ibe lor bouey nil the getting of it THE STANDARD does not defer to the journal or its i elf conscious writer with his vague notions of lifes purposes and duties it lias tried and is trying to do as much to elevate mankind as the journal or its writers and the stale and self conscious and self exalting lecture was entirely uncalled for in reply to the trifling personal joke winch it ostensibly answered it was clear that the journal witter feared that he might never have another opportunity to air the which was rankling in his disgruntled breast he reminds us of the cupe in the whose part was to come on the stage and inno the carriage wait my lord knowing tha this be his last chance he followed that cammon place speech by walking to the foot lights and exclaiming in tragic tones and here let me take occasion to remark tint the man who lays his hand upon a woman except in the way of kiad ness ia unworthy the name of briton that like the journal writers was an inappropriate platitude no matter it it was true there are borne people who have such high and mighty opinions of that ahey are always moralizing moral izing in a aalf conscious strain they seem to think aliat out of wealth of perfection they should ba their vague notions in beacon and out of beaton nion an otherwise dark and wicked the journal w alter is evidently one of these we are slightly sorry to learn that bob wrote it we thought be had more sene and decency lie was cot formerly in the habit of loading up a column of trite ings to fire at a harmless little joke nor w as it formerly his way lo 10 choose inopportune occasions to die charge gangrenous edite a political parly with which be was once avowedly in sympathy by the way has the journal let up in its fight on the bothwell canal its Bi lecce in its last imbue is ominous after such an exhibition as the belf coun journal has made in reaching dizzy heights should it now falter in its condemnation of this big irrigation project one would be justified in believing that it only had a vague notion of aliat it was talking about |