The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-05-14
D. 8. i.

u. y. IL
We are glad to see that the Emperor
| of Austria has bestowed upon an
American inventor Of sewing machines,
the "Imperial order of Francis Joseph"
which, in our climate, might be trans
lated to mean D. S. M.-Doctor of Sew
ing Machines.
We do not know why the learned
professions, so called, should have all
the titles. Why not treat as honora-
bly, the work of the hand, as the work
| of the brain, or that which employs
both hand and brain? We know men
who are doing nothing for the better
i ing of the worlds condition.
|hulks of laziness and obesity, who
have fastened to the end of their name,
titles as long as the tail Of the kite;
not modern Chinese kite, but one of
the old-fashioned kites pretty much all
tail, with appendages that looked as if
Ia clothes-line with a whole weeks
washing were being translated: frail,
professional name made to carry big
string of D. D., l.. L. D., F. r. S., S. I.
p, X. Y H., ETC.; while some man who
has lightened the labor Of continent,
and saved the lives Of ten thousand
sewing-women, is called by the name
of his infancy.
We cannot see the practical use of
any title at all, if our mother has given
us a good name to start with. We like
the Quaker way of calling people by
their first name. But if titles are to
be given, let them be distributed among
those who are eminent in any useful
employment.
If a merchant shows great skill i'll
his business, if he stand head and
shoulders above others on the street i'm
his Judgment of commercial vIcissi-
tudes, if he be pattern Of integrity
and large-heartedness as we'll as intel
ligence, why not, on exchange, or
somewhere else, confer upon him some
honorable recognition! What that title
shall be, we can not now suggest, with
the type-setter waiting for more copy
and some one banging at our editorial
door, wondering why we do not let
them in. But till you can get better
title for such vigorous merchant, call
him d. Y. S.,-Doctor Of the Yard
Stick. Why not?
If farmer know the best order oil
crops, and can raise thirty bushels of
oats where his neighbor can raise only
fifteen; if while other orchards are be-
ing devoured, he succeeded in extcrmi-
mating the curculio from his premises.
and turn a field Of Canada thistlcs and
MULLEN stalk into garden of the Lord,
and can work miracles by suhsoil
plough and drainage, and while others
are having their corn uprooted by the
birds, set up in his own fields scare
crow SO natural that all the crows with
IN fifty miles have heard Of the horrible
,pparition, and young man, crossing
he lots at midnight, from visit to his
sweetheart, thinks himself assaulted in
he middle Of the corn-fcld, by high
with old straw hat, and out
spread arms, whom he shoots through
he .heart;-in a word, if he be the
best agriculturist in all the ncighbor.
mood, why not confer upon him title
of his superiority? If you
hink of nothing else, call him I. b. A.,
Thirty Bushels to the Acre.
In this land, where there is but very
title royal blood, and most of that very
vatery; where nearly all our hands are
lard because we are obliged to work,
10 not let us put more honor on the
nan who can make speech or write
,ook, than upon one who reforms agri-
'ulture, or regulates merchandise, or
nvents labor-saving machine; nor
ompel our practical workers to go
broad for the bestowal of the "1mpcri.
j order Of Francis Joseph" when cur
grateful American people ought to be
Wiling to confer upon those whose Sc
ere work has never yet been recog-
'ized the Imperial order Of Homespun
nd Hard Knuckles."-CMiaian ats
York. t
NOTHING" said an impatient hus-