Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-24
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Avoca Herald Man Gets After
Our Brethren Here In the Bluffs.

The editor of the Avoca Herald Ia
evidently q f%ault.fnding cuss; he
bluntly refuses to appreciate the wit,
psthos and wisdom Of our E. C's. (as
Puck has it), of The Nonpariel ard
Globe. We don't mind his attacking
the various suburban sheets scattered
over Pottawattomie county, but when
his critical ,%urrycomb Is used on any
member Of the "press gang" In Coun.
Gil Bfhffs we protest. We cant stand
lit Is too cruel. Now, only last
week q friend Morgan, Of The
Globe Whose acquaintance, by the
way, we have not yet formed), had an
innocent little Item concerning a GER
tain conversation of crows held some.
where In the outer garments OF the
city. Brother Morgan, to be sure,
didn't state his connection with
the meeting, but left us totally
IN doubt a. to whether he were
present by special invitation 9 o
member of the press, or whether he
appeared for q crow constituency and
was working the convention In favor
of the democratic municipal ticket.
But an omission of that kind hardly
merlted such a crusher as this:
They had a crow camp meeting at
the Bluffs last week, and all the crows
In C~hristendom seemed to copgregate
on the bluffs about the city--so says
The Globe. Perhaps something dead
In The Nonpareil Office"
If The Herald man goes on he will
ruin all legitimate itemizing, and be-
sides the reference to The Nonpareil
seems to have something of an unkind.
8 in 1t. Methought there was
some mistake about II, we couldn't
believe that he intended any slur, 1t
was the wicked compositor, supple.
mented by the oonspiring proof.
reader, but no, q little further down
we found another, as follows:
"a new woman's rights auxiliary
has been found at the Bluffs, and
r O ling an account of1the last pow POW
in The Nonpareil, one Is forcibly in
olined to believe that he Is perusinp q
chapter In an old medical book"
"That settles IT," thought we, he
Is not only asaulting the editorial
fraternity In this city, but Is trying to
start . discussion on woman suffrage.
Insult to injury; he Is q bad man.
We shall shun his acquaintance. But
we were tempted to read further and
found this:
"The Nonparell's resume of the
Lime Kiln club last Saturday Is en-.
titled to the wax figure and II now
behooves Denny to roll on the
ohromos. The people of this genera
ton are getting entirely to cute"
Most unkindest cut of all" said
we. Now, that editor has read that
pathetic little sketch Of the Lime
Kiln club Shrinking that 1t was humor.
GUS and Is mad because he couldn't
laugh. The incorriglble dough. head.
Why, he'd read Tom Hoods "Song Of
the Shirt" or see "East Lynne" en-.
acted and say that the joke was
rather thin, or that the fun seemed to
lack point. We had read the touch.
Ing little story ourselves with tears in
our eyes to think a nan should In.
sinuate that it wasn't funny Stupid.
ity and Vice welded. And still moro,
an attack on the city itself as this tes.
tiles.
"a party Of Council Bluffs people are
seriously thinking of erecting q city
hospital and think that the utility O
such an institution Ia universally
admitted. A good place to chucl
their prohibition DRINKS"
Coarse In language, oarping by ma,
ture and incapable of distinguishing
the pathetic from the humorous
words are useless; one feels like saying
with Macbeth, my voice Is In my
sword" to such.