Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-11-26
From the True Delta.
Thoughts on Editorial Life.
It's hardly in q body's power
To keep at times from being sor

It's hardly in bodys power
To keep at times from being sour. ."-BURS
Job is recorded in Holy Writ as mode
of patience, whom Satan. with all his vile!
could not drive from his integrity; yet Their
was one test to which Job was not subjected
He never, for one hour, was an editor.
An editor. A being whose hands ans
brains and heart must never fail: piece o
machinery, which however badly used
must never stop working-a sort of perpetu
al motion, which is never to wear out.
An editor is Hercules, before the nigh
of whose achievements the labors of thu
far famed hero of mythology sink into ute
insigni6cance.
Our modern Hercules must strangle every
poisonous serpent bred in the rank and miry
places OF human wickedness.
| He must turn back the river of poIitca
pollution. purify its turbid waters. and cause
them to seek another channel, while suffer
ing IN his own person the effects of disturb B.
ing the mass of noisome reptiles which feec
and fatten on its Shiny bed.
He must pluck golden apples for his dear
five hundred friends, undaunted by the
snarling official Cerehrus who guards the
entrance to the garden, and if some chance
u
him Dead Sea fruit" crumbing at the
touch, and "ashes at the core"
He must know things by intuition, which
others require years to understand, and il
through haste OF WEAKNESS some error OF
misstatement occur to the critics, birds OF
i'll omen, seize upon it, and the literary pup.
pies, ''Tray Blanche, and Sweetheart, they
all do bark at him.
Hp rcr,cf hovo .ono, ,urco ,pJ nan
for every beggarly applicant for aims or a
rubber, 20 meet the demands of many rery
conscientious and honest patrons
No time is allowed him for social pleasure
or domestic happiness, the dear public never
think of such luxuries as appropriate for an
editor He is never to have house OF his
own. ''with some fair spirit for minister"
Students and professors have long vaca-
tions: cIergymen get bronchial affections
and are sent to Europe to recover; lawyers.
merchants, occasionally physicians. have a
time 10 recover health and quiet. Seldom
does an editor escape from thraldom.
While | sit by this open window, and the
balms breath of summer comes fresh and fra
grant to revive and cheer me, pity the tired
denizens of cities, pent within walls of brick
and stone, and patch of sky o'erhead: |
think of those immersed in editorial sane
tums, afar from field and forest. shut out
from communion with Nature in her sunny
mood
A thousand flowers. and hill sides, are
wasting their sweetness for lack of an edi-
tor to appreciate their beauty and bloom.
In our bea utifui lakes the speckled trout
and the finny beauties are gliding which an
editor might have, if he would only indulge
in fishing.
In our 'grand old woods" noble deer are
hiding, and a sight Of anght so free and
graceful would be a feast for the eyes even
were the hunter to fail in bringing one down
for sylvan supper.
Editors should take more time to them
selves They need rest and ought to have
it. They need health and strength, aud
among birds and flowers, by bubbling brooks,
or shady place, and on green hill sides
they will be most sure to hnd it. The tea
thered vocaIists in every tree will sing them
a song of welcome.
Wishing to each and all of them prosperi-
ty: ann Yours most sincerely, KATE.
On, CARRY Me BAcK.-When Sontag, the
singer, married Count. to the despair of
regiment of other suitors, including the
celebrated Count Monday, so called because
he inveteratey folIed Sunday (Sontag) she
was still far from the summit of her fame.
When she was courted and caressed in all
the European capitals, honored by Kings
and Emperors, and petted by Queens and
Expresses, she was still remote from the
acme Of her glory. 1t was reserved for the
State OF Virginia, to crown her with her
highest honor, and, accordingly, she has just
been elected a life member OF the Virginia
Agricultural Society! A s. Sontag Prize of
Sl0sa. has been endowed by her donation.
aud it was coutended for at grand plough
ing match, where the chivalry of the F. F.
VS. entered the lists 10 compete for the
purse honored with her. gold and her name,
while the Countess herself was present to
give her countenance to the knights of the
plough tail and reward the victor with one
of her best stage smiles. Truly this is one
Of the drollest ovations ever offered TO an
artist Henceferward Madame Sontae must
be associated, in the American mind, with
ploughiug matches, the tobacco crop, the
last sales of Galego -four, the price Of guano
and other interesting i'eas connected with
agriculture in Virginia, and g Carry me back
10 Old Virginny' must be added to her re-
pertoire.-Ph,l. Bulletin.