The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-03-29
Editorial Life.

From an article which we publish in an
other column Of this paper, we learn that
editors most generally, die young. We be-
lieve IL.
There is no business Of life, where men
are subjected to rs many changes of the pas
sions, rs the editing and conducting news
paper. This Is not so much the case where
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salary for his services whether the paper
pays well or not A man in that position,
has only to write it is true if his produc-
tions meet with an unfworable reception
from the patrons Of the paper, it discournges
and distrcsses him, hut then, he is not sub
jected to those unpleasant reflections, which
the pccuniary welfare Of the paper would
engender, and he finally consoles himself
by the reflection, that he has perhaps pleas
ed somebody.
But let US take the so called editor of
country paper. His duties arc four-fold-
lie is editor, proprietor, publisher-every
thing. He must arrange with printers to
get the paper printed, attend to the purchas-
ing of paper, make up mails, keep books,
dun delinquents, select copy, write for the
paper &c, A great many persons in the
country take but the one paper, il is dcsira-
BILE therefore to have little Of every thing
in the paper-the editor il thci efore obliged
to make Judcious selections, little fun,
poetry, agricultural, &c, and to do so he is
necessarily compelled to examine some fifty
or sixty exchange papers daily.
lie must (or at least we do) keep men,
orandum Of those things which will engage
the use of his pen on writing day-marri-
ages, deaths, news-matters, must all be
kept minute OF, and on writing day placed
in intellignble reading form; those articles
which are too long, but deserve some
notice, must be clipped out and preserved,
and on writing day abridged into smaller
paragraphs Should writing day come on
and lind you without something to write
about, you would be in Az unpleasant dilem.
ma, so, to provide against such contingent
cy, the memorandum Is used, and we recon-.
mcnt i TO editors. Ours IL book with
slate leaves, which can be written upon, and
cleaned at will. Writing day as We term
1t, is the one day Of seven we take to write
editorials. Perhaps rs you are preparing
your leader on this momentous day, the
foreman sends in for piece Of copy to fll
a quarter Of column on the outside. Very
resignedly you lay dnwn your pen. and have
recourse to old exchanges. But when the
paper il printed and given to the world-this
one writes that he does not receive IL, and
intimates that after you have got his money
yon do not care to send the paper-nnother
that when his "time is out" please to stop
his paper-another that he will pay you
one Of these days for the paper, and makes
the editor pay five cents for this piece Off in
formation. And then comes another TO the
office in propria persona, and with blaEd
smile, like that which Lueifer bestowed up
on Cain, inquiries when his time will "be
out" You inform him. II paid you for
IL r says he. "Oh yes SIR" "Well when
It is out stop itT Whist q relief How
much ligher his heart must be, he was
weighed down with the mighty importance
Of stop It, Two or three come at once
perhaps, and order dlssoptinusncs oftheir
papers. The editor 10 perpleved to know
the cause.
lie takes his letters out Of the Office. The
p. M. at suob an Office iB MississippL re-
guests you 70 stop The paper Of % and 90,
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