Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-29
Charlotte, N. c., July, 1857.

s.. 2. S.
Charlotte, N. c., July, 1857.
For the Spirit of the Age.
Mr.. EDITOR Men of your chip very fire.
quently complain of their lot. The amount
of mental as we'll as physical labor, required
at their hands, is, no doubt, very wearisome
to the flesh, and calculated to wear human
life MreGd6dre as soon, or probably sooner
than any other avocation in which the exer-
else of mind and body is united. Constant
attention to any thing soon renders it irk.
some. This is the lot of an Editor; and then
the m-utinumerous whims of dissatisfied sub
scribers, and the i'll nature of many unthink-l
ing correspondents, together with the grumb-
ling ofan unworthy exchange now and then
the dropping off of stingy subscribers at
the end of the year, the best means to keep
up the character of his periodical, and a
hundved other things that the common rea-
der never dreampt of, all tend to wear out
an Editor, and make his life one of toll and
anxiety II! If copability and durability only
IN the forms of muscles, bones and sinews
were consulted in this case, it would require
IN the composition of an Editor, what an old
man once said it took to make a Methodist
travelling preacher-'IHree mules and an or.'
V@l Vac Il!
Sir, you shall have nv sympathy, though
unasked, not in the form of Intellectual groans
and grunts, but in Dollars and cents from
new subscribers to the Age.
But, my dear sir, if Editors need sympa-
thy, what do School Teachers and Instruc-
tors need u! We, who have the charge of
Academies and other Institutions of learning,
have more need of sympathy than any other
pubic characters under heaven, and vet we
get less u! Shut up in the lecture room
from Monday morning until Friday evening,
we hear nothing but Nouns, Verbs, Adiec'
tlVes, OXYGEN, Hydrogen, Carbon, Electricity,
Galvanism, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Levers,
i, Screws, Hydr~ostatics, Pneumatics, Sines,
Tangents, Syfogisms, Modes, Figures of Rhet-
ORIG, Etymology and Syntax, Stella, Regnum,
I HES, HAS and 1llud's, &C., &C., over and
over, again and again, with scarcely any va,
t ration, except now and then a thicker skull
ed biped is ushered into our sanctum, into
D whose Uranium we strive to cram those sci
= entifc ideas by diversity of explanation anG
Increased v~ocality; and yet how little are oul
! real worth and efforts appreciated !! Sir
u our composition should be that of four mule
and a steam engine; of the mules, to sustain
d the burden imposed upon US and of the en-
le CINE, that we might never weary in our cease
ASDo AGDOAs Il WIN SbduuS DIT Ul0 UOdu 4
an Institution containing 60 or 70 grow
students of both sexes, has his hands. head
and heart full.
Many wealthy parents bring up their Chi
gs dren in a manner so regardless of authorit
I'd that, neither moral nor a~Uhtp-suasion, whe
to IN the school room, can make them conforl
of to right rules. Some of US, as you alread
Id know, acquired what education we have, +
- the pine-knot light of midnight, and ar
ifs therefore, under no special obligations to an
sis one; yet we know how to appreciate the e
81, forts of a Teacher, and feel IN that characte
as we'll as for it.
is, pecially with Him of the Age. win he r
ry ciprocate? NON serbia.
we
lite Most sincerely do we sympathise with o,
ng brother in tribulation. But of many yex
tons of which other Editors complain, we
- the Age, are exempt: First, we have no d
lar linquent subscribers to dun-all of ours y;
she up, and in advance too. Secondly, they a
I'M. always working for US, and sending on ne
< names and the rhino, to keep our Spirits u
Thirdly, they never complain of the Ag
m. but on the contrary say it is the create
er, best and most useful paper in all the COT
~ try. And lastly, they are the cleverest f
to lows, the sweetest and prettiest, and m,
} of intelligent ladies in the world. That's S
Now, if our friend, the noodle crammel
En- has just as clever a set of patrons as we,
iga- can ~sympathise with him, for we know
ach does not suffer much in the flesh, from the
and There may, however, be thick-headed m
3, W cullnes; but to say that the girls are uni
pressible! Fie, fe, you in~corrigible biz
re- disciple. Make him take that back, gil
tar or shut off the sunshine of your smiles fo
ess' week, and he'll be glad enough to sue
a. quartz RS.
But, ~solemnly, We doubt not, Teach
eek, have their full share of vexations, troub
" and trials-but theirs is a high and no
en-. calling-and though their efforts NAV
lice, unappreciated by ungrateful pupils now,
led, after years they will rise up and call tn
"a l blessed, and thankfully attribute to the
s%tructlon received of them when bows,
and high and exalted positions they occupy
o a manhood. Go on, We Teachers of the you
nort You have the moulding of the nation, !;
your eulogium will be recorded in it's
g vancement in science and national greatnt
In EDITOR ACE.
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