Smyrna times., 1857-01-21
stlett Mistellanp.
An Editors Trials.


tor, the following, by Kate Neville, which we
clip from the Home Journal, is in our opinion,
one of the best. Gentle reader, peruse 1t, and
extend to us and our contemporaries your sym
pathy.
How often we think when reading the news,
An editor could please of he choose
But such a paper as this, why, all must agree,
That a thing of less interest they never did see.
But, Sir Critic, reflect, ere you make noise on,
That one mans meat is another mans poison
And, unless you persist in your steady denials,
Well give you a few of an editors trials.
First, a pretty young lady, sprightly and fair,
With paper in hand, wa!tzes up to a chair,
And hastily glancing DER all that she saw,
She thrust it aside with muttered "pshaw!'
No marriages here
think it is queer.
When there's ever so many,
They don't publish any.
Here's poetry, And battles,
Sketches, And sleges,
And tales, And law suits,
Without ending, A pending;
Tut no picnics, or concerts, or parties for me,
uch trash on paper, never did see.
Then nice young man, with cane and nous.
tache,
Nhe certainly thinks he is cutting dash,
ooks over the list of plays aud soirees,
!sifvainly trying his fancy to please,
Iu theatres, In races,
Circuses, And chases,
Operas, In banquets,
Balls, And calls,
nd finally wonders what editors mean
Iy printing paper not fit to be seen.
entimental young lady next picks up the paper
nd reads by the light of dim burning taper,
nd wonders if lines addressed to Miss Relic
Were not written to her by some clever young
fellow,
Who's pretty and witty, and learned and wise t;
Tut she Stops in alarm at the "dRrk hazel eyes,
For hers are blue,
What a pity It's true
And now, Mr.. Editor,
IT'S all blamed on you.
What speeches, And lawlng,
And sermons, And jawing,
And news, And clawing.
BY despatch, To match
But no sketches or tales that can see
What kind of a man must the editor be !
Nexta grave politician who with dignity glewf
Adjusts his gold spectacles over his nose,
Takes huge pinch of snuff before he proceeds
Then opens the paper and l,isurely reads
Ofb,eachcs. Of senate,
Aud speeches, vi house,
And foreign OF railways,
Reports, And Courts
Aud says as he reads the last column of war,
What strange kind of people these editors arr
These rhymes and these love stories to print,
If'twuuld do any good, would give Them hin
Now prime old maid the paper espies,
And holding it carefully off from her eyes,
And frequently muttering "lar" and "du tell
She manages some way to read very well
The marriages, The roboerles
Accidents, And murders
Suicides. All in
Deaths, A breath,
And finishing, wonders what sert OF blunder
The whole of the community is under,
To support paper whose print is so small,
She wonders how some people read 1t at all.
Next, an angry contributor eager for fame,
Rasbes into tho sauctum, to loudly proclaim
arn ruined, sir, ruined-my success, sir 10 o.
50 many miszakes were ne'er heard of befort
II Look here at this Sonnet addressed TO my Lad
You've made it "a Bonnet and Dress for Bah
Don't talk of my writing. and say it was thai
II You're an editor, sir. but no geut-that is ha
The farmer complains that his crop is neglee
While so much time is spent in guessing VIII
be elected.
The minister says it should be more sedate,
And not so much wasted in matters of state
And thousands OF other complaints are N
known, a ,la
Which the editors back has to bear all alon
But the worst of it is, that they all join in say
4 sucha paper as thishe can print wlthoutpay
Oy- Col. Benton is decidedly in favor o
male physicians. He has engaged TO lee
Tor the New England Female Medical Coll
iii aud in order that there may be no mistake .
his views, he says in letter to one OF
,ady managers: "Please to letit be kn
iii That it is for the exclusive beneht OF your
stitution, which has my best wishes for It's
Cess, as well as my best judgment for its utl
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or The greatest objection to smart chll
is, that when they commence having whi'
they leave off having brains. Boys That
philosophers when they are six years OF
1 are generally boekheads at twenty-one.:
forcing children along, you get so much