The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-15
(From the Memphis Appeal
TWO SIDES TO- PICTU X e
soLlLOoUY OF A NEWSPAPER READER.

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to do but to read papers, hunt up news
and write scraps of editorials, now and
then. They exemplify the truth of the
adage, "There's but penny's difference
between those who work and those who
play-and those who play get it." They
take their ease and live on the cream OF
the land. Does anybody get married
Away goes a box of the incest, whitest
cake, champagne, nuts, candies, etcs., to
the editor to pay him for telling it to the
world. Does anybody raise any extra
large, or extra early fruit, vegetables or
berries 1t is sure to find its way to
the editors table. Does person make
a delicious bottle of wine, brandy, cider,
or cordial Its sure to find its way to
the lead of the paper. Jerusalem how
I'd like TO board with an editor.
But that's not half the favors they re-
ceive. If there's, concert, a show, or
circus in town, the editor is sure to have
a ticket, free gratis for nothing, besides
being presented with a season ticket to
the theatre. They have all the maga-
zines, newspapers, Congress documents,
telegraphic dispatches, and so forth, be-
fore anybody else; and most generally
for nothing If anybody writes book,
a copy is always laid on the editors table.
Wonder if he eats itl He sometimes d.
gests it, | know. Editors have whole
Libraries given to them every year, not to
mention hats, gloves, umbrellas, pocket
knives, cigars, walking-canes, and dry
goods generally-enough to setup coun-
try merchant.
And, besides, when every body else il
curious to know the real names of writers
over fictitious signatures, editors-sly fel-
lows-laugh at their curiosity ; and, when
solicited to let out the secret, answer with
a PUBLICATIONS understand putting to a
charm )-"I promised not to tell" By
the beard of Brigham Young! wish l
was an editor!
sOLILoQUY OF AN EDITOR.
| wish to heaven Job had wiled me
his patience when he died. / am sure
no man ever had greater need for it.
1t is hot enough, up here to singe my eye
brows, and my heads aching and throbb-
ing as if there was an earthquake brew
ing in it. | feel for all the world, like
somebody had introduced churn- -dasher
and churned my brains until they were
as soft as butter. Jim Lane and Kansas !
what hurly-burly there is on this street.
believe every carriage, buggy, hack,
omnibus, cart, dray, and wheebarrow, in
the whole length and breadth of the city,
have done nothing all day, but rattle up
and down the pavement, throwing as
much dust into my eyes, as do into the
eyes of the public. I've read over ex-
changes until I'm nearly blind, for some
thing to fill up my paper, and have found
nothing, after all, worth bauble. Won
der what the deuce those editors were
about, that they got up such horribly dull
papers this week I'm as hungry as a
wolf, but before can take homeward
step, I've four columns proof to correct,
besides those dull books to review, COM
plimentary notices to write of them, a
leader to that speech, and that huge let
ter to,--~goodpess gracious and gracious
goodness Ia my head going to burst
open! There's one man complaining
that he don't get his paper regularly
wants me to have it corrected; as if |
was postmaster and mail carrier as well
as editor! And what's this blotched,
crumped affair
"MEEsTER EDITuR; pies change my
papir to our nu postoffice, as its more
handy to me than the ole wun, and oblige
A Pool"
A Pool I'll apply to the Legislature
to have your name changed to A Food
Here's another:
"MEssRs. EDITORS Permit friend
to make suggestion. We like your pa
per in this section. We regard it as the
standard organ of our party, but there is
an objection which frequently hear urg-
ed against it there's not enough variety
in it. We like politics, but you know the
old adage; "You can choke dog on
pudding, Many Of your subscribers can't
afford to take more than one paper, and
therefore wish variety, "a hint to the
wise is sufficient" w
| Let's see what this man, who writes
such thunder and lightning hand, says
for HIMSELF:
/ "MR. EDITOR: take your paper be-
cause it is political journal, and ! would
respectfully say, that wish to heaven
Il vOu'd keen stories poetry. anecdotes, and