The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-11-09

Onc of tho singular characteristics of hu.
mauiy isa partial or complete obliviousnoss
ON the part of each Individual, as to those
matters about which others are employed
Tho butcher has little thought as to how
his cattle arc raised and made fat, the
farmer but iittlo thought as to what pro.
cess his fat cattle or fine wool are put
through after h0 has received good price
for them. So of other trades and callings,
except at rare intervals, each one has
enough in mind to be engaged about his
own without speculation or gathering in
formation rs TO others. 1t is necessarily
so. A rich, juicy, and tcnder roast of beef
! would relish but lily, If masticated during
n vivid vision of the farmers care and the
butchers cruelty. A newspaper would
hardly add to the relish of the coffee and
toast in tho morning, or give added flavor
to the cup that "oxhilerates but ntoxicates, >
in the evening, if read with realizing
view of the nimble fingers wearily putting
in thoir places letter after letter during the
hours others devote to sloep So OF every.
thing else almost.
Bat We have often thought how univer
sal was tho ignorance rs to tho editors
labors in making up each number of Iii,
journal. Most people never givo them {
thought, except occasionally to utter some
words of grudging praise or, much more
frequently, TO grumble and complain
There is no more common idea, than tha
tho selections are made at random, simply
to Gil sl,ace. Hence people volunteer
something to "lil up" as though thereb,
they were helping. Net n halt an editor
never selects an article or an item, cxcep
on dclb ration; and an idea to desire,
purpose AVID as the result of sottlcd plan
fruo, omctmes when the cry of "copy,r il
furious he may be careless las who iG net
or may misjudgo on tho spur of tho mo
ment.
What is true OF tho selections, is true o
every lac written However hastily an,
rapidly the editor may be compelled I,
write all his words 1re weighed and al
his articles deliberated upon. Much o
his deliberation is peculiar, a sort of idiosyn
cracy Of the real editor, but that it is rea
and careful, can be proved at any tim,
when novice takes mp the pen and "run,
thes machineg a slap-dnsh, raw hand
to set in AZ 4 a4@calizcr, with every item o
news7--a hght, horse race, runaway
or a lncrc local mention, woul have whip
ping threatened, get nindigm,nt note, or Of
fend n dozen willie he pleased. one. Eve,
for a puff the words must be chosen ant
, | WGlpneu, OF INC ucuCC VIII Dc 10 puy II
short order.
But we can not elaborate. II strikes us
that newspaper readers have got to b.
numerous L"everybody takes the papers,
, that tho populer ideas in regard to "makinJ
up" ought to be exploded pretty shortly
They are in fact mado mp much as the Jan
, aneso and Chinese mechanics, work in thei
, 80 to $50 different pieces of wood into tn
cover of single small box--with infinit
care. Just as we feel like declaring dead
) Iy hostility to a family where we So
books put to holding up windows, &c., s
! we feel toward those who never so muc
, as think or care what labor, what though
. what weary waiting and watching, wha
weighing aud estimating, what hopes 70
, general good, each single paper costs til
faithful editor. Yet for it ALL of all otl
ers, his labors are still in tho main, light
est esteemed, aud no is subjected to AN ui
charitablencss, never applied to any othe
class. But as tho whilcomc, unfortuat
, "pcdagogue," is beng transformed in thcs
, last days into an honorable and well OF
teemed WORKER, taking rank with the rec
; ognized professions so We expect, in "th
good time coming" when newspaper read
ers know what it costs to "make up q pa
per-" oven editors will be lifted up in tn
popular estimation, and if they are faithful
ones, rank at least with those who writ
poor novels and produce tales of "bood
and thunder" raw heads and blood
, bones, "to or DER