The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-09
Editorial walls for the Missing .sMaiis.'

While chewing his "cud,' ana trolling VII
"bait1
For stray idea IN his polite pate
10 I'll ont his columns, compact and rate,
TO instruct his constant readers"
A wearisome, .hankless task is the one
That ever returns with tho Using san.
And sticks 10 him still TIL the day be done,
And follows him get, like nggardly dun"
When the stars peer out, with a glimmer offun
And q twInkting leer-not 10 cali it pun
AS they mock ingly mint, You nave q tine ran
! or intellectual feeders.
Bat hard as his task IL the happiest times,
When the Mails come ia as exact as thcs
rhymes,
Ard the Telegraph heartily sings and chimes,
| And the Pile Of" Exchanges" upwards climbs,
And News is abundant as paper dimes"
IN the vault az Il "saoGdy contractor
More difficult stu, III days like these
! When The Mails, It would seem, ar. done ZIP i
frls1e,
| And It'll. telegraph ygWns oa. 4 ftiul "aee:e,
| And Exchanges are scareeT than winter tloas,
Where's no whisper ofrles4s, wren there shoul
| us a breeze
And his brain is sucked close 10 the yeriest Ices
ls THE iot ot the scrihllng factor.
JOB,
o. Of u cre dle@ fixed in tiiN poisonous ropc,
All lortares innunan that were ever IA vogue
TO make, or convert, Il sinner.
And when you nave got To the end Of your list,
The very sam to,al OF torture you've missed
UIless in the terrible race SOU insist
THAT the editor proves the winner.
Tie Hebrews compelled 70 maze prica witpou
straw
We're subjects unhappy III mercileSs law:
Eut Editors never must soak for d tia.
In one harsler fnr than q Hebrew eef saw,
rhoagh i into hjs very vitais gnaW,
And urge the pen III his dexter paw
IT, work itself Y into The very raw
10 ipll the pufTt@'s insatate NAV
VITA the news as fast as Invented
For each q the many, whether foolish or wise,
Zach day must mis- pages bring hri.nniing sup
plies.
Every mood mus; De su.ted, from laughter t.
signs,
Every taste must DC satisfied up 10 the eyes, =
III ;.ugat he omitted what horrible cries!
While each with native righteousness tries
To multiply faults, and ali merit deaies
And SO so.sely is Disseminated
All! this might be borne, rs IL often is,
Without causing twitch in an Editors 'pni2,
AZ ne hears the amending buzz and" whiz"
OF the people who can't be suited;
But when hale Old Winter will interfere,
And whiris his SHOWS with hilarious cheer,
Into every cut" and around each pier,
And piles it up with a jibe and q Jeer,
As if he delighted rampant 10 rear
Across the track +" OF the Cars career.
And teach it, for once. to whiten with fear
All! that is season 10 Editors drear,
When torture seems full fruited
or" Nothing to Wear" If the women complain,
We never were able to value the pain,
For with nothing to wear" it seems quite plain,
In naked beauty they yet would reign
And man would still adore them;
But without an Exchange to cut or clip
With vacant table and never a " chip
That he in his columns dares venture to slip,
No fiavorous nectar to put TO his lip
And inspire his pen while he stops TO sip,
No E,egan; Extracts, IN which he can dip.
No "soul-stirring Speeches. that out ne can
rip
No Terrible Outrage" of horror the tip,
" Important Discovery" nor Tale Of q WHIP
Nor 9 Articles Able not dear at a FTP"
Not thing, in fact that would help to equip
His gaping columns, or supply nip"
Tothe hungry souls who explore them:
Thus working without clay or straw for his
brick
Thus playing his cards but ne'er taking atrick,
What wonder the Editors soul grows sick
As Saints in Purgatory?
That, after all he has tried to do
To quiet the many and please 1.-THE few
To fill his pages with something new,
or queer, and possibly, true,
At last, with his brains :" in q perfect stew
He finds that he cant a whole newspaper "brew's
From a stag,e upper story
And then when he thinks oftne plentiful reIms
Printed and folded and sent him in streams,
Full stored with the most delicious creams
From the region of Fact, and the fountain Of
Dreams,
Politics, Science, poetical CLEANS,
Accidents, Bonner's fast teams,'
And all that an Editor wisely deems
Most tit ograce his columns
All these and more, on the Post Office trail,
Fresh from the publishers, stopped on 'the rail
BY the drifting snow SO tleecy and frail,
And just when wanted to unfold tale
What wonder the Editors face is pale
And shadoweth rage in volumes?
Now you who think it an easy task
o
With pen and ink - ust come and bask
AS long as you like "qute under q mask
Beside the Editors table,
Just take his chair and write with a will,
And answer each call for, Copy" still
With nothing, but what you coin, to ill
The hopper OF his exhausting MILL
Which g. inds as if il were meant to kll,''-
And we guess you'i find you have "got your
ILL.,"
nd much prefer, while your brains grow chill,
TO cleanse the next Augean stable.
RECONSTRUCTION IN LOUISIANA - LET
TER FROM THE PRESInENr.-State politics
occupies good deal OF space in the New
Orleans papers, and the dispute between
he radicals and those called Conservatives
runs high. Both parties wish the State |
reconstructed, but while the |
Radicals want this to be done on an anti |
Slavery basis, the Conservatives are desi- |
rous Of leaving tho Constitution Of the State |
as it is, with all its black laws and other |
oarbarous features. It is these last who
support the bogus congressman now claim |
ng seats. The discussion of these matters |