Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-09-11

PRINTING OFFICE PoRTRAITs.--Edi-
tors. An editors qualifications are vari-
GUS. 1t is to work harder, more hours in
the day, with less recreation, on less sleep
and poorer pay than any of your fellow
mortals. tits to be busy when your neigh
bors are idle, buster when they sleep, and
busiest when they are enjoying good
time. 1t is to be always in hurry, al
ways under press of business, always
"setting up" when others are lying down,
and always charitably " distributing" the
results of your daily labor. 1t is to have
your opinion always put to "proof' and
seldom into practice. 1t is to advertise
other peoples wants, wishes and wares;
to announce facilities for pleasure; to
herald the approach of diseases and the
invention of cures for them; to make
known who has been robbed, where, how
much, who is the robber, his personal
history, his trial, sentence, and its execu-
ton. 1t is to receive nice fruit and no.
tice it, to be shown natural curiosities
and describe them, to be every where at
all times, and to be able to answer all
questions on all subjects. 1t is to publish
too much sentiment for one, too much
politics for another, and too little news
for all. 1t is to make dozen enemies
to one friend, and to be pitched into by
any one who chooses to consider himself
aggrieved. 1t is to take complimentary
tickets to everything, and pay for them
in complimentary notices. 1t is to be
bored by friends suggesting how you
should carry on your business, and bu l.
liaa By sl.osu wnom you have hit in vul-
nerable spots. 1t is life of mingled
good and i'll, trial and triumph, never
ending toll and never-beginning felicity,
wherein you work out your allotted time
with the "devil'' always at your elbow,
calling for your sole end in this life--a
little more copy.
Printers.-Printers are unlike other
classes of men. Their vocation imparts
to them an intelligence that does not re-.
suit from any other business. Dealings
with language exclusively, in its combi-
nation of letters, words, sentences, and
paragraphs, they are constantly brought
into communion with thoughts and their
working, and thus insensibly become i'm
bued with the ideas of those minds whose
creations they help to embody into those
forms that give them to the world. They
literally get grammar at their finger s
ends while picking up the types that form
sentences that are grammatical. Spell
ing comes TO them as natural as breath
ing, for they fail into correct photography
through force of habit The character
istics of printers are not so favorable to
personal thrift as those of other profess
sons. They partake of the nature of
artists in some degree, and are generally
liberal to fault, thoughtless of the
future and frequently improvident for the
present-fush when in good situation,
and dead broke on a tramp. They may
be said to be the working Bohemians Of
the world Of operatives.
Printers Depils.-From wild, friendless
boys in the streets, are made what are
called printers devils next they become
printers, after that sometimes editors, in
which capacity they not unfrequeniy
make their mark in the nation and il
the world. DR.. Franklin was a mos
eminent instance in the early days O.
our country, and Thurlow Weed, Horace
Greeley. Simon Cameron, Hannibal
Hamlin, General Dix, Schuyler Colfax
Gideon Wells, and many Others are strik
ing examples at the present time.