The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-13

EDITORS.

An editors qualifications are various. 1t
is to work harder, more hours in the day,
with less recreation, on less sleep and poor.
er pay than any of your fellew mortals. 1t
is to be busy when your neighbors are idle,
buster when they sleep, and busiest when
they are enjoying good time. 1t is to be
business. always "setting up" when others
the results of his daily labor. 1t is to have
to practice. Ii is to advertise other peoples
wants, wishes, and wares; to announce IA
cilties 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
execution. 1t is to receive nice fruit and
notice it. to be showing curiosities and des-
cribe them, to be everywhere at all times,
and to be able to answer all questions on all
subjects. 1t is to publish too much senti-
ment for one. too much politics for another,
and too little news for all. 1t is to make a
dozen enemies to one friend, and to be pitch
ed into oy anybody who chooses to consider
himself aggrieved. 1t is to take compliment
tary tickets to everything and pay for them
in complimentary notices. Is is to be bored
by friends suggesting how you should carry
on your business, and TO be bullied By those
whom you have hit In vulnerable spots. 1t
is life of mingled good and i'll, trial and
triumph, never-ending toll and never-begin-
ming felicity, wherein you work out your al
lotted time with the 'devira always at your
elbow, calling for your sole end of this life
a little more copy.
PRINTERS.
Printers are unlike other classes of men,
Their vocation imparts to them an intelli-
gence that does not result from any other
business. Dealing with language exclusive.
ly, in its combination of letters, words sen.
fences, and paragraphs, they are constantly
brought into communion with thoughts and
their wording and thus insensibly become
imbued with the ideas of those minds whose
creations they help to embody in those forms
that give them to the world. They literally
get grammar at their fingers ends while pick
ing up the types that form sentences that
are grammatical. Spelling comes to them as
natural as breathing, for they fall into cor
rect photography through force of habit.
The characteristics of printers are not SO ia
vorable to personal thrift as those of other
professions. They partake of the nature of
artists to some degree, and are generally
liberal to fault, thoughtless of the future
and frequently improvident for the present
flush when in a good situation, and dead
broke on a tramp. They may be said to be
the working Bohemians of the world of op-
eratives.
PRINTERS DEVILS.
From wild, friendless boys in the streets,
are made what are called printers devils /;
next they become printers, after that some
times editors, in which capacity they not un-
frequently make their mark in the nation
and in the world. DIR. Franklin was most
eminent instance in the early days of our
country, and Thurlow Weed, Horace Gree
ley. Simon Cameron, Hannibal Hamlin, Gen
eral Dix, Schuyler Colfax, Gideon Welles.
and many others, are striking examples at