Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-03-05
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10 as with the Intention OF HFlting
something about editors, and that
being q most touching subject,
We have thought it but right to
warn the tendeF-heaFted against
the perusal Of this production.
We would hate 20 make any one
feel badly, and 80 we have told
you not to read It. But II there
are any who giU read in spite Of
our a~dmOnition, We say, If you
have tears, prepare to shed them
now
The Editor is, as Josh Billings
saws of the mule, 80 bird konsid.
erably larger than a guse or a
turkey" He is q bird with vati.
GUS wants, and various troubles,
and last and perhaps least, vari-
GUS pleasures. There are very
few of the species that have not
thought it. would be a glorious
thing to scatter their brains
among thousands of readers ; to
have a put in about all public
affairs to get complimentary
tickets to balls, or pic MICS, or 6x-
cursions, and to ride free on all
the railroads. The greenies have
never tried it when they think
thus, and don't know that they
pay for all these things. They
don't know that you begin to
scatter brains in earnest, you
must oil down and think, and tTy
u point ibis sentence, and round
Of. that period, and that Just is
You get stared, the devil bawis
Copy IN your ear so LOUD that
you start from your seat, and in
Jour haste 10 supply him dash oil
something that does not please
yourself, and perhaps don't suit
your readers. They don't know
that whether You attend or NOT,
bail managers expect to have
their arrangements declared Eety
elegant, and excursiouists 10
have tile trip mentioned as the
most delightful You ever took =
And The man who gives YOU L
dozen cigars wants them pulled
for hi- Exclusive benefit. and the
one VINO gives you a cabbage
head wants all the gas it gener-
ates expended in blowing hiln.
They don't dream Of ali these
things, but they are true never
,hcIcss.
Then there are other LITTLE
matters that the Editor has to deal
with sometimes. He has friends
who can tell hum Just how he
ought to edit his paper, and yisi.
tors who dearly love newspapers
and take away his exchanges be.
tore he can clip from them and
nearly always some subscriber
who threatens to stop his paper
/. Il he don't change his ideas-which
vs. very kind in them, considering
how we'll their sort always pay NJ.
He has 10 work like n a'urk foo
Day after day he must tread the
same sUutine ofduty, the moment
TIA. he sees one weeks work done,
seeing another begun. He can
not stop 10 listen to the babbliug
book. or inhale the breath Of
busting flowers, or gaze on the
,Unllushcd clouds that roll like
bGantjfu! pillows in the west. Or
commune with the staros at night
FALL or enjoy many other pleas.
urcs that he used to love so
we!I, and shall yearn for so
tenderlY. All these he must 60.
Tor lie is q servant 20 the public,
and /, is an ineXorahle master.-
Frequently he is pelted with the
most cXcruciating poetry, which
he is obliged 10 decline.
and made The recipient of some
narrowing article, which the writer
would ike TO have inserted as an
editorial. Perhaps he goes hons
father late, and II Mrs. Editor is
NOS % dear, good little woman,
7 gets 4 lecture for il; and if there
Is such an article as q baby in the
house, must walk the door with
ii 20 Keep down 2 squat. Or If.
llcrc Is no such parsonage :
either, he crawls in between cold
sheets, q "a half thanks his lucky
stars that he has no gretchen to
make tim too warm with his
tongue, and half sighs to think
that his paper will not take care
0l some one besides himself.
Ne.hertheless, an Editor has
some pleasures, TOO. There is a
genuine pleasure in holding com.
munion with the world, and
knowing that though some may
cavil your words will have their
weight; and a continual freshness
about your work which keeps
your mind from firing as it would
do If SO steadily occupied with
anything else. Your brethren of
the press clasp your hand cordl.
ally wherever you 60; and II you
are any part of q man, you can't
help making among people the
people some warm friends who
know what you aim at, and like
you accordingly. When one Of
these steps up to you. and renews