The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-16
Gle Autlaad Dailg Glohe.
TUESDAY JUNE 1G, 1874
st. Adams correspondence

To the Edit0r Of Me GloJe: We were
once intrusted with the sole editorial man
agcment of a newspaper As you may
find difficulty in creditng this bare state
ment, we will explain The editor of said
paper was called away by important bust
ness. which would detain him, as he cX-
pected, about two weeks, and having a
great opinion of our literary talent, incul-
Gated by our conversation, he invited us to
fill the editorial char during his absence,
which we consented to do. Important
business of Il legal nature called him back
at the end of six days, and we left the Of
flee, accompanied by majority OF its fur
niturc, Immediately on his arrival. Finan-
cially that paper succeeded beyond all
precedent under our administration. We
could scarcely print copies fast enough to
meet the demand, and we certainly got out
a very lively sheet but there were four
teen eyil-disposed men in town who all
took occasion during that short space OF
six days to sue the publisher for libel, and
the editor was so much dissatisfied that we
couldn't persuade him to listen to reason at
all, and we are sorry to say that he treated
us with violent disrespect We don't name
the journal referred to, because he limited
that he would cause us to be assassinated if
we ever disclosed it, and in this connection
1t don't matter We'll, on the last day of
our connection with the paper we received
| In, am pi IN q X
animation, and so it happened that we
brought it away with us. The other day
we happened to find it among some papers,
and think in justice to the unfortunate
count of our peculiar relations with the
paper to which it was sent we don't want
to go and explain the matter to its editor, so
we have recourse to you. The Ms. was
entitled "A Vale of Despair" and we for
ward 1t to you without comment.
MAX.
Mr.. Editor: | have always had desire
to become in some way connected with the
press, and the life of reporter has always
held out to me the greatest attractions.
This is not So much on account of my
special talent in that direction. bestowed
by nature, as because | have always no.
ticed with longing sensations the way re-
porters are treated how they are followed
and sought after and bribed by public men
or men who have a healthy and natural de-
sire to become public, and button-holed
and treated and flattered and oyster-sup-
pered and favored in various and innumer
able ways by all the members of that rather
numerous family of men who want some
thing and recognize the press as powerful
lever.
have noticed all this, as | say, with a
sense of great longing, and many time
have | thought to spread my wings for n
rcportorial flight and try if | might not
reach this height, up to which my eyes
h ha as So The feasoh Is Fhhe am Is
ried The fact thus simply stated may not
seem to You one which should obstruct my
onward and upward career, but ] think |
shall be able to convince you that such is
indeed tie case.
have now been Benedict for upwards
of fiye-and-twenty years. and in all human
probability shall so continue until some
member of the family Gin which there are
no childrcn) is put to sleep under the
daisies. My wife's name is Bctsey. She
My information on this point is not derived
from herself and may be relied on as correct.
Whatever may have been the case ere TIE
last Internationally winters commenced to
scatter their SHOWS, my wife cannot now
be called beautiful, and her personal APP
pearance is not enhanced in at,ractiveness
by the fact that the greater part Of her life
has been spent in the manufacture of those
staple products, butter and cheese, and the
general management of household details,
which experience has not been conducive
to beauty and intelligence of expression.
or even amability of the same, whiteness
of hand or the storing OF her mind with
knowledge of literature and art. The
practical result is, on the contrary, that
none of these have been attained. nor any
great amount of taste or style in the mat
ter of dress. In fact my wife appears on
festive and state occasions in dress of
faded brown. made from some material
which wears and use have caused to shrink
up from the face of the earth in n manner
most unprecedented and hideous a faded
and unhealthy looking shawl which, hav-
ing once been striped aud of many colors,
is now become the representative OF a
fading rainbow dipped in soiled water; a
bonnet of black silk. which time has treat
ed in most shabby way and Dame
Fashion forgotten long ago; and pair of
cotton gloves, of drab or slate color, and
No. 10. This costume no words, argu-
ments or fearful entreaties of minc can
cause her to look upon rs anything but Il
triumph of the millinery and dressmaking
arts.
This you may say is bad enough, but
does not interfere with my ambition. Sir,
the half-and the worst half, too-is not
told My wife is passionately, insanely
fond of society, of travel and entertain
ment, and wherever go, there must she
20 also, | have tried everything in my
power to restrain this ambtiOn-haye
coaxed and pleaded and threatened, triet
bribery and deception and all means fair OF
foul with like futiity, for go she will, anC
90 she does and having found from sac
experience that TIE only effect Of opposi-
ton on my part was the rendering of my
daily life n burden more weighty thar
usual, the iniliction on me OF such food a
my daily meals rs the human digestion
shrinks from appalled,, and the breaking OF
my needed rest by such TRADES of argu'
ment and inyective as only the female mine
can conceive and the female tongue utter
: | concluded silently to submit 10 my IN
happy lot and humbly try TO do my duty
and bear my cross
Our residence is in the rural districts o
the state of ----, and the nearest import
ant town is Shreveport, place OF som'
considerable size and activity, distant from
us about ten miles by rail. OF course TIN
tidings of any event likely to transpirc a
I Shreveport spread rapidly to our neighbcr
hood, and no sooner do they reach Beseys
ears than she gets herself into Il vioen
state of excitement and at once commences
importuning me to take her along to see
the show, without the least regard to my
own personal feelings in the matter, and OF
: course she invariably carries her point. II
ought not to be so it is opposed to all th'
laws of nature that women should be tht
first to propose gong to any place OF enter
tainment, and il those laws may WIN I'M
puniiy be broken by young, and pretty girls y