The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-02-07
Paul FRY Eoa. tho News.
sob! that ono wore an editor"

| ana S'Oh !. that ono wore an editor" a.
Tho exclamation was inconsiderato
and lhoushtlcss, for, from bsing IN
editor of al country town paper, t",ho
Lord deliver u.s." r;l ,.,a,
There was once, when Orangeburg
was ilittle ('tisn't supposed that the
place vas over yousg) about forty years
ago, on o sale duy morning. humorous
scene enacted in its one street. which
one can eahily conceive to represent, gen :
erallyT the ro!a of an editor. The prin
ciPal actor in the play was backwoods-
man who had been around seeing the
elephant, and had contriyed to get a
good sized mudol Of the quadruptd un-
der his hat. tho same way in which
some commodities nro supposed to in
duce spontaneous combustion, he had
worked himself into violent passion
although no one would appreciate it's OBJ
jcct: And MS he oscillatcd up and down
the crown OF his hat worked from n two
'-'- '-'''o'' '''-o- -'.~ -e'"Ppot '"i'e- vr "a.
suc'isn pump. His costume was OF that
indcscribable, yet now somctim IS ssen,
"sukio Blueskiu" c"lor, iu which dis
Perate attsmpt is made to come out clear,
but fails, and is u mixture Of all sha les
from that of the first dip in an iudgo
tub up to the black and dirty blu, Of
thunder cloud-a southern first cou,in
OF that fabric called pepper and salt, 80
we'll known down east" I,he cut WI,
that of the steel pen, or claw hammer
style, which, Of itself from old a.sooia.
tions is nowadays almost cxpest ed to say
Get eout' all hanging limp and thread
bare, seemingly astounded at the sudden
AMI furious outbreak of the usually so
Sheepish mutton which it covered
Three inches Of each boot was unac.
counted for, looking like batteries re.
Gently unmaskod, and the toes protrul
ing thercfrom might be fancied to be
war worn veterans about to dcploy as
administers against the assembled crowd
OF spectators. But the Big toe only
was on dusy. That was occasionally
sent out with its corporal's guard to
describe dead line, over which imagin
any combatantB, as it seemed. (for all
and every one Of the assembled ring ap
penred to bc il. the best hun,or possible)
might not pass ocens sionally--it i. said.
for when the feet Of the curious crow,i
oblitsrated the mark, corporal toe imne
diately incribed another, inside within
this all the concentrated profanity of
many supposed years of volcanic liro.
(over which had becn only a thin cruest
of paacoable corn cracker rxis,cnce) was
elected at some absont foe, who, iudg
ing from the direction of tho actors
eyes, was expected t, spront like hill
Of corn, out Of the circumscrbed ground.
H. Now it isn't held that an editor is
very Rrofane, nor it held that editors
toes are always out. but as to the oop.
able drod Zinc, aud the corariing that
may be done inside bis particul' n stamp.
ing ground, the comparison will hold
gool. He is roped in like circus
horse; to be sure he may go any speed
he may choose, but he must be carsful
not to trample on the toes Of any of the
sovereign people. He mny roar louder
than any lion under the canvass, or out
growl bruin himself, if his growl be
not directed to any particular ono of his
happy audience. His cheek, which is
admitted to be hi: best stock
in trade, shows to tho audience behind
the rope all the serenity of a perfectly
happy potentate; while the other side
ahovs a concentration Of care mounting
to "neuralgic eontortion." The edit. p
is in the predicament of the man with
two wives, ono young. the other old
como of his friends pull out his gray
hairs, the remainder pull out the bl .ck-
ones. He is afraid to silc altogether