The Osceola times., 1874-12-12
Editorial Writer'S.

Ohe column Il day IL a tar aver
age on the New York press TOR an
editorial, writor, ahd'tNIs could be
= written in II lew hours; trcc
arln.lvs per weck is the uSn;,l stint
tor the lcader-writcr- Oh 5hc Ion
don Times. Horace Greeley 3
literary !abors, vast as tacy we've,
i.a not occv,y macy hou's, und
much oi his ,imc was cbnsuned
ia seeing. visitors, reading and
trayulingi ana even thrn he died
of oyer.worh ,s.> did iirury j. Ray.
mond, though hc, too, always took
long periods oi rest allci'iIi- spasmS
ol severe work. SAMUEL Bow les,
by the aid al II stenugiTpher, gets
through, u full day stint ot cdiiuri-
al writing and correspopdrnce /"
fthr course ui q few hours. Charles
Dana IS at the Sun office from
about ~ to 5 o'clock, while much
, OF This tlmo IL given 10 rcceIrili.,
visitors and ether light work.
WhItclaw Reid aud Inni- j. Jcn-
niGas edit their respective papers
dur'ng two hours of each afternoon
and three or four hours at nigM.
Parke Godw'n, ID. q. Crol y and
haj. Bundny, who all three have
charge Ot afternoon newspapers,
limit their office hours usually v from
o'clocil To at the most, winch
Includes an hour Tor luncheon. As
Il sample OF the dairy ihe 6l AN eN-
c6ptionailv hard-working journal
i,l, the following, account givrrp by
Henry atteison,. editor Of the
Louisville le Courier journal. may be
Interesting. 1t is taken from m
unpublished letter. and it, should
be remembered that il is wrricn
by Il man who is partly blind 81
wake mp ut 10 O'Clock in the morn
ing, aid, after "A cap "i coffee. |
write Tor Two hpure IN bed. l get
ur at noon aud have piun@ca'ath,
| and take breakfast with myiamiiy
@ho then have taken their luneh
! go 10 the office .:litcrwar,l, aud re.
main there until I, prepared to sec
every body thar calls. Diving the
samc time the work Of the day is
I planusd 4 cat and every body begins
ii then 20 o~homc aud havcisup-
per- and spend the evening until
! 10 o'clock there, usually listening
Ia reading by my wife, or having It
h,tie music Al 10 o'clock | ann
back TO the office again, where |
remain nnlil =. | AN onlyabls to
rite Two hours Il day myself, aud
the rest is done by dic,aiion. ]
read bu, lhtle myself, but glance
through ,hcaexchanges, ~ order 40
give AN idea oi things, having imn
.yupiant articlcsrcad out loud To me.
| nave no time tnr cNcreisc, andLlo
,fot care fi' riding, AL the eXerG Sc
| get being in walking ia apdiiro
tram rhe otfre!' al A.sMuoploi
al the literary pr"dnctlvencospi
som" Of the most rilliant add
steady wrjI crsii ior rhe press, May
add, that john Hay ouly writes two
hours tt day, usually ih-fiic i'i,cr,
ftodn, though his iavorjo tiua of
compysilppu in beIure ifcak;ast.
tIltr writes rafldIy, BAT lis jid,yl
AVERAGE is' nuly one column ,o,i
Trihunc BREWER. ihe olucl n,uo
her, o. tlA Triblra4~latr-lla llaS,uui,
Noah, Br oks, bromley uy. Iana
tdun-do about The same ihe
kavrragc amount written by the
sIatl OF the fines - ahoud.lhc samn.
Two of the hardest i,Irrnrv work
cr> IN AmtricT, are Edward Evrrat
Hale aud James Parton. Yet thp
tormer is at his desk hut three
hours each day, aud always insists
on having nine hours SlesI. which
is the same amount that Pres dent
! Grant ,rvquirs. whiie MF Parton
calls his daily work four hours
composition and three hours re
search, or about seven in all, and
never exceeds this limit. New
York Independent.
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