Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-30

DR.. j. Il. Holland. in the April number
Of ScriJner's Monthly, thus refers to one
eli. Of editorial trials:
We have alluded to the editors trials
the strain upon his sympathies. Suppose
We present few of them. A young man
with little experience of life. high ambi-
tons, great expectations, thorough indus
try, sends a manuscript, and accompanies it
with letter. in which he says that all the
hopes of his ife are hanging on the fate Of
his paper that the editor has destiny in
his hands-that the writer is waiting to
hear his fate, ETC., etc. A woman writes
that the living of herself and her children,
who have been left without protector and
provider, depends upon the editor decision,
and that if her manuscript is not accepted,
she and her little ones must become beggars.
A young girl Just from school, wishes
to earn her own living, and relieve
father who has failed in business.
Another girl desires bravely to educate her
brothers and sisters, who have been left
without the requisite means. A woman is
possessed by an oyermastering desire to dc
good with her pen. Hundreds write tina.
they are poor, and that they have no recourse
but their power to write. To a man who
carries heart, such appeals are painful
beyond expression. lie has no right to yield
the slightest consideration to them and he
must not do it. They have no right to dis
tress him in this way, but they do not know
that. Alter all. the mistake of the novice
begins in his incompetent idea of literature.
No man thinks OF putting his first picture
in the exhibition /; but the moment II man
begins to write. he wants to print, forget
ting that there is no AIT that demands more
study and practice than the literary, and
that he has no special training for it.
Here is case in point. A lady writes US:
To the Editor of the Free Press and Times
--, March Goth 1877.
viii you please to inspect these Verses
and ii they are passable Will you use them
for your Weekley Paper, my object is. if
meet with Success. to compose more enough
to pay for the Free Press six months foI my
time Is out it You will except them, pleaso
do am so anxious for the Weekley Paper
And 1t you do not care for them perhaps
you can tell me where can send them to
meet with success Sufficient to pay for Free
Press and if they are not passable Just destroy
them but | would DO so pleased if You
would except those and more" -
Tho lines accompanying this note. are as
follows:
MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD.
Oh how oft In childhood sunny hours
As We rOamed DER rock and shore
Gathering moss buds and flowers
And stones to deck our play house nlor
Home we trudgc along the pasture
Stopping now and then to chatt
Arms aprons piled with treasures
T1ard and weary down We sat
Wreathes we made OF duds and berries
Twined them in each Others hair
With our hearts so light and merry
For we children had no care
Hark think some one is calling
Tbs our parents on the Beech
Happy children pulling boiling
Just at sun set home reach
We print these to obligc tho writer; but
VIC must say to her. and to others who send
US their first ventures in rhyme. that We
really cannot afford to pay for such poetry.
In fact. We do not pay anything for poetry.
from any source and for much that is sent
US. VIC cannot even find spacc-for we can
ill the space with better matter. And We
do not know where such verses will find q
cash market.