The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-20
The ..Editorisis'' or the Broo.vilIe Times

EDITORS JoURNAL:-WOuid you please
give room in your paper for The fellow
ing?
10 the Brookville Times, March 18th,
there is All article headed, "Tbe Swede
newspaper in Salina." May be you
have read ii, presume the editor him
self has written II, because it is Just like
his remarkable editorials Two or three
of which had the admirable patience
to pcruse, when the paper made its first
appearance. That editor seems 10 be
the Sth wonder of the world. He GER
tainIy has that opinion: "To write so
that people can understand il, is some
thing very common, but to write SO that
nobody Gun understand it, that is what
makes an editor remarkable" 1 think
when he sits down in his editorial char
10 " lite one Of his editorials" he will
first think, think, and think, as much he
is able to think, when he then Gas always
will happen), finds nothing to begin
with, no will take the cyclopedia, and
the first word he finds there Inc will take
hold of, and commence to write some
thing about it. Ii he should not under
stand tho meaning Of the word he has
thus found (Which of course Is always
the case), that does not amount to any
thing, however, but Is something must
be said, he only writes, and writes, no
matter how. If he, for instance, should
happen to find the word Ephesus, or
Atlas, or Elysium, or something of that
kind, he vii. think it to be flower, and
commence to compare 1t witt. the sun
flowers OF Brookville, or he will fancy
it to be an animal, and he will compare
It with the antelopes OF the BrookviIlian
bluffs, perhaps imagine it to be every
thiag, but never what it IS, and SO he
will speak about it a good deal. His
next doing vii: be TO look how be might
como to the point, and say something
about what the editorial IS 10 be
written about He never will find any
onnection, but that Che thinks makes
no difference; that will be q surprise TO
tho reader; and on he goes. Mark
Twain sometimes surprises, but the
Brookvilio cditor is still more surpris.
ing. From piece of pie he will jump
over to the Atlantic Ocean, and from
Medusa's terrible head he will come TO
tho schOol.house of Salina. Nothing IL
impossible for this big editor. In his
above. named editorial" he goes over
from heavy rain to o Hindoo widow,
then to a trial and TO hunting an,elopes
in Drookville, and 40 directly to the
Swedish paper Of Salina. Sometimes
his thoughts are beneath the sea, come
times above the skies, sometimes with
the Egyptian grasshoPpers, and some
times 1000 years in the future, but never
where they ought to be. HIS "edi,ori,
ais are the same thing to read, as i.
would be To eat, if you would mix up
meat, potatoes, apples, whisky, mustard,
eygs, and a Thousand different kinds OF
provision And So he sometimes will
make a feeble effort to be witty. VIA,
an editor. Like most of crazy people,
he fancies himself to be everything ana
know everything. Sometimes be Is
John Styx. sometimes he is the coach,
man OF King Observation-Disclosures; some
times the boo,blacker Of Jupiter, and
sometimes Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court OF the United States I'm Washing
ton, DO; and sli languages he farcies
himself 10 know, especially the Mceo.
potamic and the Chinese, being hlm.ei.
the son of the Gun and the cousin Of he
moon. | pity him very much, and |
hope the saT sun that shines Over the
sunflowers wDen the Brcokviliians hunt {
aptelopes will send some of its ra :
into his brain and enIigbten The chaos f.
a little. As for learning the Swedish
Language, | would like 10 send him e.
Sweden to the children's .c DOL; there
he would learn To- speak the Swedish
language and good deaf besides. One /
thing OF the many he ran never under
stand is how small children can be able
to speak their native language. would
say much more about him, but have
no time to spare for such foolish sub 3
ject. l would give him piece of good
advice, and that is, to quit the editorial .
business and commence hunting, a tu-i
ness that seems TO interest him very
much, and in which he has some expcrl
ence from last fall, when the BrookriI (
lian hunters made him sit down, in the
long cold nights, in deep ditch in the
prairie several miles from Brookri!!e,
with sack in bis hands and lamp q,
his side, watching for birds. Poor
editor. As for the editorial" above
named, there Is the same idea about il
- about himself. I catch the idea.
There il nothjnv in II SWEDE