Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-01-15
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| was constrained to stop and join them
for verify were they not going TO open
a keg OF nails and cut melon7 Happy
innocent, guileless men, these editors /!
How little they know of the world and
its sordid cares; how little they know o
its wrangling strifes and It's noisy wars
how little they see of its irrsdeemabls
and fuctuating currencies; how sublime
ly. magniacently seldom do they light
upon the combination OF its safe lock.
All. men Of busy, heartless, money
getting world, editors have no money.
We have something better. We have
calm, unmoved and unmovable. sleep
Ing consciences, that ysu couldn't
quicken with a stroke Of lightning.
What a priceless treasure is such con-
science! Journalism is the profession
without Jealousy. don't believe there
ia a profession in the world 80 free
from jealousy as this. Look at musical
people. They are the worst in the lot.
Music hath charms to seeth savage,
but it has no power to tame the ferociiv
of people who play, and sing. and teaeh
it. An opera company, without black
eve, IS an unheard.of wonder. All
through the opera season the frightened
air is full of the lsud wranglings OF
warring tenor and soprano, contralto
and basso. Every mail brings 70 our
ears the crash Of another foststooi
Christine Nilsson has kicked over. And
a church choir-Shy, never knew eut
one choir that didn't have chronic row
on its hands dating back as tar as the
tariff bill. and more complicated than
the louisiana investigation. And that
one broke up the first Sunday. Que ot
the first Indications Of revival In tie
church is when the soprano aud alto get
on speakiny terms with each other.
And at a musical t stival, did you ever
no.ice how the chorus stood back and
glared at the solo. IL is awful. But
". th US there is none of that feeling.
We love each other. And when,ln the
course oil our political duties as standard
bearers, we feel constrained TO call an
esteemed contemporary a 'measureless
liar, he knows We mean business ana
if lie is man who will get mad At
little trivial thing like that, he comes
over with club and mashes US. ana
that is the end oft. We may have oc-
casion to denounce him, in the heat
aud passion of the conflict, as moral
hytna. whose foul aud fostering chols
drip gall and aquafortis, mccker and
destroyer Of the truth, upon whose VIZ
cious lips the dear pure truth it ever IL
could spring from heart so blackened
and stained with crime. turns to ashes
and bitterness before it can be uttered
We may feel il our duty to call an es'
teemed contemporary a''paltering sIsys
to rins of petty tyrants. ian unpr:n'
c,pled scoundrel, whose groyelliag car
cass. wallowing IN the cessposl OF polit'
icaI corruption, stepped 10 his thievish
eyes in abhorrent partisan lniamy, pur'
sues its nefarious traffic to the very shad-
oy OF the mocklng gallows 1t has cheat
ed 40 long" Meget mad at th'te
things sometimes, dreadful mad, awful
mad. But We get over it, especially il
the stser man IS the biggest.
When the jealousy OF Union generals
was bringing disgrace and deisaton tic
Unlsn arms in Virginia. the newspale er
correspondents hung together and carri-
ed on the war aud won victories ala
slaughtered rebels BY the column
Iouble-leaded BREWER. People love 70
for this unselfishness. Our tranquil
lives imprint upon our faces the bsautl'
ful and tender expression which people
always remember So after they meet an
editor aud which makes them 20 home
shuddering. to dream that eve'y night
they met man who had starved TO
death and had crawled oul OF bis grave
to steal pretzel and couldn't End his
way back. We eat we'll, and We don't
care at whsse expense; We dress wen
we sleep we'll. aud we drink-wsli, only
tolerable, only tolerable.