Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-01-09
The Editors.

The editors OF Indiana had grand reun-
ion at Lafayette. the other day and | was
constrained To stop aud join them. for YER
lily were they not going to open ke. of
nails and cut melon? Happy. innocent,
gullelcsS men, these editors, How little
they know OF the world and its sordd
cares; how little they know Of it, wrang-
ling striies and its noisy wars; E.; how little
they see OF It's irredeemable aud fuctuating
currcncies; how sublimcly. maguiti Gently
seldom do they light upon the combination
OF IL safe lock. An, men of busy. heart
less. money getting world. editors have no
money. We have something better We
have calm. uumoved and uumovable. sleep
ing con>ciences. that you couldn't quicken
with stroke OF lightning. What price
less treasure is such conscience Jour
nalism j the profession without jealousy
| don't believe there Is a profession in the
word 50 free from jealousy a this. Look
at musical people. They are the worst in
the lot. Music hath charms To sooth A saw
age, but II has no power To- tame the feroc-
ity OF people who play, and Sing. and teach
II. An opera company, without black
eye. j. an unheard of wonder All through
the opera season the frightened air i tul!
OF the ioud wranglings OF warning tenor
and soprano. contralto and basso Every
q
footStopl Christine Nilsson has kicked over.
And church choir-why. never knew
bat one choir that didn't have d chronic
row on It. hands dating back as far a. the
tarif b'll. and more complicated than the
Louisiana investigation. And that one
broke up the first Sunday. One of the first
indications OF revival in the church i
when the soprano aud alto get on speaking
terms with each other. And at a musical
festival. did YOU ever notice how the cho-
rus stood back and glared 1T the solo: It
i awful. But with Us there j. none of that
feeling. We love each other. And when,
in The course OF our political duties a.
standard bearers. We feel cou..rainrd To
call an esteemed contemporary meas
urclc~~ liar, he knows we mean business.
and II he l. a man who will get mad ~
lttir trivial thing ike that he comes over
with club and mashes u. and that i the
end OF u. We may have occasion tn de-
u"uncr hin, in the heat aud passion nr the
coutlct, as moral hyena whose ruul
aud ir-tering chops drip gall and aquaiur-
u, tnuCker and destroyer Of the truth
upon whose vicious lips the dear purc
truth. II ever il could spring from a heart
80 blacAenrl and stained with crime turns
70 ashes and bitterness before il can b. IT.
tered We may ieel it our duty "a call an
eN'ttmtu contemporary "paltering slave
10 ring Of petty tyrants, IAN unprincl-
pied scoundrel, whose grovelliug carcass.
wallowin2 In The cesspool OF political cor
ruptton, stepped to his thieyi-h eyes IN ab-
horent partisan lniamy, pursues its nefar-
Ous traffic 70 the very shadow OF the mock
Ing gall "s il has cheated too long" We
get mad al these things sometimes. dread
fui mad, awful mad. But ". get over H.
especially II the other man Is the biggest
When the Jealousy OF Union general,
was bringing disgrace and defeat on the
Union arm, in Virginia. the newspaper
correspondents hung together and carried
on the war and won victories and .laught-
cred rebels by the column-double-lead
BREWER. People love Us for this un>clt>h-
ness. Our Tranquil lives imprint upon our
faces the beautiful and tender expression
which people always remember so long
after they meet an editor. and which makes
them 20 home shuddering, TO dream that
every night they met a man who had
starved to death. and had crawled out OF
his grave TO steal a pretzel and couldn't
find his way back We eat. well. and We
don't care at whose expense; We dress
well, we sleep well, and we drink-well.
only tolerable, only tolerable Hue keye.