The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-11-28
AS BUSY AS A BEE.
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 Many people doubtless sometimes en- " the lot of country editor when they see him seated in his sanctum reading over exchanges or daShing of vigorous bas,le,' Victory perches on our ban. neTs"" No uncertain sound" Rank and tile Democracy or Republicanism, as the case may be-with other equally original and striking sentences, or when they behold him and his wife and moth er-in-law at circuSes, lectures and vaTi- ous places of entertainment, and rsaect that he is dead-head," while they have to "put up !" the price of admission.
 There is a sort of undefned reverence in the minds of grangers and truly rural villagers towards the printing office, especially if 1t be one of any con- siderable magnitude and presentions and the paper publishes the tax.list. And if the editor wears good clothes, a gold watch and plug hat, there is nothing within the gift of that people he may not aspire to.
 But there are always two sides to pic ture there is no rose without thorn i; all is not gold that glitters. (it is unnec. essary to quote these sayings-of course they are not claimed as originally No business or profession, perhaps, requires more unremitting care and attention to make it successful than that of publisiug a newspaper. To illustrate this, we copy rom the Stoughton (Wis HS6 what its editor had to say about the way his time IS occupied:
 Here IS what we have done all the season and expect to do hereafter: |: Break one colt every month, feed one pig, curry and care for one span of horses, saw a cord of wo I'd per month, hoe our garden, cut the weeds around our house, be carpenter and joiner, run etrands, and t the part of general chore boy. In the office ee run the job pre's and steam en- g,ne ten hours every day, saw all the @ocd fc. the furnace, and make about I 2 900 impressions per day. B,tween SIX clock p m and midnight we read proof, which includes proof for jobs as we'll as paper, furnish twenty. four col umns of reading matter every week for the HE6 and what few moments we find occasionally we put in on the study of shorthand. We are willing to make af- hdAvit as to the correctness of the above, in case you don believe it. We put in the longest days and do as much work as any farmer in Dane county, besides h avlng to appear bright and pleasant to at least 900 of our re sders every week
 | Thus seems to be an exceptional case and, If correct in all its details, spokes, or rather speaks. we'll for the untiring en- eTgy ot the Hn6 man, but not for his good judgment. A cheap boy, or even two cneap boys, could be very pro6tably en- ployed, and sttll leave enough and uAore than enough work for one able bodied man. No objections are raised 10 break ing one colt per month. If done in a christian aud Henry Bergh spirit, the daily half hours interview with the young equine doubtless proves a good exercise and splendid discipline for both man and beast Feeding the pig and currying the horses might, it seems, be proitably and appropriately turned over to boy or hired man. About the saw ing of cord of wood per month-that is heartily endorsed. It is good, clean, health giving exercise, and no editor or other literary man can do justice to his readers or himself unless his bodily health is good. Many men exercise with dumb bells, Indian clubs and various other ap- pliances, but nothing is superior. we are convinced by actual experience, to saving wood. Given a saw in good order, saw buck of the right height, and straight, well-seasoned maple or beech wood, and there is pleasure and satisfaction iu saw ing it up that canno, be we'll described That is. of course, If you are feeling well yourself. Every time you bear down on q eO h " and can fairly feel your muscles growing hard, accomplishing several things at once
 And then what an agreeable change it is to take up duis axe and sP.;; ;se wood you nave sawed With what vigor you slash away, and what an appetite you have for breakfast Try it, ye dys- peptics. If you have no wood of your own to saw and split. hunt around and find some deserving widow who has. | It is unnecessary 10 review in detail all the many different kinds Of work this Stoughton editor ~ho is evidently no Stough,on bottle) does. It goes wahou, saying ;hs; hc is .e:Y hs.d~c.king and indns'rious man-more SO. perhaps than is really pece.s4ry; for he should remem her that "All work and no play makes lack dull boy" He must h ave cast. iron constitution and boiler-plate by laws to stand SO much work He must neces- sarily be up with the lark and also burn considerable midnight kerosene Aodto think that amid all his muitifArious du ties he finds time to study shorthand, is indeed remarkable. The closing para graph is rot the least wonderful state ment m sde- that he has to appear bright and pleasant to at least 5 900 of his read CTS. Does he mean that ne sees and con- verses each week with that many of his su 5scribers2 That can hardly be; prob aoly a year is meant. Even that IS bad enough an average of nearly fourteen day, Sundays included Whatever is meant, the mere fact of having to appear