The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-02-07
The Editors Pleasures(?)

The editor of today has to get his nose down TO
the grind stone and keep it there sixteen hours per
day and 385 days in the year, or he falls by the way
side There are men who quit work Saturday night
and rest until Monday morning. They lay ASIDE
business cares at five six O'Clock every evening
and do not resume them until seven eight the next
morning Not so with your editor. He has no ele-
CANT leisure He knows hours no Sundays, no
night When he goes to party, or to church, or on
an alleged pleasure trip, it is all in the line of duty
Wtha your editor man is a cheerful, long-sufering
soul going about doing good in his humble way.
He returns good for evil. He writes long puhs OF
church sociables and in return therefor, accepts
chunk of cake that would sink an iron.cad. He
notes the arrival of all the babies in his neighbor
hood and eternaly periures his soul in telling how
pretty they are He rejoices with the gay and
mourns with those who sad. He booms every
enterprise which makes his community rich and goes
about himself clothed in gunny sack coats and one
suspender. He gores the fortune of his neigh
bor and meeky eats his own repast of boiled corn
cobs and coored labels off tomato He is ex-
pected to write a sermon, account of prize ight
political speech, an obituary notice. poetry, split
wood, pitch hay wash dishes, preside at camp
meeting, curry horses quote law or gospel, or any
thing else at a moments notice.
He is dam'd if he does, and dam d if he don't.
kind soul will come along and say, Pease don't put
it in the paper about my boy getting in trouble
and the next man will say, 'You don't print any
news; Pm going to stop the paper" Some men, the
editor sits up nights boost in politics, when they
get office the first to say, "The Internal editor
ought to be in the penitentiary.' One sweet and
good lady will say, ''Please put in your paper about
the card party at my home last night And another
sweet and good lady will say, 81 won't have the pa
per come to my home If it has about card parties in
it,. An editor spends two hours writing up we'd
ding reception and if he leaves out one present re-
ceived or miss-spes out-of-town visitors name,
he is a block head, and his paper never was any ac-
count. Some readers want the whole paper made up
of society events and local visitations they can t
see why in the world so much space is taken up with
farm talk and country correspondence. The out-of-
town reader wants columns farm talk and country
correspondence, and not much of that Sllly town
stuff
a substantial subscriber will say that the editor
ought to 'iust give the saloons blast every week. "
and another substantial subscriber will say, Lets
have more news and not so much temperance" A
kind soul will burst out and pass the editor juicy
paper ever published in this county" and just then
that reads like this, "There is not newspaper in
town worth shucks.'
What happy medium tile editor must be, spread
ing save here and lodging club there but always
keeping this motto before him:
'There is much good in the worst of us,
There is so much bad in the best of us,
That it is hardly right for any of u.s.
TO talk about the rest of u.s..