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Show A TRUE BILL. In ils ever readable "Sunday j gossip," the Omaha Herald truly describes the onerous duties, cares and responsibilities of editorial life in ! second and third class cities, compared j with those which attach to journalists J of the great cities. A thousand man-j man-j aging editors will recognize the truth I of the picture. Ilrnay be said with truth, that there . is scarcely any subject which is more ! fruitful of ordinary go-sip of society, j the latest style of ladies' hats and cut and color of tho latest baby alone es-; es-; cepted, as the newspaper. No single topic is more proimc 01 wisdom in those, who criticise and condemn, and no theme receives more constant handling hand-ling upon the busy tongues of the reading classes. Tho individuals that belong to tho gossiping category, who, in their own conceit, cannot extinguish both tho sins of omission and commission commis-sion on the part of the newspaper, it is something of a novelty to meet This is true especially of village papers in the United States, like our own. Few of the claws to which we are referring would claim that they could itrmrovc the metropolitan journals that do so much to educate, control and honor our race and country, and yet it is not much doubted by tho writer lhat it requires more real judgment and labor, if not more of what tho wotld calls ability, to conduct a daily paper which is worthy of tho name in a small town liko Omaha, than it does to conduct a daily paper in a largo town like Chicago or .New York. In the former, the work is that of a single individual, whereas the latter is that of a small army of individual?. In the one case organization and system sys-tem is impossible, whereas in the other it is not only possible but necessary. The editor of the Tribune and Rrpub' Ikan, lor example, writes more editorial editor-ial matter in one week than tho leading writers do on metropolitan journals in two. But this is tho smallest part of his labor. Besides, ho supervises, selects, reads "proof," decides all r.nfsiions that relate to a thousand and one nameless things, small in themselves, them-selves, and yet important, duties that can be assigned to no other, and to : this is added the hinder of being un- I ceasiugly bored by those who consider the editor public property, and who, . with instinctive care, make it a point to intrude upon him in those hours in which he has to perform his most arduous labors, or not perform them at all. For "typos," like time, wait for no man, and the call for "copy" is like that of Death itself, merciless and inexorablo. Want of space ibrbids that we should say more upoa a topic to which we take as naturally as a duck does to Wiiler, as U. S. G. docs to present?, or as Mr. David Butler and Boss Tweed do to other people's money. |