Show EDITING A NEWSPAPER editing a newspaper is a pleas ant business if you can stand it if it contains con taina many advertisements the subscribers complain that they take too much space if there is a lack of advertising it is unpopular and the people wont have it if wo we attend church regularly they say we go for effect if we stay away from church they say we arel monstrously heathenish at if we accept an invitation to a wedding they say we were only invited to write it up if we go to the opera house they say we go on a fret free ticket if we are seen upon the street too often they say we neglect our business if we avoid going on the street they say we dont hustle around after the news if we reject a long winded communication muni cation its author becomes furiously enraged and discontinues his paper if we publish lengthy communications our readers say we lack discretion and put in anything to fill up if we neglect to decorate our office on Washing birthday they say we lack enterprise and that there is not a drop of patriotic blood in our veins if we swell out in a new suit of cothes clo and celebrate groundhog day they say that we get our clothes on tick or advertising and that we are by far too fop 1 if we sometimes perpetrate a joke or make a stagger at a poor little they say we are exceedingly cee light and wont do it if we omit jokes they say we are miserable old fossils if we publish a man who has brought disgrace upon his family the friends or relatives of the family never forgive us if we out of goodness of heart decline to say anything about it the mants mana enemies are disappointed and we are branded as a white livered coward we are able to stand these raps rap and many more and are always ready to receive visitors whether accompanied by a dog or not of there I 1 is s course we do not claim any work in running a paper every one knows it is a snap exchange |