Show TRIALS or OF AN AIT EDITOR the trials and tribulations of the average crage M editor of a country newspaper are almost beyond comprehension says the malad Enter enterpriser prim it has never been known that lie ever did anything just exactly as it should have been lee done his opinions often incur more displease uro and annoyance to lo the square inch than an cru eruption eption of tho largest volcano or an earthquake shock if in attempting to make a truthful statement of things thing moral religious ligi ous political or otherwise lie he wounds the sensitive feeling of a filow citizen that same came fellow citizen regardless of his own better judgment pounces down upon the unsuspecting quill driver in a manner that do does yar net licit bespeak any delicacy regarding his hia personal appearance or his intellectual capacity should he be through ignorance 0 fail to chronicle the fact that jack fergusen bergmen Ferg uses is is visiting ling his hia sister sitar sarah or that peter anderson departed for his home in the fiji islands he causes an enmity to spring up that lasts forever they figure on the same Trin principle ciple as aa the j judge on the bench that ignorance of the fact cannot be excused and therefore ther eforo you you are ro a old lien they seem beem to have baye the delu deluded deli idea that an editor is a sort of blet onist an and d ought to know instinctively that lie he she it or tile they were corning coming into town or going out of it others again pay th their el r subscription subscript ien for a year the y year ear ends the paper is continued through h courtesy to thesus alie subscribers ser bers ibers thinking of course that if the paper was not giving satisfaction they would notify the editor to atol it after fro from M 4 three months to five years he receives the pleasing intelligence through 0 the mails that such euch and such a party refuses to take the paper from tile the post office no reason assigned farther than a refusal lie ile sends a bill which is ignored he sends another with tho samo same result aud and that ends the matter if he be is a democrat the republicans try to blacken his ili reputation citation and if a republican it is is vice vice versa should the populist populists lists rin min liis his support both democrats and republicans Republic anis try to down him hill and should fate decree that he be falls in with the farmers alliance he hag got to stand off the whole trio verily an all editor has 1 11 I picnic when lie he manages to flounder out of the soup there is borne one ready to kick him into the fire it is is very seldom that one dies from natural causes and nearly dearly all go to heaven we venture the assertion that you will find many a credit jill mark rk on the great book up there that was never recorded record cil on oil earth the rho newspaper is a kind of charitable institution that works for the love of mankind the editor suf fars untold tela agonies as did lie ho who died en an calvary for the cause of those who know not what they do and care less |