| Show MARK MAEK TWAIN ON EDITORS nobody except he who has tried it knows what it is to tie be an editor tt it is easy to scribble local rubbish with the fact all before you it is easy to clip selections from other papers it is easy to string out a correspondence from any locality but it is unspeakable hardship to write editorials subjects are the trouble the dreary lack of them I 1 mean every day it is drag drag drag think and worry and suffer tall all the world is a dull blank and yet the editorial columns must be filled only give the editor a subject and his work is done it Is no trouble to write it up but fancy how you would feel were you to pump your brains dry every day in the khz week w k 52 weeks iia in abe fh year leae it makes one low spirited simply to think of it the matter that each editor of a paper in america writes in the course of a year would fill from four to eight bulky volumes like this book fancy what a library an editors work would make after twenty or thirty years service yet people often marvel that dickens scott hul bulwer dumas etc have been able to produce so many books it if these authors had wrought as voluminously as newspaper editors do the result would be something to marvel at indeed how editors continue this tremendous labor this exhausting consumption of brain fiber for their work is creative and not a mere mechanical ch lay ingup of facts like reporting day after day and year after year is incomprehensible preachers take two months holiday in midsummer tor for they find that to produce two sermons a week is wearing in the long run ran in truth it must be bb and is so and therefore how an editor can take from ten to twenty texts and build upon them from ten to twenty painstaking pains taking editorials a week and keep it up all the year around is farther beyond comprehension than ever ever since I 1 survived my week as editor I 1 have found at least one pleasure in any newspaper that comes to my hand it Is in admiring the long columns of editorials and wondering to myself how bow in the mischief he did it roughing it |
