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Show THE IDEAL EDITOR. Did you ever stop to think of Just how much you expect of the editor? Frequently the "Ideal" editor Is compared com-pared with the man who happens to preside over y our ow n local publication, but dear friends your "ideal" editor is like the flower that never withers, the bird that never alights, the land where sunlight never fades It only exists In the Imagination of the sucker whom we are told the elements consume. con-sume. Writing from the standpoint of one whohas seen editorial service on various papers over these United States you know he is expected ex-pected to publish a paper chuck full of news whether anything happens or not. His Judicial mind must be far superior to the district Judge and give him pointers In Instructing In-structing the Jury. He must discourse with equal fluency upon the silver and trust questions, Farmer Jones' Jersey calf, China painting, and Poland-China Poland-China pigs, preserved peaches and the pcrscv cranio of saints, foreign vvais and local strikes, justifications by faith and Justifications by type, thcdoctilneof election, the election returns, the doing of the last synod and the details of the prize fights. The lecelpts of church socials and the squablc In the town council must be equally familial to the vcisatllc mind. With all this he must wait on the delinquent subscribers, discount the bill of the patent medicine fakes, stand off his wash bill, always go well dressed, pay his printer every Saturday Satur-day night, whether a cent had coi'jo In or not; write free puffs, teach the city administration how to run tho city; never ask for honois, but help others get them, boom the local statesman who owes him three years' subscription In short be all things to all men, make no mistake in dates, take the cusslngs of the community and never cuss back. This Is the Ideal editor, and his paper is a daisy. We never saw one. |