Show editors experiences I we ive are told that one morning dean swifts housekeeper called him thinking that he lie was over 11 sleeping leeping himself when he remarked that he be was lying in bed tb thinking inking of wit fur the day Shevi dans bright brightest cst saying sayings were always carefully bulf elaborated before he lie went into company washington irving de Qui quincy licy and the poet wordsworth com composed ased aa as they lei leisurely walked in in we the green fields rambled over sunny slopes or sat quietly under shade trees thomas moore ale ore wrote on an average only eight lines lilies a dagand day and longfellow although quite a prolific writer is known to have been very blow slow emerson did not average more than one essay s ay a year and his lii finest thoughts bear marks of having been coined over a dozen times or more before ho lie allowed them to go into circulation buethe but the editor of a daily paper ha no green fields or sylvan glades s to air his thoughts though tF has no time tu bro browse and slid pasture in fat fait libraries and roll up to his eyes in literary clover making honey at his leisure ili in the bun saitie and breezy shade his ilis library if he is lucky enough to have one is principally a huge collection of congressional Ite report ports reports on oil agriculture na navigation a mineralogy census reports rel or ts presidential messages and documents diplomatic correspondence and a wagon load of exchange good bad and indifferent and amid the careless stream of comers and goers the creak of machinery and the rattle of drays and wagons under hia his window he lie roust must put himself into a state of abstraction and from this sahara bedlam chaos and confusion worse confounded pr produce 0 duce a leader he ile has no ni time to wait for lucid intervals inspirational moods but muston must on th the e spur odthe of the moment though his mental apparatus be as dry as an old sun warped pump in dog days turn the crank and grind out the regular regula r grist and it must bo be superfine at that in order to find a ra respectable market what cau can he do in the way trimmin trimming or smoothing into shapo a rather luxuriant or awkward sentence with fidgety printers calling for copy he must work by the clock W were re a sawmill flour mill or any other kind of mill to get out of repair it is nobody nob odys ii basiner bu siner ss but the owners and they can taye take all the time they want to get it into running order calculate the loss and profit and g go D ahead and the world is none the wiser men and women in the pass passenger eDger depot all in a big hurry will while away the time reading the railroad bills ho tel bills P all sorts of bills posters and placards half a dozen times over and good excuse the belated train to another with the expression train behind time but newspaper work must be done at the mor moment nent and there is no excuse nor apology for delay admissible it will never do for the paper to bo be behind time As well expect the sun to cease shining or tho the earth to astop edg on her abias a daily paper raper to fl fail ail in promptly furnishing six ais days in in seven a good bill of fare for its readers at time tima EO far aa as the editor is concerned everything is lovely there i is i a windfall of sens matterand matter and a superabundance of suggestive themes on oil hand land but as a general rule ho be must mako make bricks without straw and they bo be good bricks at that but under all these disabilities editors manage to get alo along n g very plem pleasantly antly for shielded u under the popular assumption of oracular and omniscience ni they tako take the liberty of meddling with pretty much everything that is going on trying to regulate congress and the legislature correct the morals of tho the community instruct the young castigate the old give lee lec turea tures to young married people on the art of housekeeping and the way to bring up their inga ing a lance occasionally with a brother editor and then set up fo for r critics und and amateur amateurs antiquarians and cogno cognoscenti menti and consequently have enough to keep t the to temper awa away and tl then no good editor ever thinks of doing 0 so o ignoble a thin thing as writing for fame lame for they know too well how fickle and uncertain public opinion is to build any permanent hope upon it they have not the slightest doubt that most of the tho paper with their precious rep thoughts will be 10 us used d to wrap salt and nail une underlay terlaN car pets kindle or ga go into the wastebasket waste basket and hence they learn to be satisfied when they please plean themselves |