VARIETIES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3957, 3 September 1881, Page 4

VARIETIES.

There are people wbothibk it an easy matter to edit a newspaper, there :are those who think any man of education can, snc,ceed in the profession. But the truth is, there are comparatively few men who'succeed in it, and for the reason that they do not regard it as a profession 1 requiring study arid preparation. • It is also" a laborious profession when pursued',with industry sufficient to ensure, su'ec'ess. The Boston Post furnishes a paragraph which gives a great deal of truth in a few lines :—" A good editor, a competent newspaper conductor, is, like a general or poet, born not made. On the London daily, papers, all the great historians,'novelists, poets, essayists,' and ' writers of' travels ' bave been tried, arid nearly' all' have failed. We might Say(all, for, after a display'of brilliancy, brief, but grand, they died out literally. Their resonrqes were ©xtfajiatedX I^l^^of the Times, to Moore, " find any number of men. of genjuSita-write.for me, b. ut;very seldom one 'of 'common, .sense." The " Thunderers " in,.the .Times,,|therefor,e have, J6o fa'i? as Li we kfioWr been' men of common sense. * :J^e»t|jy all | successful editors have been men of this description.

Campbell, CaflylK ?B,ul^r, and Disraeli failed; Barnes, Stellmg, and Phillips succeeded. ■ <A. good editor, seldom writes for ?& "paper^'he. heads', '-.judges/: selects, dictates, alters and combines ; and to; do all this well, he has but little time for composition Tf write;for a.pape? is one thiug, tofedit##aperls another. 1 *' '^Joshßilli*'Ks " badpublished a cook book, and pictorial proverbs as his latest contribution[to literature. Freed from their bad spelling, the following are some of hisabfsf sayings:*—" Thd'mancwfao gets bit ttflVis l^yTthe satrifc dog is 1 better adapted for that tind of business than any other. There is av-gr.eat deal of.-religion in this worjd that is like^iife preserver, only put ' on at the moment of immediate? danger; aud then half the time put on the bind side before. 1 > Experienc'eis a school where a man learns.what f- big fool he has been. The man who ditesn't believe in any hereafter has got a dreadfully mean opinion .of himself and hi^ chances. There are two "kinds of fools in this world—those.who can't change their'opinions,'and those who won't.- ;A good' doctor is' a gentleman to whom we pay, three, dollars each visit for advising us to eat less and exercise more. Out in the world men show us two sides to their. character's/ by the fireside only one. The world is filling, up, with educated fools—mankind* read too much and learn too little.. Every man has M his follies; and'oftentimes ttiey are the most interesting things?he. has got. ? We are a11.,0£,.us in.tj^e position .of .the *'Frepchr]fifi^iiw,''who'declared-'" God will think twicg.before he^condemns a man of my quality.'* All .'H . ■'■ •> This is a very jgrave question—lf Satan should- ;chosen President bf< United States how many of us. would be found entirely-worthy of his confidence ? Truth can Hardly be- expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of; worldly' affairs; for truth, like light travels only in straight lines.— Colton^.:./.-•-■;■•.'' '»';/;■ ■•;'• ; '■■'■'■■':■'•-] Cunning is not the'best; nor the worst of our qualities)'!lt floats between virtue and vice. There is scarce any exigency where its place, imay . and perhaps ought not, to be supplied by prudence.— Brayere. .-.,.--■