THE TROUBLES OF AN EDITOR. (From the Danbury News )

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 393, 19 November 1874, Page 2

THE TROUBLES OF AN EDITOR. (From the Danbury News )

The sensations of an editor on first glancing over his paper and detecting errors in it are so newlmt different from those experienced by the wader on making like discoveries. The latter is oitlicr amused at the blunder or incensed at the carelessness which causes it, and in both eases arrives at the con el us on that the error is avoidable, and that tlio editor is to blame, for not avoiding it. 110 never saw an editor take his first glance over a copy of the edition. Perhaps the edition ia worked off when this opportunity is offered the weary man. He huh either trusted the prools to some one else, or read them himself, but the feeling of dread is just as Croat in *he latter as in the- former cn-e. The proof- ro ider may not have consulted the copy, and so perpetuated the blunders of the compositor, who again may neglect to undo the wrong he has done, although his attention is plainly called to it on the proof. When about to make his preparatory survey, the. editor does not take a cigar in Ins mouth and elevate his heels to the desk, as is the popular tradition. Dying men do rot do that way, you know, and wo have come to the. conclusion that an editor examining his paper feels very much hko a uiivn who ia about to pass into eternity. He read 3 along oar j lullv and slowly like a man feeling Ins way along a pi<oe of doubtful ice. Suddi nly his face becomes "distorted with a dreadful pain. He doesn't cry out, he doesn't, run : the anguish within him is so broad, deep, and intense, that he dares not trust it to words. He ju>t simply reaches up and take-* a hanltul ot Ins owu hi<r an I tugs at it until the tears come in his eyes. x,ie ho tauotho paper, which ha has taken the jirowr.t.on to kietc atrov» the room on discovering the error, an r-s-i .-s im iorir.ring search ; for, after all, it is i "i -i sparpli lor errors and agony, and not an agreeable and instructive perusal. Suddenly hi» groans — not an expected groan, but like one bayond the reach of hope, who feels that the warm sunshine, the kind glance of friendship, the beautiful floweis, and songs of the birds, are gone for ever and for ever from him It is a smothered groan, accompanied by a kick out of the legs, as if the purt) had at that moment taken an eternal leave of all things earthly. There is still another search with aching eyes and Ihrobbin» brain, and then the now paper is smashed down upon the floor, and the infuriated man bounds np from his chair, and dances round like a madman. He doesn't call on heaven find earth to witnet-s what he is going to d<>, and to blight him if he should not do it. He doesn't tiiisli into the composing-room nnd scorch the man with bis wrath. Eren this slight relief is denied him. The paper is worked off, and the scrutiny that would cheerfully attack a needle in a hnystnek would* full paralysed bolo>-e a search for tl.e author of the great wrong. He doesn't sec anything at all | — not a single intelligible word escapes hu ashen lips, as heholds hie hair, and prancps about in the dingy solitude of his room. And when he is done he sits down and groans, and afterwards puts on his hat nnd rushes forth into the street, rushes anywhere to get away from the face of man, to get away from himself, and everything belonging to him-.-elf.

It is to the credit of Milwaukee that only four ruen looked at the jiralic without remarking that it would be ( nice to liavo that tlnoat — one could taste Ins drink so long. " MotluT," said Ike Parcmntun, "do you know that the • iron horse ' has bul ono car ? " " O.ie i-ar ! Merciful gracious, child, w liat do you mean ?" " Why, the engine-eer of courst 1 ." The othrr day a Missouri lawyer, pleading in ono of the courln, s.iid : — ' If this jury convicts ray client, I shall bj compelled to interview each of the members, and batooier [ justice into his »oul."