Morning Star

Editorial Troubles.—The following disclosures of an editor's troubles are from an English paper. If the author has disclosed all his troubles, or even the hundredth part of them, he must have been a singularly fortunate man, and must have lived in other times. An editor—but it won't do, somebody will suspect us of intentions upon them.

"An editor cannot step without treading on somebody's toes. If he expresses his opinion fearlessly and frankly, he is arrogant and presumptuous; if he merely states facts without comment, he dares not avow his sentiments. If he conscientiously refuses to advocate the claims of an individual to office, he is accused of personal hostility. A Jackanapes who measures off words into verse as a clerk does tape by the yard, hands him a parcel of stuff that jingles like a handful of rusty nails and a gimblet, and if the editor is not fool enough to print the nonsense—'Stop my paper, I won't patronize a man that is no better judge of poetry!' One murmurs because his paper is too literary; another, because it is not literary enough; one would have the type so small that a microscope would be indispensable in every family; another threatens to discontinue his paper unless the letters are half an inch long. In fact, every subscriber has a plan of his own for conducting a journal, and the labor of Sisyphus was recreation, when compared with that of an editor who undertakes to please all."