Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1880 — The Labor of an Editor. [ARTICLE]

The Labor of an Editor.

The London Timet, speaking of editors’ lador says it can only be appreciated by those who have had the fortune to have some experience in it The merest slip of the pen, an epithet too much, a wrong date, a name misspelt, or with a wrong initial before it, the misinterpretation or some passage, perhaps incapable of interpretation, the most trifling offense to the personal or national susceptibility of those who do not even profess to care for the feelings of others, may prove not only disagreeable, but costly mistakes; but they are about the least of the mistakes to which the editor is liable. The editor must be on the spot until the paper is sent to the press, and make decisions on which not only the approval of the public, but even great causes, may hang. He cannot husband his strength with comparative repose in the solitude of a study, or the freshness of green fields. Ho must see the world, converse with its foremost or busiest actors, be open for information, and .on guard against error. All this should be borne in mind by those who complain that journalism is not infallibly accurate, just and agreeable. The sponge divers along the Florida coast have begun to adopt an innovation that may work a great change in their business. This is the artificial propagation of sponges. It haa been round that this can be done by cutting the live sponge into small pieces, attaching them to small pieces of rode, and sinking them to proper depths in suitable locations. In three years each piece will attain a merfrataW* si a**.

IXTlien wnri * Waith do not npc a narfi. forma mem, or onuzieax. ivrmti c&piuu loou. The distemper is liable to attack dogs from four months to four years old. It prevails moat in spring and autumn. The disease is known by dullness of the *ye>. husky cough, shivering, loss of appetite and spirits, and fils. When fi* occur, th* dog will most likely die. unless veterinary suigeou is called in. Daring the distemper, dogs should be allowed to run on th* grass; their di*t should be spare; and a little sulphur be placed in their water. Chemists who dispense cattie <riedirinew can generally advise with sufficient safety upon the diseases of dogs, and it is best for unskilful peraous to abstain from physicking them. Hydrophobia ia the moat dreadftil of all diseases. I%* first symptoms ars attended by thirst, fever, and languor. The dog starts convulsively in his sleep, and when awake, though restless, is languid. Whenadog is suspected, he should be firmly chained in a place here neither children nor dogs or cats can get near him. Any <me going to attend him should wear thick leather stoves, and proceed with great caution. When a dog snaps savagely at an Imaginary object, it is almost a certain indication of madness; and when it exhibts a terror of fluids, it is confirmed hydrophobia. Some dogs exhibit a great dislike of musical sounds, and when this is the case they ar* too frequently made sport of. But is a dangerous sport, as dogs have sometimes been made mad by ft In many diseases dogs will be benefited by warm baths. The mange is a contagious disease, which is difficult to get nd of when once contracted. The way is to apply to a veterinay chemist for an ointment, and to keep applying it for some time after the disease has disappeared, or It will break out again.

Bkauty or Pxbson.—Beauty of person may at first engage admiration, in as far as it indicates beauty of soul: but can never insure the continuance of that admiration which its blase has attracted. But beauty of soul can supply every deficiency, and can act independently of every other aid. But when beauty of mina and beauty of person are united, when the accents of kindness and persuasion proceed from those lips which rival the vermillion bloom; when the rays of benevolence lighten the aspect which shines also with the beams of beauty, when the tear of compassion glistens iu those eyes which sparkle at the same time with the diamond’s lustre; when acts of condescension and humanity employ those hands which emulate “the softness of the dove’s down, and and the hue of the winter’s snow;” when a soul so beauteous is invested in a form so passing fair, every eye must admire, every mind must esteem, every heart must love. Were the cares of females steadily applied to the acquisition of these excellencies combined, how resistless would be their sway! How pure and exalted the emotions which they would inspire I

A Cbukl Hoax.—Last evening, just before sundown, a gentleman who was sitting by his window on North B street, casually remarked: “There goes the woman that George Brown’s dead gone on.” His wife, who was in a back room getting supper ready, dropped a plate on the floor, stumbled over the baby, and ran like a quarter-horse to the window with: “Where? where? tell me quick I” ' “The one with the long cloak—just at the corner. Then the woman at the w indow said in tones of deep disgust: “Why, that’s Brown’s wife.” “Yes, exactly,” remarked the brutal husband, quietly. Then the disappointed woman went back and got the supper ready, but her usually sweet disposition was soured for he entire evening. “Our boy /Swipes,” says a California paper, “is a regular attendant st Sunday school. Last Sunday his teacher was explaining a chapter to the class, in the book of Kings. After delivering herself of what she thought to be a very entertaining discourse, she asked the class, ’What is a King? This was a poser to the class. Finally our boy, Swipes, who is the pride of the Sunday school, held up his hand. This made the teacher smile benignly, for she was proud to see him so ready with au answer, so she said: ‘Well, Swipes, what is a king? ‘Well, miss, you see, when you get in the king row andjmt a checker on him, why then he’s a king, and when somebody leads jack and another fellow plays a queen in pedro, you can make his eyes bung out by taking ’em both with a king.’ ”

Intelligent and thoughtful parents and teacEers can do very much to form and stimulate the growth of purpose in the minds and hearts of the children who look to them for guidance. The larvae of the worker and of the queenbee are identical in kind. The food given makes all the difference. When the queen-bee dies, the larvae of a worker is selected arid so fed and boused that it developes into a queen-bee. Sad to say, no feeding of a drone will mako anything but a drone, and when frosts come he is ignominiously destroyed. It is not wise to spend moral force in making resolutions. It is wise, however, when the ship is drifting out of its course to put strong hands to the rudder and with the eyes on the compass to hold to a certain course and steer for a certain port

I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because bis ordinary works convince. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when itbeholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it- must needs fly to providence and Deity. Modern Female Dress.—This is how Mary Kyle Dallas, the authoress, says it feels: “Take A man and pin three or four large tablecloths about him, fastened back with elastic and looped up With ribbons; drag all his own hair to the middle of his head and tie it tight, and hairpin on about five pounds of other hair and a big bow of ribbon. Keep the front locks on pins all night and let them tickle his eyes all day; pinch his waist into a corset: give him gloves a size too little ; shoes ditto, ana a hat that will not stay on without a torturing elastic, and a frill to tickle his chin, and a little lace veil to blind his eves when he goes oat to walk, and he will know what woman*! drees is.” "

That every man should regulate Ids actions by his own conscience, without any regard to the opinions of the rest of the world, is one oi the precepts of moral prudence; justified not only by the suffrage of reason, which declares that none of the gifts of heaven are to be useless, but by the voice likewise of experience, which will soon inform us that, if we make the praise or blame of otben the rule of our conduct, we shall be distracted by a boundless variety ot irreconcilable judgments, be held in perpetual suspense between contrary impulses, zmd consult forever without determineWhen a friend corrects a serious fault in does you the greatest act of