Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — The Editor. [ARTICLE]

The Editor.

i The i “ e d.itor”l|i the dupe of destiny. His sot was knocked down to him at a bargain, and it turns oat to be a fraud. Hie bed of rose* is a high-backed chair stuffed With thorns. His pleasures are htavy penalties, hie laurel wreath la a garland of. nettles. He s.ems tr govern opinion, and is in reality's victim to tne opinioM of others. He incurs more than rewnrtt /and * reputation. The defects of hlaworkare liberally aeatgeed to him; the merits of it are magnanimously imputed to hie oorreapoudents. If a bad articleappeara the “editor”!* psspgriagly condemned; tfa brilliant one, “annonymens” entries* off the eulogium! < u llf the editor is abused for what he* inserts h£ ’Stwice, abused for what h< rejects. Accepted articles may be bad re-

Week after wee^month^aSer^me ltb, fVOUI UIC pTAIftC I Of l jife is spent in ushering people into deserved celebrity; he she, as a charioteer, outside the vehicle, in which prodigious talents are driven to immor-

tahty. His career is in this life a tale o mystery.- ' , " '*' *