Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — The Cross of the Editor. [ARTICLE]

The Cross of the Editor.

The cross of the editor, rays the Troy Timet, constant as cruel, Is the evanescence of bis productions. The most brilliant articles seem like the fire-fly of June. It flashes and then expiree. Collected editorials axe the dullest of reeding. They are salt that has lost its savor. Tne most promising experiments of thia kind have been failure*. Duet Is on the leavee and publisher axe vexed. But to what hard-working editors does there not come the hope that at some time with propitious eireumstances, when the collar shall no longer chafe, and tbe strain shall be relaxed, of doing something that will have permanent utility, upon which he may felicitate himself as Gibbon joyed beneath the acacias of Lausanne, or as Allibone, with holier emotion, returned bis “profound gratitude to that Almighty Being, ‘without whose help all labor is ineffectual, and without whose grace ail wisdom ia folly?” But tbe vision never receives the halo of realisation, hardly the hue of anticipation. The grinding toh endures, and to the last he tugs as at a windlass, letting buckets down Into the well of thought only to draw them np full—of emptiness.