Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — A Model Editor. [ARTICLE]

A Model Editor.

A man who runs a paper saould know every human caper, and hold up the torch of knowledge like a gleaming midnight taper. He should Ue pTOfound as Plato, plain as a boiled potato, and as humble to his patrons as a street car and crossing scraper. He should,honor in his journal every captain, crank and colonel, and dish up their proud achievments in a hodgepodge cookoctdiurnial. He should puff—the hardened liar-clubs and concerts, church and choir, with long adjectives sonorous, sweet, seraphic and supernal. He must write the funny column, that makes all his readers solemn,, with the fashions, frills and ilounces furbelows and—what ’em? Quell the copy fiends' wild revel, squelch and massacre the Devil, and put on a brow of thunder that shall petrify and appall ’em. He must be a news reflector of the lyceum and lectur’ and rain down his tat —fy torrents on the veteran milk in spector. He must'be a prompt advisor to each foreign king and kaiser- and keep out his keyhole telescope to dodge thq bill collector. —Lynn, lowa, Union.