Serene Philosophy

Mr. Schermerhorn, of Hudson, the well-known editor of the zette, who aspired to the Hudson postoffice, to succeed J. M. Scarntt of the Hudson Post, but was unsuc cessful, is a philosophei cf high merit as well as a politician. He says concerning the matter: There appears to be a strong sentiment against interrupting newspaper men men in the pursuit of their noble profession. Mr. Schermerhorn will be spared to his subscribers, and Mr. Scarritt will be permitted to resume his editorial labors unhampered by the cares of official position. After calmly sarveying the matter we are persuaded that no selfrespectmg newspaper man should allow hinisslf to be lured from the quiet walks of his avocation by the i enticements of office-holding. As Bulwer Lytton makes the mournfi 1 Richelieu to say : ' Tt t'llr.esí and at niïht rhe uonsoienoe feels Thai Life should so-r to nobler eods than Power."