The Editor's Blue Monday

[The following picture, so strikingly druwn, portrays tlie life oí tbe editor so accuately, that we cannot refrain from reproducini; It. It ia froni the pen of Editor Smithe, of the Ypsilantian.]- Ed. No preaclier experienced a more depressing reaction from the nervous struin of liis Sabbath labor- that period of utter 'let-down" whioh has gone into our traditions as "Blue Monday"- tlian is realIzed by the newspaper editor who is publishcr and manager at the sanie time, when lie has put hls paper to pres and feels that he completed anotlier week's work ; and that let-down is in exact proportion to his sense of responsibility and of the importance of his work. The nervou3 strain steadily Increases and tlie anxiety and sense of reipomlbllitj' intensify all thionh the week, and culininate with the linal work of putting the paper to press - always in liaste, nlways with lack of time and opportunity to do some thlngi tliat should be done, ahvays willi an inipression ol Important things forgotten or neglected, always with ;i hauutiiig f ear of errors overlooked, or of unguarded expression that must glve unlntended offense. He mnst choose at the lust moment betweeu twothings that are Import ¦nt, only one of whieh is poMiblu and if he at all realize the importante of liU work and liis respousibility he will always teel that, however cxcellently that work may have been done, it la far oelow what it should have been. Then, wlien it is linally completed in someshape, and the paper is putto press and no more can then be done, the nervous reactlon is intense, if he has any nerves, and work that involves thouht is impossible. 'l'his state of things recurs every week, with the editor and manager of the weekly paper. On daily papers, the work ís more dividcd and classiried in departments, and the responsibillty glmrcd by many. At the close of nn important politic.il campaign, tliere comes a whole week whlch bears to the editor's weekly "blue Monday" something such a rela'tion us tlie Jewish jubilee year bore to tbe onlinary Sabbath. He has conducted what he conceived to be his portion of the work, in such marnier as his sense of duty as a citizen entrusted with exoeptional responsibillty prompted. If he be at all fitt;d tor his place, he has done that with conscieutious fidelity, and with earni-st regard to the general result, and has thoiight little of how It should atleet hiiu personally; and the anxious, BCTVOUI struin his steadily increased througli a period of moiitlis instead of oue week, and fulminatos when he gets out the last issue before election. Then, instead of a day or two of relaxatiop.he needs a wi ek or two; but bc cannot have it. His paper must be out on time next week, and he must go to work upon it: but how shall he dolt? He is untit to do any work, and there seenis nothing that he cm do, and yet the paper must ome out. The topics that have so long oocnpled liis attention and the attention of tlie pabilo, will havi' suildenly dropped out of I)P '¦ '. before publication áay. If the pufric h:ive become uttorly sick of partv nilillct, much more has he; but what elee h there. He cnnnot evolve new lines of thought, in a moment, and the dal Ij pupén aligo on througll the reek, baiix[ogawty on the s:une line, aml üive hiin nn tnphM or tliu;r::fs upon any olher. The pleetkin newi wil! w Impnrtnift cnouifli, bal he nnnot till his paper witii tliat, and what else in the worhl can lie Bad to talk abotrtf What can h ;aj that sliall have interest aml value for II il readers in thnr, puper? It i-! thro montbl of hlue Mondnys all crowded toi,'-tlier, end yet with no retaxatlon of tlie deniand npon hiin.