SOME people estimate the ability of a newspaper and the talent of its editor by the quantity of original matter which it contains. The Literary Journal truthfully says: “It is comparatively an easy task for a frothy writer to pour out daily columns of words—words upon any and all subjects. His ideas may flow in one weak, washy everlasting flood, and his command of language may enable him to string them together like bunches of onions, and yet his paper may be a meager and poor concern. Indeed, the mere writing part of editing a paper is but a small part of the work. The care, the time employed in selecting, is far more important, and the tact of a good editor is far better shown by his selections than anything else; and that we all know is half the battle. But, as we have said, an editor ought to be estimated and his labors understood and appreciated by the general conduct of his paper, its tone, its temper, its uniform, consistent course, its aims, its manliness, its dignity, and its propriety. To preserve these as they should be preserved is enough to occupy fully the time and attention of any man. If to this be added the general supervision of the newspaper establishment, which most editors have to encounter, the wonder is how they can find time to write at all.”