American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-07-09

and are ike the winds, end more than
the winds, are anywhere in moment,
sometimes in heaven, and sometimes on
earth, and in the waters under the
earth, how can you see them when
caught or show them to others ?''
Ezekiels eyes grow luminous with
new idea, and, pushing the ink roll
Ter proudly across the metallic pages
OF the newspaper, he replied: Tho'ts
walk and work in things that make
tracks; and we take them tracks and
stamp them on paper, or iron, wood,
stone, or What not. This ia the way we
print thoughts. Don't you understand"
The press man let 60 the lever and
looked interogatively at Ezekiel, be-
ginning at the patch on his stringless
brogans, and following up with his eye
to the top Of tho boys brown paper
buff cap. Ezekiel comprehended the
felicity of his illustration, and wiping
his hand on his tow apron, gradually
assumed an attitude of earnest expo
sition. | gave him an encouraging
WIKI, anu SO nc went on
Thoughts make tracks," he contin-
ued impressively, as if evolving q new
phase of the subject by repeating it
slowly. Seeing that we assented to
this proposition inquirngly, he step
ped to the type case, with his eyes fix
ed admonishing upon US. "Thoughts
make tracks," he repeated, arrang ing
in his hands score or two of metal
slips, and with these ere letters, we
can take the exact impression of eve.
ry thought that ever went out of the
heart OF human man; and we can print
1t, too, giving the linked form blow
of triumph with his fist; we can print
it too, give US paper and ink enough,
till the great round earth is blanketed
around with coverlid of thoughts, as
much like the pattern as two peas"
Ezekiel seemed to grow an inch at cv-
cry word, and the brawny pressman
looked first az him, and chen at the
press with evident tastonishment. "Talk
about the minds living foreverl' ex-
claimed the boy, pointing patronigingr
ly ct the ground, as if minds, were "
ing there, incapable of Immortality, un.
til the printer reached them a helping
hand; ''why the world is brimful of
live, bright, industrious thoughts,
which would have been dead, dead as
stone, if it had not been for boys like
me, who run the ink rollers. immor
tality indeed why peoples minds, :"
he continued with his imagination
climbing into the profanely sublime,
"people's minds wouldn't be immor-
tai If it wasn't for the printers at
any rate in this here planetary bury
ing ground. We are the chaps what
manufacture Immortality for dead men
slapping the pressman graciously on
the shoulder. The latter took it as if
dubbed a Knight of the Legion of Hon
or, for the boy had put the mysteries
OF his profession in sublime apocalypse.
Give us one good healthy mind" con-
tinued Ezekiel, "to think for us, and
we viii furnish dozen worlds as big
as this with thoughts to order. Give
us such man, and We will insure his
life; we will keep him alive forever
among the living. lie can't die no way
you can fix 1t, when once we have
touched him with these here bits of
inky pewter. He shan't die nor sleep.
We will keep his mind at work on all
the minds that come to live on the
earth as long as the world stands. =
sEzekiel," / asked in a subdued tone
or reverence, "will you print my thot' s
too E Eyes, that l will" he replied
'If you will think some of the right
kind. ."Ycs, that We will" echoed
the pressman,
And | went home and thought, and
Eaekiel has printed my Thought tracks
ever since.
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