Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-10-28
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WHY L LEFT THE ANVIL
BY EL1nu J BURRITT.

81 .
Il see it'll You would ask Inc what
have to say for myself for dropping the
shamnergand taking up the quill, as a
meniber fyour profession. i Will be
honest now, and tell you the whole sto
Try. was transposed from the anvil to
-,.the editors chair by the genius of ma
ohinery, Don't smile, irieuds, it is even
{ 500 had stood and locked for hours
on those. thougbtl6ss iron inteilects.
those iron fingered, sober supple auto
= nations, asthey caught up bale Of cot
- ton and twirled. it in the twiRkkng of
81 au eve, into a whirlwiad of wl,izzing
shrcds and laid it at m ): feet in folds of
.s.snow white cloth, ready for the. use of
d. the nost;iyoluptuous, antipodeS., They
were wonderful things, those looms and
spindles, but they. could not spin
thoughts; there was no attribute of Ill
a,vinity n,them and i admired them,
nothing more. They, were excessively
ycurious, butt could not estimate the
whole compass of their being and des-
yrtiny hin finger power, so l went away
and left them spinning cotton. yg
;aBOne day was tuning my anvil be-
. meath hot iron, and busy with the
Thought that there was much intellectu-
10 eagineEy agoing in modern times, when
on,a most ounearthly seream reached my
~ enrs; [ stepped to the door, and there it
l.-,stxas-the greatiren horse.;s Yes, he had
.ri1cone looking for all the world likei the
u, great dragon awe read = FIN the scrip
ture, harnessed to hahia living werld,
- and Just landed on the earth, where, he
stood braying with surprise and indig-
Al kA 1aht Ao
had been turned5II saw the human be-
inss gliding with the velocity of wind
n over the iron track, and droves of cattle
travelling In their stables at the rate of
twenty miles an hour toward the city
slaughter-house. 1T was wonderful
{n The little busy bee winged machinery
of the cotton factory dwinllcd into sig
nifcance before it. Menstrous beast of
passage and burden It devoured the
"a, distance, and welded the cities tegcth-
: erl But for its furnace, heat and iron
sinews, it vas nothing but a. beast, an
enormous aggregation of horse power,
essAnd Event back to- the forge with un
] ~ impaired reverence for the intellectual
b philosophy of my hammer. 4,, .-a To-
Passing along the street one after
noon heard a noise in an old building,
IN as Of some one putting pair of bellows
So without more ado, stepped in, and
then, in corner of u room, L saw tho
.rischief.d' osuUre of all the machinery thai
has ever been invented since the bIrtf
of Tubal Cain In its construction i
was as simple as cheeze press. 1
odi went with lever; with lever stronge
cor than that with which Archimedes prom
Used to lift the world. -..-. -..r
1T is a printing press said a bo.
standing by the linking trough, with
careless turban of brown paper on hi
head. Ia
-isf3 'sA printing press !" 1 queried, mus
-. ingIy to myself ''A printing press =
nj what do you print23'fI asked. s,..
%; Print ?'' said the boy, staring a
me doubtfully, ''why we print thoughts!
'"'' "PriRt thoughts T" 1 slowly repeate
az after him; and we stood looking fo
.4sha moment at each other in mutual ad
-sb miration; he in the absence of an ide;
and 1 in pursuit of one. But locke
at him the hardest, and he left anothe
inkspot on his forehead, with pathe
ic motion of his left hand to quicken a
apprehension of my meaning.
''Why, yes" he reiterated in tor