Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-10-28

idea, which, though having been cur
rent hundred years, might still be
counterfeit, for all he could show on tho
Ispot, 1--WE print thoughts, to be sure" :"
':But, my boy" asked in an honest
isoberness, t'what are thoughts, and how
tcanH you get hold of them ?"f si'
"1houghts are what come out peo-
] Piles minds, he replied. sect hold of
you can get hold of, or thoughts cit her.
AN the minds that eve: thought. and all
the thoughts that mind ever made,
would not make ball as big as your
list Minds they say, are just like air;
you can't see them; they don't make
any noise nor. have any color; they
don't weigh anything, Bill Deepcut,
the sexton, says man weighs as much
when his mind is gone out of him as he
did before No, sir, all the minds that
ever lived would not weigh an ounce
troy"
@Then how do you print thoughts L?
If minds are as thin as air, and thoughts
are still, and make no noise, and have
no substance, shade or color, and are
like the winds, are anywhere in a mo-
ment, sometimes in heaven and some
times in earth, how can you see them
when caught, or show them to othcrs?'
Ezekicl's eyes grew luminous with
a new idea, and pushing the ink-rol Ter
proudly across the nietalic pages of the
newspaper, he replied: Thoughts work
and walk in things that make tracks;
| a nd we take them tracks and stamp them
ion paper, or iron, wood, stone, "or What
not, This isthc way we print thoughts.
Do you understand 20 .o' i''- ~,
3 nEhe pressnlan let go the lever and
looked interrog gatively at Els kiel, be-
ginning at the patch on his stringless
br6gans, and following up with his eye
to the top Of the boys brown paper buff
leap. EzeGielat once cor unprecedented the
felicity of his iliustr,. ton, and wiping
his hand on his tow apron, gradually
assumed an attitude Of earnest 0pposi-
ton: gave him an encouraging wink,
and SO he went on. f''..' IF - Hin
Thoughts make tracks," he contin-
| hed impressively. as ifinvolving a new
phase of the idea BY repeating it slow
Fly. Seeing we asseutcd to the PROPOSE
tion inquiringiy, tejsteppcd to the type
case, with his eye fixed 1admonishingiy
upon US. Thoughts make trucks, he
repeated, arranging in his hand a score
or two Of metal slips, land with these
here letters we can take the exact i'm
pressioh Of every thought that ever. went
out Of the heart Of human man. and we
can print it, too, give US paper enough,
i'till tie great round world is blauketed
around with a coverlid of thoughts, as
much like the pattern as two peas.
| Ezekiel seemed to grow an inch at
every word, and the brawny pressman
| looked first at him and then at the press
with evident astonishn.ent. Talk
about the minds living forever ex-
claimed the. boy pointing patronizingly
at the ground, as if minds, were Lying
there incapable ofimmortality, until 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 hadn't been fer boys like me, who run
ink rollersH I'M a..s.. .f,q. ... M 81
s'Inmortality indeed Why peoples
minds he continued, with his imagi-
nation, climbing into. the .profanely sub
lime, peoples minds wouldn't be i'm
mortal if it wasn't for printers; at any
rate in this here planetary burying
ground. Weiare the chaps what man
facturo immortality for dead men, he
rejoined, slapping the pressman gra-
ciously on the shoulder. The latter
took it, as subdued knight of the le-
gion of honor, for the boy had put the
mysteries of his profession in sublime
apocalypse, ''Give US one good, healthy
mind said Ezekiel, ''to think for US,
and we will furnish a dozen worlds as
big as this, with thoughts to order
Give us such a man and we will insure
his life; we will keep him forever among
the living. He shan't die nor sleep.-
| We will Keep. his mind at work on all
the minds that live on the earth, and all
the miads that come to live here as long
as the world stands b.. -...,...
i. Ezekiel" l asked in subdued tone
Tofrevercnce, will you print my thoughts
too ?'' 'sYes, that | WILL" he replied,
If you. will think some of the right
kind" Eyes, that he will, p echoeddhe
lpressman. ...-.