The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-03-11
TIE PRINTER .8A.D HIS TYPES.

In our July number, W. inserted beautiful
extract from the pen OF Bayard Taylor, The
printer traveller, which pleased US 50 mach,
ai.d has been copied 50 extensively, that We
tais month insert another BY The same author
which will al once commend l,Self 10 the craft,
everywherr -
Perhaps there is no department Of enterprise
whose drtatls are less understood by Intelligent
arople than ,he art prestryatiye'-lhr achieve
meat Of types.
Every day, their life long, they are acustom-
cd 10 read thr newspapers, to find fault with
lis Statements, It's arrangement, It's looks 10
plume themselves upon the discovery Of some
sozuish and acrobalc type that gets into a
fioic and stands upon its head or OF somr
WIKI a waste letter or two ~ it-but Of the
process by which the newspaper is made, oil the
ny,ia5s u motions and thousands of pieces
nrc,ss4ry 10 lis composition, they know title
They imagine they discourse OF awonder,
indeed, wh-n they speak OF the fair white car
pet woven for thought to walk on of the rags
that AutirFed upon the bacl,s Of the beggar
/ yesterday.
But there is something more wonderful siH.
When W. look at the hundred aud fiity-two
Of ioky fagers, that .compases the printers
case, '-noiseless, except the clicking of TIE
/ types, as one By one they take their place in
. growing .ine-we :A.uk We have found The
marvel ui the at.
We think how many tancies in fragment,
there aye IL the boxes, how many atoms OF
po-try and eioqurnce HE printer can make
here and there lfhe only has hnie chart 70
work 5y, how many facts 10 small handiulls,
/ how much truth AMI chaos.
I Now he picas aP the scattered elements un-
+ I'll he holds IA his hands staDza Ct Gray'S
Ele.v Or 4 m)noIy upon Crimes all buuoned
up belars.' Now he SETS puppy missing,
{ and nos Paradise L2sl > ae arrays bride IL
SMALL cAP>, and sonnet in 'uonparri! > he
announces that The languishlng 'iIve, in on,
: sealence-tg -tgansposps the word and deplore.
The days that arr trw and 'esiI,' in the next.
\ poor jest ticks lis way slowly into the
printers .a0d like clock juAt running down
and a STRAIN Of eoqGeGce marches into line let
Ter by Irttrr We fancy we can tell the differ
tnc- By bearing OF ,h- ear, 5u, perhaps no:.
The types that told wedding yesterday,
announce burial o-mofrow-Peghaps 10 the
self same letters.
They are elements to make world Of
those types are, world with something il II az
beautiful as spring, as rich as summer, aud a:
grand as autumn flowers that frost cannot wilt
lrult tha, shall rpen for al! tiiae.
The newspaper has become the log book OF
the age ii tells at what rate the world Is, run
ning We cannot find our reckoning without
it,
True, the green grocer may bundle uP {
pound of canGles il our last expressed thoughts
but il is only coming to the base uses, as II
letters have done times inumeTablf.
We console ourselves by thinking that on
can make Of that newspaper what he canno
make. OF living oaks-a bridge for time, that h
can hinr il over the chasin of The dead year
and walk safely back upon The shadowy Sc
into the far Past. The singer shall not en-
his song. nor the true soul be eloquent more
The realm ofthe Press is enchanted ground
Sometimes the editor has fhe happiness Q
/ knowing that he has defended the right, expo
sed the wrong, protected The weak that ne ha
: given utterance 10 sentiment that IS not los
"a sentiment that has cheered somebody
. solitary hour, made somebody happier, klndle
smile upon sad face, or hope on heav.
heart.
He nav meet with that sentiment many year
after it may have lost all traces of lis paternity
! but be feels an affection for ii. He welcome
il as long absent child. He reads il as ic
1 the first time, and wonders II, indeed, be wro'
it, for he has changed since then. Perhaps h
could not give utterance 10 the sentiment nov
perhaps he would not if he could.
Il seems like the voice OF his former Sc