Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-11-09

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~ sAyAap sAyloa.
Perhaps there is NJ Aapartwsae Of enter.
prise whose doails are loss uudesstooo by
intelligent people than the art pressrvative,
the achicvemsat Of tspeo
Every day, their ne loae, thsy ore sccus.
TONED 70 ssad The aswspaper, 70 6nd fault
with it, statements. il asSpngements, its
leoks; y plume the0eslves upon the dis
covery Of some roguish and acsobatic type
that g-ts into fsuiic, and stands upon its
head or Of some waste letter o. two in IL !;
but u The process By which the newspaper
Is made, of the mvriads Of motions aud
thousands Of pieces necessary TO i's compo
sition, hey know little and think less.
They imagine, they discourse Of wonder.
indeed, when they speak Of he fair carpet
vevss Ses shesghs - valk oa--of The ssp
ut 1autsi spue shs bsek q the bsgps
yestesdsy.
Blu, there il something more wonderful
still. When We look at the hundred and
Rhy-two little boxes, sonsw hat shaded with
the touch of the Hnge ., that compose the
printers "case"-noiAeless except the click
ine sf che types. as ooe BY sns they take
their psAcrs in the growing l'ne-~e think
We have found the marvel Of the art.
We think how many fancies in irasments
there are in the boxes, how many atoms Of
poetry and exslsncs the printer can make
here and there il he only had little chart
to wosk-how many facts in small II and
fuI'-how much truth in chaos.
Now he pi,ks up the scattered elements,
until he holds in his hand . stsnsa Of
"Gray's Elegy," or moody upon Grimes
"all bu,toned up before" and now "Psra>
disc Lost !" he arrays bride in "smsll
caps" and sonnet in ''nonpareil !" be an
peunces that the lsnsuishing "Iive." in one
sentence -transposes the WORKS, and de
plsres the days that arc few and EVIL" in
the next.
A poor Jest tricks its way slowly into the
printers hands like . clock just running
down, and strain Of eloquence marches
into line letter by letter. We faney We
can tell the differences BY the hearing Of the
car, but perhspa not.
The types that told wedding yesterday
announce . burial Tomorrow perhaps
the seiisamc letters.
They are the elements TO make word OF
these types are world with something
in Il ~ beautiful ~ spring, o. rich ~ sum.
mer, and rs grand as autumn flowers that
frost cannot wilt-fruit that shall ripen fos
all time.
The newspaper shall become the log book
Of the age; u tells at what rate the world ID
runni X we cannot find out our reckoning
without il.
True, the green grocer may bundle up a
pound OF candles in our last expressed
thoughts, but il 10 only c ming to base
uses, and that is done times innumersbls.
We condele ourselves BY thinking that
one can make Of that newspaper what b.
cannot make Of living oaks-a bridge tos
time; that he can 0nd il over the chasm oil
tn. dead years. and walk safely back on the
shadowy - into the fair past. The SINCE,
shall not end his aong, nor the true sot b
eloquent no more.
} The realm Of the press is enchanted
ground. Sometimes the editor has the hap
piness OF knowing that he defended the
right, exposed the wrong. protected thu
weak, that I've has given utterancc to sen
! siment that has cheescd sombody'a soil asy
Q hour, made somebody happier, kindlsd
r smile on a sad face, or hope in . hsavl
heart.
lie may meet with that sentiment many
: years after il may have lost all charm Of il.
paternity, but he feels affection for IT, II,
welcomes Il 40 long absent child. He read
il 40 il for the first time. and wonders il
indeed, he wrote it, for he has changed snc
then. Perhaps he could not give utteranc,
J to the sentiment nov perhaps he woul,
not il he could
II seems like tho voice Of his former sci
calling to ITS parents. and there Is . some
+ thing mournful in its tone. lie beEius 1
.s..L ~. - -
, wee his readers then, and whittier the,
have gone-what he WAS then. and HOY
much he Ties changed. So he muses., unit
9 he finds himself wondering II that though,
2 Of lis will continue IL float until he i. dead
. and whether he is really looking on som.
thing that will survive him. And the
: CONES the sweet consciousness that there
{ nothing in the sentence that lie could wis
l. unwritten---that It is = better part OF him
=. u shicd from the garment Of immortality IA
shall leave behind him when he nns III
''innnmcrablc caravan" and takes his pac
IN the silent halls OF death.
), 90.
MANY Of the American people have $, Of
ten heard their politicians tell them the
! we're 'sovcrcigns," that they have come I,
believe it. And when any Of the sc,ons
| ououuN uUuettwAC y VOuT
Europe. they do not seem to thiak they ~
s a>sOciatng WI" their equals unless they ar.
!. by hook or crook. managing to thrust thci
;. braz n countcnanccs through the doors of
regal palace.
The Emperor Of the french, notviti
q standing all the suavity and patent polite
o meas which belong TO his racc, and ore per
!. sonaly possessed by him. ID said to hsv
|, been "bored" to death by his brother soy
!" creigns Of America, who lear he will fe,
i hurt il they visit Europe without calm
n upon h.m.
j. by the etiquette Of Courts, no subject q
:, a monarchicai power can be presented To
-" foreign sovereign before he has been pre-
;, scented to his own. this being very pruperl
= considered sufficient evidence Of his fines
4 and responsibility. Now. rs Americans :
. their own sovereisns. and 90 to see thei
servant, the President, 40 often as the
choose, the European rule has not bee
= rightly applied TO them. the custom hsv
. ing been TO admit 10 Court all who's
numcs the American Minister should sen
: in. Ia this way several gamblers, horse
: jockeys. and barber arc said to has
. been foistsd upon the French Emperor
J.. and he 10 getting very tired Of the FOOLS
y and vulGa: "sovcreiRns" OF America VII
80 trying to be intimate with him.
a ConversntoOn.
4 How incidentally would the tone Of cor
{ vesaation be improved il It offered no excer
" lions to tho example Of Bishop Beve,idgs
;. "Resolve never u speak Of . mans virtue
. to his face, nor his faults behind h,s back.
\ A golden rule. the obsssvaaee OF chic
!. would at oncs Danish flattery and deiama
= ton from the earth. COnversatiSs stuc
! being joint and cor mon property, ever
= one should take share in il, and yet Their
may be societies in which silence will b. gu
best contribution. When Isocrstes, dinin,
. with the Kin. Of Cyprus. vas asked VII,
y he did not mix IN the d course Of the CON
{ pany, be replied. "What 10 seasonsble d
} not know, and what know is not seasona
; be-" A brilliant talker Is not always liked
. y tho~ whom be has most amused, for y,
, are seldom pleased with thnes who have Il
} any way made Us feel our inferiority. 9TH,
happiest canvessation," says d. Johnson
} ''is that Of which nothing 10 distinctly ~
} membered. but which leaves bshind . pteas
ing impressioa." mo one," says Deas
, Lockef," viii ever shine in convrfsatios
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