The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-09-29
The Art Of Printing.
NJ HAYARD TAYLOR.

by intelligent people than the cart pre-
servativc"--the achievement Of types
Every day, their life long, they are sc-
cusiomcd to read the newspaper, TO find
fault with its statements, its arrangement.
its looks. to plume themselves upon the
discovery of some roguish and acrobatic
| type that gets into frolic, and stands
upon its head or of some waste letter or
two in il but of the process by which
the newspaper is made. OF the myriads Of
motions and thousands OF pieces necessary
to its composition, they know little and
think less
They imagine they discourse ul wonder,
indeed, when they speak Of the iaiT white
carpet, woven for thought 10 walk on--.
OF the rags that Auiiercd upon the back
of tho beggar yesterday.
But there is something more wonder-
ful still. When we look at tho hundred
and flfty-two little boxes, somewhat shaded
from the touch of the finer, that cons
pose the printers "casc' ex
cept the clicking Of the types, MS one by
one they take their places III the growing
line wo think we have found tho marvel
of tho art.
We think how many Iancies in irag-
ments there are in Ia hcSes, how many
atoms OF poetry md excellence the PRINTER
can make here aud thetr, II he only had
a little chart to work how many facts Ia
n small 'hnnilnl' much truth in
! chaos
| Now he picks ~ lhr scattered rlrment.
until he holds ~ is hand stanln ot
"Gray's EIegy," or II .nonody upon
Grimes, all bnttrnod up before" and
now "1'atsdisc Lost flo arrays bride
in "sinnil caps, aud II sonnet in "nonpn
reil; - Ir annnnnccs thHt the lnngui4hing
"l9e, III on" -ontcncc-- t;'anspUes tlio
characters, and drplor's the days that 'rc
few AMI "rsii. in the next.
y poor lr,t tricks l4 way -iowIy into
the printers hand. Ike Il clocl; Just run
ning down, and STRAIN of ooqurure
marches into lnc letter by letter. We
fancy We cin tell the difference by hearing
Of The ear, hut perhaps not The types
that told n wedding yesterday, announce
| q
! same letters.
They are elements 10 make a world i
Ihc,o types are n world with someihng
| in it ns hrHn,iInl ms Spring. ~ rich ~
/ Sunnrr, and r grand as Autumn Hnw>
er4 that frost can not wilt fruit HAT
si,nll rpen tor all lmr.
The newspaper has become the hog
book OF the age; il tells at what rate the
worli is running We can not find our
reckoning without it. True, the grocer
may bundle up pound of candles IN our
last expressed thoughts, but it is only
coming 10 base Uses, and that is done
times nnumerable. We console ours Ives
by thinking that one can make of iha,
newspaper what he can not make of
living oaks--a bridge for time; that he
cnn ding it over the chnsn of the dead
years, and walk safely back upon the
shadI~y sea into the fair Past. The
singer shall nj end his song. nor the trn"
soll be eloquent no more
The realm oi the Press ia enchanted
ground. At times the editor has iitr
happiness Of knG wing tina. lie has dclrnIIei
tho right, exposed the wrong. praiesied
lir weak that he has given utieranre to
i sentiment that hns male sumehedv hap
per, kin'iloi = smile upon sal face, or
hopo in heavy heart. tie may meet
With that sentiment many years af,cr #,
may have il,-t all charm OF paternity. hut
he feels affection for il. He wecom it
ns \ long absent child He reads il rs il
t;s iln frs, time, and wonders II. in nlr,d.
hr wrote IT, ior he has changed >in,a'
then Perhaps he could not give nitcr-
snce TO tho sentiment noy-poraan- hd
would ROT il he could. II seem. lie
the voice OF The former self callihe 10
its parent. md thrrc is some hing
mournfu in ia tone. lie begin tn
think. He remembers why he wrote It.
where were his readers ll,e0. nnd whittier
they have gone what he then was. and
how much he has changed, SO he must-,
until he finds himself wondering il that
thought bf hi. will continue to float ntler
lie IS dead, and whether he shall reall,
look on something that will survive him
And then comes the sweet eoaSciou-ne-,
that there is nothing in the sentence III,
no could wish unwritien--thn. il j.
better part Of him-a shred for garmen
, of Immortality he shall leave behind hin
, when he joins the "innumerable caravna'
=, and takes his place in the silent halls 4"
; death.
GARIBALDfs Position. The liniinl