The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-05-20

Ifuthfui tale OF proeonS love, pas,
Dion and romance. Here the o.
md New are brought into contact
Here
TRADITION. ssowy-bssrdsd. leans
Ou Romance, ever yooaG."
This 10 bus . feeble portrayal o
what . newspaper 10. Let US Sc
how it 10 made.
Come with me TO the Office. W,
will pass that pile Of paper. Ye
step; pick up . sheet Of IL We O., q
not wsit 10 explain the curious pro.
cess Of its manufacture, yet tbs,
clean and spotless sheet is the pn
rified product Of rags and fifth
The fibre which forms its texture
may have been stripped from Bgyp.
tian mummtes; it may have come
from city streets, or from great
garrets Tn country homes; il may
have wrapped the luxurious form
of besaty, or been tho scasty COT
ering OF want; but whether from
the robes of . queen or the rsgs o
. hariot. it gives no clue now to
ito former condition. Like . sane
tilted soul, Il il ready for . new
life. T.
We wiu pass the editorial room.
Its occupants are busy. There are
papers from far and near; letter.
from the widely-scuttered CORES
pondests; telegraph despatches-
intelligence in every form; and from
this mass is to be selected what is
Of most interest and importance to
make . paper to day. Let the edit
ors work.
Come into the composing room
We have the f0reman's permission
-grudgingly given. Do you hes
it7 Click! click! chick! What is
that2 Why, that 10 the music Pro
gress nsFches to. Come here .
this ''case." Look at the mutt:
tude of little boxes, filed with
pieces OF metal. What are they?
They are the civiRsers-they are
TRR TYrBs. Look at them. They
are not dead, but sleeping. Ther
10 . soul in every ono Of them.-
Collectively, they are . dictionar,
reduced toits lowest denomination
There is . magic in these types
They look dull enough, but al th
glorious possibilities that the hu
man heart can hope for are in thei
possession -yoH have but to lear:
the secret they 20 closely keep. I
you but knew how TO pick out an.
properly arrange . handful Of ti,os
type, immortal fame would b
yours. There are finer strains ther
than Homer ever sang; there is elo
qusnce unspolen yet; there is keen
er wit, moro fearful pathos, NOR
perssasivs prayer than tongue hs
uttered o. ear has heard. Get !
out Il you can. The types are her.
and sre patient Of delay.
But the paper 10 being ma,ie.-
The types, one by one, have bee
picked up by nimbls fingers, IN
placed in proper position. Ever
error has been corrected. Ever
punctuation point 10 in its place.
The scattered ''columns" are mass
Cd Together; the "form." or page
70 securely 'locked up" and cen
n the press room. ..e
/ Let us 20 there. Heie is wher
the wondrous Transformation j
wrought; here matter becomes tn
exponent Of mind. The "forms
are properly placed. The gre'
press slowly moves jts arms a.
reaching for their s:rong sEbrac.
''StoP the preese' 9a7 &
The giant rests agsin. There
an error of statemens to be CO,
rected. o. .. Objectionable articl
to be Withdrawn. Tue types n
taken out and borne awsy--corpse
Of dead thought.
Look now, again, at the mass c
typc--dead! inert ~ the earth 20
tread On. Eut see! The whit
sheet itas fallen upon their upturn
ed faces; the touch of the Pre-
has baptised them; the life that ws
in them has passed upon paper
anil ske new creation is pTegnaI
with thoughts thing with a sou
for IL ean move the souls OF me,
That sheet, 80 blank before, is
living power now. A change b.
passed over it as marvellous ~
. in an instant. the unwritten face {
the boy shesld be put on the fu'
} rows Of sge, the lines Of care, th
. impress a mauhood's experienc,
thought, snd toll
Thus the paper is born, and 60.
out into the world. No messeng,
can oyertake It. lts utterance
unalterable now. 1t may be e,
plsined, but not erased. The prin
ed word can no moro be recalle'
than the departed spirit can I
, wooed back to The cold body While
, it has left.
. Here. now, we have it-she new
paper! Wonderful product Of bra
} and toll. One would think
should be dearly bought and higI
, ly priced. and yet Il is the chea
! est thing in the world. Five I
. ten cents will buy it. One or tw
dollars will bring it to your hon
3 every week in the year. And ye
, strange TO say, there ere men ''te
. poor 70 take . newspaper" The
! can pay Eve censs for . glass
! beer, or fifteen cones for Q beverae
: of unknown composi>ojjon, called
f. Cocktail" they can psy 6fty cen
: for . circus ticket, o1 . dollar 4
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