Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-23
BUYING A PRESS,
OR Rather Not Buying One, From the
Travelling Type Foundry Mau With the
Melancholy Mustache.


Esi-RiHs DIkD BslE
4 large man with a moustacha brood
ing over kis mouth like soma great nation
Al sorrow visited the Bell Office this week.
He was travelling for an Eastern houee
shich makes speciality of printing mate
rails and sight drafts lie tried TO sell US
a large press with wheels on it aud q
strongly made and binding chsttei mort.
gage attachment.
He spoke very highly of this latter fes'
rure and said their mortgages were never
know to break. he said he mortgages
they were now putting in for printers III
rhe Northwest we're alike Satisfactory TO
themselves and the sheriff He also spoke
incidentally of the press itself, and we gath.
cred that it was to be SCI Up end fed with
white paper, which would come out nicely
printed With tariff editorials and original
clippings. We Judged that either a Demo.
cratic or Republican press could be ordered
and that there was no extra charge for an
attachment 70 run in original poetry
Our frat impulse yss to seize pen and
write out check sufficiently able-bodied to
cover the cost of'recordiDg the mortgsge,
r -~lng. We esughi : reproachful glance
f. ~, ~ -. cSstiron CoqHlsn9nce OF the
la, oIJ W We - SSad psess and desls,ed
Part OF the desist WAS ca.- - H- 30
able 10 call to mind the address OF b.
which had ever put in sealed proposals for
handling our checks.
IT, tr-r 4ha r,ak.a- "a ~, ,,I.oI .Lo ma,
if he had sample press with him. lie sail
he had not. Then we said that we did not
believe that his house would start him out
on the road without one and that it was
our opinion he had psWned it. We told
him that We proposed to report him aud
that we had no further use for him. He
seemed sgitated, bat after leaving q bill
Tor some type We ordered of his firm last
week he went out.
When the press pedler had formally put
on his injured look and Jumped the office
We turned to the old hand press with q sigh
of relief After all that stVle OF press
seems to give the greate3t satisfaction No
one can write intelligetly Of the power Of
the,press who has not pulled it. 1t seems to
have early in life ordered large cousign-
ment Of choice, springY power, and to still
have most of it on hand. 1t is all used in
holding back. The man who said the press
was the greatest power in he world had
pulled the Washington band variety Some
people think THAI Washington should have
kept right on crossing the Delaware and
freezing to death at Valley Forge instead
Of stopping q bslky printing press The
calm, dispsssionsts historian of the future
who is working by the dsJBill have to de,
eide this point. -
All this will 90 to explain why we still
work of the paper on the stationary press
when we might have one which would be
amply competaut to get up the editorial
tripod and put Its feet on the table. Some
people may prefer to have e press sitting
about the Office blowing about having more
brains thnn the editor but we do not long
for it. Give us rather the simple society
of the hand press which will not shy at thu
cars and was never known 20 kick its hind
feet through the dashboard.