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Vol. 1. 



JAN., 1883. 



No. 10. 



MYSELF AlVD OTY NEIGHBOKS. 



Buy the truth, arnl sell it not ; also Avisdom, and in- 

 struction, and understanding.— Pkov. 33:23. 



MERE I am at my type-writer again, my 

 young friends ; and, come to tliink of 

 ■ it, I am real glad I have got a type- 

 writer too. Do you wish to know wliat it is 

 like? Well, a little Avay off it might look 

 like a sewing-machine;" but when you get 

 close to it you will see that, in place of any 

 thing on top of it to sew with, it has keys 

 something like a little melodeon. Each one 

 of the keys has a little glass button on the 

 end of it, and under this glass button is a 

 letter or a figure. There are 4-1 characters 

 in all ; and when I strike the glass button it 

 prints that letter on a roll of paper, or, rath- 

 er, on a long sheet of paper, rolled on a rub- 

 ber roller. Now, the difficult part of a type- 

 writer is the mechanism that makes it print 

 the letters all in a row, so as to make lines, 

 and at the same time keep the letters all 

 right side up. I wonder if I can explain it. 

 Suppose you balance a lead-pencil across the 

 edge of a v/ash-basin, letting one end rest 

 inside just about on the center of the bot- 

 tom. Well, now, if you were to strike on 

 the end that sticks over Ihe outside, this end 

 in the bottom would fly up. Now, if a roll 

 of paper were right over it in the right place, 

 and a type were on the end of the pencil, it 



might print a letter when it struck. Well, 

 if you had 44 pencils, pivoted clear around 

 the whole rim of the basin, striking their 

 outer ends would print letters on the paper 

 roll, and this is the way the type-writer 

 works. Instead of striking letters I can 

 strike periods and commas, and even spaces, 

 so the words shall be separated. 



At my right hand is a window that looks 

 out toward the railroad, so I can see all the 

 trains that come in, and all the goods that 

 come and go away. At my left hand are the 

 desks of the book-keepers I told you of last 

 month. Behind my back is a sort of closet 

 where the Waterbury watches are hung be- 

 fore the window. They make almost as much 

 of a clatter as a^t of geese. I rather like 

 them, though, for they sound so busy. I al- 

 ways enjoy going through a room where a 

 great many are at work, making such a din 

 and clatter that, if any one should stop to 

 tell long stories, no one could hear him. 

 The watches are all tested at the factory ; 

 but to be sure, we hang them all up and test 

 them again here. After they have run cor- 

 rectly one day hanging up, we have one of 

 the hands carry them a day. I have got two 

 now that I am carrying. Addie comes to 

 me every morning with a little willow bas- 

 ket full of " regulated " watches, as we call 

 them, for they are the ones that have been 

 up by the window until they have " behav- 



