Page THE "WITNESS" BUILDING. 2 UPPER CASE. 6 LOWER CASE. 6 SETTING TYPE. 6 MAKING "PI." 7 BACKWARD WRITING. 8 TAKING A "PROOF." 8 PLACING "MATTER" IN "TURTLE." 10 HOISTING "TURTLE" ON THE PRESS. 13 A FELLOW LABORER. 14 _The Press Room._ 15 THE NEWSBOY'S FESTIVAL. 15 ADDRESSING MACHINE. 17 ANSWERING AN ADVERTISEMENT. 18 COUNTING ROOM. 19 GRAVERS' TOOLS. 21 WAITING FOR THE EDITOR. 23 THE LIBRARY. 25 JOHN DOUGALL. 26 LOCKING UP "DOMINION" FORM. 27 [Illustration: THE "WITNESS" BUILDING.] Guttenberg and Faust were good printers. Their beautiful work still remains in proof that the moneyed partner was not in league with the Evil One, even were it not known that the first book which issued from their press was the Bible. Notwithstanding that it has often been asserted, and may be reiterated for centuries to come, that the fruit of the printing press is irreligion, the pages of the Mazarin Bible--the earliest printed book known--remain still perfect and bright as the morn that work issued complete from the press, four hundred years ago and more,--an evidence that in the minds of the pioneers of the art, good, and not evil, was the controlling influence. And the history of printing ever since, shows that the bright days of the art, in any part of the world whatsoever, have been ever contemporaneous with increasing prosperity, intelligence and progress in the more important things of life. Time had not reached its greatest value in the anticipatory days of the art; the world had not then been scoured to find the materials wherewith to make cheap ink and cheap paper. The early printers, in their work, had either to rival the exquisite manuscripts of the monkish transcribers of written knowledge, or be considered far behind in the "art preservative of all arts." Everything was done conscientiously in those days, and with the greatest care. The inventors were the printers, and their hearts were in their work. Printers then looked upon their productions as works of art. Their competition did not come in the shape of speed in production, nor lowness of price, but in that of excellence of material and beauty of execution; and when a man paid a fortune for a book, he expected that it would be an heirloom to be handed from generation to generation, to the end of time,--the same volume telling its story to grandfather, father, son, and grandson, gaining value with each generation and sanctity from the mere fact of age.