Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-03
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ERRORS Of The TYPES.

they occur as often as they do when
the number of separate type that are
set up every day in the newspaper
Offices of the country is considered
In fact, the great wonder is that there
is not greater number of errors.
On all the leading newspapers every
article written is read over and cor.
rected at least three times before it is
finally ready for the public eye.
After q reporter writes his article.
revises and corrects it to his own salts.
faction, it is sent to an editor who
uses his blue pencil to make such cor.
rections as he thinks are required.
The article is then set up by the type.
settlers, and the proof, with the origi-
nal copy, is sent to the proof readers.
They make such corrections as are
necessary, and after these corrections
are made a second, or revised proof, is
sent in with the first proof, and the
proof reader scans the second proof
carefully to see if all marked error.
and changes have been properly cor
rected.
In spite of these precautions scarce
ly a day passes in any newspaper
office, no matter how we'll regulated it
may be, that there are not some glar-
ing errors in the paper. A few oi
these errors that have come under he
writer's notice within the past lew
years are copied below
The society reporter of a Georgia
paper once wrote as follows: "Mrs.
- Brown, who two years ago moved
to Texas, is back visiting friends in her
native state" When the article ap-
peared, Mrs. Brown was shocked to
see that she was "visiting friends in
her naked state"
One of DR.. Talmage's sermons was
printed in a New York paper not long
ago. The opening sentence as written
by DR.. Talmage was as follows "My
text finds our Lord ia the garden OF
Gethsemane." The compositor found
the preachers handwriting hard to
translate, and he set up the sentence
rs follows: "My tall friend our Lord,
in the garden of Gethsemane." 1t
was in the same report that "No cows,
no cream" did duty for the impressive
"No cross, no crown"
The insertion of 80 small thing as
a comma in the wrong place often
makes some very ludicrous errors. A
brilliant young Georgian was once in
vited by the literary societies of the
university of Georgia to deliver the
annual grafton at that famous institu-
ton. He accepted the honor and,
doubtless, thinking of the great num-
ber of Lucy Cobb institute girls who
would be present, chose as the subject
for his talk. "Woman, Gods Noblest
Work" His speech was good one
and delighted his large audience. The
following day the leading paper in the
city in which the young orator lived
published the speech in full. One SEN
timent read as follows in the manu-
script: "Woman without her, man
would be a savage" but when it ap-
peared in type it read this way: "Wo-
man, without her man, would be q
savage"
Advertisements, too, often appear
wide of the mark. For instance, the
following appeared not many months
ago: "Mr. and Mrs. Max Rosensteiner,
of No. - Baxter street, beg to an
nounce that they have cast off cloth.
ing of every description and would
like to be called on by their friends"
Another amusing error was shown
me by a Scotchman in one of the
crude papers of his native land. The
Scotch Presbyterians are very reli-
gious by nature and their newspa-
pers are in many cases more like
church journals than disseminators OF
news. The following is the item in
question. 1t was written: "James
Ferguson, going to sea, his wife desires
the prayers Of the congregation of
kirk" The slip of comma
made it appear this way: "James
Ferguson going to sea his wife, desires
the prayers of the congregation of
kirk" When this was read
out to the assembled family, as is GUS
tomary in Scotland, it is not surprising
that the impression got out that Mrs.
Ferguson was not a very amiable wo-
man.
Henry w. Grady was travelling in
Florida few winters before his death
and he wrote some exceedingly bright
and interesting letters to The Constitu-
Lion. In one he described with much
pathos a poor young fellow who had
been seized by that dreaded disease,
consumption. Mr.. Grady pictured the
young man travelling down the ST..
Johns river in search of health. He
described the sad expression of his
face, which seemed conscious that
death was almost upon him and that
his life on earth was only the matter
of few month at most, or perhaps q
few weeks. Mr.. Grady told of the sad
expression of the young mans eyes,
which seemed to haunt him, and the
hectic flush on the young mans face
which seemed like u mockery. AS
nearly everyone knows, Mr.. Grady's
handwriting was as hard to read as
Horace Greeley's, and it is not sur
prising that the printer made error
in setting up the article. When Mr..
Grady read his letter in The Constitu-
ton few days later he was Mortified
10 see the expression: "That tell-tale
hectic flush lit up his face" the words
"that tell-tale necktie flush lit up his
face" 1t was the winter season when
this occurred but the air around The
Constitution building was as hot as
July day when Mr.. Grady next put