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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-10
Everyday Facts in
Newspaper Making
From an Address by Albert E. Hoyt, Of
the Albany Argus, Before the New YORK
Press Association,

From an Address by Albert e, .Hoy,t, Of
the Albany Argus, Before the New YORK
Press Association.
MN HAT are some OF the charges
lUAUI and criticisms most common
NIW ly made against newspapers
" W and newspaper makers? We
are told that newspapers make mis-
takes-mistakcs OF the type, inaccur-
acies In statement, blunders as to facts;
and, as libel suits occasionally remind
us, deliberate Misrepresentation is
sometimes charged. We are also told
that the "sensationalism of the press
Is a great and growing evil; some
would have us believe that even the
best intentioned newspapers are more
or less saffron in hue.
d
To the first indictment, that news
papers make mistakes, defendant
pleads guilty, and asks that there be
called as witness on behalf Of COM
plainant some one who makes no mis-
takes. Typogra phical errors are par
ticularly exasperating--I suppose be-
cause they are usually so trivial; it is
the little things that count. Consider
the difference in size between a mos
quito and n regiment of infantry; yet
many man who would face a regi-
ment with the utmost calmness will
go all to pieces and keep the Recording
Angel busy for week, just because a
tiny mosquito is singing a bit of lula
by to him. 1t is just so with the typo
graphical error; the only difference be-
ing that you can't shoe away typo
graphical error or appeal to the better
of re NH-ith 10
broad side of a book. 1t is the little
things that hurt:
80, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite
'em:
And so proceed ad infinitum."
Some typographical errors are mere
ly ludicrous; others would move strong
men to tears, teetotalers to drink, Job
to anger To err is human, to forgive
unusual The line of type which gets
into the paper bottom-sid up is the
one line every body is sure to see; the
word mspelled, the sentence with a
wrong word or two in it-well, an edi-
tor would never begin to suspect how
many readers he has unless that sort
OF thing happened. The question is,
how do typographical errors occur7
Why do they occur? Why doesn't some
body get up law against them? Most
Of the daily newspaper offices of the
present day use linotype machines, so
called because they set type by the line,
and not by the letter, as it used to be
set by hand. Now when there happens
to be wrong word or letter in a line,
in resetting that line there is always
a chance that the linotype operator
may make one or two new mistakes.
1t sometimes happens Especially when
the hour of going to press is near at
hand) that there is no time for the line
thus reset to be again read by the
proofreader; so it goes into the paper
with all its typographical errors uncor-
rected.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-10

But consider, for a moment how
great is the opportunity for typograph-
ical errors in a daily newspaper. In a
newspaper column of minon type "a
size Of type commonly used in news
composition) there will be say 200 lines,
averaging seven words to q line; in
each line there will be an average of
something like so letters and six
spaces, making thirty-eight times to a
line that the linotype operator must
strike the keys of the typewriter-like
KEYBOARD arrangement before him, each
or which moves and "sets" a letter or
punctuation mark, a figure or a space.
suppose that in an eight-page, fifty
six column, paper there is an average,
taking the dull with the busy seasons,
or say % columns of advertising, and
something like 30 columns Of straight
news typesetting every day, exclusive
of heads" News compositors work at
the linotype machine eight hours, much
of which, especially the latter half of
it, is done ION the jump" A rapid man
will set in that time something like
10000 to $4,000 ems" and an average
man 10000 to $4,000 ems" That is to
say, in setting 80 columns Of news type
containing 5000 lines, the operator
makes a total Of 228OO0 single impress
sions upon the keyboard, and makes
them at the rate Of 1000 to 5000 "ems"
per hour. These figures are not exact,
but they approximate accuracy near
enough to convey to the general pub
lie an idea of the situation. Is it so
unheard-of a thing if in half a dozen
of those 22S,OOO letters there are typo
graphical errors? If one or two of
those 5000 lines sometimes get turned
upside down by the foreman in the final
rush of lifting the type into the
forms" and hurrying a page TO the
stereotyping room. is it objectionable? +?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-10

The new call for troops in the Phil
ippines offers able bodied men the op-
portunity to become travellers and
heroes at the same time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-10

Is d newspaper 10 be judged by one
or two things, or by general aims and
tendencies? What is sensationalism?
What is news? What ought to go into
the paper? What ought to be left out?
One man would say that he cares
nothing for local happenings because
he already knows all about them; but
another cares for nothing so much as
an account of what he already knows
OF and Is interested in. Some do not
care for telegraphic news; some think
that newspaper with no advertise
ments would be the ideal paper; some
would omit the sporting page, while
others would eliminate reports OF SER
mons. If the makers of a newspaper
We're to accept all the suggestions re-
ceived as to what should be omitted,
because too sensational or otherwise,
would there be anything left except a
consciousness of rectitude and a re-
ceivership? Once upon time a woman
in society gave one of those grand af-
fairs which the society editor calls a
function" All the papers reported it
fully; one paper reported It at espe-
cially great length, and in glowing
terms recounted the charms of the
hostess, and the elegance of the affair
~AAh'A ""iN ShN Noo hCdlu " complain
to her friends OF the growing evils of
newspaper notoriety, and "for her part
she wished there was a law against
such newspaper reports as the one in
question" This was the more inter-
esting, in view of the fact that the agr
grieved lady had written that particu-
lar article herself-eVery dot, dash and
comma, every gushing adjective was
her very own.
The newspaper is merely a picture of
l!fe, drawn with more or less skin by
men neither better nor worse than the
average Of their fellows When you
pass from general to particular, every
paper must be, I'm its dominating tend
encies, either good or bad; hot or cold,
not lukewarm; not "betwiXt and be-
tween" Newspapers are like eggs
there are good eggs, and bad eggs, but
no such thing as a pretty fair" egg,
or pretty fair newspaper. The news
paper is not unlike the little girl who
had a little curl right down in the
middle Of her forehead; when she was
good she was very, very good, and
when she was bad she was horrid.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
The New Railway.

The improvements that have been
made during the past few years in it's
track, road-bed, bridges, %trestles, tun-
nels, etc., have virtually made a new
road of the NORTHERN Pacific. The
road bed has been widened, trestles
filled in, new and heavier steel
rails laid, grades cut down, wooden
bridges replaced by steel ones, curves
taken out, tunnels lined with sbrick
and concrete, and improvements made
wherever possible. Hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars we're spent in this way
during 1898 besides large sums in pre-.
vious years.
New and mammoth locomotives cap
able of drawing the heavy t%rans-conti-
mental passenger trains at seventy five
miles per hour. when necessary, have
been bought. Progress and advance
ment have been and are the order of
the day. Such a road, SOLID. SMOOTH
SAFE, it is a pleasure to ride over, espe-
cially as it runs through the finest
scenery OF the Northwestern Empire
and touches all the greater cities found
there. Pullman's best cars, both Tour
list and First-Clas Sleeping Cars. and
a royal Dining Car are a part of the
through trains from ST. Paul and Min
neapolis to Tacoma, Seattle and Port
land; IL distance of 1000 odd miles.
Your bed room and dining room are
carried along with you all the way
where you are, they are; where you go,
they go.
If you go into the Northwest this
year use this route. In the meantime
send to CHAS. s. FEE, Gent Pass,
Agent, st. Paul, MINI, six cents for
WONDERLAND so and read about that
country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
For sale by Emil Hargens.

Attend the st. Paul Business Col.
lege. 1t elicits the confidence of all
business men. It has grown in favor
until it is known as the most reliable,
cheapest and practical business COL
lege in the Northwest. 1t teaches
bookkeeping by actual business tran
sactions, enabling the student to do
quickly and we'll the work of the clerk
OF accountant in the store, counting
room and bank. This department is
handled by experienced accountants.
Business Arithmetic, Spelling, Gram
mar, Penmanship and Business Cores.
pondence are taught in q practical
manner. Being educated lawyers, we
have 9 large class in that study. We
educate strictly for business, and the
legal advice We give students will pre-
vent many . law suit.
80 MAoUIRE Bios.
SO e. 9Th ST., st. Paul, MINI,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Millions Given AWAY.

It is certainly gratifying to the pub
lie to know of one concern in the land
who are not afraid to be generous to
the needy and suffering. The pro.
prietors of DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds
have given away over ten million trial
trial bottles of this great medicine: and
have the satisfaction of knowing it has
absolutely cured thousands of hope.
less cases. Asthma, Bronchitis. Hoarse-
ness and all diseases of the Throat.
Chest and Lungs are surely cured by
1t. Call on Emil Hargens, druggist,
and get a free trial bottle. Regular
size SOC. and 81. Every bottle guaran-
teed, or price refunded.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
UNION.

Chas. Brooke is on the mend, feeling
much better now.
Smith and Wilkinson are hauling
wood for the Union schools.
Squire Wilkinson sold two calves for
sos, which seems to be a fair price.
A. S. Barnes is digging u we'll for
Mr.. Fisher just over the state line.
ID. Brooke is cutting native alfalfa
(sunflowers) but is not getting a full
crop.
Grandpa Pettegrew is becoming al
most helpless. This hot weather is
very trying on him.
Saml Anderson passed through on
his way to Wyoming where he has a
job for the coming winter.
Meeting at the new school house
every two weeks. All cordially invited.
No collections taken Of visitors. The
Church of Christ does not increase its
finances in that way.
Work is booming in Union. Most
every day someone is inquiring for
hands. This brings to mind that at
the last general election, two young
Bryan voters, promised If good times
came they would vote for Mckinley
next time. Now let us see!
"UNo AND mo-"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Attend College this Year.

Never in the history of our country
WIS there a grander opportunity than
the present for educated young men
and women. What an suspicious mo.
ment for those who are just now on
the threshold of life.
Grand Island Business and Normal
College has for fourteen years been
the leading institution of it's kind in
the western states and last year more
than twice as many calls we're received
for its graduates as could be supplied.
Everything necessary for a successful
start in life is taught-business, nor.
NAL and shorthand courses. Expenses
low. Board only sl.5O a week. One
years time given on tuition if desired.
College Record sent free, or for six
cents will send elegant catalogue.
Address,
A. M. HAReEs, President,
Grand Island, Nebr.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Brave Men Fall

Victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles as we'll as women. and ali feel
the results in loss of appetite, poisons
in the blood, backache, nervousness,
headache and tired, listless, rundown
feeling. But there's no need to feel
like that. Listen to j. w. Gardner,
ldaville, Ind. He says: "Electric Bit.
tiers are just the thing for a man when
ne is all run down and don't care
whether he lives or dies. 1t did more
TO give me new strength and good ap-
petite than anything I could take. ]
can now eat anything and have a new
lease on life" Only 80 cents, at Emil
Hargen's Drug Store. Every bottle
guaranteed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Burlington Route Cheap Rates June LIST to
October :51St.

Burlington Route Cheap Rates June LIST to
October 31st.
Custer and return on Saturday and
Sunday, limit three days, 1905.
Deadwood aud return, daily. limit
five days, 5000; good to stop off at
Custer and Hill City.
Deadwood, Lead and Spearfish and
return, daily, limit seven days, $50;
good to stop off at Custer and Hill
City.
Sheridan and return, daily, limit ten
days, Sl4.5O.
Grow Agency and return, daily, limit
ten days, ST. 90.
Yellowstone National Park and re-
turn, daily, limit 40 days, s6.7O.
Also cheap convention rates to yari.
II points during the summer and fall.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Working Night and Day.

The busiest and mightiest little
thing that ever "a made is DIR. Kings
New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar
coated gobule of health, that changes
weakness into strength, listlessness
into energy, brain-f into mental
power. They're wonderful in building
up the health. Only % cents per box.
Sold by Emil Hargens.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Liver Complaints and Nervousness
Cuur.ed-

A torpid liver always produces dullnesz
and irritability. You are all clogged up aud
feel Respondent. Perhaps you have treated
with physicians or tried some recommended
medicine without benefit. All that is NO
argument against DIR. Fenncr's Blood and
Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic which Will
SO readily cure impaired nerves, liver com-
plants, headaches blood and skin diseases.
etc. Get a circular of dealer.
For sale by Emil Hargens.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

One and Fifty Cords of Wood
Wanted.
Sealed bids will be received until
August %, 1899, at Z p. NJ, for furnish
ing $50 cords OF green cut four foot
wood, to be delivered on school ground
beginning September 10, and ali deliv.
cred before January 1, 1900, in lots of
% cords Or more. Right to reject any
or all bids reserved.
j. L. BURKE,
Clerk, Ind. School Dist. No. 10.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Kidney or Bladder Troubles.

1fyou suffer from kidney. bladder or urin-
airy troubles, or from too frequent or scanty
urine, DIR. Fenner's Kidney and Backache
Cure is what you want. Bed-wetting by
children is speedily cured by one bottle Of
this powerful remedy. Testimonials are
disregarded. many people doubling the hont
esty or sincerity of them, We therefore avoid
giving any here, but furnish them in circular.
Get one of your dealer.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
StraYed.

Three mares strayed from my place
on Cold Brook about August, 1886: one
black mare, seven years old, branded
horseshoe bar on left shoulder, also
AC on right flank; one white mare six
years old branded AC on right
flank, and circle six on left
shoulder; n iron gray mare, three
years old, branded AC on right flank.
Should have had colts the year they
left. Liberal reward will be paid for
these mares, or information leading to
their recovery.
&C: CLARK,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

AGENTS WANTED For 1.-THE Life and
Achievements Of Admiral Dewey: !" the worlds
greatest naval hero. By Mmrat Halstead, the
idol. biggest and best hook; over 500 pages,
sx10 inches; nearly 100 pages halftone illus
trations. Only 81 I'D. Enormous demand.
Big commissions. Outfit free. Chance of a
lifetime. Write quick. The DoMINIoN COM
PANY, Sd Floor CaXton Building, Chicago.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
Mat,esalsE sesmpmsas q. A.. R. at Phila-
eluhiu

Is!|IIIl|3l!|l year-less than one
Si1YI3 fare for the round trip
will be made for the
National Encampment of the G. A. r.
at Philadelphia. Selling dates, August
81, September /, and .. Return limit,
September 30. Rate is open to the
general public.
AS usual the veterans and their
friends will take the Burlington Route,
avoiding change of depots in Chicago
and securing for themselves the spe-
cial advantages in the way of fast time
and through car service which that
RAILROAD offers.
Special G. A. II. train for Philadel-
phia leaves Omaha 5 p. M, Saturday,
September 8. Sleeping, dining and
free reclining chair cars. Berths a
be reserved now. See local ticket agent
and ask him about rates, routes and
trains. Or, if you wish, write to j.
Francis, General Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Neh. 15.3t
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

Money to patent good ideas may be
secured by our aid. The Patent Re-
cord, Baltimore, M. d.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

it's Little Early Risers did me
- gbod than all blood medicines
81 efs rS Sensp palls Conn., s1ltf pr Gse; = pi SssoSs,
' erippe-they cure constipation,
arouse the torpid liver to action and
give you clean blood, steady nerves, a
clear brain and a healthy appetite. E.
b. Cook & Co, Emil Hargens.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
SECRET SOCIETIES..

AT. & A. M.-Harmony Lodge meets at
month. Visiting brothers cordially invited.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

PACIFIC SHORT LINE AT o'NE1lL, NEB.
TINE TABLE:
Leaves: Passenger, Arrives,
1910 a. m. Daily, Except Sunday $3.50 p. nj.
EvThrough connections both ways with
Block Hills train. By taking this line you
can go to Sioux City and return the same
day. Connections made with al trains for
the east and for South Dakota, Buy local
tickets to O'Neill.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25
"a YEARS,
1T HAS GRADUATED
600 STUDENTS.

Among which are leading business men.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

Hot Springs Encampment No. 80, /. o. o. r.
Meets at i. 90. r. Hall on the LIST and Bird
Saturday evening of each month. Visiting
Patriarchs cordially invited to meet with us.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-25

a$|& s !'s; s' 'isIs' $. 0.
LINCOLN, DENVER.
OMAHA. HELENA,
CHICAGO, BUTTE.
ST. JOSEPH, PORTLAND.
KANSAS CITY. SALT LAKE CITY,
ST: LOUIS, and all SAN FRANCISCO,
points Gust and south. and all points west.
TRAINS LEAVE AS FoLLows:
No; 2ls: Passenger, daily. Custer;
Hill City, Deadwood. Lead City aud
Spearfish leaves, 7:hs a m, arrives. 1882 am.
No. PA. Passenger, daily. Edgemont
and all points east. west and south
leaves, $500 PM, arrives, 1882 pm.
Sleeping, dining and reclining chair. cars
sold to ali points in United Suites and anada,
For Information regarding rates, timet tables
etc, call on or write r. d. West, agent, or j.
Frances, general passenger agent, Omaha,
Nebraska.
The Denison review., 1899-09-19

comes to his new field of labor with the
experience of some years as an educators
and also with the strength and nope oI
young manhood. We predict for him q
successful course at Simpson College.
We desire to say that Whatever n meas as
work of the District has been made possi-
BILE only by the loyalty and fidelity OF tne
Pastors in their assigned fields OF iapor.
We also recognize that every good siIl
and every opportunity for usefu! serves
comes to us from the Father OF Lsnts,
shadow of turning, to whom we give de-
vout thanks for adj mercies received.
Respectfully submitted.
]. III. SENSENEY.
PROSPECT PARK CHURCH.
Before the Conference year began, the
Northwestern Mutual Life insurance
Company of Milwaukee had demanded full
foreclosure proceedings. No proposition
which the Trustees could make was sat
isfactory. The case was pressed In the
courts: the church sold under decree July
s, being bought In by the companys
agent for the full amount of the .ocbliga..
ton, S., 066.s2 Fearing the. possibility OF
deficiency Judgment becoming a lien on
the parsonage property, the company
holding the mortgage thereon, also insti-
tuted proceedings, selling under decree
April 20. at $1,M9.A. the full claim: the
purchaser being the mortgagee. Wheth-
er anything may yet be saved OF our
be determined until later,
In the Judgment Of the heroic people
who have so long paid to their utmost on
the heritage of debt left them by others,
only thus to at last lose all they have
paid, nothing now remains but to provide
themselves with new Church home.
The Denison review., 1899-09-19
ly interpret nature-or when its allu-

ly interpret nature-or when its allu-
sions to natural phenomena were Scien-
tifically incorrect In support of this
proposition, he put to the test of the
latest and seundest scientific knowledge
the creation, the deluge, the declaration
stars, Arcturns, the north pole Of the
universe, the earth's rotundity, the mo-
tion of the sun among the stars, the
laws of Kepler. gravitation, spectrunl
analysis; called attention to the tele-
graph as in Jobs "Canst thou send the
slightnings?" and the artificial rain Of
Job iiiviii:34, and of the railroad in Ma
the life of a planet, and showed how a
world is born. grows old and dies; the
moon and the planet Mercury are dead
worlds, because so small they have
passed all the stages of their life his
tory fastest; Mars is a dying world;
Venus and earth are living worlds; Sat
urn is yellow-hot, Jupiter white-hot,
and the sun hottest of all.
But the earth will some day become
a dead world, as the moon is now dead,
and as Mars is dying. When this world
has finally become the tomb of the en-
tire human race, when all its oceans
and atmosphere have been sucked into
it's crust, will this world continue to
roll on forever a dead world? No; it
will be destroyed, consumed, as will all
the rest of the bodies in the solar sys-
tenn, each in his own time and order
They will wind down their spiral stair
way into the sun-"roll together as a
scroll'-"pass away with great noise"
the elements will melt with fervent
heat"-"the earth shall thus literally
be burned up" Out Of 1t all will
come forth again new solar system
land there shall be new heavens
and new earth.'
LAY NnNEER EsNrfsE
The Denison review., 1899-09-19
.rHE BIBLE AND THE STARS"

DR.. p. l.. Eaton spoke on this theme
on Thursday afternoon to full house.
He has evidently given years of study
to both branches Of his great theme.
He began by making quotations from
scientific writer's of all ages to show
that uninspired men always misinter-
pref nature and fill their pages with
scientific blunders. The Egyptians
taught that the earth was hatched
from winged egg. The Hindus that
it rested on the horn Of q cow. HerOdo-
tus makes the Euphrates empty into the
Red Sea. The Greek philosophers and
scientists held all sorts of fantastic and
NEUROLOGICAL notions about the earth
and the heavenly bodies. Good old John
Bunyan said that there We're 10000
stars Augustine said that there were
no people on the other side Of the earth.
John Wesley taught that God first
made four elements-earth. water, air
and fire. He also issued little book,
which was circulated freely in his day,
called 'Physic for the Common People"
Very humorous quotations of recipes
for diseases were made from this book,
among them specifics for lethargy, in
sanity, hydrophobia. old age. dropsy
and measles. The mistakes Of Andrew
Jackson Davis. who said that there
were but seven planets, and but four
asteroids. Also Of Tennyson, who
wrote about 1.-The snowy poles Of moon
less Mars"
Over against these scientific blunders
which crowd the pages Of all writer's
in all ages he placed the Bible and chal-
lenged to point out in any single
instance where 1t had failed to correct