The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-07-14

Dreadful execution is done sometimes
by the man behind the types. Once a
/ newspaper man wrote an ''ad' for a
theater, and in it said:
l From half-past eight till half-past ten
! You laugh and laugh and laugh again.
The style on that paper called for ex-
pressing the hours by figures; SO when
the ''ad'' appeared it read like this:
I From s.30to 1885, 49,.
You laugh and laugh and laugh again. r.
Sometimes the proofreader fails to cor
rect, and sometimes he doth correct too
! much. The sporting editor of San Fran
cisco newspaper had among his notes an
| Item which said The young salmon are
beginning to- run. -, The next morning
the statement was printed on his page
that'"T young salmon are beginning to
iswim." When the editor asked how it
had happened the proofreader said
cheerily:
That's all right. Billy. You had that
mixed UP with your turf stuff, but 1
Strengthened. it.out for you"
But why didn't YOU let it go as I wrote
tt" persisted the editor.
IT couldn't" was the reply "Who ever
heard of fish running?"
| Once year, when "3O' is in on the
Denver morning papers, and the tele-
graph editor, while waiting to be called
out to the makeup, feels as if he wouldn't
aemean himself if he talked with the re-
lporters who are holding down the mid
and dog watches, the old story of Mark
Twain is told. One of Marks early as
slgnments in Denver was to write up the
opening of new saloon, which was a
noteworthy bit of news in those days in
Western towns. The funniest way that
Mark could think to write that story was
| TO start 1t off soberly, and let the words
! pear silent witness to the fine quality of
the drinks dispensed that night. So the
artlcle started at walk, and soon ap-
peared to be running away with the
| writer. Out of the mist of ideas shone
| torth strong, if not clear, one great con-
! trolling purpose, and that was to eulogize
the saloonkeeper. And in this maudlin. in
| coherent eulogy the story ended at such
a late hour that Mark sent it out to the
composing room himself. He thought it
| was the greatest thing that ever hap
pened, and he laughed over it till he
crled-Which proceeding is contrary to all
humor1stic precedent; but Mark was
young them
! another proof of the fact that Mark
was young was shown the next morning
When ne: eagerly scanned the paper to
see MS story In type. Page after page
he turned to the last one, and then he
went through the paper again backward.
AT last, down at the bottom of a column
\ next to the reading notices he found this:
Il 4ssfhe Aicazar aloon was opened slass
night with appropriate Festivities,
ihcn Mark showed that even a humor-
list could have his serious moments he
rushed down to the office to find what
mad become Of his story. Tie manag,n.
editor knew nothing about it: the CITY,
editor hadn't heard of it, and the fore
man Of the composing room hadn't seen
it. AS Mark was snorting about tho
outrage and hustling about the office
| to md where in the name Of Hucklcberrv
Finn the copy had gone to-, proof
l,readec; gave a sly nudge to Mark and
| whispered confidentially, 'You owe me q
cigar ~
| ''Why how's that:' asked Mark.
| I've earned it, replied the proofread-
er In whisper of absolute confidence
II saved: your.~ioh for..yeu last nigh.
Maybe You don't know how the old man
| here feels about such things. He's fired
| three men Since Eve been .here-tust
I that way" 49, a. = :. - r.
( "Iust what way?" I, -.%-
why, just as you were last night. vol,
know. Your stuff wouldn't do at all: it
was simply terrible. I knew if the old
man saw it you We're gone, so T fixed
it up myself -
On most provincial newspapers, as pa
pers printed outside of New York are
known, the galley boys correct the gal
leys. Sometimes in the best regulated
onces the galley boy proves that he is
not a little brother to the OK One of
these bright boys, looking over a poem
That stood in the corrected galley rack.
saw the line .--- -.
Shall reign the Hecate of the deepest hell
being less Familiar with the English
! language than he was even with Greek
mythology, he wasn't certain whether cat
was spelied with final or not He
ran to the foreman, and being told that
in that office cat did not take the final
ne corrected the line so that the next
morning it read:
Shall reign. the He cat of the deepest he'll,
one morning the readers of an esteemed
contemporary were perplexed to see in
type the announcement that 'The Scotus
named down an important decision yes
teroay. Inc afternoon paper Of the
town, with whom the morning paper for
years had held a bitter controversy. in
terestlng none but themselves, on the rela-
i've merits OF morning and afternoon pa
pers, laughed that day, as the poets say
IN ghoulish glee," and it was up to the
morning paper the next day to explain
Inat the types" made them say that the
Scotus did SO and SO, when the telegraph
editor should have known that that word
was merely the abbreviation of the teleg-
rapher for supreme court Of the United
States.
Last Sunday a preacher in McKee's
Rocks, Pa. took for his text BE We
therefore steadfast,'' which, being inter
preted in the weekly paper, meant, BE
We there for breakfast p
It was the mistake Of makeup man
that put face powder pun between two
death notices, and the telegraph editor.
who stayed late that morning, saw It and
had it routed out Of the stereotype plate.
It is an old story-such an old one. that
about Leigh Hunts line, that "tl1e types.
almost refuse to do their duty in telling
it once again But the joke is said to
have died of old age the other day, and
one can't refuse to print an obituary no
tice OF an old and faithful friend For
-Washfngton's birthday the editor had
written a long and glowing eulogy Of the.
late departed, and down somewhere In the
middle of it the editor threw in Hunts
line:
And 10! Ben Athens name led all the
rest.
. He was s4fe that this gave to the
editorial the naAshing touch of poesy. He
was disappointed the next morning, not to
to say displeased, to find that period
had been stuck in after name" and the