Show ajl 1 S 1 i 7 1 x nr A A few words on alio from a professor NEWSPAPER WORK ajl tho koa dors trials curious errors hints to in writers nimit hj ii 1 t few people not connected in some way with newspaper making have any processor bringing lie their lit explaining ons arp ana follows they take a bag piece of wood and punch alie letters on it and froin eliat they print the paper pi present tins asai of alie lack part of that famous personage alie general reader indeed it seems to me that the quoted n he evening ewt the other day giving specimens of alie manner in which certain unprofessional hut bookish people marked their kroona Kro ofa chows almost as dreaka etc uie was eliat of a clergyman alio noticed a turned letter and wrote on alio margin JE to printer please insert a letter here which is kotrc versed what ideas of itlie printers 1 art that worthy domine must have had it has to me being R sub eject rarely eliat 0 o evening aw read ars might be interested in a sketch of alie work af pf paper ready inep present slight picture of the that much maligned individual the proofreader proof reader has to contend with 11 II an extorting from any candid person alie confession that alie frequent remark how incorrect the be altered to it ia almost a marvel eliat so few errors occur my object YI ill e a brala embracing wisdom competent to instruct the public in theology or politics science or r abut even lie rev crice Is auer all but human and human to rr even alie humble individual mw being presented to public notice even he it is whose art it is often to point out errors of his chief inevitable in the producing A daily paper error tart writer would be the arst to notice but I 1 stray from alie order of my subject bearc alie proof reader bees the editor sand other aass there is interposed another very necessary part afi llie machiner yi the coni this is he eliose duty it is to place alie copy before him on a case containing movable type 1 I am thus particular alio like our cited appear to alic vaguest notion translate the MS or reprint into metal the beason for thac error note or by alio clergyman spoken of is very simple the compositor holda his io alich the types I liese types arc nicked on one fide and if placed in alie stick the nick in instead of out the letter in print being th at frequent intervals and tills groces pro ces technically called als principally responsible pridu italoa lajo must noticed fie wide space after cadi word sometimes appearing in a newspaper article I 1 have been asked tho leaon for blits and as it lias a bearing on one branch of my subject I 1 thought lu arder tp haac the apa apdy for alie pres promptly 1 ia coin d piece or takes as aliey arc technically called these takes have to be made to come into even lines thus necel nece l tatang the wade spaces 6 alio compositor lias pul alie type into shape a proof of it is printed and submitted alie proofreader proof reader duty it is to read it by the copy and note on the margin not on lythe errors compositor but frequently alie errors f author and editors edi toras well in this part of hla work the reader ia assisted by a copyholder alio reads alie MS to lum when alie compositor tor lias corrected or la supposed tup posed to alio marks tuo proof aidi revised and if t I 1 dac say that the marking is done in a more concise manner than was alie case in alie example quoted at alie beginning of this article those interested will a facsimile of a proof in the back of websters 8 dictionary tio nary are who liard not experience MSS lettera arod h friend will be so obscurely written eliat one fi tempted in despair to cease alie endeavor to discover what meaning it may contain if ou kind reader with unlimited time to devote to alio endeavor to niante clear idle drift i respondent almost can you not with alie proofreader proof reader who I 1 obliged to make read sensibly ayt up from copy often a veritable puzzle on almost both dead and living foreign languages this too Is usually ta be done in the greatest hurry is it any marvel eliat an occasional error creepy in chave lh ave said th atthe proofreader proof reader not only alie compositors mistakes ant also of alie writer also that lie occasionally presumed pre to point out alie short comings of even lie mighty editor quito recently nil biad occasion to quote goldsmiths vicar of wakefield and completely w t quoted the proofreader proof reader camo to alie called the editors attention to it alio writer in question sa usually very careful BO th wasat fim inclined to doubt atio of the quotation but was anally bow baich an error in a paper making a specialty one referred to of literary criticism would seem especially noticeable on another occasion the editor VM writing on city politic and b would have spoiled the entire article had it not been detected by the proofreader proof reader arc given only as examples of frequently aria ing where the proofreader proof reader if lie ia in yond ehte inertly ai jiji hat most or even part W proof is editors mistakes that is far anse my only ahas little insight into tho pains necessary to bring articles before him a correctly ca they aro presented the raison detre oc the proof tha compositor 1 have otan to picture to my mind on alie general reader were the paper printed as it leaves alic compositors hands it would me gome of my itna faba pointed alitto ine slight errors in the with which 1 am connected be present while the proofs verc being read printer sometimes work is to con 0 5 J 1 proof few examples of errors lucli as do not meet alie public gaze tharo have been numerous quoted of the of arc stifled arc certainly as ludicrous as any which the humorous columns can ashow ahe bright particular star in my galaxy did not como im under my own observation the reporter was chronicling chroni cling the events of the glorious fourth and told of aboy who ic pockets u dac tilled which bei rag ignited e boy cd eliat alie reporter wrote the sympathies of the entire community will be extended to his and bereaved il typesetter type setter iho sympathies ot alie entire community will be extended to and turned pants belc to paper is put in shape for the press is called many of the words abbreviated for government etc such a piece fell into the hands of one of our geniuses who proceeded to inform a waiting world sto asto a the ona A editor pro cla mation against alio antl rioters in wyoming ten atory recently 10 lo lim as a magistrate who does not bear the sword in vain cju s sword fir 1 A birc fea cal as alie Larid sturm or third levy C the proof it appeared f diirr T jn from an engliski sli paper was shown alic importance of a single letter and also alie curious work ahe compositors abin correcting alic marks made by the reader the passage read as follows throw 01 of mile on alie dog owning every dog owner knew and acted up la hii etc in setting alic type the compositor omitted alie letter n in pie word omphia oM nhia te stoof nt eaI of inserting it where it the c in acted to an n a liu ho passage read the police the alic spread of on alip dog owma if every do onar knew and anted up to hiis responsibility etc A judis performances that it contained songs interpolated by chis was 4 j by as con fusion of alic proof readers mind inevitably caused at times by thomass of in ofisa lic meets with w moment th puzzling haw can soup be interpolated in a play for impossible oa it may beam alio word sags arms this the compositor mangled by lier maidens read liia war dress appear with his war dress and dies in his arms la good another acm recently met with is ss followay follow sy n hg mast complete uy jucha Juc Ja readily rushed into their claws mementoes of lie valley Ic dinna colonial and belica can adv intal ligar fancy not BO will save leini alie trouble of attempting it the meaning of lie passage is iii eit anly alie most complete and interesting eliat lias come under the writers notice it is mementoes men toes etc noticing a mention in alic proof of S to a holiday sale to a dainty curiosity prompted mo to look at alie copy and I 1 discovered that the writer hd intended to 06 ia kniat w 3 if articles were ss originally put in type names would often appear in late nawa ithma when there is not time for the proofs aliey do irr a of a few al ready of alie ne the hurry cataili of dividing the copy in batall pieces if alio writing is at all obscure each operative makes of a name what it seems to resemble w in an wherein the the first it clinti J ironle ISon le the thial beule I eule and now alie foi ional reader woultz naturally think that could be written to each of forms yet is alm fact As another in the bame word is bf hayg of the one who seta it twill cite the case of an in aluch tl 0 o word edity occurred fec veral and birno t As nearly na I 1 can aber if was made minority priority at rocity rosity aw not nil lilt they are ah tha oc curo mant alic only parts of which there was unanimity were alio lat l two syllabic another gourch of priors in proofs placed hi by alie writer alio in stanco I 1 will spery is ghan w of boin mon occurrence but to shiow aliat can bo don bytho flary nn tamad compositor put on his in writing ii birth notice abo note wo pan no paragraph waar iUen n can tho im abino what tho alio manipulated the copy alid with that he actually made this birth notice include alio words no parents topsy that enfant grow dd r und BO I 1 continue but instances will urve for my purpose or a lutlo of what tho proofreader has to contend with in a pa er appear eyan as correctly as it does fand bohto unprofessional reads firs may bo kiven a few words of advice aa to manuscripts fur jue la no knowing what ate lias in detoro aud any reader may bo some day to rush litlo print under aljo binse of vox rophii rop ii alro bono publico vrr atas or old subscriber it is a singular fact that people whose handwriting id otherwise almost irreproachable proa chable will write proper ill euch a rc anner that the proof readers only resource is aff guess at their meaning the one great account for the fact that bo many write J inexactly the someway sam eway if vou mr john jones do not wish to nn ure as I 1 jones always write your Js tho line for in proofs read by the present writer I 1 always is passed as J and jaa J also it is important to make a clear between ns and us another important point is uati du the therom rn alias often been written abou t law been won and lost by the presence or absence of accomma A case in came under my observation recently an item clipped from an exchange stated that the Presby terina church had twenty six sunday schools an attendance of ivr 1000 tho sense was com chanced bythe insertion of a tabs the presbyterian church has twenty six sunday schools with an attendance of over 1000 was referred to editor who read it that the presbyterian biad only twenty eix sunday school and sq killed tir cancelled it of course eliat misun va duo entirely to tho haste of I 1 it as an a tiling as a comma an hauef on a sentence Ariot liei greaf bidock in proof is involved sentences thine in writing is to malio the beeso clear as few words ag possible in a sentence often have I 1 started back to the be pinnise of a lone sentence aen tence striving to find te sequence and often dos lie editor remorselessly kill what ilia writer considered alie hia article simply because it led no whither there are two mothr points which have mentioned bot which can scarcely be too moch dwelt one is writ in on on lyone side of the paper possibly tha I 1 havo said about llie of copy into emal pieces will Rivo Bome loader an idea of the caution much iu iatter that would otherwise appear in print is rejected solely because writers will not observe ibis first principle of wrid tor he press the other oy arki biot roll bo M the intending to contribute to a paper who will observe these rules liay possibly prevent some pro juanity in the composing room E II 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