As early as 1856 the Boston Typographical Union seriously considered discharging any member found working with female compositors.

As I look back and think of those cataracts of printed stuff which honest compositors set up, meaning, let us trust, no harm, and which at least found them in daily bread,printed stuff which I and the rest of us, to our infinitely small profit, have consumed with our eyes, not even making an honest living of it, but much impairing our substance,I could almost reckon the printing press as amongst the scourges of mankind.

That's to show it isn't the intelligent compositor's mistake, you see!"

Bradford was very illiterate, and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of press-work.

I have seen the poor, half-paid type-setters strike for their altars, their sires, and more wages, and I have seen a troop of petticoats, with gal children inside them, trot into the type-setter's place, so that the miserable compositors were compelled to return and starve on four or five dollars a day.

It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the windows, and the all but naked compositors wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and called for water.

The author wrote "Teutonic Peoples," but the native compositor thought he knew betterand perhaps he did.

Mr. Stuart's reputation as a rapid compositor spread all over the city in a short time and people used to come to the office to see him set type, with as much curiosity as they do now to see the typesetting machine.

The most remarkable compositor ever in the Northwest, if not in the United States, was the late Charles R. Stuart.

These machines require a separate mechanism that distributes each type in its proper place after use, or else a separate compositor must be employed to do this by hand.

I can well trust your editor, when I don't use queer phrases which prove themselves wrong by creating a distrust in the sober compositor.