The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-08-07
FRIDAY, AUGUST Z. 1885.
THE MIDLAND JOURNAL.

THE MIDLAND JOURNAL.
This issue of our paper appears in a
new form, with q new head and partial
change in name printed on fine white
paper, enlarged to the extent of nearly
fo urof the longest columns, and we
hope improved generally. Our readers
will be their own judges in the mater
of improvements, perogative they
would not be willing to part with, and
which we would not wish to abridge.
They will very naturally desire TO
know our reasons for these changes
which we will briefly state were inspir-
ed solely by business motives. The
present eight page form enables US to
arrange better the different depart
ments, and give more variety to its
pages, which is an important pint In q
family paper.
Business is memorable in its demands
and the business of paper cannot be
ENLARGED and extended, while hamper
ed by village name, no more than the
mothers darling can become man,
measuring up to the worlds standard,
if tethered 10y mothers apron string.
The law of newspaper-dcm is to con-
fine the village paper to the village
business and its immediate surround
ings. and .'Rising SUM- is too small
village to ind llge such pretentious am
bition. The old boy has been promis-
ing to rise too long. Let him get up and
dress and go to work and show broad
estate in the matter of industries equal
to the best of his sister towns, and then
he might have sons and daughters that
, would love to honor his name.
The village name fixes the statues of
a paper at once and Interchangeable in
the mind ofthe stranger, even before its
contents are examined, and the gener-
al advertiser, unless patent medicine
man, fights shy of the local paper
whose very name if bearing the village
name makes it appear intensely SO to
him: and he is not willing to pay more
shan an intensely small rate for adver-
ising.
) In selecting "MIDLAND" as name
lis done with sense of the fitness of
fappeIlations. Objects which concern
the public should be provided with
names which express, as nearly as pos
sible, the relation they bear to their
immediate surroundings. Our location
geographically considered is emphati-
cally a midlana position. We are mid
way between the great cities of Phila
delphia and Baltimore. We are mid
way between the ocean and the first
mountain range on the continent. We
occupy the central point of the great
geographical division between the
North and South of the country. In
agriculture the section of country ex-
tending on the north to central Penn
sylvania and on the south to central
Virginia and east and west from the
ocean to the Blue Ridge produces fruits
and vegetables of superior flavor, and
for this peculiar quality which they
possess in a Superlative degree this re-
gion eXcels in the excellence of its can
ming products. We might go on and
cite many more features which mark
this land as the midland of the country
and located on the very heart of this
favored division, no name could be
more fitting than midland" for a
paper. In euphony few ifany intheEng-
lish language excel the word. What
name more musisal than Midland?
Though strong and convincing as these
reasons are. they are but secondary to
the demands of prospective business.
That settles every thing with the aver
: age American, and he disposes of senti-
mental qualms as Shakespeare disposes
of physic.
Honor to the Distinguished Dead