Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-12-16

be gift whose value cannot be dis
puted. G. O. TowleS fOreSaw this for
one thing. and novelties in pictures
and brio a brac for another. Hence,
his place is point of attraction for
buyers that should not be ''p ,ssed by
on the other side"
Next door is another health-cure ap-
paratus for toothache, DR.. |. l.. Ritter,
operator. When it comes to bridge
work, gold crowns and artificial teeth
the doctor poses AS the personal rep
resentative of Santa Claus. Which
is saying IL good deal, but whatever
young man wants to signalze his at
lection for mother or father by having
the doctor replace their decayed teeth
by a ne and pretty set, the latter will
be found ready and willing to obey
orders.
With undsguised preferences for
trade at home," yet there are some
things of some patterns and of some
qualities that are not always obtainable
at home. In one direction these can be
found by writing to Julius Hines q
Son, Baltimore, whose catalogue of
everything to eat, wear and use com
prises whole lot of things one will
not otherwise think of. "Old Kris" is
authority for the statement that "a
little money goes IA long way at Hines"
Last, not least. is headquarters for
the ''best all rye in the United States"
The James Clark Distillng company,
Cumberland. There is Il good deal Of
this unparalleled article at places in
stburg, and as it enjoys a big run,
especially for culinary and medicinal
purposes, it beh )oveS those who want
the best for holiday uses to call for it
and take no other.' The analysis
| demonstrates that it has become the
standard of purity among analysts as
well as dealers and consumers. 1t Is
made of homegrown grain, of water
| filtered clean through the broad APP
palachian range. and rs far as II Is
| possible otherwise to make 1t, 1t Is
essentially and entirely IA product of
| the grains we use and water We drink.
1t is doubtless supertluous to add
that all these are JOURNAL advertisers,
and as such have a special claim upon
that portion of the people who feel
they owe something TO the town as a
whole as well as to themselves.
They know that however much taste
aud enterprise they display, so far as
these are credltable to the town the
Representations are merely local-only
home people, for the most part, see
them.
With their town paper it is different.
This is the town lnStltutiOn-the town :
only iustltutlou-whoSer reflections OF
the towns enterprise, taste and INTEL
Ggence are seen. measured and com
mended far beyond its limits. The
tree Is no more certainly known by its
| fruit than cOmmunity'S enlighten-
ment is guaged by the sort of paper II
supports. Whether that paper be
large or small-in size or circulation
matters little-if it be the best reflex
intellectually and rhetorically of the
towns civilization, even the poor fact
that it exists is tremendous adver.
tisement for the town.
If, on the other hand, it is Il gram
NAUTICAL REPUTATION every week of what
is taught that week in the public
schools it contains not grain OF
an idea worth remembering, the more
circulation it has the more it becomes
the towns sign-manual attesting with
all the force of unimpeachahle pre-
rogative that it is ''the very age and
body of the times. manners, customs
thought and talk of a people yet in the
backwoods .
And now is the time to subscribe fol
the JOURNAL, Frostburg's best adver
tisement,-for Yourself or for dis
tant friend ar for hOrh