Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-12-23
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foreign advertising, but really agents
for the advertisers themselves in maui
lng down newspaper prices. are get
ing ddta for their so-calIed directory
for 1900. One of the notions they put
in the mouths of advertisers is that
Il 900 is the unit of value" which
probably accounts for atfidavi's that
never fall under that figure. And
many newspapers make poverty
struck fools Of themselves by tumb-
ing into trap set for bringing TO
them all sorts of impossible offers.
Faller vat know mae en- Eckhart haze
tai mae max new song and haze var
setting ct to music vor Ieorge d.
Hooking, Dan. krapf, NelIiam IL.
Davis and DR.. Yohn C. Pfeiffer. Els
title es-"Yust Won Carl" An Aye
tai hem Aye know CARL vot tank Won
var enuff.-7He Eckha,t Philosopher.
The JOURNAL has another letter on
the "Bezaleel' order-a tip-top pro
duction. but there is no room for it
this week. If it will' keep" it will go
in next week.
Faller vot know mae en- Vrostburg
haze say Jonathan Bowery Velliams
dawote all hes TEN now to polishing
marble, an das marble baue yust lax
Eonathan-pOorty smOotn article, bay
yeminy. Tile Echhart Philosopher.
Somebody, writing apparently from
Frostburg, was at Niverton, Pa, last
week. and saw ii firm up there who,
working underground, ARE making
the wilderness blossom like rose and
the hillsides sparkle with black
diamonds that surpaSSes the fairy tales
of the Arabian Nights.' 1t is dollar
to doughnut that LlvengoOd will
want to know why they are promoting
the floral kingdom by working under
hillsides and pay their subscriptions
in something more substantial than
sparkles and blossoms Further down
there is a sudden break from Niverton
to "the divine Henry and the paper
that is Internationally Independent
and exclusively great. Iudulgiug for
awhile his propensity to Islander, the
writer next jumps into r.. H. Pascoe's
pumping shaft, then fniS. There has
never been an article published in
Allegany county that did so much
damage to the people and things its
author tried to commend.
Faller vat know mae haze say haze
tank haze veil write latter to Santa
Claus yust for one fun. Haze say haze
veil put ct en- I'Orum. But Ave tai
hem Santa var lukin for leetla faller,
and haze bane too big, an. bay yenks,
eff Santa hat yoke for hem ct we'll
fall en- tie Vormm's weekday Socks.-7 The
Echhart Philosopher.
The letter of Misses Sophia aud
Janet Schaub, lacking punctuation
and coherency, can be understood as
meaning what it states. AS a literary
production, however. it is far superior
to the average original editorial or
local matter which appears in the
Forum.
Aye balong to cloob en- DIES town now
an odder fallers plank down on mae
var subscription to buy chandelier
Falier outside vat know mae haze
say-''don't yo do ct. vor Aye bet sax
Wooptecs not Won faller en- te club can
play ct after ct get har."-The Eckhart
Philosopher.
a Frostburg business house issued
one day this month $500 handbills {;
another sent out l,j00. The former
bills were twice as large as the latter 4;
hence, to establish the true "cir-
culation," comparatively speaking.
the former would have to make aft
davit that its average" was over
three times that of the latter-in other
words-5 to II. That is the result
which people reach who are stuck only
h., ~ =, H.,
tisement. however, were well written,
nicely printed and generally more at
tractlve than the larger, the result
would most probably be ) to II the
other way. If not, then all advertising
is useless expense If not, there is
no philosophy in it one way or the
other.
The Forum denies that the JOURNAL
is Exclusively great" yet if the JOUR
NAL were as successfully bad as the
Forum otherwise reports it would be
the Eighth Wonder of the World"
The Forum should get its disiointed
system of logic repaired.
If David could induce his brother
Jonathan to rise and give in his ex-
perience as Il newspaper man what a
| ldle Oh woe lie WOulu unlOlu Inc
electric light elegy in the Council cham
Der Monday evening would pale away
beside it like twilight from the spooky
recesses of a graveyard. 1t really
seems that all Jonathan's experience,
especially outside the cemetery, are
| funereal. He is better fitted for memo
rializing than eXemplifying the dead
Reader, look this paper over critical.
| ly and name another equal to it in the
versatility of its statements of current
local, semi-local and county affairs.
An out west editor ran for office last
month and reports that 81 didn't get
near AS many votes As the BLdde has
delinquent subscribers in this county,
Curiously enough, RowelPS directory
puts his circulation at LOOT, Just
less than the Forum, based on an
affidavit. 1t is clear the delinquents
We're douhly ungrateful and the paper
had no influence even with those who
paid for it.
Faller vat know mae haze get latter
odder day and haze say-''yO ole skule
teacher en- Sweden shae hat triplets.'
Aye bane oonable to oonderstand desc
and Aye ask hem-"how can sooch
tengs be ven shae always tai mae Won
and Won max two ?'-THe Eckharj