The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-12

Bengali Gujurathl hndl, Kanarese,
Malayalam. Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil,
Telegu and Urdu The Sindh and Cr.
du are written from right % lef, IN the
Hebrew fashion The Urdn is sort
of script and is so chaotic in shape
that Il is impossible TO ,aducn /; 70 the
movable type form. Papers printed in
the Urdu language are therefore first
written out by hand and plate mace
| by the lithographic prucess The
"Oudh Akhbar," a sixteen page daily
published at Lucknow in this ian.
guage claims a circulation Of about
5000 II Is said that in order to han.
die this circulation It requires an OF.
| flee force OF about 200 Fortunate.
ly for The managers the wages paid to
natives are only a few cents day
The "Chahya Pulau" is an Arabic pa.
per published weekly AT Georgetown
on the Island of Penang. Straits Set
Elements The Arabic IS also q back.
ward" language.
We are informed that the Chamber
lain Medicine Company adyertises in
newspapers printed In thirty-two Ian
guages Besides the vernaculars and
the well known European languages,
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch,
German, etc, the list embraces mum
Der OF languages which until com
paratiyely recent times possessed no
alphabet but for which the Roman al.
phabet has been adopted Among
these are the native Hawaiian, Sa-
moan Tagalog philippine islands,,
Kafflr. Zulu and Basuto, of South
Africa. There Is also modern form
of the Malay language using Roman
characters, known as Romanzed Ma
lay. THIS Is used In Java and the
East Indies
II is difficult to conceive how ;hC
readers of some OF the papers manage
, TO handle them. Imagine man on f.
, crowded street car trying to read !
paper whose pages are ihirty-eigh
, inches long and tweGty-nine inches
/ wide. This is the size OF the "Hlta
=, badi." a Bengalic weekly published Il
! ICalcutta. India. The Cape Times.
|, an EngNsh daily published at Cap
2 Town, South Africa. is almost as nn
. wieldy It's pages measuring iwen1y
! seven and one-half inches In leng
. and twenty-five inches IN width.
q To an American newspaper man J
!, Is interesting 10 note he manner h
!, which he colonial Eng'isi nowspy
~ psrs are made up They sim cling .
= The methods which were nractaed d
- th's couai:g fifty years ago. "a d
a yer. isemcJts being upon the first fen
n pages followed generally by the heay
editorials. then a few meager cabl
and telegraphc items, afterwards tn
10 local news. The local news consist
y principally of the proceedings OF th
i. legislative bodies. town council scho,
IN board. etc Contributions by the rea'
is lers are numerous and lengthy
if The editorials are generally Of
,e more dlgnifed and serious natgi
ID than American productions. The dai
,e papers devote more space 10 book r.
al views and detailed reports Of scie
!, tific progress than American newsp
". pers do ,iunor Is nor 80 nctlceab
Id and cartoons are used more rare
than with us.
"a Very few, II any, Of the colonial p
"a lpers issue a pink sheet but tht
Ig. supply this omission by devoting
rs large proportion OF every issue 10 u
.n. sporting news. This IS especially n
heeable In the African papers.
m. With few exceptions the advert
Ia. ling pages would give our "ad' write
al the nightmare. They seem 10 ha'
on little conception Of the value Oi spa
.ga or of attractive methods OF preser
10 Ing either the text or the illustration
In pleasing relief 10 this monoiOny
afforded by the ads" OF American a
of yertisers which are rather numero
ia. on their pages. We see many o
er. friends among these advertisers al
In prominent among these Is the Cha
Is, berlain Medicine Company.