The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1832-07-07

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q. SAMUEL RANDALL,
| June 80, - Council Clerk.
| AN EDITORS LEVEE.
"WeIl, Mr. Editor, I've brought you
some wheat-where do you want it put!
II viii show you-You wish credit: for
It on your nccoun,l "Ycs, I think II
lime paid you something. -" Very well,
sir"-" Every little hrlps'-and this
comes at very scarce time"
How are you, sirs" I am well, sir
-tnke sent" 81 have brought you
fine ham to pay for my paper--what do
you allow "A poundi" !" The highest mar
ket price" "This weighs twenty pounds
Il wish you TO give me credit fbr H."
"What's the news to day, Mr.. Editor
any from Europe;" "There is something
said about the Cholera, Reform Bill,
Frencli politics, war in Turkey, &c-here
is paper containing the latest dates"
Reads, under The head ofMiscellancous,
"The Printer Is not like Chameleon
he cannot live on wind, although he some
times pu6s--he eats vegetables, meat,
and bread, ,phen his subscribers pay for
their papers."] "Pm thinking, sir, that
little money would not come amss to
you-here hre three dollars to pay for rny
papcr-plense put il on your book Il will
try to be more punctual in future"
want to take your paper-and here
is one dollar in advance.
"Do you want any wood to day"-
Yes sir on newspaper account" !" l
have couple Of cords which want to
go that way"
"Will you take eight or nine bushels
Of oats on my newspaper nccounts"'--
Yes, sir, and glad to get them"
i" Are YOU the editor" "Yes, sir. !"
Will you take an order oh one of tic
stores, for three dollars!" An order on
any ofthe stores will answer.
Every trnde must live" here's an
advertisement offering splendid assort-
ment Of goods for sale, enumerating ma
ny of the articles--call at my store and
you shall have your pay-I'm not one OF
these kind of men that would spoil a jack
knife to skin flint.
"l want you to put an advertisement
in the paper for five OF SIX journeymen--
l must have more hands, or ! shall lose
my customers"
+" Here's ccuniy order, / want you
to take for my paper" 1t is as good us
the cash. -.
81 suppose yon will take pair Of shoes
on my account! 20 Yes, sir, aud ull
kinds of work.
Please look over yonr books, and
tell me the amount of my advertising bill
II will pay you"
"Can YOU print job, that will come to
about twenty dollars, this week" Yes,
sir. will leave the money with you
now--fve, ten, fifteen, twenty.
Whe,c! Reader, there Is not rord cf
The aJore tYae-it's all a Dram -! But,
Editors can't live on Wind.
We observe the following pithy remnrks
in the editorial column Of a New York
paper, and we advise all our brother edi-
tors to publish 1t.
sour subscribers, and others who owe
to US money, take notice that pay day il
! coming on, and their debts ought To be
pnid. We can enurneraie many reasons
ior it--but the few following will suffice:
In the lst place, the paper maker want,
his pay.
Cd. Our workmen want their pay.
Sd. Our inkmen want their pay.
4th. Our very" "printer's ID wants
his pay.
Glib. And even the very butcher nnt
baker want their pay also---"tui they ma.
sec ,chsre they get H."
And, indeed, all! ulll-and every bod,
want their pny from the " Printer"
Doth not, then, he want hispay n'so'
For, us the celebrated Doctor tirccn,''
Reading faycth---A printer cnnnot Nv
IN wind, like the organ pipes in c"nnir,
church--he mustuipve his pay as well Bs
] other f0lks.--lBi OIrd Settler !
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