Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-06-26
MI TUESDAY. JUNE &c. 1888. - -

WEAITH OF EDToRs. notion
generally prevails among the patrons of
a popular journal, that the editor IS aget-
ting rich" Itmay be instructive to some
Of our good patrons to learn how an eli.
tormakes his fortune. One case will il.
Iusfratea thousand. .s 9
An individual sends US his name as a
subscriber-postage 25 cents. He sits
down and calculates when he viii get his
Paper-ten days to go, and ten days to
return--in 4wenty days he expects to bless
his eyes with the sight of. his newspaper.
Twenty days elapse but no newspaper
he waits patiently FIVE days longer-no
paper yet; he sits down and writes again;
postage % cts, next day he receives the
paper, but his second letter has gone, and
the editor is taxed with his postage. He
isnow subscriber and reader of the
iournaland has cost the. editor but so cts.
Receives the paper three months, and
sends up an obituary; postage % cts.
Three months afterwards he changes his
residence, and postage 25 cts.s Receives
| 1t three months at his new residence, and
having grown wonderously wise by nine
months reading weekly journal, he con-
celves, brings forth, and forwards a s'coM-
MUNIGATIoN postage % cts. He is
now highly gratified that he has become a
subscriber-looks forward with mingled
emotion of impatience and self compla-
cency to the time when he sees himself in
print as large as iife The set time ar
riYes-the mail .comes-he is first at the
office--receiyes his paper; sketches its
contents with palpitating heart drops it
in disappointment, and sighs out; no COM
munication. Another week wears away
between hope and fear. The mail comes
again--examines it hastily, then careful
| ly, but no communication. This is too
bad; endurance can bear no longer; he
throws the paper down in pet, and de-
crees bitter things against the editor.
But what is become of the. communiea-
ton Why the fact is, the editor had not
more than gone half way through his crude,
senseless efusion, till he very deliberately
rolled it up and lighted his pipe with it.
Oh, cruel offence never tie be forgiven
And in less than six weeks he receives
from his much injured subscriber a very
i'll natured letter, taking exceptions to the
character Of his paper, but no alluslon to
the last communication-po postage as usual,
% cts. About two months afterwards
the editor is in strait for the needful-
| he goes to the post office, hoping to get q
remittance few third rate exchange pa
pers, and little lank thumb paper look.
ing letter make up his receipts. With nc
very enviable feeling, he tears it open
and ieturns out to be the discontinuanct
of his celebrated subscriber, with mott
fication thathe is ready to pay when called
on-postage 25 cents.
Six months eiapse and the. account o
the delinquent subscriber is drawn off anC
sent out. In the course of the next sil
months, the agent with much difficulty
collects the amount of the expired sub.
scription So, and after retaining it in his
own hands for some months, he finally en-.
closes it in a letter and marks it double, tC
advertise that there is money in it-pos
tage so cents. The letter arrives anC
1.-THE bill is under par the broker knock
Ol1 CClItSs--llIC OICuI ID ClILCIC0 III llAl
three dollars, and now more than tw,
years after our subscriber first introduce,
himself, his name is finally ExPUNGED.
And now let US review, the transaction
land see what handsome speculation tn
editor has made.
Seven letters from the subscriber, pos
tage % cents each, 81 IS; one lette
from the agent marked double, postag
so cents, discount on the. bill % Cts, a
mount 50 so; current money. received
50 rs; balance of cash received abov
expenditures of the same 25 cts; just q
bout enough to pay clerks fees and tn
expense Of mailing the paper.
Thus has the editor furnished his sub
scriber his paper for one year gratis, an
gained in return his everlasting i'll will.
If editors could only ''get rich' with
vengeance; three thousand such woul
break down any printing establishment i
the State.
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