The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-10-01
TO W0ULD-BE SUBSCRIBERS, AND
SUBSCRIBERS IN ARREARS.

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WE frequently receive orders from persons
whom we do net know from ADAM, direct
ing that copies of our paper be sent to such
and such an address. All such orders when
accompanied by the cash, receive prompt at
tenton but when they require us to trust
some one whom wo do not know, wo beg to
be- excused and we say now for the benefit
of all concerned, that we enter no new name
on our books without the cash, unless we
know the person ordering to be responsible
and prompt paying. Our subscription list,
we believe, might be regarded rs good pay
ing one, still there are several names on n,
which we have an idea will not rcmain very
long, unless the amounts against them are
paid In few weeks 1--WE give time) we
Will make out the accounts of every man in
arrears, and all who do not pay will have the
satisfaction Of knowing that their names are
blotted from tie book of-of-we mean
from our mail book. We are better off
without such nauies than with them, and if
our list continues to increase, as it has been
doing of late, we will soon lie enabled to
supply their places with others chat pay bet.
ter.
The practice oSdunning through paper
we do not admire, and never expect to in
dulge in il TO any great extent; on the con-
trary, we hope TO fill our paper with matter
more interesting TO the majority of our read
ers; but as we have the matter in hand now,
we will say once for all, to our negligent
patrons, that when they fnI u bin in their
paper, they may regard it us II direct dun,
and may know that we arc beginning to
take up the notion that they have been en-
tertaincd, instructed and amused about long
enough ut our expense; but instead of blab-
bing i; out TO the world, that our forbcar-
ance is about exhausted, our innate sense of
modcsty, prefers to approach them in this
quiet sort of way. YOU hcarkcn to our
call. then we reinstate you in our good opin-
ion, and shake you by the hands as good
clever fellows, but you give us the cold
shoulder, you may lead US TO think scrious>
ly of the depravity and Observation-Disclosures o:
human nature, and our only consolation will
be, that in the day srt apart for the iina set
tlcment of accounts, these little supas long
forgotten by us and by you will be brought
up against ou-thc interest upon each nice
ly calculated, and the whole placed to our
credit opposite the long debtor side that
may be sganst US.
Occasionally, also, we receive long adj |
vertiscmcut from some noxious pill vcnder
or from some publishing house that we
never heard ofbessre: or the card Of some
celebrated physician, who understands full
well how to blow his own hon--can cure |
any disease un Ter the sun without seeing |
the paticut-oilers an infalihle recipe for
making true love run smooth, and eng; gcs
10 bring the most obdulate beauty TO the
feet of her hitherto unacceptable adInirer-
All these are sent to us with the modest re-
quest, that we insert in our paper for three
months, six months, ora year, and at the en-
pra,on of that time, we can drGp upon the
parties for the amount of onr bill ! Such
proper places-undcr the table We have Il
most una, countablc disncination 10 work !
for nothing, and when We do enter into such
Improbable contracts, it must be when we
expect TO receive, at the very least, n few
.hankS. Advertisers, and would. be subscri-
bers, not knONn to us, may save themselves
.he trouble of sending their orders TO us,
without they are accompanied with sonle-
hing more tangible than windy expressions,
for although at FIRST, it may have been like
n pang to our heart, TO refuse their modest
rcques:, the unpleasant task has now been
so often, that We can perform. it
without any sort of compunctious feelings.