Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-01-02

and desolation.
The Christmas morning really came
to FIip's dwelling with sunshine joy
And the martial Tommy and horse joe
key Mark realized their heart wishes
and the little one his "roly-boly," and
Bobbie his rattle. And Flip's daughter
Cherry was there-only she was not
blind, but as good, bright and pretty a
girl as any father would be proud Of
Mr.. Dorner found himself the donor OF
all this and as he stood in the center OF
the room, Flip wrung his hands and
said.
God bless you, sir; but for you this
day would have been sad one"
And Flip's wife could not thank him
at all, for laughing and crying-all in a
breath. And then, as the fire spirits
had pictured, the door opened and lady
entered, throwing back her veil and
Mr.. Dorner started, and said, jean =
and the lady walked calmly, proudly, to
the window. Then Mr.. Dorncr took
Cherry by the hand, and led her to
the lady, saying
ooh you who are pure in heart, and
loving in spirit-nearest to the angels
tell her how truly love her, how deep
ly have repented, and beg her to for
give me-
And Cherry took the soft little hand
and said !:
"If you but knew him as we do, you
could not help but love him to him we
owe all our happiness he but lives to
do good to others. Ask your own heart
if such as he should not be rewarded !:
He forgave, are we any better, dear lady?'
arms about his neck, and the sunny
curls laid again upon his breast. He
had least his bread upon the waters y
and the returning waves had brought
him pearls Blessed are they that give
PAY IN ADVANCE.
Weeopy the following from the Saco Dem
ocrat. 1t is our plan hencclorth. All coun-
try papers will have to come to it.
No new subscriber will be received after
this date. except on the cash system of ad
NdItt IbdNu NultHt. W Will Illdht IL llDcTil ar
ransement with those who are at present
subscribers, (as stated bclow.) and hope,
when they shall have understood our plan,
and the reasons for it, they will agree with
us. that it is better than the credit system,
and will continue to favor us as heretofore
with their patronage.
The reasons for this change may he found
in the following brief statement Of the evils
attending the system we have heretofore pur-
sued, viz
/. Losses by worthless subscribers.
,. losses by long delay of payment.
3. Losses by expenses Of collecting.
Experience has given us a strong aud ahid-
ins impression of the greatness Of these los
scs in the aggregate and yet our subscribers
have doubtless been as good and as prompt
as those OF other papers--ours is but the
common lot of country newspaper publish
els. But now, that the increased price of
almost everything, has raised the cost of
printing each newspaper to nearly the sum
charged for it, we feel that these losses can
no longer be borne. Justice to ourself and
to others, mpcls us to seek a remedy. The
fact is, we could never, even when our buSi
ness could be carried on cheaper than now,
afford the Democrat at less than 81 30 Il
year, when payment was made mt the oiilce
within the year, without expense Of collect
ing--and we have always told our patrons
that we expected them to do THIS at least
We could not meet our own bits promptly
unless we had our pay for the PAPER within
the wear But to obtain this, to- any consid-
cradle extent, we have had to have collect
or out several months in a year and to dun
our patrons through the newspaper columns.
Now this is both embarrassing and disa.reea-
BILE We need our pay, and cannot meet our
obligations without it but we do not love
to dun others. or to be duuued' oursclf. We
want the money we earn. to carry on the
papcr-to make it better for its readers-we
want our men at home setting type, rather
than travelling about the country dunning
his poor man who can't pay, and such a one
won't pay and another who does pay, and
one half that he has paid eaten up by the ex-
pense of dunning the three! We want to
stop all this sort of business we don want
these men to be without the paper; We want
them to be subscribers and pay in advance,
then we will have all our time and hands en-
ployed in making them an interesting paper;
and they will not have to be dunned, nor
read dunning notices. Let them try this
plan one year, and if they don't find it more
agreeable, and get Il better paper, we won't
ask them to continue their subscription an
other day longer.
ruE OSS OE WIFE