Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-06-30
TILE CHEAPEST AND TILE BEST,

The following article, we clipped sometime
since, from Georgia exchange, we believe but
failing to place the proper credit on it at the
time, we have concluded to adopt it, making
only such changes therein as to suit our own
case, at the same time we do not wish to be
accused of wholesale plagiarism
4 newspaper, once week, tilty-two weeks
for t,ro dollars, is the cheapest thing any man
can buy. The paper, without mark upon it.,
is almost worth the money. Yet, how very
few consider newspaper Of sufficient impor-
tance to be paid for. There is scarcely weeks
issue that does not afford a subscriber, in some
way, information worth great deal more than
he pays for it the whole year. Hundreds, and
it is no exageration to say, thousands of dollars
have been secured to many man, by one do
zen lines in newspaper, which cost less than
four cents! Did the reader ever seriously ask
himself the question, how much money has the
publisher of the paper hold in my hand, eX-
pended to get it out Has he any. idea? Think
Of it reader, to SC. out the paper you are now
looking at; the publisher has gone to the cash
expense of nearly one hundred dollars. DO you
wonder, now, how essential it is for every man
to pay for bis paper?
Many persons who have read a newspaper for
wears, have no correct idea Of the time, labor,
and money that are spent upon the paper which
they have opened tifty-two times in the year.
It is printed, they know not how-and comes
to them regularly as Sunday does-but they
seenothingof the toll, anxiety, mental and physl-
cal cxertions, that have been undergone to give
them the paper. How few readers Of weekly
papers are aware of the simple fact, that more
than one half the type they see in the paper
before them, has to be distributed one by one
into separate boxes, and put together again i'll
new shapes to please or instruct them the next
week! Yet it is true. Week after week this
tedious and monotonous work Of putting up
and taking down little pieces Of lead, goes on.
There is no rest for the printer. In sickness
as in health-n sunshine as in storm, the paper
must not be neglected. Since we have had
this paper, we have not failed to issue it every
week; and We are singular in this respect.
Why should not the printer be the rery first to
be paid? He has done more, for the money,
than any other creditor has. His bill is so
small that any man, not actually disabled by
Providence, or helpessly lazy, without sacrl-
flee, can pay it.
IF hereader, will, after searching the columns
of each numbe. of the paper he subscribes for,
place it on file, and preserve it until the year
expires, and then take too dollars for it, he is
not of our way of thinking by a great odds
1t is not unfrequently the case that old files o
papers have been carried back and forth to diff
ierent courts, to be used as evidence in impor-
tant cases where large amounts of property
were pending And yet the price of the paper
that carried the cases was, when it was issued
but fue cents !, and without the copy in posses
sion of the proprietors, the rightful owners o.
the property would have lost it: Our advice
to every man, is, take some good paper-paJ
for it in advance-and keep it on file. It pay:
better than any other investment, considering
the amount invested.-Flag of the Union.