The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-08
The Cheapest and the Best.

The following article, we clipped some
time since, from Georgia exchange, We
believe but failing to place the proper
credit on it at the time, we have conclu-
ded to adopt it, making only such chang.
es therein as to suit our own case, at the
same time. we do not wish to be accused
of wholesale plagiarism
A newspaper, once week, ffty-two
weeks for three dollars, is the cheapest
thing any man can buy. The paper, with
out mark upon it, is almost worth the
money. Yet how very few consider a
newspaper of sufficient Importance to be
paid for. There is scarcely weeks is
sue 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 dozen lines in a
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, expended to get it out? Has
he any idea ? Think of it reader, to get
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 his paper =?
Many persons who have read news
paper for years, have no correct idea of
the time, labor, and money that are spent
upon the paper which they have opened
fifty two times in the year. 1t is printed,
they know not how-and comes to them
regularly as Sunday does-but they see
nothing of toll, anxiety, mental and physi-
cal exertions, that have been undergone
to give them the paper. How far rea-
ders 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 in
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
in 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
Why should not the printer be
the rery first to be paid He has done
more, for the money, than any other credi-
tor has. His bill is so small that any
man, not actually disabled by Providence,
or helplessly lazy, without sacrifice, can
pay it.
If the reader, will, after searching the
columns of each number of the paper he
subscribes for, place it on file, and pre-
serve it until the year expires, and then
take three dollars for it, he isnot of our way
of thinking by a great odds. 1t is not
unfrequently the case that old files of pa
pers have been carried back and forth to
different courts, to be used as evidence in
important cases where large amounts of
were pending. And yet the
price of the paper that carried the cases
was, when it was issued, hut fire cents I
and without the copy in possession ofthe
the rightful owners of the
would have lost it, Our advice
to every man, is, take some good paper
pay for it in advance-and keep it on file.
1t pays better than any other investment,
considering the amount invested.
Flag 9Th Union.
Ho,o to Stop a Papey.-An editor,
who has probably suffered some, tells
people how to stop paper. He says:
"call at the office and fork up arrearages
and order it stopped like man, and not
refuse to take it cut of tho post office
and sneak away like q puppv.