Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-26
How ,;;', to Sustain yoi'r Local Paper.


will get rich faster than his neighbors. We
have never heard ofa man making more than
= decent living by : publication Of country
newspaper, oven If he had ever such good
business. A case in point is an acquaintance
Of ours, who has been publishing some six or
seven years, has had all the business Of his
own town and county, and large portion Of
that Of the surrounding; but with all this he
gets into IS tight pnches for money to buy
his white paper with IS any other publisher
with whom We are acquainted.
ali the paper agrees with your ways Of
thinking, subscribe and pay for it, and per-
suade yoMr neighbors Ct the same mind to
"go and do likewise" Do not tell the ed
itor to send your paper, without paying, and
when you get to owe two or three dollars
tell your friends who speak Of it, that the
paper is Of no account. that it will burst up
one Of these days. The way, under such a
state Of tho case, to keep paper from
bursting up," is for each subscriber to keep
the editors books free from charges agans
himself. Once We had to close, and on post
ing up, found We had booked and outstand.
ing some $500 more than wo had capital in
vested. This thing Of applying the credit
system to the newspaper business may be
liked to. farmer selling out his CROP . bush.
81 to the man. The sum each owes for the
bushel does not seem Of any account to the
debtor. but the aggregate Of these bushels
may make or break the poor deliver in the
soil.
3.-If you have father, mother, brother
sister, OF friend Of any kind, residing At a
distance, and are able, subscribe, pay for and
send them copy.
4.-n yon have any printing you wish
done, do not "jsw" the editor down to Z
starvation price, and when<he comes to make
= purchase Of you "spike on the tariff"
5.--f you have any advertising or jot
work to be done. take it to our county pa.
per, except, perhaps you may wish to adver.
tise IN more than one paper.
6.-Do not run off to the city to get your
handbills. labels, cards, &C. printed, because,
torsooth, you can get reduction o: a few
cents in price. Support your own as you
wish TO be supported. man who is al
ways running away from from home with
his business, little deserves the patronage oil
the community in which he lives and, a.
far as We are concerned, such will receive the
"c0ld shoulder" ...
III you have the control Of any legal
advertising. send it to Your friend. This
Kind Of business pays better than any other,
and the more You can send to the editor Of
your paper, the better for him AMI it. In
proportion to the amount Of the receipts Of q
paper, is an editor enabled to make it useful
amusing and entertaining to the community
il which it is published. ~
Sd" not expect much Of paper when
m editor is driven to be his own con- positor
prool-rcadcr, p"cS>man am. " lcvil,' and Ia,
vain search for a "quarter" to buy something
for his dinner.
DIDO not cXpsc' the editor to make
honorable mention Of You or your business
every few weeks for nothing. The space II
paper. an mans time, are worth some
thing, and every notice comes back to tn.
drawer Of the recipient in dollars and cents
An editor sl' nd no, he allowed to 60 hun
gar , brrcb,ckcd or lnrcfoo;cd. They "cat
dri * All we:,. just lk, other people,"
lO.--if the editor owes You shilling 4.
not chase him from 'roiy morn To balm,
eve" for it. and when you happen to get til,
balance ON the other side, cent the gentle
mans acquaintance
IL Finally. my BRETHREN" if you wiSi
70 properly sustain your county paper. t.
live the b'lanco Of your days in pc.c. Will
God AMI man, AMI occupy - scat in Para,lis
after death, practice the Golden Rule" D.
unto others as You woull wish they woul
do unto you," under Ike circumstances.
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" An immense e'eoric stone fell q
Clarac, France. on the 9th Of December.
was 50 hot when it fell that it could not
touched. Its fall was preceded by a tsrrifi
explosion in the air, followed by a shower c
sparks and black cloud, BY which the pee
pie were no, little frightened. The ston