Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-03-25
How to Sustain your County
Paper.

1. Lay aside your fears that the Editor
will get rich faster than his neighbors.-
We have never heard of man making
more than decent living by the publica-
ton of country newspaper, even 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 country and a large portion
of that of the surrounding; but with
all this he gets into as tight pincehos
for money to buy his white paper with as
any other publisher with whom we are
acquainted. @
2. If the paper agrees with your ways
of thinking, subscribe and pay for it, and
persuade your neighbors of the same mind
to Ego and do likewise" Do not tell the
editor to send your paper without paying,
and when you get to owe two or three dol
lars, tell your friends who speak of it that
'"O P"POi 10 VI no dCCOuutJ thdJ IL Will
burst up one of these days. The way,
under such a state of the case, to keep a
paper from bursting up" is for each
subscriber to keep the editors books free
from charges against himself Once we
had to close, and on posting up, found we
had booked and outstanding some $500
more than we had capital invested This
thing of applying the credit system to the
newspaper business may be likened to
farmer selling out his crop, a bushel 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.
8. II you have father, mother, broth
er, sister, or friend of any kind, residing
at distance, and are able, subscribe, pay
for and send them copy.
4. IF you have any printing you wish
done, do not 'jew" the editor down to
starvation price, and when he comes to
make a purchase of you, spike on
the tariff"
3. If you have any advertising or job
work to be done, take it to your county
paper, except, perhaps, you may wish to
advertise in more than one paper.
6. Do not run off to the city to get
your handbills, labels, cards, &C., printed
because, forsooth, you can get reduction
of few cents in price. Support your
own as you wish to be supported. A man
who is always running away from home
with his business, little deserves the
patronage of the community in which he
lives; and, as far as we are concerned
such will receive the "cold shoulder"
z. If you have the control of any legal
advertising, send it 70 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
and it. In proportion to the amount of
receipts of paper is an editor enabled to
make it useful, amusing and entertaing to
the community in which it is published.
8. Do not expect much of paper when
an editor is driven to be his own COM
positor, proof-reader, pressman and devil" t"
and has to run all over town every fore
noon in the vain search for "quarter" to
buy something for his dinner.
9, Do not expect the editor to make
honorable mention of your business every
few weeks for nothing The space in a
paper and a mans time are worth some
thing, and every notice comes back TO the
drawer Of the recipient in dollars and
cents. An editor should not be allowed
to go hungry, barebacked aud bareiooted
They "eat, drink and wear, just like other
people"
10. If the editor owes you a shilling,
do not chase him from "rosy morn to
balmy eve" for it; and when you happen
to get the balance on the other side, "cut
the gentleman's acquaintance.
IL. Finally, my brethren" if you wish
to properly sustain your county paper, to
live the balance of your days in peace with
God aud man, and occupy seat in Para
disc after death, practice the Golden Rule
do unto others as you would wish they
would do unto you" under like circum-
stances.
AFRIGHTFUL ScENE,-A frightful scene
might have be Witnessed yesterday
morning, on III hgfoof of three-story
mouse, situated on Water street, between
Monroe and Quincy. A young man was
standing unon the comb of the roof re.