The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-14
VOL. XII---NO. 577.
How to sastain Your Local Paper

l. Lay aside your fears that the Editor
will get rich faster than his neighbors.-
We have seldom heard of a man making
more than decent living by publishing
country newspaper, even if he had ever
such good business and nine times out
of ten is in tight pinch for money to
bury his white paper with. rrss,sl
2. II the paper agreess with your way
of thinking, subscribe for it, and pay for
it, and pursuade your neigbor of the
same mind to go and "do likewise" And
If the paper happens to disagree with
your views in some respects, don't fly in
to passion and blame the editor without
mercy, failing to award him praise whero
he really deserves it. And do not tell
him to send his paper to you until you
get to owe him two or three dollars, and
then, when your friends speak of it, say
that it is no account, and will "burst up"
one of these days. The way, under such
state of the case, to keep paper from
bursting up," is for each subscriber to
keep the Editors books free from all
charges against MmseH This thing ofapply-
ing the credit system to the newspaper bus.
ness may be likcned to farmer selling
out his crop by a bushel to man. The
sum each owes for the bushel does not
seem of much importance to the debtor,
but the aggregate of these bushels may
make or break the poor dealer in the
soil. So, these dollars scattered here and
there, an editor often looks to as the
means to liquidate an expense of thou
sands per annum. .... .,.,-
3. If 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. There are
many in our town who might easily do
this. ... . ...-.....
A. 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" 'ti
5. If you have any advertising or job
work to be done, take it to your county
paper, except, perhaps, you may want to
advertise in more than one paper. Do
not run off to the city to get your hand
bills, labels, cards, etc, printed, because,
forsooth, you can get a 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 Me patronage Of
| the community in which he lives, and, as
far as we are concerned, such will receive
the "cold shoulder" What would you
think of man who sends long distance
from home to buy his sugar, coffee, &C., on
ly because he can save a fer cents 'e
6. If you have the control of legal I'D
vertising send it to your friend. Adver-
tising will pay" the advertiser any time,
and is also beneficial to the Editor 1t
increases his receipts, and therefore ena-
bles him to make his paper nscful, anus
ing and entertaining to the community
in which it is printed. .-.-s ....'r
I. Do not expect much of q paper
|
compostor, proof reader, pressman and
"devil, and run all over town in the
forenoon-in the vain search of dollar
or two" to buy paper with. And under
these adverse circumstances, if you
should see now and then little error,
don't criticise too severely, for you might
not be able to do so well yourself.
8. Do not expect the Editor to make
honorable mention of you or your busl-
ness every week or two for nothing
The space in q paper and mans time
are worth something, and every notice
comes back to the drawer of the recip-
lent in dollars and cents
Q. 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
the gentlcman's acquaintance" I.
TO- Do not suppose it is the duty of the
Editor to insert euery communication and
foolishness you may bring him. He is
the best Judge himself of what should
90 in his paper.
llth, and lastly, observe these rules.
and deal justly with all mankind, and
blessings will attend you.
THE Use OF QrAus. Norton, an
intelligent, observing farmer boy, who
makes his home in the southern part of
Illinois, has recently been studying the
habits of the quail, or, incorrectly pat
ridge" and gives the following testimony
to the Cincinnati Artisan:
Gle observed n small flock commencing q