Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-01-15


ance, is required at their Hall, on Tues
day evening next, 18Th inst, as business
Of importance will be up for discussion,
Let every member attend,
o. II affords us pleasure TO state that
since the LIST inst, we have entered upon
our subscription list about thirty new
subscribers, and nearly the whole of them
came i'll volunteerly-unsolicite = and
1.-the cream Of the joke is" that MAORI
~ Of them paid in Advance. We sill
have loom upon our books for few more
names .of the same sort" Walk up 80
the "Capiaiu's" office, friends, and have
your names enrolled Cor "cruise."
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUsTRY.-Yes,
30 paironize home perchanls, lailors,
shoemakers. and other mechanics, TO even
the huMblesl class, should be the motto,
Of all, but i. is not. Too many persons
forget that one branch of industry is al
least 10 some extent dependent upon the
other, and not only sel6shly ignore the
golden rule" by doing unto others that
which they would not have done unto
themselves were their situations reversed;
but ignorsn1y, Of course, do that which
must operate to their own disadvantage.
The f4rmer for instance who lives within
the vicinity Of town. or village, and car
rles out in practice the fatal policy Of pat
rOnizing foreign merchants and mechanics
To the exclusion Of his own, must certain
ly be ignorant Of the fact that i'll proper
lion as his own town extends lis borders,
and becomes noted for its thrift, industry
and enterprise, in corresponding ratio
will his lands increase per acre in vaua-
ton. But what must be the fate Of such
"a place il thus prescribed? Must it no.
lansuish and eventually die out! aud must
no, those who have prescribed it share in
the losses thus sustained, whether they
be lillrss Of The sol. or otherwise engaged!
Are there no, those too in Shepherds
towns vicinity who are seeking 10 retard
her advancement by The mode 10 which
We advert! And are there not others not
only go unfortunate as 10 be ignorant. but
little mean 10 boot. This latter class
buy their groceries and little nick.nacks
of The home merchant, which are kept
more for accommodation than otherwise
the profit on them being but trifllng-
and silks. satins. cloths, cassmers, &C.,
&c., else where for cash, when the same
articles or just as good could be had at
home, and upon equally as fair terms for
the cash. When one Of these antIhome
protectionisls Gces once and while buy
bill Of goods in his own town he will no,
forget to tell the clerk to charge it. He
Is Wiling to pairorize home trade when
he has not the ready cash 10 lay down.
elsewhere, provided the individual will
credit him-and no doubt he feels that he
is under obligations TO do him the favor,
because he occasionally buys Of him a
pound Of sugar. plug Of tobacco or some
other article THAI ranks among tue
iHie mdispensobleS. 1t matters mol how
prosperous and nourishing the town may
be. il such policy is adopted and perse-
vered in on the part Of the minority even.
lis business energies must be paralized,
and its inhabi,ant necessarily poveIized.
Is i, no, important then, to encourage
home industry? We do not. however,
wish to be understood, as iniimating that
such characters are numerous IN our town
or neghborhood, bu, simply put the cues
Iion-are there not some !
BoRRowING PAPERs.-There are, in ev-
ely community, certain class OF lndivid
usls, who never get time "to read hay
the papers they take" and another class
who are too penurious to subscribe for
paper, who are constantly borrowing from
their neighbors, TO the great dis pleasure Of
the printers" and their subscribers.
They hay'n, We. learned that when man
subscrbes for paper, be desires 10 read
it himself, and no, be annoyed by borrow.