Des Arc citizen., 1859-12-14
HOW TO SUSTAIN YOUR LOCAL
 PAPER. fst k ,,

l. Lay aside your fears that the Editor will get rich faster than his neighbors. We seldom heard of man making more than a decent living by publishing d country newspaper, even if he had ever such good business, and nine times out of ten is in tight pinch for money to buy his white paper with.
 g. If the paper agrees with your way of thinking, subscribe for it, and pay for it, and persuade your neighbor of the same mind to go and ''do lil1ewise.' And if the paper happens to disagree with your views in some respects, don't fly into a passion and blame the editor without mercy, failing to award him praise where he really deserves it. And do not ten him to send bis paper to,you until you get 9 owe him two or three dollars, and Then, when your friends speak of it, say that it is no account, and will "bust up'' one of these days. The way, under such state of the case, to keep a. paper from "busting pp,' l is for each subscriber to keep the Editors books free from all charges against him- self This thing of applying the credit system 10 the newspaper business may be l ]likenedto farmer selling out his crop by | a bushel to man. The sum each owes 1 for the bushel does not seem of much im- portance 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 ex- pense of thousands per annum.
 3. If you have father, mother, broth- CT, sister, or friend of any klnd, residing at a distance. and are able, subcribe, pay for and send them copy. There are many in our town who might easily do this. p9f5 taesf@
 4. If you have any printing you wish done. do not '.jew'' the editor down to a starvation price, and when he comes to make purchase of you spike on the tariff"
 l 5. If you have any advertising or job work to be done, take il to your county pa per, except, perhaps, you may want to ad- yertise in more than one paper. Do not run of to the city to get your handbllls, labels, cards, etc., printed, because, for sooth, you can get a reduction of a few cents in price. Support your own as you wish to be supported. A man who is al
 ways running away from home with his business, little deserves the patronage ol the community in which he lives, and, as l far as we are concerned, such will receive the ',cold shoulder.' What would you think of man who sends a long distance 1 from home to buy his sugar, coffee, SSc. only because. he can save tesU cents? 6. If you have the control of legal ad, lvertising, send it to your friend. Adyer.
 Using will spay" the advertiser any time
 and is also beneficial to the Editor. Itin-
 creases his receipts, and therefore enables him to make his paper useful, amusing
 and entertaining to the community 1T which itis printed ,.ss a.@s sH I Y. Do not expect much of paper wher it's Editor is driven to be his own compost
 tor, proof reader, pressman and devil
 and has to run all over town m the fore
 noon-in the vain search of a "dollar ol I two' to buy paper with. And underthesf
 adverse circumstances, if you should see lnow and then little error, don't criticist
 too severely, for you might not be able t
 do as we'll yourself. e | 8. Do not expect the Editor to make honorable mention of you or your business | every week or two, for nothing. Th'
 space in a paper and a mans time ar'
 worth something, and every notice comes
 back to the drawer of the recipient, Ii
 dollars and cents. ,..
 9. If the Editor owes you shilling, d not chase him from "rosy morn to balm! eve" for it, and when you happen to ge
 the balance on the other side, "cut the gen tleman's acquaintance.
 10. Do not suppose it is the duty of th'