The Democratic advocate., 1866-02-01

Mr. Grcenc-Why don't you rails
your prices, too?
Editor--I willtry and keep alon
with no profit, or even at a loss, hopin
for better times. ] am struggling har
to build MY paper up.
Mr.. Brown stopped the pape
. once, but it was not so much for tn
price; / went in for paying for my farm
by extra economy.
Editor--Yes, he followed the Edi
: tors advice for 'peoplc to economics
and pay their debts now" But let u
see if Mr.. Brown began at the righ
place. In one issue it was published
that wheat had advanced l3 cents {
; bushel. On Monday Mr.. Brown wen
T to market with his wheat, and sold 6(
bushels at one cent advance over the
old price, and thought he did well. llC
came home boasting about it, until he
met neighbor johnson, who got the
Is cents advance, because he read my
paper, and was widc-awakc. Mr. Browns
loss on GO bushels would pay four
whole years subscription.
Mr.. Brown--Don't say anything
more about that Mr. Editor, and put
me down subscriber for life.
Editor-I have heard Of several
other such losses by those who stopped
their paper. Not to be too personal, as
some Of them are here, | viii call them
A, b, G, etc. Mr. A. paid 4 per cent
more fees on S7l taxes, because he did
not see the collectors notice in his
paper, and thus lost 81 81, TO save 81 so.
Mr.. b. paid $3.50 the same way. Mr..
G. failed to bring in his claim against
an estate, because he did not see in
my paper the legal notice limiting the
time. That cost him S3i, TO save 81 80
subscription Mr. ID. sold 200 pounds
Of wool at 62 cents. because he did not
see an advertisement Of Mr.. Smith
right here at home He paid more for
lumber in Baltimore than be could have
procured the same for in Westminster,
because he did not know that Edward
Lynch, at his new yard, or Dell 4 Bill
lingslea would have sold the same ma
terih for less money He could have
got 40 cents for his wool That cost
him SIG. to save 81 30. Mr. F.'s boys
went down TO the village every night or
two to get the news aud local gossip,
because they had no paper at home, aud
one Of them icil into bad company, nnd
Is ruined | know twenty cases where
people lost money for not learning What
Is going on. ! gather up all that is
going on in business aud society, and
coudeEse it into my columns II Is
important for every mau to know all
! about home matters, aud | doubt If
there is a man in this whole town who
would not, IN the course of year. get
some information TINT would pay him
back more than 1850 year Aud th,n
think Of household sitting down to.
rether 3Gj days in a year, aud having
nothing to talk about, except thcir own
affairs and few items Of gossip, gath.
cred up by occasional contact with other
people.
Mr. Taylor-Let me help the Edi.
tors argument Wife read to me au
item he published about humbuc.
which he copied from the American
hgriculturst, Of New York city Next
day one Of those same humbugs came
round with his article and was so plaus
iblc that he almost persuaded her iuto
paying him SO for his swindlng recipe,
but the Editors caution kept her back.
Editor--Ics, and do you know that
the fellow sold more than fifty of the
humbug recipes hereabout at S3apicco,
but not to any Que Of my subscribers
Mr.. Potts-Put me down rs a sub.
scriber to the Advocate; here is your
money
Mr.. Shaw-And me too.
Editor-Thank you, gentlemen. mi
try to make a better paper than ever
Every dollar helps; a new subscriber
only adds TO my expense the cost Of
paper. If everybody took the paper,
and thus divided the cost of getting
news setting type, Office rent, &c,
could double the value of the papor to
each Please talk the matter over with
other neighbors aud see if it cannot be
done.
Several Yoices-We will
Mr. Smith--And now while you are
about it, want to make up a club for
a good New York paper.
Mr. Brown--We cant afford to take
so many papers.
Mr. Smith-You have just seen that
you could not afford to stop your home
paper; let US see if it will not pay to
JOIN our club Mr. Rich, you have
taken the American Agrieulturist for
several years. Does il pay?
Mr.. Rieh-Pay? Yes, fifty times
over. Why, ! got two ten,acre fields
ready to SOW to wheat, and put in one
of them. That night my Agriculturist
came, and ! read simple recommend
alton about preparing seed wheat. |
called John and we put 10 bushels in
soak for the next day 1t cost 80 cents
for the materials Well that second
field yielded bushels an acre more
than the other; or so bushels extra,
and better wheat too. Pretty good pay
for $3.50 expended for paper. Aud
| have got lots of other hints almost as
profitable. You know ! get better
profits on my beef, pork and mutton
than any other man in the place. Now
this does rot come from any direct hint,
like the wheat, but from a good many
suggestions that have picked up in
reading the Agriculturist, and from the
course Of reasoning that / have been