The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-01
NOT HURT BY AGE,
It's 74th Anniversary Finds II
as Vigorous as When In
Youth.

DER 10 "a years old. 1t has lost
none of its vigor by reason of
age. Ii has witnessed many
changes in the affairs of life.
The hands that first handled it
will handle it no more. 1t bears
the reputation, and justly so, OF
being one of the purest papers
published. Its columns never
contain any thing that would
defils the mind, and as it adj
vances in age it become more
and more sensible Of the fact
that truth is the foundation
stone upon which all good things
are built.
Other papers have sprung up
and died, not because they were
not truthful, but because OF
poor patronage. The RECORDER
has passed through many rough
places but has always managed
to csme out on the safe side.
It has been recording facts
for mere than three score and
ten years and its present man
agement hopes to live to see it
double its present age. Wars
have come and gone since its
birth into the world, yet it sur
wives. 1t has told of the for
tunes and misfortunes of many.
It has always upheld the right
and opposed the wrong and its
motto in the future will be the
same. It advocates principles,
net men, and it desires to see
more men and fewer drones.
It has subscribers who have
been taking it for so years, and
we desire to state for the bsne.
fit of all our subscribers, that
when they have been paying for
the paper so years they will be
placed upon the fres list for the
remainder of their earthly
pilgrimage.
To those who have done Us
the honor to Rad the paper from
three to ten years without pay
ing anything, we would say,
your chances for future happi-
ness are growing fewer as the
years 90 by, and when you hand
in your check to draw your re-
ward you will be astonished tC
find that you have nothing but
bogus checks.
The matter you received
through the columns of TIL
REcoRDER was valuable to you
but you refused to pay for value
rscsiyed.
A few questions similar to th'
following may be put by th'
Judge who sits in the last cour
you will ever attend.
Did you, while in yondsI
world, live up to all the require
ments of the Divine law! On
of which, was to pay for ysuI
pspers-psPers that had yisiteC
your home fer many years
You would no doubt apply, il
possible to do SO, fer 3 furlougl
back to the world to fix up thil
matter, which once seemed K
you Of so little Importance YoI
took the paper from the offic'
and read il with great eager.
ness until the editor sent yoI
the bill, then you in great haste
proceeded TO the postoffice anC
told the postmaster to intern
the editor that his paper il
wanted ne longer and to stop i
at once. Ifyou, like the hon.
est man that you profess to be
had first paid the bill, or in 1
pleasant way had said 10 tn,
editor, / am not able to NEE
your bill now, but will pay It a
early as possible, the -editoI
would have felt better, yOl
usuld have felt better, and yot
would have had the approval 0
all concerned.
II the paper becomes q bur
den TO any one all that one Ia
TO do is 10 pay the bill and lher
stop.
Don't try 10 enter hsavsl
with a load Of unpaid bill hang
ing to you-when you coul,
have gone without any en-
cufnbrances.
Tar REcoHDHl has nothinI
but kind feelings toward ell.