The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-05
ABOUT TAKING A NEWS
PAPER.
WHY EVERY Family OUGHT
TO HAVE ONE.
No Man too Poor to Take a Paper.

It is the cheapest thing he can buy. Every
time a hen clucks and has laid an egg MS
paper is paid for that week. 1t costs less
than a postage stamp, less than to send or
receive a single letter.
What good does it do your 1t instructs
you and broadens your views. 1t interests
your wife, and it educates your children. 1t
comes to you every week, rain or shine, calm
or storm, bringing you the news OF the busy
world. No matter what happens, 1t enters
your door every week as welcome TREND
full of sunshine and cheer and interest. 1T
opens the door of the great world and puts
you face to face with its people and It's great
events. It shortens the long summer days.
and it enlivens the long winter nights 1t
is your adviser, your gossip, and your friend.
No man is lust to his children who does not
give them good paper to read. No man Is
good to himself and his wife who does not
take frst-class newspaper.
You Ought to be Careful to Get the
Best Paper,
because when you subscribe you are fixed for
one wear. That is long time to stand poor
! paper. Suppose you were going to invite
some one to your house to spend a year lou
would be mighty particular to see that that
man was exactly the sort of fellow you want
ed; if he was not you would get very tired
of him before the year was out VOL, now
when you subscribe for a paper for one year
it is Just like inviting II man to spend the
year with YOU No matter if you get tired
of it the first month, you have got to stand
it for the balance Of the time, so you ought to
be particular to get the best
We claim The CONSTITUTION is the best
and cheapest paper You can get.
Why?
Well, first is its record. -Four years ago
it had 5000 subscribers; now it has got 1876
600. That is hard to beat. 1t simply means
that every man who took it was SO delighted
with it that be kept on taking it, and got all
his friends to take it. 1t means that every
man who saw stray copy of it liked it so
! well that he became q subscriber. We have
frequently had an agent distribute ten copies
Of the paper and get eight subscribers
Often man has shown one copy in crowd
of a dozen men and got ten subscribers. The
hundred thousand subscribers 1t has gained
in three wears are all over the country They
had been taking all the other leading papers
Some one paper and some another When
ever they saw The CONSTITUTION they
stopped their papers and joined our lists
These men would not have taken THE Con-
sTITUTIoN and quit the papers they had been
taking unless THE Constitution had been
the best paper. Success is mighty good
criterion, and on its merits as a paper THE
Constitution has increased from 5000 to
10000 subscribers.
But look at the paper itself.
1t is the only weekly with twelve pages.
1t prints more matter than any other paper
1t has more special writers. Bill
Arp gets more than $50 for every letter he
writes DR.. Tamagc is paid we'll for every
sermon. The editress Of our Woman's King
dom gives her whole time to the work, and is
we'll paid for it. We have paid more than
5000 for one story. We stop at no cost to
get the best of everything for our readers,
and we pay more for special writers than
any six papers in the country.
The CONSTITUTION is u cheerful paper. 1t
is clean paper. 1t is a patriotic paper. 1t
is democratic paper. Above all, it is
southern paper, full of southern pictures and
southern sights. 1t suits every member of
the family. The farmer gets his farm news
and his politics. The soldier gets his war
stories; the merchant gets his markets the
women have their own department with
stories and poetry; the children have their
corner; young men and women their stories
of adventure and travel. Every week there
is sermon. From the old grandmother in