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Show Tho Reason Why. Sovora! of our aubaariborH havo wandered why tho Record has been go Inslatiiut In urging thum to tay up their fltibicription aud to let thum know why tho fallowing, taken from tho Farm Journal, U publlshod: "I'idltnr Fay, of Lyonp, Iowa, Iiiib been called to Washington City bo cuutfo his Bubsorlptlou list is not ao well paid up as thu law requires. Ho will have to explain to tho govern-uiout govern-uiout otllohls why ho hna not compelled com-pelled his subscribers to pay up nuuordlng to tho poatal rules. Au Inspector In-spector hud visited him two months previously and his list waa said to bo pretty thoroughly paid up, but evidently tliln was uot sutlloloutly so. It seoms a llttlo tough that country editors havo to tin hauled uu before tho government under thu charge of violating Federal laws just bocauao thoy do not eternally keep dunning their subscribers for thu email sum they owe on subscriptions; but It Is like tho end of thu world, no ouo knows when it cometh, and no editor knows what day tho inspector may pop in aud ink to see his llt. Aud it tun many subscribers am behind on their papsr It means trouble with tho government. It puts an editor lu such shape that ho In oompollud to force hia collections unlaw ho bus au unusually prompt paying list of sub soilbers." |