Show VOLUME IV father time with his measured steady and never failing step calls our attention to the hour glas and tells us that with this number the last pi am of sand of the third gears existence of the into the past and thai another week will find the paper starting on unknown and manifold duties to perform the warning causes us to stop and look back over the course we have travelled and we see a varied and checkered pathway interspersed with the bright sunshine and darkened by the cold relentless hand of death in the former we aaa found unbounded pleasure in chronic ling events that have and endeavoring to please our patrons how well we have succeeded is a matter we leave with our readers to decide bat judging from the continued support and steady increase of our sub lists our efforts though feeble ai e not unappreciated e have been opportunities occurred we admit that could have been improved foi the benefit of our patrons as well as ourselves but it was not the lack of ambition but the lack of that experiences hichi makes the successful louin ilist the errors committed in the past will servo as a guide board for future operations no one exists no difference how careful he has ben but what he can see golden opportunities which he permitted to escape without paying athe cioper attention but the darkest and most difficult portion of the tasks we have performed have been the recording of events that has caused sorrow or loss to any one at such times is the sun phine of an editors life dispelled by the mental pain he endures for others boes woes some think that editors enjoy an eay and uninterrupted life that nothing bothers them and they are elways prepared to meet bills at the instant they are presented in a giedt many instances this is true but in the majority it is not the majority of newspaper men are noted for their good natured ness and when a person wishes to become a patron of a newspaper he meets the editor on the street or steps into the sanctum and with a sort of depressed air makes bis wants known to the man at the helm of course he does not possess the requisite amount I 1 of tho needful just now but the first money I 1 get I 1 will come in and pay you for the paper heie is another drain upon the editors sympathies for his fellow creatures the knight of the quill is aware that ho has fulfilled ins portion of the contract because he knows the paper has made its regular weekly visits duding the past year but how fares the poor the editor feels the deepest si lor him because he is confident he has never received his first money if he had there would have been a credel hia namo abere are on our subscription books a large number who aro in ai rears for the past year and several who are owing for two years it 13 necessary that cheso should be settled so that we can in oven on volume iv |