At the end of the first volume the subscription list numbered five hundred names.
In the course of the next two volumes this number was more than doubled, almost tripled, in fact.

The subscription price was two dollars.

The property would have begun from this point to make returns to its owners had they possessed the business training and instinct requisite to its successful management.

But they were reformers, not money-getters, and instead of enjoying the profits they proceeded to use them up incontinently in their first enlargement of the paper.

But while they had added to the cost of publication, they took no thought to augment the cost of subscription.