PRICE OF SYMPOSIUM NUMBER OF "SIGNS."
By Editor
The chief object in issuing the symposium, or one-subject, numbers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES was not to sell those special numbers, but to increase the circulation of the paper of each and all issues. We felt sure that with from 8 to 12 such special numbers during the year the paper would be much more valuable, and that there would be a generous response to this on the part of our friends in increasing the general circulation. In order to advertise our purpose extra copies of the special numbers were offered at one-half the regular rates. For extra copies of ordinary issues we have asked $2.00 per 100. We have sold our extra copies of our special numbers at one-half this rate, or at the rate of $1.00 per 100 copies. This has been below cost, and, of course, at a loss to the publishers. Do our friends realize this? Some of them have not realized it; for if they had, they would not have taken advantage of the generous offer, nor would we have received request for the special or symposium numbers of the year alone. The special numbers are certainly as valuable as the ordinary number. The paper is very cheap at one dollar a year. We shall, therefore, in the future charge at the same rate for the special numbers as for the ordinary. The price will be at the rate of $2.00 per 100. In other words, this places the special numbers just where the ordinary numbers are. Terms of subscription, single, in clubs to societies, and to agents, are not by this affected in any way. We have on hand some extra copies of Nos. 49 and 50 which we will furnish at half price, $1.00 per 100 copies. No. 49 is the issue containing the Declaration of Independence, with cuts of the house in which it was written and the Sabbath-keeping press on which it was printed. It contains other important matter also. No. 50 is the most valuable number of last volume, the subject of which is "The Great Threefold Message of Revelation 14." We have no tract on this great subject. The matter in the SIGNS would make a small pamphlet of fifty or more pages, costing from five to ten cents. We offer it to our readers at one cent a copy. Never was more fresh up-to-date matter offered so cheaply in connection with our work. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.