The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-07-12
NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS.

NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS.
Tho following classification Of newspaper
subscribers VIC take from the Prairie Far.
MGR, and from our own experience we can
safely sny that the picture is drawn a. nat.
ural As life itself. FRS, come tho
Uprighss.-Thesc arc the men who take
newspapers, pay for them and read them.
Observe the order in which these things
arc done: the pay comes first, tho rcadiag
next. These 'ncn consider they get the
worth Of their money in the bargain. Il
seems rs fair and Just to them that the
newspaper should 10 paid NJ barrel oi
sugar or new cont. They never enter.
tain any other opinion. When tho year
runs out, or q little before, they are on Ia nd
with the pay. There is no moro difficulty
With them in remembering this period ,hs n
Sunday or the first Of january. II one Of
shemwishesio stop his piper, he either calls
or writes letter by his postmaster, in due
season, like a man. This class 10 dear 10
the heart Of the editor. Their image is
embnImcd in his warm affections. Nav
they live thousand years, md SEQ their
sons son. 10 the fourth generation. The
second class nov in mind 10 the
do Wells.-rhs class il nearly related
to tho other--so near, that IL il hard 10 tell
wherc ono begins sud The other ends
These mcn always pay in advance in the
heginn'ng and intend 10 DO so continually.
But memory fails little, or some mishnp
inicrvcncs. and tho time runs by-some-
times iiile-sometimcs quite period
But their recollection, though noddiny occa-
sionally, hcver gets sound asleep. Il pro-
nounces the word in due time, 1.-The prin.
ter is not paid" their will 10 do we'll kin
dies into activity. Now comes the pm, Ing
up--"Nlesnt 10 do 90 beEorc.-Don't mcan
TO LET such things pass by." A publisher
can 1.-Two with such men. They have n
warm place in bis memory--only little
back Of the upriglts. II such a man dies
10 arrears his wife or son remembers that
nc may not have paid mp lof his newspaper.
and forthwith institutes inquiries. They
remember that part Of tho benefit wns
theirs, and cstate or no ESTATE, sec that tho
printers bills are MT among their fathers
unsettled accounts. Next comes tho
Easy Docvs..--TI,ese men believe in
newspapers. They have fully settled il in
their minds that a newspaper is a good
thing. They take them loo. Sometimes
1t The first they pny up Cor The first year
ut any rate they incnn In, pretty soon. If
they hive done ~, they sit down with
confirming conviction that their newspaper
IL now settled f"r; and this idea having
once got into their heads refuses obstinntc.
" to he dislodecd, bu, Keeps its hold from
year To yenr-a truth once---now mn ilu
sion, grey md rheumatic with years. The
editor marking tho elongated and elonga-
ting space in the accounts current of their
doIlars, begins 10 nsk il they arc dead, or
have gone 10 California. Now he begins 10
poke hills Al them. They suddenly start
up II tho renlty that they nrc in arrears:
and like men, M they arc nj tho bottom,
pay up. They never dispute his bills
they know hooks tell better stories than
moss covered memories. II tho publisher
has faith enough OF long purse, and can
live like bib .nating bcar, he NAV survive
the men. But ifhe is mortal, only, woo be
10 him. Tho next class 10 that Of tho
Dorm Hi!iers.--lIere We begin 10 slide
over 10 the other side. The picture sud.
denly gets sambre. We shall despatch the
down hllers suddenly. One of these may
take piper because vile wants one or
children are jealous 10 read it--or neigh
Dor persuades him. When il begins 10
come he dsmisses all thought about il fur
Their. 1.-THE editor sends man directly 10
him ut tho end Of two or three years, he
may get some pay Tor his paper, but with
growls and surly looks. lie never pays
sny debt il he can get rid Of il, and news
paper least Of oil. Still he hates law suits
and constnblcs and all that. A dun has
the same effect on him that billet of wood
does on hippopotsmus, CHANGING from bis
hide, or sinking into the blubber harmless.
He is always sliding down hill end soon
energies into another class, that Of
The Mir Cum Roxse.-No matter how
this man began bis subscription, 10 never
pays for it-not be. sIle don't like that
sort Of papcr. Il don't give 40 news. lie
never did like il. He didn't want il 10 the
first place, and told the postmssserso. He
sent ono back moro than q year ago-be-
sides hs never began 10 take il till long
time sfter il came, and he hadn't hsd only
two o. three Of them At any rate, and those
be hadnt read" Wips him Of. Here
comes the
6capc gvacc.-It 10 enough to cay ofhim
lhat hs never fails TO have ne~spaper--
two or three Of them. When b thinks
they have come about long enough Cor the
publisher TO want pay. ho sends back with
''stop H." Or he takes up his quarters
and leaves Tor parts unknown. Hs does
not want to pay. and he don't mean 10. Get
Il f you can. Enough Cor him.