Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-03-10

1 EituCc. III tut mus SfoSS'ASS
newspaper subscribers: First come the
UpRIGHrs. These are men who take
newspapers, pay for them and read them.
Observe the order in which these things are
done: The pay comes iirst-the reading
next. These men consider they get the
worth of their money in the bargain. IL
seems as fair and Just to them that the news
paper should be paid for, rs barrel of SUI
gar or new coat They never entertain
any other opinion. When the year runs
out, or a little before, they are on hand again
with the pay. There is no more difficulty
with them in remembering this period, than
Sunday or the first of January. If one of
them wishes to stop his paper, he either
calls or writes a letter by his postmaster, IN
due season, like a man. This class Is dear
TO the heart of the editor. Their image Is
embamed in his WARM affections. May
/ they live thousand wears, and see their
sons sons to the fourth generation. The
second class now in mind is the
| Do WELLS. This class is nearly related
TO the other-so near, that it is hard to tell
where one begins and the other ends. These
men always pay in advance in the beginning
and intend to do SO continually. But mem
DRY fails little, OF some mishap intervenes,
and the time runs by-sometimes little
sometimes for quite period. But their
recollection, though nodding occasionally,
never gets sound asleep. 1t pronounces tho
paid" and forthwith their will to do well
ing up Meant to do SO before. Don't
mean to let such things run by" A pub
| Usher can live with such men, They have
,iana in hi. ~ lifflp
back of the Uprighls. If such man dies
in arrears his wife or son remembers that
he may not have paid up for his newspaper,
and forthwith Institutes inquiries. They
remember that part Of the benefit was theirs
and estate or no estate, see that the printers
bills are not among their fathers unsettled
accounts. Next come the
EASY DoERs. These men believe in
newspapers. They have fully settled it in
their own minds that newspaper is a good
thing. They take them, too. Sometimes
at the first they pay up tor the first year
at any rate they mean To, pretty soon. II
they have done so, they sit down with the
comforting conviction that their newspaper
is now settled for and this idea having once
got into their heads refuses ObstInateiy to be
Idisodged, but keeps its hold from year to
year-a truth .once-noW an Illusion, gray
and rheumatic with years.
The editor marking the elongated and
elongatng space in the accounts current of
their dollars, begins to ask ii they are dead,
or have gone to California, Now he begins
to poke bills at them. They suddenly start
up to the reality that they are in arrears !;
and like men, as they are ut bottom, pay up.
They never dispute his bils-they know
books tell better stories than moss covered
memories. Ifthe publisher has faith enough
or a long purse, and can live like hiberna-
ting bear, he may survive these men. But
if he is mortal only, wo be to him. The
next class is that of the
DowN-HILLERs. Here we begin to slide
over to the other side. The picture sud-
denly gets sombre. From twilight we dip
into very dim shadows. We shall despatch
the down. Killers suddenly. One of these
may take n paper because wife wants one,
or the children are Jealous to read it-or
neighhor persuades him. When it begins
to come, he dsmisses all thoughts about it
further. If the editor sends man directly
to him at the end Of two or three years, he
may get some pay for his paper, but with
growl> and surly looks, He never pays any
debt il he can get rid of it, and a newspaper
least of ALL Still he hates law suits and
CONSTITUTES anu All tHAl. y Huii t'tS tttI sumo
efiect on him that bullet does on IA hippo
glaucing from his hide, or sinking
into the blubher harmless. He is always
sliding dows hill aud soon merges into an
other class, that of
The Nix CUM RousE. No matter how
this man began his subscription, he never
pays for it-not he lie don't like that
sort of paper. &c don't give no news.
He never did like it, He didn't want ii in
the first place, and told the postmaster so.
He sent back one more than "A year ago
besides he never began 10 take it till long
time after it came, and he hadn't had only
two or three of them at any rae, and those
he hadn't read" Wipe him off. Here
comes the
SCARE GRACE. il is enough 10 say of
him that he never fails 20 have newspaper
two or three of them. When he thinks
they have come about long enough for the
publisher to want pay, be sends back with
" stop IT," Or he takes up his quarters and
leaves for parts unknown. He does not
want TO pay, and be don't mean TO. Get it
if you can. Enough for him.
GIRL HUsG BY HER MOTHER The
London papers report a singular murder
case, which occurred at No 3 Princes street
Fitzroy square. Ii appears thai Ann Pull
len, a widow had daughter IS years old
who was of a lazy and peryerse disposition.
The mother being obliged to 20 out 10 woFl,
tied up her daughter Am to the bed post,
and left her all day. The rope with which
she tied her was put around her neck, and
thence tied to the bed post. When she
came home at night she found the poor girl
strangled to death.
/ SIxTY-Two CRows KILLED BY LrGHT-
SisG.-Ayrshire was visited by severe
hail and thunder storm on Saturday week.
4 flock Of crows sitting on a hedge, on
farm of Mr. john Duncan, Shalloch, par
ish of Coylion, were struck by the electric
/ fluid, and sixty-two Of them were killed.