Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-01-27
From the N. Y. Dutchmau.
A BLOCKED GAME,
OR
Chasing a Fugitive Subscriber.
BY rALCoNBRIDG

possibly to the days of Faust-have suf-
fered martyrdom, more or less, at the hands
of the people whe don't pay! Many Of the
long-establshed newspaper concerns can
show black list'' as long as the melitia
law, and an unpaid cash account bulky
enough TO settle the Guano question or take
Cuba! Country publishers suffer this WY
intensely. About one half of the "subscrib-
ers" TO the Clarion of Freedom, or the Uni
SaitSt Democrat, or the Wing Shot Tower,
seem TO labor under the Utopian notion that
printers were made TO mourn over unpaid
subscription lists; or that they 'got up pa
pers for their own peculiar amusement, and
carried them or sent them TO the doors fthe
public for mere pastime! Every publisher,
of about every paper we ever examined,
about this time Of year, has told his own
story--requested his subscribers to come
forward-pay over-help keep the mill 60
ing-creditors easy-fre in the stove
meal in the barrel-children in bread, but
ter and shoes-Sheritf at bay, and other
tragical affairs connected with the opera
tions attendant upon unsettled cash accounts
But how many heed such ''no.ices:" Pay
ing subscribers do not read them-such ap-
plications do not apply to them hey regret
to see them in the paper, and like honest,
common-sensed people, don't probe or med
die with other peoples short comings. The
delinquent subscriber don't read such calls
upon his humanity-they are distasteful to
him; he may squint and grin over the notice
to pay up, anh chuckles to himself
"Ah, umph! dun away, old feller; amt
one o that kind that sends money by mail
it might be lost, and the man that duns me
for two or three dollars worth of newspa-
pers, may get it, # he knors ho1c."
Well, the good time has come, Printers
now may wait no longer; the jig's up-they
have found out a aray to get their money
just as easy as other laborers in the fields
OF science, art, mechanism, law, physic and
religion get theirs. Let the printer cry
Eureka!
DIR. Pendeton st. Clair Smith, patron
of fine arts, best ,alors, BARRIERS, boot blacks,
and the newspaper press, was tooth oper-
ator of some skill and great pretension.-
He lived and moved in modern style, and
though no man could be more desirous Of
nduIging in "short credit" no man believed
or acted more readily upon the principle
6 base is the slave tina t PAYsn
DIR. P. SIC. Smith slipped up one day,
leaving the ,ceH done community of Boston
and the environs, for fields more congenal
to his peculiar talents. He stuck the prin-
ter, OF course. His numerous subscription
accounts TO the various local news and lite
rary journals, in the aggregate, amounted 10
quite considerable; and the printers didn't
begin 10 like it, Now, it takes a Yankee,
and about this time live, double grand ac-
ton Yankee named Peabody, possibly, hap
pened in at one Of the offices, where two
brother publishers were making few re-
marks" over delinquent subscribers, and es-
pecially We're they wrought up against and
giving jessy to Dr.. Pendleton 81. Clair
Smith.
How much does the feller owe you?"
quoth Peabody.
"Owes? more than he'll ever pay during
the present generation"
Perhaps not,'' says Peabody; ''now if
you'll just give me full particulars of the
man, his manners and customs, name and
size, and sell me your accounts at low
notch, I'll buy em; I'll collect 'em, too, ii
the feIer's alive, out of Jail, and anywhere
around between sunrise and sunset"
The publishers laughed at the idea, SEN
sibly, but finding Peabody up for a trade,
they traced out the accounts, &c., and for a
five dollar bill, Mr.. Peabody was put in
possession of an account of some twenty
odd dollars and cents against DR.. P. ST.
Clair Smith.
Now Peabody had some time previous tc
his tranaction, established peculiar kind
of telegraph, human galvanic battery, OIL
endless chain ofthem, extending all over the
country, for collecting bad debts, and shock.
ing fugitiyes, or stubborn creditors! BY ;
continuation of faculties, causes and effect.
-shrewdness and forethought peculiar 10
man capable of seeing considerable deep in
to llstones--Peabody couldn't be dOdged
If he ever got his .teeler on subject, the
squiralent was bound 10 be turning up. II
struck him that the collection of newspaper
bills afforded him great field for working
his telegraph, and he hasn't been mistaken
The scene now changes; early one morn
ing in the pleasant month of June, as The
poet might say, DR.. Pendleton st. c. Smitl