The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-12-08

One OF the chicago editors gets oil good
hit at Newspaper subscribers. He divides
them into classes, which he says are capable
of innumerable subdivisions. According to
his Evolutionary" the first class are the up
right. These are the men who take the news
papers, pay for them and read them. They
do things by system. They pay first and
then read. They are generally intelligent
men, and consider that they get the worth
oftheir money. 1t seems as fair and just to
them that the newspaper should be paid for
as barrel of -four, or a new coat They
never entertain any other opinion. When
the year runs out they are on hand again
with the pay. This class, the ditor remarks.
ars dear to the heart of the printer. Their
image in his affections, and they are univer-
sally respected.
The second class are the do-wells. These
arein some degree related to the first. They-
pay up during the first six months-"i "inten-
ded to do so before but forgot it." They
never forget if they fail to receive a paper once
week. They won't let the printer suffer,
if occasionally reminded of his short coming.
The third class are the sy-doers. They
believe in newspapers-always read. They
take the paper, without urging They come
up like men and pay for it the first year
The next year rolls around and they quiet
themselves with the conviction that they paid
for the first year, and on the strength of that
they neglect the printer until he begins to
enquire after the state of their health, pocket
&C., when they suddenly wake to the fact
that they are in arrears, and after few weeks
grunting and grumbling, come forward with
fifty excuses and pay up the old score There
are many such newspaper patrons. They
never dispute the printers bill. They know
that books well posted, tell better stories
than treacherous, mose-covered memories
If the printer can manage to beg his way un-
til his wheel horses pay up, he may possibly
get along after fashion, but it is hazard
Gus dependence.
The fourth class are the donn-hillers One
of these takes paper because "wife wants
it, or neighbor presuades him. When it
beginS to come he spend, no thou, hit upon
it further. In the course of the year, if the
constable visits him. he may pay up, grudg-
Ingly, but with grows and surely looks. An
ordinary dun has no more effect on him than
bullet on the side ola hippopotamus. The
printer can't live by such men. a..
The fifth class are the aair cum rouse
They never pay for the paper-nor anything
else. They are always grumbling at the ed
itor, too. They don't like his paper, it don't
give no news-never liked it in the first
place-told the postmaster so-sent one back
a year ago, and didn't begin to take it for a
long time after it came,--hadn't had but two
or three numbers, an han't read them, and
so on to the end Of the chapter. Thus they
talk, but the printer can read all such like a
"bools," they have a mich in his memory,
and through the columns of his paper he
tries hard to instruct them in their duty and
make better men of them. He finds it an
uphill business, however, and soon gives
them up, as he should.
The sixth and last class are the scaDe gra-
ces. Every body knows what scape grace
is. One Of these fellows never fails to take
five or six newspapers. When he thinks they
have come about long enough for the publish
er to want his pay, he sends word to ''stop
it, )" or decamps for ''parts unknown" He
never intends to pay for it, and don't 1t
doesn't require many such fellows to starve
out the printer. Such are the varieties of
mankind who take the paper