Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-11-16

the reading next These men consider
they get the worth of their money in
the bargain. 1t seems ~ fair and just
to :hem that tho newspapers should be
paid for as barrel of sugar or new
coat. They never entertain any other
opinion. When the year runs out or a
little before, they are on hand with the
pay. There is no more difficulty with
them in remembering this period than
Sabbath or the first of January. If one
of them wishes to stop his paper, he
either calls or writes letter by his post
master, in due season. like man. This
class is dear to the heart nf the editor.
Their image is embalmed in his warm
affections, May they live a thousand
years, and see their sons sous to the
fourth generation.
The second now in mind is the
Do We!ls.-lhis class is nearly related
to the o;her-so hear, that it is hard to
tell where Que begins aad the other ends.
These men always pay in advance in the
beginning, and intend to do so continu-
ally. But memory fails little, or come
mishap intervenes, and the time runs by
sometimes a little-sometimes FOR q ute
a period. But their recollection, though
nodding occasionally. never gets sound
asleep. 1t pronounces the word in due
time-"Ihe printer is not paid" and
forthwith their will to do well kindles
into activity. Now comes the paying up
-" Meant to do so before. Don't
mean to let such things pass by" A
publisher can live with such men. They
have warm place in his memory-only
little back of the Uprights. If such a
man dies in arrears, his wife or son re-
members that he may not have paid up
for his newspaper, and forthwith iusti
tutes inquiries. They remember that
part of the beuefit was theirs, and estate
or no estate, so that the printers bills
are not among their fathers unsettled
accounts
Na1t come the
Easy Doors. These men believe in
newspapers. They have fully settled it
in their own minds that a newspaper is
a good thing They take them too,
Sometimes at the first they pay up for
the first year-at auy rate they mean to,
pretty soon. If they have done SO they
set down with the comforting conviction
that their newspaper is now settled for; ;
and this idea having once got into their
heads, refuses obstiuately to be dislodged.
but keeps its hold from year to year; a
truth once, now an illusion, gray and
rheumatic with years. The editor,
marking the elongated space in
their accounts current of their dol
lars begins to ask if 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 at the bottom, pay up. They
never dispute hi. bill-they know books
tell better stories than moss covered
memories If the publisher has faith
enough, or long purse. and can live
like alternating bear. he may survive
this class. But it he is mortal only, woe
be to him.
The next class is that of the
Down E;ilers.-Here We begin to slide
over to the other side. The picture sud
denly gets sombre. We shall despatch
the down Killers suddenly. One of
these may take parer because wife
wants one, or the children are jealous
to read it. or neighbor persuades him.
When it begins to come, he dismisses
all thought about it further. If the
editor sends a man directly TO him at
the end of two or three years, he may
get come pay for his paper, bat with
growls and surely looks. He never pays
any debt if he can get rid of it, and
least of all. Still, be hates
lawsuits and constables, and all that.
A dun has the same effec: on him that
a bullet has on hippopotamus-glanc-
ing from his hide, or sinking into the
blubber harmless. He is always sliding
down hill, and soon merges into another
class, that of
The Nix Cum Rouse. No matter how
this man began his subscription, he new
er pays for it-not he. "He don't like
that sort of paper. 1t don't give no
news. He never did like it He didn't
want in the fret place, and told the post
master 30. He sent it back once more
than a year ago-besides, he never be-
gan to take it till long time after it
came, and he hadn't had only two or
three of them, at any rate, and those he
hadn't read" Wipe him off.
Here comes the
Scapegrace. 1t is enough to say of
him that he never fails to have a news
or three of them. When he