The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-10-27
NeWsPAPER suRsoaseeRs.
We invite attention. TO the following class
ihcation OF DewsPspeE subscribers
E;rsf come tha

WelnVlte attention. 80 the folowlog class
ihcation OF newspapeE subscribers:
First come the
Uprights.-TEese are the men who take
newspapers, pay for them. and read them
Observe the order in which these things are
done: The pay comes frst-the reading
next. These men consider they get the fall
worth Of their money in the bargain. II
seems Us fair aud Just to them that the news
paper should be paid for as a barrel of sugar
or d new coat. They never entertain any
other opinion. When the year runs out. or
a little before, they oD hand with the pay.
There is no more difficulty with them in re
rnembcrin9 THIS period than in remembering
the Sabbath OF 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, Ike man. This class is dear
TO the heart of the editor, Their image is
embslned ip his arm affections Blay they
live thousand years. and see their sons
sops to the fourth generation.
The secold now in MUD is the
Do Wells This class is nearly related to
the other-so near. that it is hard tn tell
where one begins and the other ends. These
men always pay in advance in the bt ginning
and intend TO do SO continually. Bui meui.
C,
and the time runs by-sometimes a little
sometimes for quite period. But their re-
collection, though nudding occasionally. never
gets sound asleep 1t pronounces the words
in due time, The printer is not paid. !" and
forthwith their will to do well kiudlts into
activity. Now comes the paying up
Meant to do 20 before. Don't mean to let
such things pass by." A publisher can live
with such men. They have a warm place
in his nlemory-only little back of the Up
rights. If such man dies in arrears, his
wife or son ren.em bers that be may not have
paid up for his newspaper. and forth with in
stiiutes inquiries. TEey remember that pant
Of the benefit was theirs. ana estate OF nv
estate, see that tie printers bils are not
among their fathers unsettled accounts.
Next come the
Easy Doers-Tbese men believe IN news
Iarers. They have fully settled it in their
own minds that Il newspaper is q good ding.
They take them too. Sometimes at the first
they pay up for the first year-at any rate,
they mean to pretty SOD. Ii they have
done so they sit down " it'll tie comforting
conviction that their newspaper is now set
tied for; and this idea. having once got into
their heads. refuses ohstinately to he dis.
lodged but keeps its hold from year to wear
rheumatic with years. The editor, marking
the elongated and elongatiug space in their
accounts current of dollars due him. begins
10 ask if they are dead or have gone to Cali
iOIuia. Then be proceeds topoke bi Is at
them. They suddenly start up to the reality
that they are in ears; and, ike men. as
they are at the bottom. they pay up They
never dispute his bill-they know that books
tell better stories than moss. covered memo>
ries. If the publisher has faith en-, ugh. or
lorg purse, or can live like hyhernatine
tear, he may survive this class But if he
is mortal only, woe be to him.
The next class is that Of the
Dozen Hiilers.- Here we begin to slide over
to theuther side, The pictuie suddenly g.rs
somhre. We shah dispatch Down Killers
suddeplT. One cf these may take news,
paper because his wife wants it, or the chill
dTen are zea"us 20 read it. or a neigItbor
persuades him When 1T hesi ins to come he
dismisses all further thought about it. III
the editor sends man directly tai him at the
end of two or three years he NAV get some
pay tor his paper. but with growls aud surIv
looks. He Lever pays any debt if he car,
get rid Of it. and a newspaper debt least of
all. Still he hates lawsuits aud Constahles
and all that. A dun has the same effect on
MIN that hullet has on hirpuput anus
glancing from his hide or sinking into rhe
hlubber harmless. He is always sli..ing
down bill, and soon merges iuto another
class. that of
The NtE Cum ROuse-No matter how
this niau began his suhscrirtior. lie never
pays ier it--no he. He don't Ike that
sort of paper. 1t don't give no news He !
pever die like it. lie didn't want it in thu.
first place. and told the postmaster so He I
sent IL back once more than year ago-be- |
sides, he never began to take it till a lone |
time after it came and he hadn't had onlv
two or three of them st any rate. and tbsse /
be hadn't read" Wipe him uf.
Here comes the
Scopegroce.-It is enough TO say of him
that ne never faiis to have a newSpaner-
twoor three Of them. When he thinks tbevI
have come about long enough for the uub. |
Usher to want ray. he serds it back with
the request 10 ''st"p it." Or he tak pn
bis quarters and leaves for parts unknown.
de dues not.want to pay. and he dot. i mean
to. Get it if you can
Reader. in which of the above classes are
you to be fouud2
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