The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-10-27
RATES or ADVERTISING.
Newspaper Subscribers.

Newspaper Subscribers.
The London Newspaper Press contains the
following classification of newspaper subscrl-
hers. which is somewhat vaguely credited TO
9an. American paper q
1 First come th&
IIpRIeHTs.-These are men who take news
.papers. pay for them, and read them. Observe
tSe order in which these things are done: The
nav cones frst-the reading next. These men
consider they get the worth of their money in
the bargain. It seems as fair and just to them
that the newspapers should be paid tor as a
barrel of sugar or new coat. They never en-
tertain any other opinion. When the yearruns
out, or little before, they are on hand with
the pay. There is no more difficulty with them
in remembering this period, than Sunday or
the LIST of January. If one of them wishes to
stop his paper, he either calls or writes letter
by his postmaster, in due season, like man.
This class is dear to the heart of the editor.
Their image is embalmed in his warm affections.
May they live thousand years, and see their
sons sons to the fourth generation.
The second class 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 memory fails
q little, or some mishap intervenes, and the
time runs by-sometimes for quite period.
But their recollection, though nodding occa-
sionally, never gets sound asleep. Itpronounces
the word il due time, 'The printer is not paid"
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 man
dies in arrears, his wife or son remembers that
he may not have paid up for his newspaper,
and forthwith institutes inquiries. They re-
member 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 news
papers. They have fully settled in their own
minds that a newspaper is good thing. They
take them, too. Sometimes at the first they
pay up for the first year-at any rate they
mean to, pretty soon. IF 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, re-
fuses obstinately to be dislodged, but keeps its
hold from year to year; truth once-nOw an
Illusion, grey and rheumatic with years. The
editor, marking the elongated and elongating
space in the accounts current of their dollars,
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
his bills-they know books tell better stories
than moss-covered memories. If the publisher
has faith enough, or a. long purse, and can live
like hibernating be,r, he may survive this
class. But if he is mortal only, woe be unto
him.
The next class is that of the
Down HILLERs.--Here we begin to slide
over to the other side. The picture suddenly
gets sombre. We shall dispatch the Down
Killers suddenly. One of these may take
paper because wife wants one, or the children
are jealous to resd it, or neighbor persuades
him. Whenit begins to come, he dismisses 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 growls and surly looks. He never
pays any debt if he can get rid of it, and
newspaper least of all; Still he hates Lawsuits,
and constables, and all that. A dun has the
same effect on him that bullet has on hip
popotamus-glancing from his hide, or sinking
into the blubber harmless. He is always
sliding down hill, and soon merges into anoth-
er class, that of
THE NIX Cum RoUsE-No matter how
this man began his subscription, he never pays
for it-not he. "He don't like that sort of pa
per. 1t don't give no news. He never did
like it. He didn't wsnt it in the first place,
and told the postmaster so. He sent back one
more than year ago-besides, he never began
to take it till a 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
of.
ScAPEGRAcE-Iti is enough to say of him,
that he never fails to have newspaper
or three of them. When he thinks they have
come about long enough for the publisher to
want pay, he sends back with "stop it." Or
he takes up his quarters and leaves for parts
unknown. He does not want to pay, and he
don't mean to- Get it if you can.
Reader, in which of the above classes are
you found?
INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD IN VIRGINIA.
The late terrible floods at Harper's Ferry de-
veloped much individual heroism. The Rev.
DR.. Dutton and family lived in brick house
on Herr's Island. On Friday night the foun-