The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-10-26
DEF0TEDTo LITER MORALITY AND GENERAL NTELENCE

10, essentia1 ao6lene&s Of eues an sosdiis.
ttaguisheds du. asef;.l' career of manly
Mbor--she ao5leness that 10, or at leasi
tie ssobIeness' that may, and get shall
be. AH N.N'
NRWSPAPEH sUBsCnIBRRs.
The London Newspaper Press contains
the following classification Of news
paper subscribers, which is somewhat
vaguely credited to Can American pa
per-" -.
First como the
UPRIaHTs.--These ore men who take
newspapers, pay for them, aud read them.
Observe the order in which these things
are dome. The pay comes frst--the
reading. next. These mon consider
they got the worth. of their money in
the. bargain. 1t seems as fair and just
to them that the newspaper should be
paid for as barrel Of sugar or q 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
Sunday or the first of January. If ono
Of them wishes to stop his paper, he
either calls or writes letter by his
postmaster, Undue season, like man..
This class is dear TO the heart of the eds
itor. Their image is embalmed in his
warm affections. May they live thou,
sand years, and see their aops' sons, to
the fourth generation.
The second class now 10 mind is the
Do WELLs.-This class is nearly
related to the other-so near, that it is
hard to toll where one begins and the
other ends. These men always pay in
advance in the beginning, aud intend to
do so continually. But mcmory fails
little, or some mishap intorvenes, and
the time runs by--sometimes little
sometimes for quite period. But their
recollection though noddiug occasionally
never gets sound asleep. 1t pronouuoes
the word in duo time--"The printer is
not paid )" and forthwith their will to
do we'll kinales 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
suoh man dies in arrears, his wife or
son remembers that he may not havo
paid up for his newspaper, and forthwith
institutes inquiries. They remember
that part of the benefit was theirs, and
estate, or no estate, see that the print
er's bills are not among their fathers
unsettled accounts.
Next como tho
Easy DoERs.-These men believe in
newspapers. They have fully settled it
in their own minds that newspaper is
good thing. They take them, too.-
Sometimes at tho 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 tho comforting conviction
that their newspaper is settled for and
this idea having once got into their
heads refuses obstinately to be dislodged, /,
but keeps its hold from year to year !;
q truth oncc--now an illusion, grey and
rheumatic with years. The editor, mark
ing the elongated and clongating space
in the accounts current Of their dollars,
begins to ask if they arc dead or have
gone to California. Now he begins to
poke bills at them. They suddenly
start up to the reality that they arc in
arrears I; and, like men, MS they are at
the bottom, pay up. They never dispute
his bills-they know books tell botter
stories than moss covered memories. If
the publisher has faith enough or a
long purse, and can live like hibernat
ing bear, he may survive this class
But if he is mortal only, woe be to him.
Tho next class is that of tho
Down HILLERs.-Herc We begin to
slide over to tho other side. The pic
ture suddenly gets sombro. We shall
dispatch the Down Hillers suddcnly.-
One of these may take paper because
wife wants one, or tho children are
jealous to read it, or neighbor per-
suados him. When it begins to como,
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 got rid of it, and newspaper loast
of all. Still, he hates law suits, and
constables, and all that. A dun has the
same effect on him that bullet has ON
hippopotamus--glanoing from his
hide or sinking into tho bldbbcr harm-
less. He is always sliding down hill,
aud socn mcrgcs into another class, that
of
THE Nix Cum RousE.-No matter
how this man began his subscription,
he mover pays for it--not he. "He
don't like that sort of paper. 1t don't
give any news. Ho never did like 1t.
He didn't want it ia tho first place, and
told tho postmaster so. He sent back
one more than year ago besides,
he mover began to tako it till long
time after it came, and he hadn't had
only two or three Of them, at any rate,
and those no hadn't read" Wipe him
off