The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-01-11
!. Newspaper subscribers.


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~ = Newspaper Subscribers.
The LONDON Neaospaper a7o4ess
contains the following classification
of newspaper subscribers, which
is'-somewilat vaguely credited to
anAmerican paper :"21V -. =
First comes the - .
UrEIeHTs.-These are men who
take newspapers, pay for them and
read them. Observe, the order i'm
which these things are done: The
. pay cones.first-, the reading next.
These men consider they get the
worth of their money in the bar.
gain.a It seems az. fair. and just to
them that the newspapers should
be paid for asa barrel. OF sugar or
new coat. They never. entertain
any other opinion. When ? the
year runs out, or q little before,
they a-n' nn4hAnd- ai.h the nav.
There is no more diflicslty witt,
them in remembering this period,
tl:an Sunday or the first ofJanua.
ry. II one.uf item wishes to stop
his paper, he either calls or writes
a letter by his postmaster, in due
season, like n lIaII, This class is
dear to the heart of the editor.
Their image is embalmcd in his
warm affections. May. they live a
thousand years, and see their sons
sons to the fourth generation. y
Tie second class now in mind
is the ~ rssr
~ Do WELLs.-This class isnearly
related to the otlier-so near, that
it is hard to tell where one begins
and tue other ends. These men
always pay in advance in the be.
ginning, and intend to do 90 con.
tinually. But memory. fails a lit
tie, or some mishap intervenes, and
the time runs by-sometimes ALT.
tie sometimes for quite a period.
But their recollection, though nod
ding occasionally, never gets sound
asleep. 1t pronounccs the word
in due iiine -" The printer is not
paid )" and forthwith. their will to
do kindles into activity. Now
comes the paying up" Meant to
do SO before. Don't. mean to let
such things pass by" A publish.
er can live with such men. They
havea warm place in his memory
only little back of the Uprights.
ff-such a man dies in arrears, his
wife or son remembers that he may
not have paid up for his newspa-
per, and forthwith institute in.
qnlries. They remember that part
of the benefit was theirs, and, es.
tate or no estate, see that the prin.
ter's bills are not among their faith,
er's unsettled accounts. am -
Next come the pCtls g.. ,ras,
EASY DoERs.-These men be.
lieve in newspapers. They haye
fully settled it in their own. minds
that newspaper is a good thing.
They take ihem, too. Sometimes
at the first they pay mp, for /, the
first year-at any rata they mean
to, pretty soon. If they have done
so, they sit down with the com.
fortihg conviction that their news.
paper is now settled for /; and this
idea having once got into their,
heads, refuses obstinately 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 pnd elongatipg space
in the accounts currepto of their
dollars. begins to ask ifothey are,
dead or gone toflC California. II Now.
he begins to poke. bills at them.,
They suddenly start mp to the. re-
they are in arrears; and,
like men, as they are at the bot.
tom, pay mp. They never tliaphte
his biils-they know books tell
better stories than moss covered
memories. If the publisher has
faith enough, or a long purse, and
can live like a alternating hear
lie may survive this. .class. But
il he is mo;tal only, woe be to
him. g,{ - .oe 81, d
The nest class isithat of the ,s,,a
. Down IIrLLKEs. Here we be
gin to slide over to the other side.
The picture Suddenly gets somtre.
We shall dispatch the Down I'LL
lers suddenly. tine of these nav