The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17
y UortPER SUBSCRIBERS.

which class they belong. We hope
net in e;trer of the last three
JPEIGHTs-i'hcse are men that take
newspapers, pay for them, and read
them. Observe the order in which
these things are done: The pay comes
first-the reading next. These men
consider they get the worth of their
m,ney in the bargain. 1t seems as
fair and just to them that a newspaper
should be paid for as the barrel Of foui
or new coat They never entertained
any other opinion. When the year
runs out, or little before, they are on
hand with the pay. There is no more
difficulty with them in remem bering
this period than in remembering Sun
day or the first of January. II one of
them wishes to stop his paper, lie either
calls or writes by his postmaster in due
season. like a man. This class is dear
to the heart Of the editor. Their image
is embalmed in his warm affections.
May they live a thousand years, and
see theiI sons sons of the fourth gen
Grafton. The second class now in
mind is the
Do WELLs-This class is nearly
related to the Other-so near that it is
hard to tell where one ends and the
other begins. These men always pay
in advance in the beginning, and in
tend to do SO continually. But mem
orv fails little, or some mishap inter-
yenes, and the time runs by-sUmetimeS
little, sometimes quite period. But
their recollection, though noddiug oc
casionally, never gets sound asleep.
1T pronounces the word in due time,
"The printer is not paid = and forth
with their will to do well kiud!cs into
activity. Now comes the paying up
Meant to do so before. Don't mean
to let such things pass by" a pub
fisher can live with such men. They
have warm place in his memory
oniy a little back of the Uprigh.s. If
such 4 man dies i'm arrears. his wife or
son remembers that hc might not have
paid up for his newspaper, and forth
with Institutes inquiries. They re-
member that part Of the benefit was
theirs, and estate or no estate, they see
that the printers bills are not among
their fathers unsettled accounts
Next come the
EASY GoERs-Thcse men believe in
newspapers. They have fully settled
in their own minds that a newspaper is
n good thing They take them, too
Sometimes at the first they pay up for
the first wear; at any rate they mean
to. pretty soon. If they do so, they
set down with the comforting convic-
tion that their newspaper is now settled
for; and this idea having once got into
their heads. refuses Obstinatcly to he
dislodged, but keeps it's holding from
year to year truth once-now an
illusion gray and rheumatic with years
The editor, viewing the elongated and
elongating space in the accounts cur
rent OF their dollars, begins to ask il
they are dead or gone to California.
Now he begins to poke bills ut them.
They suddenly start up to the reality
that they are in arrears; and, like
men, as they are at the bott IN, pay up.
They never dispute his bills-they
know books tell better stories than
moss covered memories. If the pub-
fisher has faith enough, or a long purse,
and can live like alternating bear, he
llltN ot' ! I've IiliS t!dSo. iJ9O II HC 10 Il
mortal only, woe be to hun. The next
class is that of the
Down HILLER.-lIcre we begin to
slide over to the other side. The pic
ture suddenly gets sombre. We shall
despatch the Down Hills suddenly.
One of these may take paper because
his wife wants one, or the children are
Jealous to read it, or n neighbor per
suades him. Wien it begins to come
be dismisses all thoughts about it fur
ther Ifthe editor sends man directly
to him at the end Of two years, be NAV
get some pay for his paper, with growIs
ami surly looks. He never pays any
debt if he can get rid of IT, and a
newspaper least of all Still. he hates
lawsuits. constables. and all that. \
dun has the same effect on him that a
bullet has on a hippopotamus-glanc-
ing from his hide, or sinking in the
blubber harmless. lie is always slid
ing down hill, and soon mcrges into
another class, of
The Nix Gun EoUsE.-No matter
how this man began his subs, ription,
he never paws Cor it-not lie "He
don't like that sort Of paper, 1t don't
give news. He never did like it. lie
didn't want it in TIE ,Gxes1 lace, and
told the postmaster sdf He sent it
back more than year ago; besides,
he never began to take it till n 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 SCAREGRACE-Itis is enough to
say of him that he never fails to have
ncwsp1pcr-two 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.u Or
lie takes mp his quarters and leaves for
parts unknown. He does not want to
pay, and he don't mean to. Get it if
you can.