Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-22
NEWSPAPER BORROWERS.
a Class of People Who Make ThNfn-
selves Nuisances.

selves Nuisances.
We are in receipt of note from
an afflicted, individual, asking us to
"giveit" to newspaper borrowers.
Borrowers of all kinds are nui-
sance, without doubt, but newspaper
borrowers are pest.
They always want your paper be-
fore you are done with it, and they
feel aggrieved If you refuse it. They
read all the continued stories, and
can hardly wait for next week to
find out If Lord Fftzhugh married
Penelope Maria, or the other one.
They read your paper so thoroughly,
that by the time you get it back
again, il you ever do, ID Ia fit for
nothing but the rag-baslnet, and holeY
as II it had been used to clean win
dows and lamp chimneys since the
time of Noah.
Most of the corners will be OF, and
in the folds it will be worn to rags,
and there will be splashes of ink, and
spots of kerosene oil, and the marks
Of cigar ashes spread over it promis-
cuouSly.
Most newspaper borrowers have
large families Of children, and chill
dren are great advantage to books
and newspapers. They like to see
the pictures, and punch out the eyes
OF the figures they dislike the APP
pearance Of, and If they can get hold
Of box Of water colors they like TO
display their artistic skill in paint
ing rocks yellow and trees blue.
Newspaper borrowers, as class,
are not poor in this worlds goods,
aud that Is why we condemn them.
To the man or woman who Is too
poor to buy paper we will lend
our newspapers with pleasure. And
we put them outside the pale Of ordi-
nary borrowers, We don't mean
them at all. We are writing only of
that very large section Of humanity
who are able to spend money for to-
bacco, and fast horses, and fancy
iewelry, and gaudy silks, and poison
confectionery, and scores Of other
useless vsnities, but are too poor to
pay for newspaper.
Ask them to subscribe, and they
will Look at yox in horror. Catch
them fooling away money on any
such thing. The stories are all lies,
and the ,newss cannotabe ~relied ON,
and who cares for newspaper after
they have once SKINNED it over.
For their part, they cannot see
why anybody should want to save.
UP old newspapers. GATHERING up
the house for nothinGi
And when you venture to ask
them for your Last weeks paper
which you have not, as yet, read,
thsy look surprised, and tell you
that they guess George made kite
OF IL. They didn't know you cared
anything about tho old thing. They
didn't suppose you had taken to
boarding up old newspapers.
1t is q little thing to refuse to lend
q newspaper; nobody lilnes to do It;
but it is a still smaller thing for
weIl-to-do man OF woman to ask for
such thing. We do not borrow our
neighbours hats or his shirts-why
should his newspaper be borrowed
continually
There is a satisfaction to every
well ordered mind In subscribing for
newspaper, and paying for 1t. The
man who would cheat the printer
would pasture goat on the grave of
his grandfather.
The confirmed newspaper borrower
is trial to hisfriends, and it speaks
we'll for their Christian charity if
they hold out to the end, and find
him in current items, and continued
story literature, without grumblirg.
Our advice to borrowers is, sub
scribe at once for the paper you pre-
fer, and be independent Of your
friends. Our advice to those who
are borrowed Of is-take two pspers
:--one for your friends and the other
for yourself: IL Is the only way you