Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1902 — A Cheap Skate. [ARTICLE]

A Cheap Skate.

Morocco Courier. “A cheap skake” is a business man who will use Gargling Oil envelopes because he can get them free of charge, or will buy his stationery of a city firm because he can get a poor grade two cents cheaper per thousand than the home printer could furnish a good or better grade, while at the same time he will expect to sell the printer goods from his store at a fair, living profit therefor. A cheap skate is a man who will pay for six months subscription and after he has taken the paper eight months will write to the editor to stop his paper when the time expires. A cheap skate is a man who will write up a half-column notice booming his business and then brazen ly 'inform you that several of his friends have an unweaning desire to see said article in print) and request you to send free sample copies to each and all of said relatives. A cheap skate is a man who will borrow the paper from a neighbor and then come in and abuse the tired editor because the news of bis slab-sided daughter’s marriage to another cheap skate didn’t occupy four columns on the front page. A cheap skate is an advertiser who will write up a stretch of copy four times longer than the Declaration of Independence and then insist on its being placed in a two-inch spacewell displayed. The cheap skate—oh, well, he is anything but a broadminded, whole souled, big-hearted man. ■ Marcus G. Lewis, of Remington, is very low with consumption, and bis death is expected at almost any hour.