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Day
30
Month
December
Year
1885
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Public Domain
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We sfiaTl not attcmpt n treatise on phrenology, bul ilmpl; report i dtsciMalon that occurred in the Cranial Oouncil Cbaraber. The meeting was cal led to order by the President, who read the following postal cm-! from a newspaper editor: "Your Bubtcriptlon expires in two weeks. Pleaaa reiww." After some informal talk the quesMon at issue wbr put in a desirable form. "Jtesohod, That we discontinue ours.ilscriptions to the Weekly." i in; y IXILkTlTi Was opened by Aequisitivencss, who spoka Huis: times are hard, and moiiey scarce, and unless all unnecessary expenses are cut off, we are going to run ander. Oue dollar is quite a handfull of money; it comes hard and goes easy; the faut is, we must hold on to it. I ga] Stop the paper and saveour money." Aüinentiveness ncxtafBrmed. "Gentlemen, wliat do papers amomrt to? Tliey do'nT sustaln the body; other thlnga are More important. We must eat; eannot live without it; tliree Rood square meals Mr 'lay must be forth coming whethei we liave papers or not. I say give up the paper and set a botter table." Seerctiveness anise and said: "Snppose we ptoy Bhur[ on tbe editen by not respondlng elthér way; iet liim continue seudinj; the paper, iiud fe.t nis pay the best way he can." Self-esterm next oocupled the Boor. "(icntleintu," sald lie, "we must keep up appeat anees ; the body must lie clo'lied with tiie best we can get. Une dollar would huy B BW cap, a pair of glovt s or Mine other artiele of dnss. I s;iy let l lic paper go and keep up the wardrobe." Cautiousne8S timidly arose and spoke in a heattating marnier. "Friends I urn uot decided on thtf questlon. We must avoid running auy risk. Il we adraiKM the money we muy regiet il; perhaps Deed it more tor something else. I urn like the man aslride the fence; it looks 80 uiuddy onjhoth sidea 1 cannot - " What more C&Utlousness was going to say remained uusaid. tor a red-headed gentleman naineil ('onihativeness, who oocupied one of the lower seats, had by this time hecame quite exciteil, and suddenly springing to hisfeet be vociferatod: "I don't piopose [to be driven to do anythlng 'I'hat postul did not sit very wrll on me. We kenw when the subiCrlpÜOn eipired as well as the publisher did. It wou ld look better to wait until the matter was whollv ripe." THK NEGATIVK W.is oened by Memory, who sat on one of the tront seats. "Gentlemen, ray mimi Joes tvirk umi ranalli iw. Dii.st yr. Fiftytwo nam berg of the paper have iieen re eeived, and no delays occurred. Tl;e c lnnins were ril led wiili chotee reading matter well calculated to niake us WÍM1 and better. I regret that we have not kept the entire volume on rile and preserved it for future refereuoe. Calenlation arose and laidi '"Gentlemen I have been tKt'lig here caloulating on this matter. Figures won't lie, yon Unow Fitty-two iiumbers of tl. e paper eigbt pajjes eacli, equals 410 pages. It certHinly is a vast amouut of readin matter for $1. lf we had cut out the best articlos and recipes they wonld have madea large scrap-book of uaetul information of pearmanent value.'' " Yes,geutlemen, that is so," said Compartaoo. 'While my friend was speakin; I was ecomparing the paper witli tlie ¦ame amount ot matter printed in book form. Let us suppose two pages out of the eiglit are of advert.isements, useful as enabliiiK one to keep up with the new thing.s in business and eomnieice, that leares six pages of Interestlnif 1 Itera ry matter, makiug 312 dnring tlteyear, each as large as eigbt octavo pages in book t"rni ; 2,49 pages, equal to books, for $1. Tiiis is mach cbemper thaa a book of that size would cost, let alone four booksj besides it embraces a variety ot subjects of profound interest, very Interestinjr and instruetive, and comes iresh e very week and is more rarefully read tbau It would be if it all carne at once." Mirthftlnen nnllingty reuiarked that one or two of the cnlnmns alone was woith all the paper OOêt. Said he: "An audilile smile often does the system more good than a dose of medicine ; and if not vulgarly excited, is consistent even with a deacon's professton. Causality next addressed the meeting. Said lie : "I look at the questiou in the ligbt of reaaOB. It is evident that Ignorance Is a fruitful cause of paupeiisin and crime. The paper is a powerful educátor atul costs hut little. It anema to me that we ought to avail ouiselves of this mighry instiuinrnt of Oiviüiatioil,, and press it stil) furtber into the service of education and morality." Conscientiousness arose and said he scorned the idea advanced by Secret iveness, and added: "I have always been in favor of tiutb and justiee I have read inany aiticles in ihe paper during the year tlial 1 conld heartily indorse. I believe it is a usefnl agent In advanclny trutu, aud as such is worthv of our patronage. I consider it a dnty we owe to ourselves and others, to help this gm! woik by continuing our subst-ription." "I sanction all of that, and more, too," said ilenevolence. "It the paper is IfOod for us it Is also good tor otheis. 1 helieve weought to i.xleiiil it clrctlUtioil in the interestsof hnmanity; it will help remove the cloud of Igonranee that 80 mach misery among our lillow belogg.'1 Veneration took the door and pnsscd the negatlve still farther. Said he: "I mu shoeked at the groveling arjruetnenta of our opponents. They talk as If gratlfying the appetites and passlorx were the chicf end oí our existeime. I cali for something that will lift up the mlud and inspire it with high and noble thouffbU. I have f ou ml considerable in the paper to gratlfy the cravings of my religloui nature, and still want more; let us continue our subscriptions." A telling speech from Firmness closed the argument. Space forbids reportlng it in rail. He held the Hoor a long time. He was docldedly opppsed to tickleness. The paper was a ood (hing, and he VII detonniued lo hold on to il. The argu ment of bil opponent left no impression on his mintl. After atlv aneinfr inany original and powerful argument! and recapitula! inj; tboae of bis colleagueii he sai down, aml the quetion was referretJ to the Jlldge tor decisión, who, by the way, is yourseli; kind re:. der, il' your

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Ann Arbor Courier
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