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For A "slow-coach" Family

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
February
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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Don't take u newspaper; dou't read one of any kiud. If jou hear persons diacufcsiug this or tliat groat battle, :isk Btup:Hy wbat it iill means. Entulate Kip Van Wiukle, s'eep your senses in moral and mental obliviou, and pay no attention to what is passing about vou : in this way you tnay save two or three dollars - the price of a paper - and lose five bundred or five thousand dollars by not being informed about markets, supp'y and demand, and a tbousand otber things as essential to an enierprising man as light and air. Ifyouhave clul dren, don't take wy paper for tbem ; teil them "book iartiiu' ain't uo 'count." - Let them tumble in the high way unWsahed, uncombed, and in raga and tatters. If they don't gradúate in tbe State Prisoa it will be through uo faalt ofyours. If you aro a farmer, plow, KW, aod reap as your ■tupid father did before you. Scoff at all newspaper;, and sneer and deride at progresa of all kinds ; then if you do not succeed in niaking other people tbiuk that thoy are all wrong, and that you alouö are sagacious, it must be that tbe vrorld is euriously awry, and needs reforming budly. The goner you undeitake it the better. By not reaciing pSipws you will sucoeed, if a farmer in having the finesi erop of kuotty, wormy apples that can be found ; pota'oes that would take the prize at any fair for rot; cabbaes tbat are all leaves and no head ; turuips destroyed in the shoo!s by wonus ; hay nwuldy and musty, because you despisea baKmicters aud cut it just as the inercury was falling ; cora half a erop, because you exhauHted the land with it tor yeavs, aud itarved nature to sueh a piieb that she bad uothing to yield in return ; all theae calamities aud möny more, will befall ycu becauso you don't keep pace with the times You cali it " hard tuck," but mea of coimnon sense cali yoijr course by a ñama you never beard of- stupidity ; that't aiore "book laruia.' " A man that does not take a paper of some kiud or another in this time of the world, must expeot to be a prey to all sorts of swindlers, a vio ti m to bad man agemeut, and out óf spirits, out of pocket, temper, niouey, crudit, in short e-erything uuder tbe suu tliat teuds to ïaake life bearable. l'lie newspaper is the great educator of 'bi penple, after all; o let. us then exo in, -'Tuk Fuess eveb !"- 1-1111111,11 "'H MME '11 1 Illl'l I I II 1IIPI II !■ ■ I I I II III IHMI.I

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Old News
Michigan Argus