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A Wise Judge

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
September
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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The corporation attorney of a large Vstern city lias just rendered au opinn to the effect that the poor board iv lawfully furnish the county almsmsc and city hospital with newspapew, ïoldinu that they are to be classed aong the nccossities of life. Comeuting on this, the Sun characterizes lis opinión as a sound statement of et. The newspaper, it holds, has beome a necessity to Americana, and to 16 shut out from a knowledge of whatis oing on in the worid would be as great hardship to them as any ther except ack of food, clothing or slielter. The ife is more than meat, and the body ïan raiment ; and the satisfaction of the mind is is legitímate as the satisiction oí the bodily wants, and of a higher order. The sick iu the hospitals ad the paupers in the almshonses may share in the common ])iivilege of Auiericans. The newepaper is the university and the library of the people, the ion school of manhood. Itiathegreat ebatiog club of politice, the ezchange f business, the record of each day of i u man experience. It is uecessary tu 10 proper discharge of the politica! utiea of the citiren. But a oewspaper, i Least a good newspaper, is more than necessity. It is f ui 1 of tragedy and omedy, wit and passion, the heroic and ie liuinblo, the crime and the nieniient of natidiis. It isagreat realistic listory. It is a daily oommentary upon luman nature. U'ln'ii yon see a bicycle rider who sits i straight upon his wheel, and does ot lmnip ii) his back and sprawl out lis timba like a paralyzed frog, you at ace remark to yourself : "There is a erson who ridea a wheel for pleasure." t is iinly the boys who want you to link they are reat racers that imítate H' camel. For severa! yeara the calannty hower" has berated every successful baaicss man as g thief and a robber. Every Kin who by thrift and industry or who irough years of careful saving, or irough self-denial and the practice of cbnomy, has succeeded in gatbering igether a few thousand dollars, has jeen pointed at as an enemy of the !alring man or held up in BCorn as mie of lie favorecí class, a capitalist and a tonopoliet. lsn't it time to cali a halt this kiml of teaching? - Hillsdale je ader. By an oversight tlie fact that the Ypsianti Commercial had come out with a iev bead, and with a new iirm at its ïead, was omitted from the last issue, 'he paper is now publislied by Coe & imithe, the lattor gentleman being Mr. reo. ('. Bmithe formerly one of the propiietern of the Ypsilantian, who will iave charge of the editorial columns. 'he Conamercia] will be independent (olitically, and aspire to the position of bc bst paper ín tbc state. We wlsh bc new finn tlie best of success. An animal lallcil a ohamclron, was brovipht iiito The IMlot office the other day by Wm. a. (Jliambcrlain. The ■liaiiK'U'O'n, which resembles :i small izard, is a peculiar animal. lts boly s six ov scven inclies lonff and the teil iivc inelies. with this, in its natiw siat, t cUngi to the branches of trees. The skin is of a lhusli firay color iin the sluade, but in the light of Um sun all ]arts of the body become oí a fírayisli-brown. It has, howev■r. tbe power d greatly cha-nging its color. It is il native of Asia and África. - Wayne Pik. It -vould make a god politician. "To be poor and content is rich enough." In oui mad struggle forposiion and honor, we are apt to compare our lot unfavorably with others who iave (iut-stripped us in the race, yet noncy Ijrings care, and we wonld not change places, for uneasy lies the lead that wearg a crown. Sorae wait fortune to smile on theni. "We are our own architecte, and cannot attain irosperity without effort. The indepenlent tillcr of the soil is monarch of all ii' surveys, and she who rules ín the louse, althougb she niay weary of the laily routine, contribntefl to tlie general i 1 of humanity. Richet of mind are worth more than gold, and are the kind of wealth we should strive to give to our children, Bympathtaing with tbem in their every day lives, and encouraging the growtli of their spiritual as well as physical and mental natures, if we would have them endowed with the wealth that is a continua] source of pleasure and benefit, and eau never

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Ann Arbor Courier