The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-04-10
TAKING ANEwspAPER

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" heat crop By means Of = Ian.
Very fne Cay. friend Allon." .Any
newss" returned the indisidual addressed.
No. nothing ofimporiance. I B. lieve.
] have called oYrrto see &c you won'i Join
Carpenter and myself in taking he psrer
this year. The price i only iws dollars
and Soy cents year"
i Nothing il cheap that You don't
sant." returned Gsskill. in \ positive
tone. 80 don't believe "a newspapers.
u an old stray one happens "a get into my
house. my gals arecrazy after i. and moth
ing can be got ont OF them I'LL il Is read
through. They wouldn't be good Tor a
cent if paper esme every week. And
besides. dollars sia't picked up in every
eornhiIl."
"But think, neighbor Gasliil. how
much information your gals would get if
they had fresh newspaper every week.
filed with he latest intelligence. The
time they would spsnd in reading il.
would be nothing 10 whai iley would
gein."
sand what would they gain. I wonder!
Get their heads filed with nonsense and
love stories. Look atSalIy Black. Isn't
she 6ne specimen IL your newspaper
reading gals! Not wor;h 10 her ialIs {
three pumpkin seeds. remember well
enough when she Was one nf the most
promising little bodies about here. Bat
her faifrs aas fool enough - take news
paper. ANY nne could see a change in
Sally. She began to spruce up and look
smart First came bow on her Sunday
bonnet. and then gloves 10 go 10 meeting
in. After that she mu.t be Gent off b
school again, and that al tile very time she
began to be worth something about the
house. And now she has got f,rte pia-
no. and afellow comes every week 10 teach
her music" a a&%
| "Then you won'i join rs neighbour"
Mr.. Alton said, avoiding useless reply
10 Gaskill.
"0h no; that will. not. Money
thrown away on newspapers is worse than
wasted. j nerer heard of their doing any
good. The time spent in reading a
newspaper every week would be enough
10 raise a hundred bushels oe potatoes.
Your Herald, in ms opinion, is dear bar
gain At that price" a@@
soon after sl' fen neg65or Gaskill 10 his own
fancies. A wise man was found to make
one Of the proposed club. and by them the
| FIVE dollars were sent on and papers pro-
Cured. ".@ ".'.a*@" "
i One day about two months afterwards
they met, as they had done frequently
during the intermediate tines -
I "Ilave you sold your wheat yess'
:. asked Mr.. Alton. ST.
AYES, | sold il day before yesterday"
"IIow much did you get for III"
, Eighty five cents"
. a" No more!" .*"r
al don't Know that had and right Il
! expect more. Wheat hasn't been above
: that for two months past" #@s
{ but it is above that now"
1 "How do goa knowF' # II
q "Why. I ,houghttha, every one knew
+ the price had advanced 10 ninety tw'
cents! 10 whom did you sell?'
"To Wakefield. the stnre keeper I
Rayenna. He met me day before yestei
day and asked rae il had sold my GRO
y vel. | said | had not. He then otiere
: to take i, at eighty FIVE cents, the markt
, price, and told him he might as We
II have il, as there was doubles little chanS
Of lis rising. Yesterday he sent over til
wagons, and took it away" 'f#
: "That was hardly fair in Wakefield
" lie knew prices had advanced. He cam
10 me also. and offered to bny my crop
eighty five. But. had jus,receired IN
: news paper, in which saw BY the Price
u current, that, in consequence Of acconn
! from Europe of shost ersp. grain b;
o. gone up. / asked him nine,y-,we cent
10 which after some higgling. he was q"I
> willing to give"
y "a" Did he pay yoa ninety two cents
=, exclaimed Gaskill IN surprise and CHI
&c grin. -
% "Ife certainly did"
Id "I'oo bad! too badt No bet'er TIL
:. down RICH, cheating, TO take SUI h sham
- fnl advantage of another mans Ign
" rance"
&C. "Cer,ainly. WakeG' Id cannot be J.
oe titled in his condnc,." replied Mr.. Az"
y" "It is not right for one man to take
Fss' vantage of another mans ignorance. q
IT. get his goods for less thar they are wor
vs. But does not any man deserve thus to s.
W. Ter who remains wilfully ignorant II
,a- world where he knows there are alwa
oe enough standing ready 10 abuse his
noranre. Had you been wiling to spe
p two dollars and fifty cents for the ne'
he paper whole year, you would have 81
9Th ed in The single item of your wheat CT
ian alone fourteen dollars. Justthink oil IN
Oh Wakefield takes the newspaper q
yes watches them closely. He knew ev'
ave week the exact state Of the market, ant
me always prepared to make good Oarga
han out of you aud some tnzen others ar"'
ici- here, who have not wit enough to prov