Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-05-25
a good newspaper, SAYS Prentice Of

+ a good newspaper, says Prentice of
the Louisville Journal, is a perfect mirror
of the times, rejecting every event Of in
terest that takes place. No mind can
be well informed which does not habitu-
ally consult the pages of the newspaper.
1T is of great Importance to children that
they have the means placed before them
of becoming acquainted with what is ta-
king place in the world. They thus, in
early life, prepare their minds to under,
stand those affairs in which they must.
when grown up, become actors. Achild
who grows up ignorant of all the events
save those that occur in his immediate vi
cinity, is sure to blunder, and often to
blunder fatally, when he arrives at man
hood and is called on to perform his part
in the great. and stirring drama of life.
Such a child will most probably continue
to be child, as far as knowledge is con
cerned, all the days of his life. He will
go on year after year ignorant of the
spirit of The age, and without the means
OF approaching those great movements in
which his own welfare and the welfare of
those who are to come after him are in
volved. But one, who in early years
learns from newspapers what subjects are
interesting in his own country and the
people of other countries, is thus fitted to
begin his career intelligently, and under
stand whatever is designed to agitate or
advance society. In view of the vast i'm
portance to children of becoming acouain-
ted with the world and its affairs. any pa
rent who fails to place within the reach
OF those whom Providence has consigned
to his care good newspaper, is unfaith-
tul to the momentous trust which has
been confided to him, and is guilty of a
gross and objectionable neglect of duty
No child should be suffered to grow up
In Ignorance of the government under
which he is destined to live, or the sub
Jects that occupy the attention of the peo.
pie, or the condition of the people under
other governments. In youth, he should
be taught to take an interest in all the
movements of society, and then, when he
is called on to participate in those move
mentss, he will be able to perform his du
ty mtelligcntly in all his relations to his
country and to those with whom he may
become associated. Many minds that
have become conspicuous, have received
their first incentives to exertion and devel
opement from newspapers. They have
been first directed to the studies in which
they afterwards excelled by becoming
acquainted with them through the medi
rm of newspapers which they were in the
habit ofreading. No parent can tell what
great a d importantresults to his children
depend on his placing newspapers within
Their reach, and encourage them to read
them. r
No one, who from his childhood has
been in the habit of reading new spapers
conducted with skill and ability, can grow
up in ignorance. His mind will have all
its views enlarged and corrected by inter
course with the writings of men who have
distinguished themselves by their intel
lectual superiority. Such mind will not
De dwarfed and cloudcd by ignorance. 1t
will rejoice in the light that enables it to
form truthful opinions on subjects of duty
and ofinterest, and understand something
OF that sublime machinery which regu-
lates the celestial worlds thatreyolve over
his head, and of the mysterious processes
of nature that are ever working out their
stupendous resultsin the fields and forests
around him.
Reader, permit us to urge you to take
a good newspaper-speak to your neigh
Dor in regard to the value of a good news
journal in a family, and recollect that for
one dollar and haif you can obtain for
year, paper of the desired quality, and
if you read the "KEowEE COURIER, " YOU
will ascertain where it is to be had.
From the Laurensyille Herald.
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