The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-08-05
PRESERVE YOUR NEWSPAPERS WHY AND
HOW


Nl~t families nowadays take and somewhat read a
N-papor-ono or more; but most people extract
.i ii small portion of their juices and their worth,
traWing thu rest away a worthless thing to he
,-t forever.
What is ordinary family newspaper: It is
l.t uulv history Of the passing events of ones
ontry aud of the world-an cptome ofleraure.
l.- art~ and sciences; of commerce and navigation
I'D -ociotv in all it, moral. social and political as
nar~ hit contains much also thai the streams Of
the past have poured into this vast receptacle of
present lines. 50 that when It new spapcr is hasIi-
Is read and thrown by, the most valuable things BY
foe trc iu-l. u>t A. when few grains of Wheat are
tlhtu from The ,hc;d, and the remainder go whittier
wand aud storm may scatter them. Hence some
heap contriNancc for saving the family newspaper.
future reference and reading, would be. As it Of
I.a i~ a fortune to every such person and family
iur in other and earlier days we hcld-contirned
F., rNrry ,GN'~ rXperirncc-that of all public clll-
.ltni- none equal the newspaper.
lrun for deep and thorough scholarship; for
ranking deep at the Pierian spring, Ill The costly
.9ismce~ Of deep books and studies essential :;
M for the average of people who have neither the
,.iu- ne time, nor The taste for those things who
.iu la have, and must have to accomplish any
t.iug. Il competent knowledge of the myriad events
.la things that cutrr into their everyday thought
ul h,Hne-Whcr- on earth can such help I've found,
property read aud utilized, as in yournrW W~parcr:
w, know many young lady. The pet of the house
.ld. who, rs their parents tondy dream. are to be
.olocatcl' mp 10 the nark which others of their
.-N--,md perhaps ot the olhcr-have made in the
world. hv sending them 10 distant schools, here and
Ilarc. A to, of $500 to $500 a year, to study
French while they don't know whether France is a
.itl or q n.fion-S in Europe or Africa: while the
,lrfui reading of good weekly new ~papcr--all its
'.ment-; Pondcring upon its various articles and
'n~: talking about the matters as TO impress
on more fully into the mind. would, for - year,
be- storing The mind with far more knowledge than
other 5000 year gives. Not that we under
'JllIe female schools and seminarirs, Int must say
~ YOU have hut Onc-thesc costly schools, or the
knowledge to be gained from thorough study of
newspaper teraturc,-lrt it be the latter.
But lit doesn't sound and show" so well. True.
the surface of things But in the great day of
urnunt, when people are to be judged hy what
they know, this wSpaper education will outweigh
i: tnsc sort, as the sun outshinea the transient
nucor For a!ik" in young and Old, no amount Of
c sound and show can take The place of substance.
vi Young aspirant- for literary fame, of both sexes,
uul to- expect success.-becausc while genius had
9.en reasonably kind to them they had failed to
uut the cycr-busy pck-;.Ne and shovel deep down
nto the solid foundations fittings. For we MAIN
lain that AL the flash of genius and The glory of in
Hiration itself. without solid information TO rest
upou Is only the transitory light of burning flax
wanting fuel to feed it.
Here i, Il case of the other sort, and VIII ch may
rye to give those desiring ii, peep behind the
rurtan.-From week 10 week YOU read in this pa
l..r Letters from Boston"-gvng in brief much
valuable Information ON great variety of interest
ma tp,i e. written in clear yivaciouS and often ee-
rui language, OF all the able correspondents who
Nrot ol the great Jubilee. none surpassed the ar
.rl'~--nonc have been more quoted lrom-writtcn
the author of these letters; and you would say
hat author j. nne OF the Boston Litcrati. About Il
dozen miles from this city. young lady with
mtelN more Of school advantages than her little
agr affords, but who took to reading and tre:Sur-
up the Information which she everywhere found
lEtin@ around hcr-sod books, newspaper and
magazine ltcraure.-obtaned for her a position in
sion calling for the use Of that education. Some
.t her letters falling under the eye of the editor of
i, paper, She is offered a suitable salary as a cor
u-pondent from Boston.
And 50 all through society; if Your Mrs. IIcmans,
Nr~ Stoves and Miss Phelps make books which
~lir the world and make Themselves famous and
r0h theirs is the history Of this Young lady cores
uulcnt. And the stirring editorials of the papers
9nd magazines; the famous speeches of yonr ora
'rr~ and statesmen which so astoni,h the world for
0rir wit and wisdom are largely but the little SlrcdS
adhered from thousand of these floating sources
wetnlly pnt hy in little parcels for use when want
'd; iust as the frugal maiden from her grlhood
mp and sorts ont the hits of cloths-in parcels
according 10 colors and kin,ls-tnd bv and by in
"uiou>ly stitches together into the elegant bridal
ptili 10 take tho highest premium at the Fair This
l. thc way il is about all done, whether You call il
rtircS. books lectures speeches or oraions and
splnonS. too. For the men who draw--the Beech
rr-, the BeloWseS, the Chapns--are they who feed
The furnishing hosts with the mama which night
aud day copiouslv rains from the tceming press
md not they who deplore the wickedness ofthc ace
nrau>e the people will not throng to be fed on the
mouldy husks of by-gonc ages.
II may be objected 10 this kind of education. that
cryes TO make people superficial. to deprayc their
l-ir~, and 10 unfit them for more serious studies:
aut we remember seeing lady of large infor-
uation mostly gathered from this source, rcadino
Utenty what might be thought the dricst of thines
An address by Hon. Caleb Gushing to the law
-tudcnS Of some law collegc,-and to our inouirv
Whether il Interesting. she said it was as GOOD
novel; for that She had Just discovered that all
hr>e American, and even the English, laws so
mueh talked about and boasted of were ONLY the old
Eoman laws made by ,Justinian, fourteen centuries
.asp and that we only old Rome Amercaniz-
1T and when recommended TO some friends
WE do 10 every family. to get the Boston journal
ot hemStry, Monthly, 30 cents vcar.-wc after
wards found several ladies reading in il about '.'Thc
'risin of force, "'Sperrum Analyses &c. with as
mnrl relish as the other did the law lecture -ex-
nles of taste for the solid that put to the blush
many boasted student.
Ii then in the floating leaves which the press so
urotu>cly Scatters over the land lie much vast and
'"nefcial stores of knowledge. it becomes a uucs-
non of great moment how to collect and chain if for
lOHure use. 1t is with peoples finite minds as with
ihnir pockets; and often find the farmer to
make great rattle with few dry figures and dates
g." events, and such great facts as how much the
hrmer had week for pasturing NebuchadneZZ ar
While vast knowledge may lie unseen and unheard:
lusl rs, IN the days of coin. fop with few borrow
rl dimes got mp more gingng in his breechcs
lot>ct than millionaire with his solid wealth