The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
Too Poor to Take q Newspaper.

ing one day to the Office Of New York
journal aud ordering his papcs stopped.
because he was toe poor 10 take it any
longer.
Suppose We make bargain" said
the editor, lin this way. Go home
and Sc ect a hen that shall he called
my hen; sell the eggs that the hen
lays during the year, aud send the
proceeds to NE as your subscription
for the paper"
The farmer was pleased at so easy a
way to pay for his paper, and readily
consented. The result was, that dur
ing the year the len paid for the paper
twice its regular price OF subscription.
This is by no means a pure ictioo,
for the same may be true ina grea,
multitude of cases. Almost every one
wastes and throws away more than
enough money during the year to sc,
a weekly or daily newspaper tina,
would furnish him with intellectual
food, and keep him posted in the busy
stirring events Of the day. A very
small retrenchment in the Injuries
that almost every one INDUCES in
would secure a daily visitor full Of
gossip about the doings OF the grea,
world around US full OF stirring events
in the history that is every day being
made in our own country, and iu'l Of
useful gene. al information, and facts
iu literature. science, and art. Besides,
it is the duty Of the people to support
the press, for it has always stood as a
grang bulwark between them and poli,.
ical and military oppression it has
sounded the notes Of warning that has
often aroused them to action; it has
stripped the borrowed cload from cor.
ruption and venality in high places,
aud showed them in all their detoruity
aud is to day the great friend Of edu-
cation, justice, religion, and peace
The press speaks everywhere, at all
times. carrying light in places where
otherwise perpetual darkness would
reign. Aud when We remember what
the world would be without the press
how darkness, ignorance, vice and
oppression would flourish unopposed,
let no one any longer say that he is too
poor to take newspaper.
Misfortunes seldom come singly, is a
saying to the truth of which the St.
Paul and Sioux City railroad company
can readily subscribe. On Wednesday
the company had succeeded by work.
ing night and day in repairing the
trestle bridge near Mankato, which
was destroyed on Sunday last, by rea-
son Of the distractions placed upon
the track by some inhuman fend, and
trains had commenced to run regular
ly from St. Paul to Sioux City once
more without h;ndrance. This pleas.
ant state Of things was not to last long
however. Thursday morning about
six o'clock as freight train loaded
with lumber was going west six miles
beyond St. James, wheel to one OF
the cars broke, throwing fifteen cars in
the ditch. and tearing up some four
hundred feet Of the track. Fortunate
" nobody was hurt, and beyond the
obstruction to the track but little dam,
age was done. Neither the cars or
lumber were much injured and the
track will soon be cleared. The acct
dent will not interfere with the regular
time Of the passenger trains. A few
more such accidents as this and that Of
last Sunday will soon prove as great a
calamity to the road as the grangers
We trust, however, tn; both will let
up little hereafter. Pioneer Press.