Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-12
written far the Perrysburg Journal J
"GOOD WORDS AND TRUE.n


"Let another praise thee and not thine own
mouih stranger, and not thine own lps."-
Prov. xvii, 2.
FRIEND TINMoNs Il am seated to full
fill my promise. You were rash in allow
ing me to choose my subject, but / will try
to keep within proper bounds.
The CHEEKY, refreshing JOURNAL regular
ly makes it weekly call and receives n
warm welcome. Ito iutorvstin5 ovrtout-
are only too rapidly devoured-I fear they
are poorly digested we should assmilate
all the good in what we read rs we'll MS in
what we eat. But we are prone to bolt
both our bodily and our intellectual food
and the natural consequence is, we often
feel as if we had been ON u hard cider
spree.
But this is fast age-fogIsm is every
body's mortal dread. We live in fever
OF fretting, because We do everything with
lightning haste. Infants are pushed from
the cradle to school, and they wear old
heads before they dof their swaddling
clothes. Children found families in their
teens; men bolt their victuals as do os-
striches do their leather and nails; both
sexes rob themselves of sleep and rest and
they tumble into premature graves nearly
as worthless as an empty birds nest or an
exhausted egg.
You sec | have chosen text, though
like other preachers, hardly stick to it,
My text is from high authority but as un.
fitting in this age of cheek" as funeral
knell at wedding. By-the-way, that
comparison is not out of place-in too
many cases marriage bells are but the
knell of substantial, enduring, soul-sntisfy.
ing joy. Wait till the honey moon is gone
and the bride wants n new bonnet, or the
man takes to drink Rare, however, a
newly married couple hOney-moon, though
sometimes beclouded, never sets, and thev
walk arm in arm all through life, each
others study, pride, and joy.
But to return to my text Some prefer
to have it read, "Let each blow his trum-
pet, or it will be untoOted." But like
the scriptnral reading, and this brings me
to what led me 10 select this verse. II was
a reflection on the comparative merits of
the weekly and daily press. am free to
say that my verdict favors the former.
Dailies have good points, hut reliability is
not one of them. Their sole aim is to fur
nish news; but lies are as fresh as facts,
and it Is so much easier to concoct false
hoods than to screen ont the truth.
Take the locals and kilograms ont of n
daily and it is as stale as an empty OYSTER
can; but the nonsense of the Mum
chausen is as truthful as the dali
iy items of We local, or the despatch
es OF the Associated Press. The only pos
Eible use of daily isthat of political or
CAN'T is splendid for throwing mud and
robbing honest people of their good name
and To that laudable end everybody en-
ployeh on daily bends his efforts, and
Nlnsl how often with the grandest success.
Now lonk at the humble, honest weekly.
All the good and true in the six issues Of
its daily exchanges ii carefully prunes and
boils down the selections are carefully
made, and they are crisp and full of meat
for the mind and the leaders are deliber-
ately written and dignifed, sensible and
to the point.
Reader, in closing I wish to ask you, on
your honor, II anything else gives you SO
much for so little, as your weekly newspa.
per? SCRIBE.