Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-24
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
M HISS
Friday Evening. March "a, 1879.
CENTS.
What Mon Will DO aud Will NOT no
For That sum OF Money.

What Mon Will DO aud Will Not DO
For That sum OF Money.
The sum of fifteen cents, if invested
weekly, will furnish the humblest citizen
with a vast amount Of information, in
structive aud amusing, and thereby ena-
BILE the citizen to store away an immense
treasury Of knowledge by the end Of the
year. The days Of book-reading in
search Of knowledge is passing rapidly
away the days Of quarterly and month
ly magazines are following in the same
path rapidly, and even the days of weekly
newspapers are disappearing, now that
railroads cross and reeross all sections Of
the country, and when fast mail trains
deliver papers fresh from the press two
thousand miles from where they were
printed within t~wenty-lour hours. The
daily newspaper is the true source
from which general information is
spread broadcast throughout the land.
Nothing is more useful, entertaining
or instructive to a family than
a daily paper. 1t encourages a taste for
study and supplies that information as
to current events most necessary in
these days of intelligence. In its col
umns al be found the news of the day
from all portions Of the civilized world,
and to fail to read a daily journal is to
place yourself in the lap of ignorance
and become a poor specimen of the in
telligent American race Of people.
Fifteen cents a week will place the
LEDGER at your door. In it you can
find the local news of the day, the politi.
cal, commercial, financial and foreign
news. There are many people who fail
to take the LEDGER on the grounds of
their poverty, yet they will drink ten
times that amount in beer, or spend a
far greater amount in the purchase Of
tobacco. There is a class of people in
eur midst who never subscribe for or
purchase a LEDGER, yet who read it
daily by borrowing it from their neigh.
borS. For instance, the paper is deliv.
cred by the carrier; before it can be
opened by the subscriber-a storekeeper
probably-some neighoor or customer,
who has been lying in wait
for its coming PUSHES in and borrows it..
He keeps it half an hou., and if he re.
turns it it is borrowed again immedi-
ately, resulting too often in its disap.
pearance, to the great annoyance Of the
person who has subscribed and paid hiS
fifteen cents a week with q view to read
ing it himself and taking it home to his
family. The man who borrows or steals
a paper is just as able to pay fifteen
cents per week as the man who is robbed
o. MS paper. II may be no crime which
the laws Of the country take cognizance
Of, yet it is q moral crime worthy of the
severest punishment. So great has this
borrowing nuisance become that many
of our subscribers have complained to
US concerning It, and several have had
to stop taking the LEDGER in conse-
quence Of the annoyance. They pre-.
ferred to purchase it at some news stand
for five cents a copy after closing up
their places Of business, rather than to
have it borrowed and stolen daily. The
moral Of this is, if you want to read a
paper don't borrow, but subscribe for it
or purchase it at some news stand if
more convenient. STEAD not thy neigh
boris newspaper.