The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26

paper, simply from the fact that but few
were published, and even the inferior
publications of former years were too ex-
pcnsive for the poor man, and the unat-
tractivc style of printing in former years
was not pleasing and entertaining to the
child rs it is to-day.
Now find, if you can, a child that does
not read newspapers-if his parents do
their duty by him.
A reading people will become think
ing people, and thinking people will
become intelligent.
So due credit should be given to the To-
cal newspaper for creating this love for
reading, which is natural TO all children.
To visit home,-a house, rather
" here no newspaper ever comes is to
visit a place as dreary as the Desert Of
Sahara, where barren waste meets the
vision at every turn and where refresh
ing showers never come.
The man who takes no newspaper lso-
lates himself and his family from the So.
ciety of the best people, and voluntarily
cuts himself off from the outside world,
and voluntarily assumes for himself and
his family the least desirable standing
among his fellows.
He deprives himself and his children Of
one of the greatest blessings man ever
gave to man, by shutting off the stream
of light and happiness that would give
delight and intelligence to his family.
The man who permits his children to
grow up without impressing on their
minds the value of newspaper reading,
and denies them the advantages of
newspaper assumes responsibility
which the better class of men abhor, and
they leave unperformed duty for which
God will ever hold him responsible.
The time has come, with it's cheap
newspapers and splendid postal facilities
when it is reproach to any mans re-
spectability, if he deny his children the
benefit of the newspapers Of the day.
The poorest boy in the land has the key
to the Presidential Office, if he has learn
ed to read and is furnished with the
newspapers of the day.
DARK indeed must be the mind of him
who never reads the thoughts of others,
who welcomes not the touch Of his neigh
boris elbow, who shuns as viper that
which would enrich his very soul, who
shoves aside the friendship that makes
the whole world kin-the exchange of
thoughts through the medium of the
newspaper press.
He is cold and thoughtless indeed who
sees no good in the interchange Of opin-
ions as furnished by the local newspa-
perS.
He is like the man who refuses to send
his children to school for fear, by min
Cling with their fellow creatures, they
might learn evil, forgetting that associa-
ton is ennobling.
For less than one cent day-less than
half cent-many man sells his own
and his children's happiness, causes
them to take lower stand with their
neighbors by refusing 10 subscribe for
good newspaper.
No intelligent man now rears illiterate
children it is the ignorant only that care
nothing for posterity.
Living examples will bear out this as
sertion.
Some men refuse to subscribe for a
newspaper saying they are too expensive,
besides, they have no time to read.
Is four cents week too much to pay
for good live newspaper, just little
over half cent day.
Better economize by eating less, if nec-
essary, and stunt the body than starve
the intellect.
AS to time, sleep less and read more.