Show HE TAKES NO farer durins during the course coarse of his travels our agent has found a number of houses where no newspaper or periodical of any kind is taken at one home borne ibera he be found a number of children some of them from ten to fourteen years of age when ho be enquired whether they subscribed for a newspaper they hardly knew what ho he meant meala and when he mentioned several by name they knew nothing of them T the he roan man of the house when asked what the family did for reading matter faid eaid they had some school books with plenty prenty 0 in era em in this year of our lord with its varied rapid anil and cheap means of distributing general in utah with its magnificent free school system and low percentage of illiteracy at this time when alica the thirst bior for immedi te ite information regarding contemporaneous e events is zo so general that eve even n children can discuss intelligently even event oc curing in the t ne most distant parts of the world is it not sad ead to find a man who is not only willing to remain in ignorance himself but decrees that mentally his family shall be a aa completely isolated from the rest of the world as though they were castaways casta ways on some adall isle in the midst of tho the pacific thank heaven children are inquisitive eo that his will doubtless learn much from association with child children ren of more progressive parentage but how much of error is bound to be mixed with it how much chaff to be sifted for a few kernels of wheat still it is possible that in this instance this man an is more to la be pitied than blamed an acquaintance says that he was brought up upon the same plan he is ia adopting with his children ilia his knowledge is confined to matters that have come under his own immediate observation or he be has learned from association with acquaintances and as like cleaves to like he would not be likely to have a mental affinity for the most in intelligent tell igent and best informed As far as his reading is concerned if indeed he knows how to read he would know nothing of the electric light telephone phonograph or any of the scientific discoveries and inventions which have marked his own epoch as the most brilliant in th the e worlds history his ideas in regard to the thousand abd and one matters a knowledge of which is F supposed to be universal in civilized countries must be remarkably hazy and his expression of them would doubtless be entertaining were it not for its pitiable nees this man lives the life of an animal and dooms his family as aa far as the free and compulsory system of education perin permits its to th the same kind of life the sun rises and sets the same work has to be performed as at thia season last year he works eats cats sleeps he thinks he lives but during his entire life the noblest truest be best tp part of him has been practically dead the god given intelligence which is the natural inheritance of every human beine together 0 with the happy fatality which caused cadged his birth ar amid nid civilized environment is all that distinguishes him from an animal in cases of this kind friends should call his attention to the fact thai lie is derelict in his duty to and family that he is placing his children at a disadvantage ave in the battle of life which is ie as the years pass becoming more intensely fierce and where he only can hope hopa to achieve uny any signal success who enters the field with a keen well trained intellect the ap aphorism the newspaper is tile the por poor mans library was never quite so true as at I 1 present and it will become more and more indispensable pen sable as the yea yeas years s roll on from it the great areat majority have learned more than from books A newspaper in the modern home is no longer a luxury it is a necessity and one which yields greater retains than any other that can be imagined if a nian man has not sufficient intelligence to value it as an educator hs he can 0 generally be touched by bv an appeal to his pocket and it should not take an intelligent neighbor long to convince him that it pays in dollars and cents and therefore lie he must have it |