People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1897 — Strange, But True. [ARTICLE]

Strange, But True.

Occasianolly the threshold of the country newspaper office is approached, and the doorway darkened by that sort of personage who says: “Stop my paper. I am taking the National Economist, New York Ledger, CourierJournal and several others, and I guess I will let my home paper go for a while.” This man will be the first to ask a favor of his little home paper. He will know all about the foreign war, and will sit entranced for hours over somebody’s imaginative powers in a love story, but this same man will not know what is going on in his immediate neighborhood. He will be as ignorant as a goat on the facts which should furnish him interest, and in many cases benefit him. He will know nothing of the stores where he does his trading; !if his neighbor wishes what he has to sell he will not be apprised of the fact; if he has made happy acquaintances in the sphere in which he moves, his friends, and incidents pertaining to their lives will be blotted out for him —he has shut his eyes to that which is occurring around him. Do not think for a moment when that man dies the Courier-