Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1879 — Taste for Reading. [ARTICLE]

Taste for Reading.

Sir John Herschel has declared that “if he were to pray for it taste which should stand under every variety of circumstance rtrnj be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to him through life, it would be a taste for reading.” Give a : man, lie affirms, that taste, and the means, of gratifying it, and you | cannot fail of making him good I and happy; for you bring him itt contact With the best society in all ages, with the tenderest, the bra V-. est, and the purest men who have adorned humanity, ffiaking him n denizen of. nil nations, a contemporary of all litnes, and giving him a • practical p/oof that the world hits I been created for him, fur his solace*, and for his enjoyment. . I*. Gen. 11. 11. Milroy, ffifmerly of this »t ile f who is |>ersrttially well ; known to almost yvery citizen nt ' north western Indian-*, is now residing at theNisquiijly Jnditin Agent V, : u< as Olympia, Wasiiiugtou? Terri- ; tory, says thab-if tin* heiifieN whir, the'lndians were tn-itidrtHy eafrffNl out and promises to them kept/ there would be no trouble with the tribes <>f the West. He declares; that whti'e there is eotitfthnt deception and broken p)c<lg«a the worst traits of saG»ge character are manifested. His long residem e in the West mHt'his atnplo-*opportnnitiei»,. of studying* the Indian character enables him to speak Intelligently upon the subject, and he uortob<»- # rates the testimony of army ami others W/ , the i' until /Wiiqibn Ikrtdd,