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man and wife the justice turned to him and remarked 

 soberly : " My dear sir, you have omitted a very impor- 

 tant charge which I usually put in." " Why, how is 

 that," said the minister. "Well," said the justice, "in 

 addition to making them promise to love and cherish 

 each other, you should have made them promise to 

 take and read at least two papers — and I would add to 

 that, pay the printers." 



I am told by those who travel a good deal among 

 the farmers that there is a lack of papers taken by the 

 agricultural classes. Is it any wonder, then, ladies and 

 gentlemen, that we continually hear of farmers being 

 taken in by this swindler and that swindler, notwith- 

 standing the papers gave ample warning of these swin- 

 dlers going through the country? These poor farmers 

 did not know it, because they took no paper. 



Is it any wonder that some farmers are always sell- 

 ing at the bottom of the market, when they don't know 

 what the market is, or what tends to elevate or depress 

 the market on any crop ? Is it any wonder the farmer 

 is the victim of the lightning rod dispenser, the ped- 

 dler, the trickster and the unscrupulous "dealer, when 

 he won't read and keep posted? Such men seldom 

 profit by these meetings because they don't attend or 

 don't hear of them. 



Others, again, think they can take a paper during 

 the winter, when they have time to read, but can't take 

 it during the summer, because they havn't time to read 

 it. We have two farmer subscribers on our list who 

 come in every fall and subscribe for the Star for six 

 months. During the rest of the year they take no 

 paper. For six months they have light; they know 

 something of what is going on in this busy, bustling 

 world; the other six months they live in darkness with- 



