True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-11-28
VOLUME NUMBER Al.
rening Lecture i Hssty Jones, Con.
cerning Newspapers.

Evening Lecture # Hetty Jones, Con-
| cerning Newspapers.
+ WellJoues you are a pretty fellow
here you've come home again as drunk as
a blind owl, and you don't know your
self from -four dollars and half Tho
childehae eryingfo bread--heir clothes
worn ont, and here,I have to slaye-slavs
---slaye--the whole blessed day, tillsI
havenot a whoie.rag % my back, and
swhae thers i, sticks as ligIit TO me as the
.skintdoes tathe Model Artists old Mrs.
Smith tells ab6nt.
J WemustFelreHchI IIelrenrl, indeed!
I'd like TO see what you'd relrench about
ibis ghouse, excep. vitiaIs and clothes.
and I'm sure we've none TO spare inthem
respects. You wouldnt want your own
flesh and blood 10 go naked and hungry,
would y6ul You're too much Of man,
IL yonsbe an old brute, Jones, for that, II
you'd keep to your work, and mind your
own business, be steady, aud stop your
drinking all day and spreeing all night,
times would be7a heap better forus. You
aint the man, Jones, you was when give
you my virgin affections You don'tcomo
into the house and li't off your hat, and
say good evening, Miss Heny, and draw
your chair close up 10 mine, and then take
hold Of my hand and kind Of blush, and
then hitch up little closer. and
+. Don't make fool Of yourself! amt
going 10, Jones, but it sort does my
old heart good 10 cali up these renisspes-
-ses, and wish il had -alwayssbeen so.r But.
you're as lender hearted las turtle dove
and justas sensible when you have any
sense, as anybody. Set down, Jones,
and Tell me all the news fly ing.
/. You've stopped the, paper You lie
Jones, ,-you know You lie--you'd stop
your wind frst--you'd stopped the chill
dren's bread--you'd "a.
You couldn't afordil IT,! Aint you got
no conscience, Jones, to let on sol The
paper costs you four c, nts week, and
here it is Saturday night, and I'd like 10
know how mnehgmoney you've thrown
away this wcek--l'tl count it up--l'll
give you a blessing before ! get through.
Ii amt often / ketch you at home, and
when LIDO you'll take it for better or for
worse, as the saying,is. There is gal-
Ion Of @hiskey on Monday evening, costs
81 l,2 cents---these's haifgal!on ofbeer
on Tuesday, costs ls pence--,here'sa
shilling to treat thatold fnmix with, that
come along and said he knowd you when
You was boy--the Lord only knows
how much you've spent to day-it must
have took heap Of change, for you aint
an old sponge, Jones, you don'tgetdrnnk
on anybody,s money but your own--and
/ reckon it musta took at least quarter
10 make a man drunk enough to stop his
paper swell, now III go and count il all
shillings, and Is pence, and
one shilling, and quarter, makes just
nine,y.four cents, my opinion, as good as
the very sum thrown into the fire. and
better too. and that would Of paid for the
Olive Branch whole year--and expect
the printer needs The money as bad as
most folks, There's a powerof econo-
my in such doing-why, what would a
body know if,itwasn't for the paper-and
now, too, when there's a great election
coming, and a body wants to know how
10 vote. 81
Wimrnen don't vote! Well know il.
and it's agreat pity they don't They'd
the world, and have a pro-
visionary goyernmentevery where, ashley
call il, and they'd--lhey wouldn'tkill off
all }he men, moi quite, cause they're use.
'ml In their places, but they'd make them
Keep iheir,plsces, mind Itea you, Jones.
But as I was saving about the printer, we
we must hayeihe news-+yisey, ,versey we.
must have printers, and il they can live
without nothing 10 eat, then they're ''he
critters. that's. in adysnce.ofthe age, for
The people Of lhis generation make god
Of theirbellies, according o tile best Of
their, knowledge and belief. Another
hing / shouldn't, wonder if you stopped
she paper apdlnsver paidsfor il, and then
you'lI get published inihs Black lis', and
and your wife's reputation be ruined
and your children 60 10 The 'Plenipoien-
,iary-it won. do, il won't dc-apd
here she broke of. forJones was asleep
TO him who works and only him
a' The Past returns again.