The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-12-23

al water. During the ride, he paid to
gate keepers, stabe-boys at tovcrns
where he stopped for lemonade, and for
what he drank and smoked, just thirty
eight cents. Ten cents in cakes for the
children laid out to satisfy the rather
unpleasant sensation he felt at the idea
of having INDUCED himself in a ride
while his family remained at home,
completed this days extra expense Of
the man who could not afford to take a
periodicals. tho whole amount was just
two dollars
On tho day succeeding TO this, fifty
cents were spent in little selfinduIgen
cos, on the after, twenty-five cents, and
on the day next, nearly a dollar And
so it went on, day after day, and week
after week, while Mary continued to bor-
row from Jane Tompkins her maga-
zines, newspapers and books.
One day, shortly after the new maga-
zines for the month had been anuounc-
ed, Mary called as usual upon her friend
Jane. On her table lay "Godey's" and
several other magazines.
"How much I do envy youl' she
said "What would [ not give if my
father would take the magazines for me
as yours does for you; but he alwayssays
that he can't afford it.
Then Mary turned over magazine af-
ter magazine, examining and admiring
the beautiful engravings. When she
was going away, she said, care you done
with the Lady's Book yeti"
Jane looked slightly confused, as she
replied, "I've read it, Mary, but papa
isn't done with it,"
"NO matter-'Graham' or putnam
will do.
"Tm sorry, Mary and the color rose
to James face, "but l can't let you
have either of them. The fact is, Ma.
ry, to tell you the plain truth, papa has
objected for a good while to my lending
my periodicals and literary newspapers
and now positively forbids my doing so
, But you can come and sec me, Mary
, and read them here. / shall be glaC
to have you. But I need not say tha
3 you know l will / wish papa was NJ
so particular; but be is little curious
about some things
Mary felt hurt not with Jane, but a
the fact She went home feeling badly
your friend Miss Rivers didn't &c
) her usual supply Of reading" said Mr.
3 Tompkins to his daughter, shortly af
ter Mary had left the house.
! "No; aud I was sorry for her" re
t piled Jane. "She seemed hurt ant
mortified when told her that I coul,
not lend them, I'm sure, papa, i
' wouldn't have hurt us at all, and woult
have been such a qualification to her.
q "Let her father subscribe for them, a
I do He is just as able"
"But he thinks he can t afford it, an,
now"
{ Thinks he can't afford it, indccd!
said Mr.. Tompkins. "a man VIII
! spends two or three hundred dollars
T. year in self-indulgences Of one kim
- and another, talking about not bcin,
s able to afford magazines and newspa
), pors for his family Why it costs hir
e more for tobacco and cigars than
n does me for periodicals."
"Still, papa, it is hard for Mary {
n be deprived Of them. 1t isn't he
t fault. She says she often bcgs he
s father to take them for her, but that hi
only reply is, he cant afford it,
@ "If she were the only one concern
e ed, Jane, she might have them wit
e pleasure, replied Mr.. Tompkins. "Bu
you see, she isn't. 1t is plain, from tn
condition in which the magazines com
c home, that they have gone through til
e hands of the whole family. That NJ
Rivers indulgos himself in reading
5. my expense, am very well satisfied
for l have seen my periodicals at h
IT store more than once.
is eyes, that is the worst of il"
''Besidos, Jane, / am not perfect
l. clear in my own mind that it is hone
IF towards the publishers to encourag
is anything of this kind. They go
great expense and labor in getting u
l. their works, and certainly give Il
re moneys worth to all who subscribe
10 But If every subscriber lends to h
a noighbors who are perfectly able
" subscribe themselves and who wOu
re do so if they could not borrow, Il
ye publishers cannot be sustained
will receive, at best, but an inadequa
return. For my part, there is scarce
le anything l would not do rather tina
borrow a newspaper or periodical
re never have been guilty Of that moa
re ness yet and, if 1 keep my prose
lie mind, never will.
Mary Rivers, as has been seen, we
" home feeling very badly. The mo
il she thought about what had occurro
I'd the moro she felt mortified and real
ht ashamed of herself for having trespas
ly cd upon Jane Tompkins for her pcno
r. icals and newspapers, to such an exte
as to cause her father TO interfere, al
as forbid her lending them any moro T
this fact in the case she was not 81,
. to infer.
"Mary,' said Mr.. Rivers, as he 81
on that evening, listless for want Of SON
n thing to read or to do, "ain't none
the magazines out for this month?
Haven't you got a Gazette Post, OF
rs, Courier, from your friend Miss Tom
"a kins?'
b. "No, papa, replied Mary.
of 81 thought you went there to-day
,r! $50 1 did; but Jane says her fatt
a has forbidden her to lend the papers a
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