The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-03-05
Tor the Hill-dalc standa,l
DO YOU TAKE A NEWSPAPER
Mr.. Jennings Wheat.
BN Is. = II.

BY 6. :. II.
"Good morning, good morning, reighbor
Jennings rather cold morning said Esquire
Holland.
"Yes, we are having some pretty swapping
sor, Of weather n ow a-days. What capital
slcighing We have had all winter"
1--WE don't very often ! ave So much snow
an good sleighng out il this Western coun
try. I've just had n letter from Maine, aud
they write that snow there is four feet deep
on level.
"Do YOU hear much about secession at
present"
20 yes, the apors are full Of it, and that
makes me Ink, ,!on'; you wan, to subscribe
for our county papcr, the Standard"
"No guess not can't afford it.
at, only $3.50 year
81 know it, but tha, amount don't grow on
every hus1.'
Quite tue ncighbor, but it grows on more
bushes than you thiuk for when one takes a
paper
80, don't know about that. 7, does vc-y
well for lazy folk 10 have n paper to read;
but | don't get tmc, and then, too, one al
ways hrgets wha, he read. in a nevspap"r-
Ny chiIIren dol', seem 10 care much about
paper"
Suppose YOU jus, take peep into Mr. Jcn.
nngs' family for a short time. Mr.. Jenning..
h's wife, Sam, Pete, Zcb and Naucc, Prince
the dog and r Lhy the ca,, these constituted
tho family.
II never Id sec such children in my life
exclaimed the mother with anger in her tone
Il actually believe they will split my head
open with their infe mai noise"
"IIe:e Pete, you quit that or I'll wing
Y ur head of, ani you Zeb. jus; you sit down
in that chair and be still or I'll hide you -
Such a noise. can't hear myself think
"Mam, you'll split your head dollering if
You don't look ont, said Nancy.
"Jusl you slut up, YOU saucy little imp, or
II. break every bone in your body
Sam, you come out from under the ,abo,
or I'll switch you," and crack went the stick
sure enough.
"Put it on harder" shouted Sam, sand
you'll skin the table legs SOON" anl then all
the children laughed.
Poor Mrs. Jennings. Her patience was
ihus taxed every day, and WHO could wonder
that it sometimes vented itself as abovcl At
any rate well look upon the matter as chari.
tably as we can and pass on.
But where was her husband oil this time
Why wasn't he there to keep orderl ProJa.
tly you might have seen him at one Of the
tayeIns, OF in somr store smoking aud talking
politics, but somehow he never heard any
news, or learned anything Of particular i'm
portance He was n strict party man, and
hoas,cd that lie hal voted the regular ticket
for twenty five years. lie was a man very
ignorant and most uncompromsingly set in
his way. He was always right, knew he was.
He knew the whole thing about every ques-
, tou that came up. OF course, he was per.
son Of considerable importance in lis own
estimation.
:, lii children wero suffered TO grow up in
ignorance, or al least they attended school
only when they took n notion that way
: Sometimes they would attend day or two
and then stay out whole week. Their par
: euis seemed very well satisfied with this, fol
then they could get more work out Of them.
, No effort was made ty the father to create a
2 love for reading in his family. He was toe
t stingy to take a paper, though lie was abun
dainty able to do so.
: There were no interesting books in the house
: MIS-. Jennings even Toasted that she tore uI
tho only bible her father gave her wbcr
: leaving York State to make quilts for weaving
Orce when a School teacher went there L
: board, shc gave her just htlo bit Of a can
e. die, aud showed her the way to bed. Th,
- teacher wished to read the bible a momcn
and pray, but Mrs Jennings came in snatchec
y away the candle, saying, Cant afford to le
5o Z folks have candies to pray by"
l wonder why 30 many people are going {,
tIillsdalo this week. SAID Mr.. Jennings on,
7. noon as he came in from work. a day or tw
subsequent to inis, he inquired Of somO one
= why so many teams had been going to til
village