The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-10-27
THE PAPERLESS MAN.
BY sYLYANus COBB. IR.

none o your papers,
So spoke Titts Closely, In answer to
man who had called to see if he
would like to subscribe for a newspa-
per. Said man kept store in the
neighboring village, and was also the
postmaster, and he had made arrange
ments to add to his business by estab-
fishing a newspaper agency.
81 can furnish yea with any paper
y6t may like" he explained to Mr..
Closely, "and I can furnish it cheaper
than you can get it in any other way;
because by buying of me you will save
the postage. shall have papers de-
voted to the interest of the Family,
papers for the Farmers, papers for the
Mechanic, and papers for both young
and old; and in short, 1 may asstFe
you that any one of them would be
worth far more to you than I propose
to ask. Ask your wife what she
thinks. You have no idea what a
vast amount of valuable information
you will fnd."
Nancy Closely wanted a paper, but
her husband said
30, bother! 1 don't want it, 1 tell
ge. Pve got as much as 1 can do to
look after my farm, and if Nancy and
the childret want to read, they can get
tracts Of the minister"
"YOur neighbOr Deepwater has
subscribed for two papers," said the
agent. "He will take a pleasant,
high-tOned literary paper for his FAM
lily, and paper devoted to art, science
and agriculture for himself"
''The more fool hey said Titus
Closelyy cOhtemptuously. "John
Deepwater can't afford, it no more'n
can. My farms bigger an better'n
his is; and tell ye, fiat and square,
at 1 ha'nt got no three dollars to
throw away fof newspaper"
"But, Titus"
"shut up, Nancy I tell ye don't
want it,"
And Nancy closed her lips, and the
agent went his way, and Titus Closely
went forth to pi5w his ground with
the great wooden plOw which his
father and his grandfather had used
before him.
And time passed on. The news!
paper agency was established at the
village post Office; but Titus did not
patronize it. He felt that he had
principle at stake. He had said he
WOuldn't-and he wouldn't But in
one thing he was consistent. He
would not allow his wife or children
to borrow papers of his neighbOr Deep
water if he knew it.
One evening Titus Closely and his
wife took tea, by invitation, with
neighbOr Deepwater.
81 declare, Nancy" said Titus, on
their way home, "Prudence Deep
water beats creation for cooking, don't
she2 I'd no idea she was such a hand
at it, l wonder where she got them
fresh strawberries.
"She preserved them herself" an
swered Nancy.
go, get eout! Them wasn't presPrv-
cd, they was fresh as new picked"
SIT is the way they were fixed,
Titus"
"Ehl Can you do it ?"
81 could if had her paper"
"Her paper ?"
'Yes. She found the receipt in the
newspaper. And that's where she
learned how to do most all her nice
cooking"
Titus changed the subject of conver-
satiUh.
Autumn came, and the AgricuI-
tural Fair was held in an adjoining
town. Titus went over with a yoke
Of what he considered very fine oxen,
but he found, when the exhibition
came OFF, that he was very far behind
the times. New breeds of which he
had known nothing, had been intro
duced, and his own animals were not
deemed worthy of notice.
"Whew P whistled Tiths, as he
sat in his kitchen, with a crumpIed re-
port of the Awarding Committees in
his hand. a friend had given him
the printed document. "JOhn Deep
water has gotten the premium for
sheep. By hokyl I'll bet 1 clip more
wOOl'n he does next season." >"
because you've got more Sheep"
Nancy. "But wait and see.
The new breed which he has prOduc-
ed is a very valuable one.p
"Bahl Think what it cost him.
Fifty dollars for pair on 'emI"
"And," added Nancy, che sold two
of his spring lambs to Mr.. Thomson
for eighty dollars"
"Git eOut p'
Prudence told me so. John Deep
water saw 80 many fattering accounts
of those sheep in his paper that he
knew it would be safe to invest"
Titus referred again to the Report.
"HellO I'm blessed if Polly Dow
ner hasn't got the first premium for
dollars !"
"Yes," said Nancy, "she was tell
ing me about her cheese. She found
out how to make them in her paper.
I tell you Titus, it's a good thing
to have good newspaper. wish
you'd"
"Bah Don't talk to mep' and
Titus threw down the Report, and re-
tired from the kitchen in disgust.
The winter passed, and the spring
work was done, and the time for sheep
came. Titus Closely sheer
ed one hundred and fifty sheep, and
obtained therefrOm not quite six
hundred pounds of wool, being less
than an average of four pounds to the
sheep.
John Deepwater sheered seventy |
sheep and obtained from them very
near five hundred pounds of wool,
thus giving him yield of a trifie over
eight pounds from some sheep.
"Titus, didn't tell you that neigh
Der Deepwater'5 sheep would prove by
far the most profitable? 1t costs
no more to keep one of his splendid
animals than it does to keep one of
ours. And then his lambs are heavi-
er, and his mutton is"