Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-10-28
THE PAPERLESS MAN.
By sYLvANUs COBB, JR.

NO, sir! / don't want nOth'n o. the
kind. In the first place, | ha'n't got
the money; and in the next place, if l
had the money, wouldn't have none
o. your PAPERS
So spoke Titus Closely, in answer to
a man who had called to see if he
would like to subscribe for newspa-
per. Said man kept a store in the
neighbOring village, and was also the
postmaster; and he had made arrange
ments to add to his business by estab-
fishing q newspaper agency
Il can furnish you with any paper
you may like he explained to Mr..
Closely, and ] 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 interests of the Family !;
papers for the Farmers papers for the
Mechanic; and papers for both young
and old; apd, in short, | may assure
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 vast amount
of valuable information you will find
Nancy Closely wanted paper but
her husbadd said
%, bother! l don't want it, tell
We. I've got as much as | can do to
look arter my farm and, if Nancy
and the children want to read, they
can get tracts of the minister
Your neighbor, Deepwater. has sub
scribed for two papers, said the agent.
'He will take a pleasant, high toned
I. /. n
per devoted to Art, Science, and AS-
riculture for himself
The more fool he = cried Titus ClO-
sely, contemptuously. John Deep
water can't afford it no more'n [ can.
My farms bigger an better'n his is, 3,
and l tell ye, fiat an square, 'at L
ha'n't got no three dollars to throw
away for newspaper
'But-Titus-'
Shut up Nancy 1 tell ye, L don't
want it.
And Nancy closed her lips, and the
agent went his way: and Titus Clo-
sely went forth to plow his ground with
the great old wooden plOw which his
father and his grandfather had used
before him.
And time passed on. The newspa-
per agency was established at the viii
iare Dost-oflice; but Titns did not pat
ronize it. He felt that he had prin-
cipIe at stake. He had said he
would't-and he wouldn't! But in
one thing he was consistent; he would
not allow his wife or his children to
borrow papers of his neighbOr Deep
water if he knew it.
and
wife took tea by invitation, with neigh
Dor Deepwater.
Il declare, Nancy said Titus, on
their way home, Prudence DeepWater
beats ali creation for cooking, don't
she? 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.
'O-git eout! Them wasn't pre-
was fresh as new picked.
1T is the way they were fxed, Titus,
'Eh can you do it?'
4 could ifI had her paper
Her paper"
Yes. She found the recipe in the
newspaper. And that's where she
learned how to do most all of her nice
cooking.
satiOn.
Autumn came and the Agricultu-
raj Fair was held in an adjoining town.
Titus went over with yoke OF what
he considered very fine oxen but he
found, when the exhibition came of,
that he was very far behind the times.
New breeds, of which he had known
nothing, had been introduced. and his
OWE animals were not deemed worthy
of notice.
.Whew y whistled Titus, as he sat in
his kitchen, with a crumpled report of
the Awarding Committees in his hand.
A friend had given him the printed
John Deepwater has got
fhe premium for sheep. BY hockey
IN bet 1 clip more wooln he docs
next season.
Because you've got more sheep,
Nancy. But wait ana see;
The ew breed which he has procured
is "a very valuable one,
Bah! Think what 1t cost hlm
fifty dollars for pair on''em. 81
And added Nancy, he sofa TWO ol
his spring lambs to Mr., Thompson ior
eighty dol
fGit eout'
Prudence told me so. John Deep
water saw 50 many flattering accounts
of those sheep in his paper that De
knew it would be safe to invest.
Titus referred again TO the report