Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-05
THE PAPERLESS MAN.
BY sYLvANUs COBB, JR.


no, sir I don't want noth'n O. the
kind. In the first place, han't got the
money and in the next place, if had the
money, wouldn't have none o. your pa
pers.'
So spoke Titus Closely, in answer to a
man who had called to see if he would like
70 subscribe for newspaper. Said man
kept store in the neighboring village and
was also the postmaster; and he had made
arrangements to add to his business by es-
tablishing a newspaper agency.
Il can furnish you with any paper you
may like he explained to Mr.. Closely,
and l 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 devoted to the interests of the
family papers for the farmers papers for
the mechanic and papers for both young
and old and, in short, / may assure you
that any one of them would be worth far
more to you than L propose to ask. Ask
your wife what she thinks. You have no
idea what vast amount of valuable in
formation you will find
Nancy Closely wanted a paper, but but
her husband said
%, bother 1 don't want it, I tell We.
I've got as much as / can do to look ar
ter my farm and. if Nancy and the chill
dren want to read, they can get tracts of
the minister
scribed for two papers, said the agent
He will take pleasant, heightened litera-
ry paper for his family, and paper de-
voted to art, science and agriculture for
HIMSELF
The more fool he y cried Titus Clo-
sely, contemptuously. John Deepwater
can't afford ii no more'n / can. My FARMS
bigger an better'n his is, and L tell ye, fiat
an square, lat ha'n't got no three dol
lars to throw away for newspaper
'But-Titus1'
Shut up Nancy tell ye, don't want
it,
And Nancy closed her lips, and the
agent went his way; and Titus Closely
went forth to pillow his ground with the
great old wooden pillow which his father
and his grandfather had used before him.
And time passed on. The newspaper
agency waS established at the village post
office; nut 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 his children to
borrow papers of his neighbor Deepwater
If he knew it.
One evening Titus Closely and his wife
took tea by invitation, with neighbor
Deepwater.
4 declare, Nancy said Titus, on their
way home, Prudence Deepwater beats all
~-SNhiOAA AOA SSphiiEg hOll Shts u IO
idea she was such hand at it. ] wonder
where She got them fresh Strawberries
she preserved them herself answered
Nancy.
% git eout Them wans't preserved
was fresh as new picked
tits the way they were fixed, Titus
Eth can you do it?'
Il could if ] had her paper
Her paper"
Yes. She found the recipe in the news
paper. And that's where she learned to
DO most all of her nice cooking
Titus changed the subject of CONVERSE
ton ... ..-
Autumn came and the Agricultural Fair
was held in an adjoining town. Titus
went over with what he considered very
fine oxen but ie found, when the exhibit
ton 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.
'Wbewv whistled Titus, as he sat in
his kitchen with a crumpled report Of the
Awarding COMMITTEES in mis- hand. a
friend had given him the printed docu-
,neDt 4toltn Deepwater has got the pre-