Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-03-30

repining ans complaint. To know that h e
suffered with strong heart, with noble. I'M
Welding resolution, gave her feeling of plea
sure, not unrnixeG with pride.
"He will SURELY come back murmured the
affectionats n,othes to herself; land read the
paper SO carefully. every week, that if it says
any thing about the ship Alfred sailed In, |
shall be sure,to see 1t -
"Mrs. Hesth.' 'said her husband, interrupt
inp her med cations somewhat rudely, "we've
spent thirty s5llars more than usual this year !;
where can it.nave. gone to y
1.-THE new slarness," suggested Mrs. Heath.
s.That don't Some .every year, you know"
..Well, thsre's twenty dollars accounted
for
.sWe had she carriage fixed up when you
bought the harness. continued his wife.
ssWell, tina, was!eight dollars; that's TWEEN
ty-eight dollass THAI we don't spend every year
but the ot5 Ter tEo-where can they have
gone a''.ss Gl!aciIsg his eye hastily over the
pages of the l1temosandum book, he continued:
s'Fll tell you.whas it's, the newspaper cost
Just two dollays, asd we can do without it
Itis'nt anything to eat, or drink, to wear.
don't do an. thins with it, and you only lay
il away up chamber. 1t may as well be left
out as not, arh! III: stop my subscription right
oh sai4 the lvife, ..you don't know how
much set BIG the Newspaper. l always have
a sort of glae feeling when | see you take it
out of your lat an; lay it upon the kitchen
mantel-pieee,3 iust.as do when some of the
children come homie. And when I'm tired,
sit down WITH my knittin-work and read, (I
can knit just is fast when I'm reading, and
feel SO conten.ed. IL don't believe Queen Vic
| toria herself fakes' more solid comfort than
do, setting. b. theseast window of summer
afternoon, Laa:iing sny newspaper"
''But yot'd::b igst as well off without it, !"
answered her husband, for want Of any thing
wiser to SAP.
q never NEGLECT anything else for my read
ing, do l'h asked Mrs. Heath, mildly.
''No | don:t knew as you do" answered
her husband: :'but it seems to me an extra
like; sA1il SOP it,'' he added, in tone that
showed plaialS enough ne wished to stop the
conversatior: too.
81 shall take. the aaper,'' remarked his wife,
'sif have Il gb oue washing to pay for it"
This was net spoken angrily, but so firmly
that Mr.. Heath notAed it, though by no means
remarkable FOR ID .sc} rnment in most matters.
1t sounded 80 deficient from her usual quiet
las you may <hinJ best" that he actually
stopped a moment \ consider whether it was
at all likely sire wCslld do as she said. Mr.
Heath was KIND husband, as that indefinite
description is 5enetlly understood that is,
ne did not beats his wife and always gave her
enough to ea1. Mire than this he had GER
tain regard f.r her happiness which made him
already feel IF asst med of his decision, but
like many othei mel. who have more obstina-
cy than wisdom, hi could not bear TO retract
any thing, and abovf all to be convinced that
he was wrong ~ q Woman
However. with a Sommendable wish to re-
move the unHaAplness he had caused, he sug-
gested that s@as. the lyapers were carefully saw
ed and as ShE had found them interesting
she could read them all over again, beginning
az January, and taaing one week, clear
eron he 5s as Ti1a we a 'S Singular ia
fact that they saould. do so.
NotwithstIn&ing tlis admirable proposition
he still felt sogle uneasiness. 1t followed
him as he walked up the pleasant lane to the
R 5sa and sdi h@ sPsak @OFs ih ~bs
The was driving shem home, to crop the grass
where it looked igreeaest and sweetest on the
sunny slope. It trdubled him till he heard
his wife call ,ig1 to supper in such cheerful
tone that he ds9ncludld she didn't care much
about the newspapers after all.
About week afte. this, as Mr.. Heath was
moving one rlcfning, he was surprised 10 see
his wife comi cat, dressed as if for visit
s.I'm going," taid sh.. s'to spend the day with
Mrs. Brown ge ID plenty for you to eat. .
ana SO SdNtI4- 9n6 vdlheu pluly Oh.
Mr.. Heath fhonght,l about it just long enough
to say to himself .'sh'' don't go visitin' to stay
all day once : year hardly, and It's strange
she should go'in daytime"
Very long the day seemed to him; to go IN
for luncheon, tiansr ,nd supper and have no
body to speak To-; to lind every thing so still.
The old clock ieenedfto tick stiller than usual
he thought; the b -oot of pretty white chick
ems that were almost Railways peeping round
the door, had wandered off somewhere, and
left it stiller yet; he,even missed the busy
click OF the neftilig needles that was apt to
put him cut il he was doing any figuring.
'sI'm glad he said to himself, he be-
gan to look down the road at sunset. ''that
Millicent dom, 20 visitin' all the time as some
women do-th:eTe she is just coming
.How tired you look, - said he, as she
came up, .'whs didn't you speak about it and
I'd have harncssed up and come after you.'
'.rm not very aired" she answered; but her
looks belied hers INDEED her husband declar-
ed she looked sired lil;e for day or two after.
| What was his ANA sement TO see her 60 a.
way in the same Objection next Tuesday,
without saying much about ii before she star
ted.
To his great dis: Abstraction, everything
seemed to partaka of IS wife's new propen-
! sity for going away srom home. "a man
don't want cold feed il hay time" grumbled
he as he sat dow<a alone to dinner. In the
same manner he tre-calnted the mishaps Of
the morning, wssich seemed to have been
much after the nsanner set forth in a certain
legend of old tin., for ..he embellished his re-
cital by aIlusion,o
~The sheeFs N tie meadow,
The cows = the IOFn"
Adding that THY wouldn't have been there
/ if Mrs Heath has beer; at home, because she
have seen 'em before shey got in and would
have hollered. She would have seen the OK.
en- too. before Ghtay goa across the river, and
saved him the tr1ahle of getting them back
But after tracing al these untoward events tt
her absence, he .said 10 himself consolingly,