Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-04-27

ship Alfred sailed In, | shall be sure to
; see it,
Mrs. Heath" said her husband, in
lerrupllng her medtations somewha. rude
ly, " we have spent thirty dollars more
than usual this year where can ii have
gone 10 2"
The new harness." suggested Mrs.
Heath; that don't come every year, you
know"
Well, there's twenty dollars account
ed for"
We had the carriage fixed up when
you bought the harness." continued his
wife"
+" Well. that was eight dollars, that's
swen,y-eight we don't spend every year
but the other two, where can they have
gone g.
Glancing his eye over the pages Of his
memoranda book, he continued
I'll tell you what lis, the newspaper,
costs just two dollars, and we can do with
out 1t. 1t isn't anything to eat, drink or
wear. don't do anything with it, and
you only lay j. away up chamber 1t may
as well be left out as not, and I'll stop my
subscription right away"
J Oh" said his wife, you don't know
how much set by this newspaper. al
ways have a sort of glad feeling when
| see you take il out of your hat and Law
1t on the kitchen mantel- piece, Just as l
do when some of the children comes
home; and when I'm tired | sill down
with my knitting work and read. | can
knit just as we'll when I'm reading. and
feel SO conlented. | don't believe Queen
Victoria herself takes more solid comfort
III I Il r.
4 summer afternoon, reading my news
paper"
" But you are just as well off without"
answered her hus band, for want of any,
thing else 10 say.
~ never neglect anything else for
reading, do z" asked Mrs Heath very
/ mildly.
No, don't know as you do," answer
ed her husband " but it seems an extra
LIKE SHALL STOP IT." he added in a
lone that showed plainly enough he wish
ed TO stop the conversation.
g shall take the paper" remarked his
wife. " if | have 10 so out washing TO pay
! for it,
This was not spoken angriy, but so
firmy that Mr.. Heath noticed it, though
hy no means remarkable for discernmeDt
III most matters. |. sounded so different
from her usual quiet " as you think BEST"
that he actualy stopped moment to con-
sider whether 1t was at all likely she
would do as she said.
! Mr.. Heath was a kind husband, a that
indefinite description is generally under
stood ; that Is, he d ID not beat his wife
and always gave her enough to ea:.-
More than that, he had a certain regard
/ for her happiness, which already made
! HIM feel half ashamed of his decision,
but like many other men who have more
! obstinacy than wis dom, he couldn't bear
/ to retract anything, and above all to be
convinced he was wrong by woman.
| However, with a commendable wish TO
remove the unkappiness he caused, he
sugge sted that as the papers were care
! fully saved, and she had found them in
teresting, she could read them over again.
beginning at January, and taking one
week clear through the year-they would
/ Just come out even, he concluded, as if 1t
were singular fact that they should do
so.
Notwithstanding the admirable propo-
stion he still felt some uneasiness. 1t
| followed him as he walked up the pleas
ant lane to the pasture, and ii made him
speak more sharply than was his wont,
If the cows stopped while he was driving
them home, to crop the grass where il
looked greenest and sweetest on the sun
ny slope. 1t troubled him ill he heard
his wife call him to supper in such
cheerful tone, that he concluded she did
not care much about the newspaper after
all.
About week after this, as Mr.. Heath
was moving one morning, he was sur
prised to see his wife coming out, dressed
as if for a visit.
g am going" said she, - to spend the
day with Mrs. Brown; l leave plenty
for you to eat;" and so saying she walk
ed rapidly on.
"Mr. Heath thought about it just To-. G
enough to say to himself, - she don't go
visitn' to stay all day, once a year hard
ly, and it's strange she should so In hay
time"
Very long the day seemed TO him; TO
go IN for luncheon, dinner and supper,
and have nobody TO speak to TO find
everything SO stiiI. the cd clock licked
s;iler thar usual, he thought, the brood
of pretty white chickens, that were al
ways peeping around the door, had wan
dered off somewhere. and left II stlller
vet; he even missed the busy c.ick of the
knitting needle that was apt TO put him
out so, when he was doing any figuring.
Il am glad" he said 10 himself. as he
began to look down the road at sunset,
a. that Mll:cent don't go a vlsitin' all The
time, as some women do-there, she is
just coming.
How tired you look" said he. as she
came up why didn't you speak about
il, and i'd have harnessed up and come
after youa"
Il am not very tired she answered;
but he. looks belied her: indeed Ter hus-
hand declared she looked tired for a day