The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-11-29

brood OF pretty white chickens that
we're almost always peeping around tho
door, bad wandered OF somewhere, and
left it stiller yet; he even missed tho
busy click of the knitting needles that
was apt to put him out SO, when he was
doing any figuring
"I am glad, said he to himself. as he
began to look down the road at sunset,
that Millicent don't go visiting all the
time as some women do-thero she is
just coming"
"How tired you look, " said he, as she
came up; why didn't you speak about
it, and I'd harnessed p and come after
I'm not very tired, she answered;
but her looks boiled her; indeed her
husband declared she looked tired for
day or two after
What was his great omazomcnt TO SEQ
her 60 away the next Thursday in tho
same manner us before.
To his great dissatisfaction everything
seemed that day to partake Of his wife's
propensity for going away. "a man
don want cold food in haytime, " he said
as he sat down to dinner In the same
grumbling mood, he recounted the mis-
haps Of the morning, which seemed to
have been much after the manner set
forth in a certain legend in the old.n
time; for he embellished his recital by
allusiOn to
"The shccps Zoo tiia meadow,
The cows iu thu cUrul'
adding that they wouldn't have been
there if Mrs II. had been at home. be-
cause she'd seen them, before thew got
in, and hallooed She would have seen
the oxen before they got across the riv-
er, aud saved me the trouble of getting
them back. But tracing all The untow-
/ ard events to her absence, he said to
himself, cousolingly 81 guess she won't
90 any more; she always was a home
body"
Mrs. Heath did 90 again though, and
again and the dav she went the fourth
time her husband took counsel with
himself as to what he should do to "stop
her gadding." Seated on the doorstep,
in the shade of the old trees, he spent
an hour or two devising ways and meas
ures, talking aloud all the time, and hav-
ing the satisfaction Of hearing. nobody
dispute him
ut is hard to think of her gettin to
be a visitn' woman" said he "and it's
clear it amt right-keep her at home,
I've read in the Bible, (old Richards
! Bible knowledge was somewhat confus.
ed, his quotation varied slightly from
the scriptural phrase, keepers at
home, but it says too" he added, with
the true, sincere man, "that husbands
must set great store by their wives aud
use them WE'LL IwOn' scold MIllicent;
/ I'll harness up and 60 for her tonight,
and coming home I'll talk it all over
with her, and tell her how bad it makes
me feel, aud if that won do III try
something else"
In accordance with this praiseworthy
resolution, he might have been seen
about sunset hitching his horse at Mr..
Browns door; for strangely enough, Mrs.
Heaths visits had been at the same
place
Going up to the door, he stopped in
amazement at seeing his wife in the
kitchen, just taking of great woolen
wash-aPrOn, and putting down her
sleeves, which had been rolled up for
washing. He listened and heard her
say, as she took some money from
Mrs Brown, at won't be so that can
do your washing again"
'lt has been a great favor to have
you do it while l have been poorly"
said Mrs Brown; and am glad to pay
you for it, This makes four times, and
here's two dollars. 'Tis just as we'll
that you can't come again, for l think I
shall be we'll enough to do it myself"
"Two dollars; just the price of the
newspaper" exclaimed Mr. Heath, as
the truth flashed across him. Rather a
silent ride they had home, till at last he
! said
al never was so shamed in my life"
,, "Of what2" asked his wife.
"Nhy to have you go out washing. 1
amt so poor as that comes to"
"Well, don't know" replied his
wife, "whcn a man is too poor to take
newspaper his wife ought not to feel
above going ont washing"
Nothing more was said on the subject
at that time, though some i'll feeling lin
gered in tie heart Of each. The maxi
ing up was no mocking scene of kissing,
> embracing and crying, such as romance
/ writers build their useless fabrics with!
but as Mrs. Heath was finishing her
household duties for the night; she said
quietly
81 don't think I did quite right,
Richard
"I don't think did either, respond
J ed the husband, and so the spark was
quenched which might have become a
scathing fame, blighting ollthe domes-
: tic peace under their humble roof
The sequel shows that Millioeut paid
\ her two dollars and continued to take
i, the paper, and by it heard Of the return
! Of the ship her son sailed on. She im-
u mediately proceeded to the city at which
) it had arrived, and there, after diligent
search found her son Alfred PROSTATE
= upon bed Of sickness, among stran-
= gers, apparently neglected, and near un-
to death door BY the kind alterations
and untiring watchfulness Of fond
y mother, he was restored TO health and 10
!, his loved home,
Wror, fhot ti,no C,vr4ov1 thn E,rr1nr