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

uioNo"'N"' mhliDN ln sunny bspeCb.-
There we're faces on it--happvch children's
faces, without which no life-picture is
beautiful. Soft blue eyes shone with
unolouded gladness, and wavy hair
Aoated carelessly over unwrinkled fore
heads. She forgot for moment; how
they we're changed, aud almost fancied
herself again the young mother, and
tiny hands stole lovingly over her bo.
som, and a yobng head nestled there as
Of old.
The illusion vanished quickly, and
she sighed as she thought Of her young
! est-born, the ieckless boy who had left
her three years before for home on the
sea. Once only had tidings reached
her Of the wanderer The letter spoke
of bardships and me.sickness in that
! light and careless way that reached the
mothers heart more surely than repin-
ing and complaint. To know what he
suffered, with a strong heart, with no..
bic and unyielding resolution, gave her
a feeling Of pleasure, not uuminglod
with pride
He will surely come back, murmur-
ed the atfectionato mother to herself.
"and l read the paper so carefully
every week, that if it SAYS ANYTHING
about the ship Alfred sailed in, shall
be sure to see IT,"
"Mrs. Heath, " said her husband, in
terrupting her meditations somewhat
rudely, 1--WE have spent thirty dollars
more than usual this year; where can it
have gone to?"
The new harness." suggested Mrs
Heath; that don't come every year, you
know.
"Well, there's twenty dollars account.
ed for"
Owe had the carriage fixed up wher
you bought the harness" continued his
wife.
"Well that was eight dollars, that.
twenty-eight We don't spend every year
but the other two, where can they have
gomez"
Glancing his eye over the pages o.
the memorandum book, he exclaimed.
"Ill tell you what tbs, the newspape
costs just two dollars, and we can d.
without it. 1t isn'tanything to eat. o
drink, or wear. don't do anything wit
it, and you only lay it away up cham
ber. ltmay as well be left out as moi
and I'll stop my subscription righ
away"
"Oh," said his wife, "you don't know
e how much | set by the newspaper.
always have a sort of glad feeling whcr
you takeit out of your hat and lay i
on the kitchen mantel. piece, Just as
do when some of the children com
home; and when l am tired | sit dow
with my knitting work and read; cal
knit just as well when I'm reading an,
feel so contented. don't believe uueer
Victoria herself takes more solid com
fort than 1 do, sitting by the east win
dow, on a summers afternoon, readin
my newspaper.
But you are just as we'll without it,
answered her husband, for want of any
thing else to say
Il never neglect anything for read
o. ing, do II" asked Mrs Heath, mildly.
e "No, don't know as you do, an
swered her husband; "but it seems a
? extra like-I shall stop il, added he, i
a tone that showed plainly enough
q wished to stop the conversation.
81 shall take the paper" remarke
his wife, if l have got 60 out washing
pay for it."
This was not spoken augrily, but S
firmly that Mr. Heath noticed
t,,r,rI hvy-,o q "a, ~. ,r ,,5 81 ~, g., 1;
cernment in most matters. II sounde
>, so different from her usual quiet 81;
you think best" that he actually stoI
= ped moment to- consider whether
was at all likely she would do as 81
a said
1 Mr. Heath was a kind husband,
that indefinite description is general
!. understood; that is, he did not beat b
b wife, and always gave her enough to ca
s More than that, he had a certain regar
d for her happiness, which already mac
n him feel ashamed Of his decision, bt
4 like many other men who have MOI
70 obstinacy than wisdom, he could NJ
h bear to retract anything, and above a
D to be convinced he was wrong by a WI
b man,
y However, with a commendable wi.
i to remove the unhappiness he caused,
b suggested, as the papers were careful
,. saved and she had found them intcres
ing, she should read them over agai
.- beginning at January, and taking one
e week clear through the year, they wou
c just come out even, he concluded,
II if it were a singular fact that they shou
do so.
a Notwithstanding the admirable pro
u ostion, he still felt some uneasiuess.-
r. 1t followed him as he walked up Il
It pleasant lane to the pasture, and it ma,
10 him speak more sharply than was h
wont, if the COWS stopped while he W
d driving them home, to crop the gra
IT. where it was greenest and sweetest Z
ID the sunny slope ID troubled him h
he heard his wife call him to supper,
W such a cheerful tone, that he conclud
b; she didn't care much about the neWsp
g per, after all.
About a week after, as Mr. Heath W
r. moving one morning, he was surpris
Ie to see his wife coming out, dressed as
h for visit
Ie ~ am going, said she, 'to spend &
10 day with Mrs. Brown; leave plenty (
le you to eat" and so saying, she walk