Mrs. Haven's Plot.
BREAKFAST had just been cleared
away and the little sitting-room was
very blight and cheerful in the yellow flood
of the April sunshine. There were pots of
purple-blossomed violots in the window
seat, and a blue-ribboned guitar lying on
the sofa, and books piled on the table, and
close by the Are Mrs. Haven had seated
herself at her desk to w rite some letters.
She wns a trim, compnet little woman,
with bright brown hair, and eyes to match.
and a resolute mouth that somehow carried
out the expression of a nose that our
French neighbors phrase " retrousse,
Mary Haven had chaiacter, that you might
see at a (list unco.
As she sat thore selecting her pen, and
unscrewing the silver top of her inkstand,
the door opened very softly, and a round
full-moon face appeared.
"Mrs. Haven, mem, if you please."
" Yes," said Mary Haven, descrying at
once by the infallible barometer of a wo
man's ear the rising thunder storm in tlio
domestic atmosphere below. " What is it
cook?"
"It's not that you are not a kind mis
tress mem," said the cook, twisting the
hem of her checked apron, " and the wa
ges is good not to say company allowed
once a week, and Sunday evenings always
ours, but there are somethings flesh and
blood can't stand, no more they can't mem,
a month's warnin' "
" Why, cook, what is the matter ?"
"Some- can abide moddlin' with, mem,
and some can't; and if the barrel o' mack'
crel nets in the wroug corner, an,' the su
gar boxes ain't kept covered proper, it's
the mistress should tell me of it, and not
the master an' if Mr. Haven wants to be
cook, mom, well and good; but I won't stay
in the same kitchen 1"
And cook flounced out, maltreating her
apron, having had her say.
Mrs. Haven flushed scarlet. She arose,
went down stairs to the cellar, where her
husband minus his coat, was endeavoring
to move a huge washing machine.
"You see, Bridget," he called out,, "this
is the worst possible place the thing could
stand in, and why, Mary, is it you?"
" Yes, it is I," said Mary Haven. " I
thouaht you had cone to your office
Henry?"
" I'm going presently," said Mr. Haven
" But you see, Mary everything down here
is by sixes and sevens. It's well I come
down occasionally. Cook has no more
economy than a wild savage, and Bridget
puts everything where it Bhouldu't be. My
dear, have you looked over the grocer's bill
for the past month ?"
"No I haven't." said Mrs. Haven.
" Well, it's quite alarming. There must
be a leak somewhere; and that reminds me
the molasses keg is dripping at the rate
of a half pint a day."
" I will see to it, she said.
" But you don't see to it, my dear 1 I
found a box of stale eggs, on the top shelf
eggs, my dear, that aie completely was
ted, when eggs are Ave cents apiece !"
Mrs. Havon turned and wont up stairs
again, with a round, red spot glowing on
either cheek, signal pennons of the distur
bance within. She was not a faultless an,
gel any more than other woman are, and
she was very much out of temper, as she
walked up and down the room with her
hands behind her, and her brown eyes glit
tering with an ominous sparkle.
" Mary, have you seen my memorandum
book ?" asked her husband, pulling on his
gloves.
" No, I have not. Probably you will find
it on the pantry shelf, or under Bridget's
machine," answered Mary, shortly.
" Now, puss, you are out of temper,"
said Mr. Ilaven, eood humoredly, "and
how very unreasonable that is of you."
" Henry," said Mrs. Haven, laying one
band appealingly on his shoulder, and look
ing up in his face, " you don't kuow how
it mortifies and annoys me to have you
interfere in my domestie affairs."
"Aren't we a firm, Henry Have &
Wife ?" he asked, coolly, " and are not our
interest identical?"
" Yes; but Henry Haven has his depart
ment and his wife ought to have hers.
"That's all nonsense, my love."
'I Henry, you will oblige me by leaving
these domestio concerns to my own man
agement ?"
" I would do much to oblige you, my
dear Mary, but I shall not concede that
point," he said, as be took his departure,
leaving Mrs. Haven very indignant and
and meditative.
Bridget's voice broke with Celtlo accent
upon her reverie.
" Tlease, ma'am, I found this little black
book behind the flour barrel."
' "Thank you, Bridget; it is Mr. Haven's."
She glanced mechanically at its pages as
Bridget disappeared. The column devoted
to that day was full of closely written mem
oranda.
" See Kartwyn & Dalcey about the house
in 12th street, do not let them have it for
$1,800. Call at McAllister's and order the
green oilcloth instead of the buff one for
the office floor. Tell Martin to proceed
directly with the suit in Russet e RussoL
Remind tbo clerk not to settle tailor's bill
alteration to be made first. . Uo halves
with Jordan in lot opposite Central Park "
Thus indefinitely.
Mary Haven read the words without
much interest, but presently her eyes
brightened,' and a ' roguish suspicion of a
smile began to tremble around her icsolute
lips. -
I am very glad I found this memoran
dum book," " she thought. " ' Let mo see
Homy told me he was going to Brooklyn
in the morning ;' there will bo plenty of
time "
She glanced at her watch and rang the
bell. ; , V , ' ' ' " :" t' ' ' . '
" Uridgot, will you step around the cor
ner and tell them to send n carriage for me
immediately?" ' i- i
Her bonnet and shawl wore on long be-
foro the vehicle arrivod, and sho employed
the surplus time in jotting down various
addresses from the directory.
When at length the carriage arrived, she
took her seat with the self-possession of a
queen.
"Drive to Kartwyn nud Dalcey s No. 123
street."
Mr. Kartwyn came to his office door, a
dried up little lawyer, much astonished at
the unexpected apparition of a pretty wo
man in a carriage.
Good morninir. Mr. Kartwyn I" said
Mary, calmly. " I am Mrs. Haven. I
called to let you know that you should have
the house in 12th street for a thousand
dollars a year. I suppose you are aware
that the property belongs to me 1"
Mr. Kartwyn bowed low, delighted
with the bargain he was about to secure.
And now drive to McAllister's carpet
store," said Mrs. Haven.
She walked in with cool solf-possession.
" Mr. Haven has concluded to take the
buff oil cloth," she said.
Mr. McAllister started, but entered the
order in his books.
"I will Bond it round immediately."
" Now the tailor," thought Mary.
"Snip & Scissors have an elegant estab
lishment on a side street, just out of Broad
way. Mary walked up to the counter calmly.
" Mr. Haven's bill receipted, if you please.
The tailor presents the document, which
was promptly paid.
" Where now ma'am," said the driver.
" Mr. Jordan's Real Estate Agency, op.
posite street.
Ah, Mrs. Haven is it yon?" said the
agent cheerfully. " What can I do for
you this morning ?"
' Nothing, thanks," said Mary gracious
ly. " I came round to tell you that my
husband has thought better of the Central
Park lot. He will not take half."
"All right," said Jordan "Smyth and
Parker are only waiting for the chance.
I'll let 'em know immediately."
I dou't think I've done quite mischief
enough," said Mrs. Haven to herself. "I'll
go down to the oilice now, turn the stove
around and have Jack re-arrange the law
hooks."
So the carriage left Mrs. Haven at her
husband's office in a narrow, down-town
stiect.
About an hour subsequently Mr. Haven
sauntered into the establishment of Kart
wyn & Dalcey. ,
'About, that 12th street leaso, Mr,
Kartwyn?"
"Yes, sir," said the lawyer, rubbing his
baud, " a thousand dollars is a very fair
price. I dou't at all object to giving it."
" Who the deuce is talking about a thou
sand dollars ?" demanded the puzzled Ha
ven. " I don't mean to let you have it a
cent short of flftcou hundred."
The lawyer looked amazed.
"Mrs. Haven was hero this morning, and
told mo it was her property, and I could
have it for a thousand dollars !"
Mrs. Haven !" echoed the astonished
husband. "But, really, you kuow this is
quite uubusiuess like !"
" I don't know whether it is or not," re
turned the lawyer, stiffly. "I only know
that Mrs. Haven spoke before witnesses,
and that the property is undeniably hers 1"
Mr. Haven retreated from the field, van
quished but chafing.
At the door of the carpet store McAllister
met him. .
"It's all light, sir; the oil cloth is half
down by this time 1"
"Which oil cloth?"
"The buff one, sir ; cheap goods. Mrs.
Haven was here and and ordered it some
time since."
" The mischief she did ?" ,
" I hope there's no mistake, sir ?" asked
the dealer anxiously.
"N no," returned honest Henry, dis
consolately; adding to himself as be turned
away, " What has got into Mary ? is she
crazed?"
All things considered, it was not strange
that Mr, Haven was in no very amiablo
humor by the time be reached "Snip and
Scissors."
"I'd like to know what you mean by
sending borne such garments ?" he deman
ded, imperiously. " I wont wear 'em un
less tuey are made over completely, , nor
will I pay the bill 1" . ,
" Sir 1" , demanded the surprised tailor,
"you are aware that our rule is, no altera
tion after the bill is settled ,,
. "Very well, your bill isn't settled, and it
won't be, either, in a hurry.
' " Mit. naven Jaid It, sir, this morning,''
said the surprised tailor, referring to his
books. ,
Mrs. Haven I How the uncalled for inter
ference of "Mrs. Haven" stared him in the
face at every step. Of course, there was
no remonstrance to be made, however, and
the discomfited husband left the establish
ment.
"'I'll stop in at'Jordan's any way," ho
thought, " and secure that lot; it will bo a
capital speculation." , ",.."; t, I t
Mr. Jordan was standing whistling in
front of the gate with botli hands in his
pockots. He . looked up as Ileniy Haven
entered.
' "Well, old fellow?"
" Suppose we clear up this business about
that Central Park lot," said Haven, care
lessly. " I don't think I can do any bet
ter." "
" Your decision comes late," said Jor
dan, shrugging his shoulders. " I signed
over to Smyth and Pavker half an hour
ago." '-
"And by whose authority ?"
" Mrs. Haven's. Site was here, a little
while since, and told me you would not
take the half lot."
"Mr. Haven bit his lips ! this was really
growing a little provoking, lie left the
real estate office abruptly, and went direct
ly to his owu place.
But had he not been tolerably certain of
his own number, he would not have recog,
uized the rooms. Two men were on their
knees, diligently hammering down the bard
buff oil cloth. Jack, the office boy, had
turned the stove round, so that its iron el
bow projected into your face; very much as
if it would have said, "Take my arm 1"
And Mrs. Haven sat at his desk sorting and
arranging papers with industry worthy of
a more legitimate cause.
"Mary!"
Mrs. Haveu looked quietly up.
" Yes, my dear; Jones vs. Blown; ho be
longs on the left hand pile. Really Henry
the confusion of your papers is appalling '."
" Confusion, madam 1 I tell you they are
in the most periect oraer, or ratuer; tncy
were before you got hold of them. Whore
are my law books?"
"Ob, I put them in the closet, the bind
ings were so dingy, and the directories and
handbooks looked so very much brighter 1"
"Mary, are you crazy? It is scarcely
becoming for a woman thus to usurp her
husband's place !"
" We are a firm' my dear, at least so you
told me this morning Henry Haven and
Wife and therefore interests aro ideiiti
cal.
"Yes, but"
"Consequently," went on Mary, mimick-
ing her husband's rather pompous voice of he generally got drunk, be told the states
the moroinr. "I shall beg the privilege of men ho mot of his cleverness. They all
interfering whenever I deem it advisable.
Sir. Haven looked frowningly at his wife
but the wrinkles vanished out of his fore
head at the smiling sunshine of Mary's
eyes.
" My dear," said ho, " it is rather late to
transact any more business to day. Shall
we walk home together?"
And Mr. Haven must have left his 'inter
ference' principles at the office, for Maiy
never saw any more of them. Neither
hubband nor wife ever alluded to the sub.
ject again, but Mr. Haven was cured of ono
bad habit. Mary's single stratagem was
worth a thousand remonstrances.
A Disappointed I)og.
Here is a true dog story : A family down
town havintr ' a falso rrrato in one of tho
rooms of tho house, placed some red paper
behind It to give the effect of fire. One of
the coldest days this winter the dog came
in from out doors, and seeing the paper in
the grate, deliberately walked up to it, and
laid down befoie it, curled up in the best
way to receive the glowing heat as It came
from the fire. ' He remained motionless for
a few minutes : feeling no warmth he rais
ed his bead and looked over his shoulder at
the grate ; still feeling no heat, he aroso
and carefully applied his nose to tile grate
and smelled it. . It was as oold as ice.
With a look of the most supreme disgust,
his tail curled down between his legs, every
hair on his body saying " I'm sold," the
dog trotted out of the room. i
' tSrOncel visited a show In Georgia
it was a moral animal show. 1 heard a
fellow shotting. ,
Says he, here's your celebrated tropical
American that feeds on ante. :
Bays, I, eats nothing but ants, does he ?
Bays be, sir, he is the most interesting
animal in the show. Observe bis bushy
tail and his long face, with a tongue in it
formed for nothing but catching ants.
Bays I, he is Interesting, so be is. . But
I can tell you an animal that would be just
two times as interesting if you could pro
cure one.
Bays he, sir, what animal would be more
interesting than the great tropical Amer
ican ant eater? " '
Bays I,a mother-in-law eater would knock
spots out of your old ant eater. '
I guess he had a mother-4n-law, for lie
embraced rue, and gave me two tickets ' to
goln and see the moral wax works, made
of wax. ' 1 ''
; tW A printer recently made ' " Be ye
therefore steadfast," the text of a minis-,
ter'i sermon, " Be ye there for breakfast"
v Political Rogues. . , ' ' ' ''
There is no doubt but ' what the dishon
esty In politics at present is owing to the
fact that rascality in that direction is made
a study of by professional politicians. This
fact is well set out in the following sketch
which we find in the Philadelphia Evening
Star ; .
But how to become a politician of the
modern kind wns the constant study of
littlo'Tommy. " His kind father had made
him a little ballot box and had shown him
bow to stuff it, and it was ono of his child
ish amusement to pretend to vote several
times a day under different, names.. Then
he pretended to bo a member of the Legis
lature, and introduced a bill appointing
himself as inspector of groundnuts and
horse gingerbread, with power to confis
cate all that ho thouht was not suitable
for him to buy. ' '
He also passed a law doubling the amount
of pockot-monoy his fathor allowed him,
but this the old man decided ho should
veto. And yet ho was not happy. He
wanted to do something real, which should
be discreditable enough to show his father
that ho was not wasting bis time in virtu,
ous idleness but was earnestly striving to
qualify himself for political sorviee in Phil
adelphia. :
" My son," said his father one day,
what are you doing with that slate nil
this time?" "I am adding up these figures
wrong," said littlo Tommy, so that I may
be a return Judge when I get to be a man.
" What is tho real total ? " asked his father.
It is 831," replied Tommy, "but
make it out 972." " I am ashamed of yon,
Tommy," said his father sternly, "havo
you not sense enough to put a 1 before the
8 ? What kiud of counting would that be
in real election ? The boys would laugh at
you. Besides, if you would make the total
1831, you might easily explain it after
wards as a clerical error." " Yes, father,"
said Tommy, "but I would put the clerical
error at the end of all, and then it would
be 8,311." "Come to your old daddy's
arm's," cried the dolighted parent, "you
are a comfort to mo in my old ace. There.
take take " "A ton-cent note, father,"
said Tommy. , "No, tako my blessing,"
said the old man " a father's blessing to
a nice little boy is worth a great deal more
than ten cents." "Yes," said Tommy,
"but it's not worth so much to the fath
er," and ho turned away with an expres
sion of pain, "blessings are cheap, but it
takes money to buy gingerbread." ,
Tommy's father was very proud of his
soil's progress and intelligence, and when
ho went out to the tavern that night where
agreed that if he kept ou in such a way, he
might in time he elected to the Legislature
or tho I tow, " Did you ever hear, gontlo-
mon," said the father, "of a smarter boy
than littlo Tommy."
My Adventure ut Fayal.
A
rather laughnblo adventuro happen
ed to mo 6u my first visit to this
Island. I took a walk up town by myself,
when ns I turned a corner, I was approach
ed by an old Portugese woman, wearing a
fashionable hood. Now bo it known, that
those hoods nie different from anything
else on earth, and generally are made of
blue cloth, attached to a cloak Of tho same;
and is worn regardless of season. This
hood Ills, much like' a circus tent on top
of ft P' nntl is mado without any trim
mings; and for1 ugliness, would tako the
first premium at any county fair. Ic is im
possible for a woman to make any headway
ngaiuHt the wind with this hood on.
But I mil forgetting my old woman. As
I turned the corner, I suddenly camo in
sight of her, waiting' a change of wind to
turn tho corner. As soon as she saw mo,
she 'drifted towards mo, held nut her
hand, which I seized, nud shook heartily ;
such friendliness iu a strange laud being
very acceptable. , She drew her hand away,
said a few words, whioh I could not under
stand, curtsied and kissed hur baud to me.
I blushed, being quite young) and said
madame those attentions are flattering, but
really I cannot return your regard as
could wish. She kissed her hand again
and murmured a few soft words. I was
now getting desperate, and sharply said I
must go, madame,
. But she stood her ground and kissed hor
hand over and over again, and curtsied re
peatedly. Ilore was evidently a case of
love at first sight. I then asked myself if it
was possible for me to love a foreigner,
(particularly ono so ugly,) ami I began to
think of rot routing, when some friends
from tho ship, overtook me. Quickly throw
ing a few pennies to my ludy-love.my friend
George said, " what are you standing here
jawing about with that old beggar?''
The boys on ship often Joked me about
my love-scrape with the beggar woman.and
to this day, I hate tho sight of one,
' IB A down-countryman sending the
Savananah (Ga) New thirty cents for
sample copy of tho paper, putt this senti
ment in one corner of the envelop:1 "To
post Masters Gents this letter contains
money.' Please Landle It with a Pare of
tongs.",' ' 1
ST. ELMO: HOTEL,
(FORMERLY "THE UNION,")' .
JOS. M. FEWER,' . i rroprletoiy
817 & 819 ARCH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Terms,-
-$a.60Per Bay.
THE BT. ELMO Is centrally located and has
been re-tltled ami refurnished. so that It will
lw found as comfortable and pleasant a stopping
place as there is in l'hlladelphh
6 29
New Millinery Goods
-. .. A.t Newport, . l?u. ..,...
I BEG to Inform the nubile that I have Just re.
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ment of the latest styles of
MILLINERY GOODS,
HATS AND BONNETS.
' ", . IUBKONS. l'KENCH FLOWERS
FEATHERS,
chignons, .;! :-; ,! i ' : '
LACK CATKS.
NOTIONS,
And all articles usually fonnd In a first-class Mil
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tended to. rVe will sell all goods as Cheap as
can be got elsewhere .
DRESS-MAKING done to order and In the la
test style, as I Rut the latest Fashions from New
York every month. (loitering done to order, Uj)
nil widths, I will warrant all my work to give sat
isfaction. All work done as low as possible.
ANNIE ICKES,
' Cherry Street, near the Station,
8 1(1 13 Newport, Fa.
1121111 Y COUNTY
Real Estate, Tnsurance,
' AND ' '
CLAIM AGENCY.
LEWIS POTTER & CO.,
Heal Kstate Broken, Insurance, i Claim Agent
'ow UloomlielU, Pa.
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TV ers to the advantages we offer them In pur
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rarties naving any business to transact: in our
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lias a large lot of second-hand work on
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to make room for new work,
FOR THE SPRING TRADE.
He has. also, the best lot of
NEW WORK ON HAND. ,
Yon can always sec dllTercnt styles. The material
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If you want satisfaction In style, quality and
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There is no tlrm that lias a better Trade, or sells
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promptly attended to.
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and
i ill m reeis.
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rjlllH subscribe,!' oilers for Sale
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KETTLES, i i
STOVES.
' V SCOOPS ' '
AND ALL CA8TING8
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burg! Thomas Morrow, Loysvllle j John Flicking
er, Jacob i'llckluger, Centre. 62013
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lokesbnrg, May 14. 1872.
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f , HANKERS, '
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