The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-09-10
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ablcd to obtain employment, and since
the failure of her husbands health, the
poor wife had struggled to support them
both with her needle. He turned to
his visitors again to explain about the
counterfeits lie said the ncighborhood
and market people gave his wife bad
money repeatedly, thinking shrewdly,
that she, being fore gner, would not
be likely to know the true coin well.-
When she ignorantly tried to buy things
with this bad money, she was barshly
treated. Therefore when she had an
other gold dollar given her, he supposed
that she had not been able to make her
self understood by them. lie had not
seen her since she left him to take home
some shirts to Mr. BIS furnishing store.
The magistrate perceived that these
people were innocent, and went at once
to obtain the woman's release, while his
wife stayed and busted herself in pro-
curing comforts for the destitute invalid,
without consulting bin at all about it,
for she saw that his proud spirit rcbclled
against receiving as charity even the
means Of prolonging life.
1t was not long before her husband
returned, and never was there sadder
or rendering meeting than between the
sick man and his deliberatcd wife. Al
though medical attendance was procur-
ed, and every comfort placed about him
the sufferer died that very night, bless
ing with his last words the la1y who had
enabled to have the comfort Of his wife S
presence in the last dark hour
The lady, herself, however, felt keen
ly self condemned. She told her hus'
band the whole story, and shed tears OF
r pain.
What a dreadful chain of sin and sor-
(, row have occasioned, she said.
= DO not think you are to blame, he'
;. husband replied, for you not only lef
the dollar to be given to the true passel
/, of it.
Oh no! | wls almost sure that The
. market woman would not be particular
thought she would get rid of it the frs
chance she had. Yet, ! said it was nc
concern of mine. 1t was Indifference to
right that has had the effect of inten
tiona wickedness. See what series OF
sins | occasioned. The market woman
gratifed her revenge first and did a
dishonest act besides then that hateful
hypocrite put it into the poor plate in
church, cheating in the very temple -
The moment his wife spoke of contribu
ton, | saw detected guilt in bis face
but he told me more falsehoods--hc
pretended lie did it by mistake, and
would make it up! Then the poor
minister's wife over tempted by poverty
to be dishonest Oh, what agony II
will always be to her to remember 1t
and to me to know that occasloned 1t.
And then the starving, innocent German
lady, who came near being deprived o
. her husbands last kiss, and who cndur
I. ed hours of misery knowing that he wa
, suffering in her absence. Oh, husband
, lone i'll deed,
Sows countless seek"
| shall never forget this lesson. Pray
: God that every one OF my sins OF omls
sion may not be followed by such train
Of mischief
f To be reminder of her fault the la
dy the dollar set in plain bracelet, anC
, wore it constantly claspcd upon her arm
e Every day the base coin left greer
= mark of corrosion, and as she washed i
off, she thought how blessed it would b'
if the consequences of sin could be a
easily clTaccd. But that she knew b,
experience could not be. ln three day
since she had first been careless of tn
right, that dollar which she had suffered
to slip through her fingers, bad brough
: sin or unhappihcss to herself, the tw
. hucksters, the hypocritc, the minister
wife, and the prosecuted foreigner
{ They, none Of them, would ever durin
their whole lives, escape from the col
!, sequences of her culpable neglect,
~ ~ not stopping the circulation Of that Cou
- tcrfeit Dollar.