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us good one We need not be too partlcu-
lar.
80, wife, was the reply, this is a tcmpto
tion Of Stan Passing counterfeit dol
lar is Just the same as telling lie, and set
ting other folks to tell lies, too. Throw It
into the fire, that it may deceive aud disap-
point no one else, and forget we ever had
1T. That is all we can do.
The wife, discontcntod and sad, returned
to her work of mending the children
clothes. Her eldest daughter. "A girl OF
twelve, was ironing in the kitchen. She
came in with woiul face, saying:
Mother, deir, look here Fathers best
linen ncck-cloth was hanging on the chair,
and baby pulled it off and switched the cor
ncr of it into the fire. 1t was hali-burnnd
up before could pull it out. What will
father dol
The child was rcprovcd too sharply, for
not taking more heed and went crying to
her work.
1T is too bad, said the mother, that 'ce
must be the ones to suffer always. But
father shall not be the loser by the care
lessness of his people won't put up with
il, That bad dollar came from the congre-
CATION. and it shall 90 back to them
81 she put on her bonnet, ana went to
the ccutlcman's furnishing store, kept hy
Mr.. b, Il member of their church. She
bought her husband new neck cloth,
which she hoped he would never know
from the old one.
That very day the lady called and asked
to see the Reverend MIR. ---. She told
the story of the counterfeit dollar, and ask
| ed if he had seen anything OF it, saying
that she had come to redeem it. The min
lister said that it had luckily fallen into his
own hands, and ioyfully did he hasten to
his wife 5 room
God verify numbers the hairs of our
heads, he said lie will not suffer one Of
| his little sparrows tn fall 10 the ground
| Give me the bad dollar, for la iy has come
to give us a good one in its place.
Then came the agony Of confession to the
hitherto honest wife. She will weep and
writho to her dying day at the remcmb,,
erance of that look of surprise and wounded
trust, which her beloved husbands face
wore as he heard it. She went at once to
the lady, and told her all. 1t was a brave
deed for she was a minister : wife, with Il
whole congregation watching to detect a
slip from uprightness. lhe lady, s.
feared, would report her a..,,noucncv. but
she had iaiicn into mercilu hands, and her
fault was kept secret. They went together
to the furnishing store.
The store keeper examined his till anC
desk. There was no such dollar to be found
and no one could tell to whom it lad beer
gwen. One of the shop girls had probably
passed it without seeing that it was not
good. The lady left dollar to replace it
should any one bring it back, and Wen
home disappointed. Her husband WAS
magistrate, and shew kne that lie was :,
rtrict in bringing offenders to justice, thai
she never mentioned to him this counterfeit
for fear of getting the market woman int,
trouble for passing it, knowing it to b,
such.
That night her husband came home from
his office looking exceedingly weary an,
sad. Ills wife pressed to know the reason
%, said he, the duties Of my Office ar,
sometimes 50 painful | have Just had I,
send such IA nice lady-like woman to tn,
lookup for the night, because it was to,
late to examine her at once. She seemed il
great distress about something but sh,
cant speak a word Of English 50 couldn
make it out. think though that hcl
husband Is sick.
Why aot let her 90, and take her ul
again in the morning
We'll, she is accused Of serious charg,
-countcrlcting-and her distress may b,
all sham. only plan to get her husban,
off ! don't want him warned. have Sc
n watch about the house, but can do N
more until morning. There are great mum
bers of counterfeit gold dollars in circull
tiOn, and this woman, her neighbOrs say
has tried to pass three within Il week.
have been very anxious to discover til
rogues but don't believe TINS wnman ma
anything to do with it. However, had t,
shut her her up, the neighbors are 50 in
dignant. Tomorrow it will be locke
into, and the woman set free, have n
doubt
Perhaps her poor sick husband may di
OF anxiety and alarm, meanwhile.
We'll, put on your bonnet, wife. lol
can speak German. should feel easier,
confess, if knew more about this matter
and will 90 to her residence
The wife hastily made ready. They ha,
to 60 to dirty, narrow court, peopled b.
the lowest Irish. When they arrived an
inquired for the man, they We're shown IN
to destitute room, without fire or light
at the door of which they had knocked bu
received no answer. When they approac Ii
ed the bed man spoke as Just awaking
and said in German:
Olga, have you comel ! am 50 cold, an
. ]
, could not reach my medicine, Olga, and
= is long past the hour, But, poor wife, 20
: have gone through much, no doubt--an
= have they paid youl'
The magistrate sent the oficious ncigl
bors for fire and hight, while his wife graC
, ually broke the news to the husband, 10
> he had not heard OF his wife s arrest -
! The neIghbors were afraid to tell 1t to
= man so i'll. lie was lying, wasted by
. low fever almost to IA skeleton. lie SCENE
horrOr-struck at the idea Of his wiIe's di'
grace, and turning away from the lady, b
. wept bitterly. From Calculations, an
= iragmentary sentences she gathered, thj
= he belonged to noble family in some lit
German prlnclpatity, and had been oblig.'
= on account Of sympathy with Hungary
- fly with his wife. They had expended a
their means, before they had been able
get any employment. and since the hilul
- of her husbands health, the poor wife ha
struggled to support them both, with h,
needle, lie turned to his visitors again
'0 explain about the counterieits lie sal
.. the neighborhood and market-people, ga
~ his wife bad money repeatedly, thnkir
= shrewdly that she, being "A ioreIgnT, wou
not be likely to know the true coin well.
When she ignorantly tried to buy thin
with this bad money, she was harshly tire
10 ed. Therefore, when she had another %
V dollar given to her, he supposed she HI
- shown it to her ncighbors to ask if 1t We
= good, and had not been able to make h'
self understood by them, lie had not SEE
y her since she left him to take home soi
shirts to Mr., b, s iurnishing-storo,
H. The magistrate perceived that these pl
" pie were innocent, and went at once to ,
CT tain the woman 5 release, while his "
,s' stayed and busted herself in procuring co
: forts for the destitute Invalid, without C,
he sultinG him at all about it, for she saw Il
d, his proud spirit rehelled against rcceiyi
oa as charity even the means Of prolongi
nd life.
al 1t was not long before her husband
IT, turned, and never was there a sadder
en- tcnderer meeting than between the r
ar man and his liberated wife Althou
medical attendance was procured, and ey
tn comfort placed about him, the sufferer d