Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-11-05

man, he Reighbors say, has tried to pass three
within week. / have been very anxious to
discover the rogues and don't believe this
woman had had anything to do with it.
However, had to shut her up, the neighbors
are so indignant Tomorrow it will be look
| ed into, and the woman set free, have no
doubt"
Perhaps her poor sick husband may die OF
anxiety and alarm, meanwhile"
Well, put on yonr bonnet, wife You can
speak German. / should feel easier, confess
if | knew more about this matter, and will go
to her residence"
The wife hastily made ready. They had to
go to dirty narrow court, peopled by the
lowest Irish. When they arrived and inquired
fer the man, they were shown into destitute
room, with out fire or light, at the door of
which they had knocked, but received no an
swer. When they approached the bed, man
spoke as If just awaking, and said in Ger
mad ]:
Olga, have You come? am so cold, and
| have been dying for drink of water. /
could not reach my medicine, Olga, and it is
long past the hour But, poor wife, you have
gone through much, no doubt-and have they
paid you ?"
The magistrate sent the officious neiphbors
for fire and light, while his wife gradually broke
the news to the husband, for he had not heard
of his wifes arrest. The neighbors were
afraid to tell it to man so i'll. He was IT,.
ing, wasted by low fever, almost to skele-
ton. He seemed horror-strickeu at the idea of
OF his wife's disgrace, and turning away from
the lady, he wept bitterly From calculations.
and iragmentary sentences she gathered that
he belonged to noble family in some little
German principality, and had been obliged, on
account of sympathy with Hungary, to fy
with his wife. They had expended all their
means before they had been able to get any
Employment, and since the failure of her hus
bands health, the poor wife struggled to sup
port them both with her needle He turned
to his Fisiters again to explain about the
counterfeits. He said the neighborhood and
market people gave his wife bad money re-
peatedy, thinking shrewdly that she, being
foreigner, would not be likely to know the
true coin we'll When she ignorantly tried to
buy things with this bad money, she was harsh
y treated. Therefore, when she had another
gold dollar given to her, he supposed she had
shown it to her neighbors to ask if it were
good, and had not been able to make herself
understood by them. He 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 procuring comforts for the
destitute invalid, without consulting him at all
about it, for sue saw that his proud spirit re-
belled against receiving as charity even the
means, of prolonging lite
1t was not long before her husband return
ed, and never was there a sadder or tender
meeting than between the sick man and his
liberated wife
Although medical attendance was procured
aud every comfort placed befare him, the suff-
erer died that night, with his last words the
lady who had thus enabled him to have the
comfort of his wife's presence in the last dark
hour
The lady herself, however felt keenly self
condemned. She told her husband the whole
story, shedding tears of pain.
What dreadful chain of sin and sorrow
have occasioned," she said
do not think you were to blame" her
husband replied, "for you only left the dollar
to be given to the true passer"
"Oh, no | was almost sure that the mar.
ket would not be particular. | thought she
would get rid of it the first chance she had
Yet, said that is no concern of mine" 1t
was Indifference to right which has had the
force of Intentional wickedness See what a
series of sins occasioned The market wo-
man gratifed her revenge first, and did dis
honest act besides then that hateful hypocrte
put it into the poor-fund in church-cheatng
in tho tapar,io Tho his yrifa of
his contribution, | saw detected guilt in his
face, but he told more falsehoods--he pretend
he did it by mistake, and that he would make
it up! Then the poor minister's wife. over
tempted by poverty to be dishonest Oh
what agony it will always be to her, to remem-
ber it, and to me to know that | occasioned
it +! And the starving, innocent German lady,
who came near being deprived of her husbands
last kiss and who endured hours of misery,
knowing that he was suffering in her absence
Oh, husband
One i'll deed.
So~s countless seed.
I shall never forget this lesson Pray God
that every one of my sins of omission may not
be followed by such train of mischief ~
To be reminded OF her fault, the lady had
the dollar set in plain bracelet, and wore it
constantly upon her arm. Every day the base
coin left green mark from corrosion, and as
she washed it of, she thought how blessed it
would be f the consequences of sin could be as
easily etfaced But that, she knew by expe-
reience, could not be- In three days since she
had suffered to slip through her fingers. had
brought sin or unhappiness to herself, the two
hucksters the hyyocrite, the minister's wife,
and the prosecuted foreigner. They-none of
them-wonll ever, during their whole lives
escape from the consequences of her culpable
neglect, in not stopping the circulation of that
counterfeit dollar.