Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1857-12-10

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can speak German. I should feel easier,
| confess, if l knew more about this mat
ter. and will go to her residence"
The wife hastily made ready. They
had to go to a dirty narrow court, peo-
pied by the lowest Irish. When they ar
rived and inquired for the man, they were
shown into destitute room, without fire
or light at the door of which they had
knocked, but received no answer. When
they approached the bed, a man spoke as
if just awakening. and said in German:
"Ogla have you come? am so cold,
and have been dying for drink of wa
ter, 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 your"
The magistrate sent to the oficious
neighbors for fire and light; while his
wife gradually broke the news to the hus-
band, for he had not. heard of his wifes
arrest. The nsightefs- were afraid to tell
it to man SO i'll. He was lying, wasted
away by low fever almost to skeleton.
He seemed horror-stricken at the idea OF
his wife's disgrace, and turning away from
the lady, he wept bitterly. From ejack-
ulations, and fragmentary sentences she
gathered that he belonged to a noble
family in some little German principally
and had been obliged, on account of sym
pathy with Hungary, to fly with his wife.
They had expended all their means, be-
fore they had been able to get employ
ment, and since the failure of her hus
bands health the poor wife had strug-
gled to support them both, with her nee
die.
He turned to his visitors again to ex-
plain about the counterfeits. He said
the neighborhood and market people
gave his wife bad money repeated y think
/ ing shrewdly that she being foreigner,
would. not be- Likely 70 know the true
coin. When she 4gnorently tried to buy
things with his bad money, she was harsh
| ly treated. Therefore, when she had an
other gold dollar given to her, he suppos-
ed 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 skirts to Mr.. BIS furnish
ing store.
The magistrate perceived that these
people were innocent, and went at once
to obtained the woman's release, while
his wife stayed and busted herself in pro-
curing comforts for the destitute Invalid,
without consulting him at all about it.,
for she saw that his proud spirit rebelled
against receiving as charity even the
means Of Prolonging life.
1t was not long before her husband re-
turned, and never was there a sadder or
tenderer meeting between the sick man
and his liberatsa. Vie. Although medi-
cal attendance was procured and every
comfort placed before him, the sufferer
died that night. blessing with his last
words the lady who had thus enabled him
to have the comfort of his wife's presence
in his 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 sorrow /
have occasioned," she said.
Il do not think you were to blame, y
her husband replied for. you only left
the dollar to be given to the true passer
of it,"
"Oh no! | was almost sure the mar
ket woman 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 an indifference
! to right which has had the force of inten.
tioual wickedness. See what a series of
sins I occasioned. The market woman
gratihed her revenge first and did dis
honest act besides; then that hateful hyp-
ocrite put it into the poor fund in church
= cheating in every temple. The mo-
ment his wife spoke of his contribution, /
! say detected guilt in his face, but he told
more falshoods-he pretended 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 Away be to her, to re-
member it, and to me to know that | oc-
casioned it! And the starving, innocent
German lady, who came near being de-
prived of her husbands last kiss; and
who endured hours of misery, knowing
that he was suffering in her absencel--
Oh, husband
One i'll deed.
sows countless seed" w.
II shall never forget this lesson. Pray
God that every one OF my sins Of omis
i sion may not be followed by such trair
4 of mischieflo ~
To be remindful Of her fault, the lady
had the dollar set in q plain bracelet, anc
wore it constantly upon her arm. Every
day the base coin left a green mark from
corrosion, and, as she washed it off she
/ thought how blessed it would be if the
consequence of sin could be as easily eff
4 faced. But that, she knew by experience
i could not be. In the three days since
j she had first been careless of the right
that dollar which she had suffered to sliF
i through her fingers, had brought sin OF
unhappiness to herself, the two hucksters
4 the hypocrite,. the ministers wife, and tht
prosecuted foreigner They-none 0