Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-06-25

must be the ones TO suffer always. But fathe
/ shall not be the loser by the carelessness of hi
people with il That bad dollar come fror
4 the congregation, and it shall go back t
4 them.''
! SO she put on her bonnet and went TO tn,
t gentleman's furnishing store, kept by Mr.. b. {
member Of their church. She bought her hus
band new neck-cloth, which she hoped HI
would never know from the old one.
| That very day the lady called and asked tC
see the Rev. Mr.---. She told the story o
4 The story of the counterfeit dollar, and asked
II he had seen anything of it, saying she had
come TO redeem it. The minister said it had
luckily fallen into his own hands, and joyfully
did he hasten to his wile's room.
"God verify numbers the hairs Of Out
heads, he said. I" He would not suffer one
Of his little sparrows to fall to the ground -
Give me the bad dollar, for the lady has come
to give us good one in its place.
Then came the agony Of confession to the
hitherto honest wife. She will weep and writhc
I To her dying day ut the remembrance OF that
look Of surprise and wounded trust, which hei
lelGgsd husband 's face wore as he heard it,
She vent at once to the lady and told her all
II was brave deed, for she was minister's
wife, with whole congregation watching to
detect slip from her upsure to report her de
linquency, but she had fallen into merciiul
I
went together to the furnishing store.
The stOre-keepcr examined his till and desk.
There was no such dollar TO be found, and no
one could tell to whom ii had been given. One
of the shop girls had probably passed 1t with
out seeing that 1t was not good. The lady lett
dollar to replace it, should any one bring it
back, and went home disappointed. Her hus-
band was magistrate, and she knew that he
was so strict in bringing offenders to Justice,
eli ti.N nnIf Pa n.
felt, for fear Of getting the mafket-woman
into trouble for passing it, knowing it to be
such.
That night her husband come home from his
office looking exceedingly weary and sad. His
wife pressed to know the reason.
CO." said no, " the duties Of my office are
sometimes so painful / have Just had to send
sucha nice, lady-ike woman to the lock up
for the night because it was too late to exam
inc her at once. She seemed in great distress
about something; but she cah't speak II word OF
English, so / couldn't make it out. 1 think
though, that her husband is sick"
" Why not let her go, and take her up in the
muningr'
"Well, she is accused Of q serious charge
-cOunteTieiiing-and her distress may all be
sham, only a plan to get her husband OIL. l
don't want him warned. | huYe set a watch
about tho house, but can do no more until lmor-
ming. There are great numbers of counter
felt gold dollars in circulation, aud this wo-
man, her neighbors say, has tried to pass three
within week. / have been very anxious to
discover the rogues; but don't believe this
woman has anything to do with it. However,
had to shut her up, the nc ghbors are so in-
dgnant. Tomorrow it will be looked into, and
the woman set free, have no doubt"
g Perhaps her poor sick husband may die OF
anxiety and alarm MEANWHILE"
" Well, put oil your bonnet, wife. You can
speak German l should feel easier l confes,
II knew more about this matter, and we VIII
go to her residence.
The wife hastily made ready. They had to
60 to a dirty narrow court, peopled by the
lowest Irish. When they arrived and in
quired for the man, they We're shown into
door 81 wns they ''h9Ht a gs 0f light Ct IN
no answer. When they approached tho be-
a man spoke as if just awaking, and said in Ger
man
''Olga, have you come? / am SO cold, an,
| have been dying ior drink OF water.
could not reach my medicine, Olga, and it i
| longpast the hour. But, poorwiie,y you have gon
through much no doubt---and have they pait
you 2''
The magistrate sent the oficious neighbour
for fire and light, while his wife gradually brok'
the news to the husband, for he had not heart
of his wile's arrest. The neighbOrs were airaiC
to tell it to a man so ILL., He was lying
wasted by low fever almost to q skeleton
seemed hOrrOT-Struck at the idea Of his wlie''
disgrace, and turning away from the lady ht
wept bitterly. From CALCULATIONS and lrag
mentary sentences she gathered that he be
longed to a noble family in some little Ger
man principality, and had been obliged, OF
account of sympathy with Hungary, to fly will
his life. They had expended all their mean
| before they had been able to get any emyloy-
mcnt, and siace the failure OF her husband
health the poor wife had struggled to supper
them both with her needle. lie turned to ~
visitors again to explain about the counterielts
He said the neighbOrhOod and market-peopl
gave his wife bad money repeatedly, thinking
shrcwdly that she, being Il foreigner, woul'
not be likely TO know the true coin well. Whel
She ignoranily tried to buy things with thl
bad money she was harshly treated. There
fore, when she had another gold dollar givel
to her, he supposed she had shown IT TO he
neghbors to ask il it were good, and had no
been able to make herself understood by them
lie had not seen her since she left him to tax
home some shirts to Mr.. BIS furnishing store
The magistrate perceived that thhse peopl
were innocent, and went at once to obtain tn
woman's release, while his wife stayed AN
busted herself in procuring comforts for th
destitute invalid, without consulting him at q
about il, for she saw that his proud spirit IL
belled against receiving as charity even tn
means of prolonging life.
1t was not long before her husband returned
and never was there sadder or a tendert
meeting between this sick man and his libcr;
ted wife. Although medical attendance WI
procured, and every comfort placed aboi
him, the sufferer died hat night, blessing wit
his last words the lady who enabled him
have the comforts of his wite's presence in h
last dark hour.
, The lady herself, however, felt keenly SCI
: condemned. She told her husband the who
story, shedding tears of pain.
"What dreadful chain OF sin AMI sorrow
have Occasioned," J" she said,
eel do not think you were to blame," Ii
husband replied, - for you only left the dol
to be given to the true passer of
go, mol ] was almost sure that the mark
woman would not be particular. thought $
would get rid Of il the first chance she had.
Yet, said .that is no concern of mine.'
was an indifference TO right which has h
the force OF intentional wickedness. See wi
Il series of sins have occasioned. The maj
et-wOman gratifed her revenge first, and d
6 a dishonest act besides; then that hateful by
OCrite put 1t into the poor fund at church
cheating in the very temple. The moment
wife spoke of his contribution l saw detect
guilt in his face, bnt he told more talsehoO
hs pretended he did it by mistake, and that
/. would make it ur! Then the poor ministe
o wife, over-tempttd.hy poverty to bc tishone
q, what agony II will always be TO her TO
o member it, and 20 me 10 know that | occasit
Q ed i'll AMI thor the starving, innocent G.
man lady, who came near being deprived
/, hor husbands last kiss; and who endured hol
: of misery, knowing that he was suffering in
y ubssI,n-,t a kn sband,
a ..- One ill deed
.... Sows countless seed.
= hall never forget this lesson. Pray u
II that eyerv one of nv sins Of omissions m
6 not be followed by such train OF mlschlei
q 20 be a seninder of her fault the lady n
10 the dAAar set in plain bracelet, and wore
'e coualantlv clasped upon her arm. Every a