Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-10-23

| tuey were suo"n iuto ueseituee ito"
without FIRE or light, at the door Of which
they had knocked, but received no an
swer. When they approached the bed, q
man spoke as if just aWaking, and said II
German:
"Olga, have you come? am SO cold
and have been dying for drink Of wa
ter. / could DOT reach my medicine, OIL
ga, and it is long past the hour. But,
poor wife, you have gone through much
no doubt-aud have they paid you ?"
The magistrate sent the oficious neigh
bors for fire and light, while his wife grad
ually broke the news to the husband, for
he had not heard Of his wife's arrest. The
neighbors were afraid to tell it to man SO
i'll. He was lying wasted, by a low fever,
almost to a skeleton. He seemed horror.
stricken at the idea of his wife's disgrace,
and, turning away from the lady, he wep'
bitterly. From CALCULATIONS, and frag.
mentary sentences, she gathered that he
had been obliged, on account Of sympathy
with Hungary, to fly with his wife They
had expended all their means before they
had been able to get any employment,
and, since the failure of her husband S
health, the poor wife struggled to support
them both with her needle. He turned to
bis visiters again to explain about the
counterfeits. He said, the neighborhood
and market people gave his wife bad
money repeatedly, thinking shrewdly that
she, beiug foreigner, would not be likely
to know the true coin we'll. When sEe
iguorantly tried to buy things with this
bad money. she was harshly treated.
Therefore, when she had another gold dol.
lar given to her, he supposed she bad
shown it to her neighbors to ask il it were
good, and had no, been able to make her.
self understood BY them. He had not
seen ber since she left him to take home
some shirts to Mr.. BIS furnishing store.
The magistrate perceived that these peo-
pie were innocent, and went at once to
obtain the woman's release, while his
wife STAYED and busted herself in procur.
ing 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 long
before her husband returned, and never
was there a sadder or tenderer meeting
than between the sick man and his ibera-
ted wife.
Although medical attendance was pro-
cured, and every comfort placed before
him, the sufferer died that night, blessing
with his last words the lady who had ena-
bled him to have the comfort of his wife, $
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 sin and sor-
row have occasioned :" she said.
81 do not think you were to blame"
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. 1
thought she would get rid of it the first
chance she had. Yet, l said, that this is
no concern Of mine 1t was Indifference
to right, which has had the force of inten-
tional wickedness See what series Of
sins cccasioned The market woman
gratifed her revenge, first, and did dis
honest act, besides; then that hateful
hypocrite put it into the poor-fuud in
church-cheating in the very temple.
The moment bis wife spoke of his contri-
button, saw detected guilt in his face,
but be told more falsehoods-he pretend
Cd be did it by mistake, and that he would
make it up! Then the poor minister's
wife, over-tempted BY poverty to be dis
honest. Oh, what agony it will always
te to her, to remember it, and to me to
know tha. occasioned it And the star
wing, innocent German lady, who came
near being deprived of her husbands last
kiss; aud who endured hours of misery,
knowing that he was suffering in her ab-
sence Oh, husband
'one i'll indeed
Sous countless seed
l 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 q plain bracelet,
and wore it constantly upon her arm.
Every day the base coin left green mark
from corrosion, and, as she washed it off,
she thought how blessed it would be if
the consequences of sin could be rs easily
effsced. But that, she knew by expert
ence, could not be. In the three days
since she had first been careless Of the
right, that dollar which she had suffered
to slip through her fingers, had brought