Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-14
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one could tell to whom it had been given One
OF the shop girls had probably passed it without
seeing that 1t was not good. Tho lady left n
doiiar 10 replace 1T, should any one bring it
back and went home disappointed Her hus-
band was magistrate and she knew that be
was so strict in bringing offenders to Justice
That she never mentioned to him this counter
felt, for fear OF getting the market woman into
trouble for passing it, knowing it to be such
That night her husband came home from his
! oihee looking exceedingly weary and sad His
wife pressed TO know the reason
Oh. said he, the duties of nv office arc
sometimes So painful | have Just had to send
such nice, lady-like woman to the lookup for
the night, because 1t was too late to examine
her at once She seemed in great distress about
something; but she can't speak word of Eng
llSh SO oouldn tmake it out. l think, though,
that her husband is sick
Why not let her 90, and take her I'D scain
in the morning"
Well, she is accused of a serious charge
counterfeiting-an her distress may be all
shan, only plan to get her husband Off
don want him warned l have set watch
about the house, but can do no more until
morning. There arc great numbers of coun-
terteit gold dollars in circulation and this
woman, her neighbOrs say, has tried to pass
three within week. L have been very anx-
lOus to discover the rogues and don believe
this woman has anything to do with it. How
ever, L had to shut her UP, the ncighbors are 80
indignant. Tomorrow it will be looked into.
and the woman set free, have no doubt"
" Perhaps her poor sick husband may die of
anxiety aud alarm meanwhile"
:" Well, put on your bonnet, wife You can
speak German. / should feel easier confess.
II knew more about this matter and will 20
to her residence
Ihe wife hastily made ready They had to
go to dirty. narrow court peOpled by the
lowest Irish. When they arrived and injured
Tor the man, they were shown into destitute
room, without fire or light at the door of which
they had knocked, but received no answer.
hncn 'hey approached the bed man spoke
as II just awaklng, and said in German
olga have you come! | am so cold and
have been dying for drink of water | could
not reach my medicine. olga. and il is ions,
past the hour. But, poor wife you have gone,
through much, no doubt-and have they uaid
you 2'
The magistrate sent the oficious neighbcrs
l9f hre and IiSht while his wife gradually broke
the news to the husband for be had not heard
GFfIS wife arrest. The neighbOrs were afraid
tetcil 1t to man 80 i'll He was lying wasted
ny low fever almost to a skeleton. He seemed
hOrror-strlc1en at the idea Of his wfe's dis
grace. and turning away from the lady. he went
bitterly From ejaculatiOns, and fragmentary
sentences, she gathered that he belonged to a
noble family III some little German principality.
ana had been obliged. on account of sympathy
with Hungary. to fly with hi. wife Thev had
expended all their means before they had been
able 10 get employment, and since the failure
OF her husbands health, the poor wife had
struggled to support them both, with her nee
die. tie turned To his visitors again to explain
about the cOunterfeits. lie said. the neighbor-
nood ana market people gave his wife bad
money repeatedly, thinking shrewdiy that she
being foreigner. would not be likely to know
the true coin well. When she ignorantIy tried
10 Duy things with this bad money she WAS
narshiy treated. Therefore when she had ano-
ther gold dollar given to her, he supposed she
had shown 1t to her neighbors to ask if it were
good. and had not been able to make herseIf
understood by them. II. had not seen her
sInce she lett him to take home some skirts to
MIR. B. s furnishing store
Ihe magistrate perceived that these peonIe
were innocent. and went at once to obtain the
woman ) release, while his wife STAYED and bu
sled herself IN procuring comforts for the desti-
tute Invalid, without consulting him at all
about it. for she saw that his proud spirit re-
belled against receiving as charity even the
means OF pr0longng life
III was not long before her husband returned
ana never was there a Sadder or tenderer meet
Ing than between the sick man and his liberated
wife.
Although medical attendance was procured,
t'1 @'ciy cOihloft pIaced before him. the Suf-
ferer died that night, blessing with his last
words the lady who had thus enabled him TO
have the comfort Of his wife presence in his
last, dark hour
The lady, herself, however, felt keenIy self
condemned She told her husband the whole
story, shedding tears of pain
hat dreadful chain of sin and sorrow I
have occasioncd, she said
81 do not think you were to blame bo, brs-
band replied, for you only left the dollar to be
given to the true passer of it
Oh no L was almost sure the market woman
would not be particular. l thought she would
get rid OF II the first chance she had Yet 7
SAID. '' that IL no concern of mine II was An
indifference to right which has had the force Of
Intentional wickedness. See what n series az
sins occasiOned The marke / woman rro;i6eJ
her revenge first. and did a dishonest act be
SIDES then that hateful hypccrite put il into the
poor fund In chuTch-cheatiug i'm the very fem
pie The moment his wife spoke Of his contribu
tion, saw detected guiltin his face but he told
more lalschOQds-hc pretended he did il by
mistake, and that he would make it an, Then
the poor ministers wife oyer-tempted by nov
erty Ia he dishonest. Oh. what agony it will
always be I" her 10 remember IT, and TO NE to
Know that L OccaSloncd it And the starving
innocent German lady. who came near being
deprived Of her husbands last kiss and who
endnred hours OF misery, knowing that he was
oeAeAAhS Ih dDncicC On. husband
- one i'll deed
Sows countless seed :,
= shall never forget this lesson. Pray God
that every one of my sins Of omission NAV not
be followed by such train of mischief"
To bc reminded OF her fault the lady had the
dollar set In plain bracelet, and wore il con-
stantly 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 IT the consequences OF sin could be az easily
efaced But that she knew by experience
could not be. In the three days since sh. had
first been careless of the right that dollar
which she hHd suffered to clip through her
fingers. had brought sin unhappness to her
self. the two hucksteTs, the hypOcrite the min
lister wife, and the persecuted foreigner. They
none Of them-would ever during their
whole lives, escape from the consequences OF
her cuipable neglect in not stopping the cir
culatlon Cf that counterfeit dollar
y A far of correspondent writes the fol-
lowing Out IN EliLabethtown in this State
there Is, and has been for many years, a ro-
Spectacle Baptist congregation which Lns the