The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-09-11

The magistrate sent to the ofcious neighbor for fire
and light while his wife gradually broke the to the
husband for he had not heard of his wifes The
neighbors afraid to tell it to the man so iii. He
was lying, wasted away by slow fever almost to a
skeleton He seemed horror stricken at the idea of his
wfes disgrace and turning away from the lady he wept
bitterly From CALCULATIONS and fragmentary sentences
she gathered that he belonged to noble family in
little German principaity and had been obliged
count of sympathy with Hungary, to fly with his wife
They had expendedal their before they had been
able to get employment and since the failure of her
husbands health, the poor wife had struggled to sup
port them both with her needle.
He turned to his visitor again to explain about the
counterfeits. He said, the neghborhood and market
people gave his wife bad money repeatedly, thinking
shrewdly that she being foreigner, would not be
| likely to know the true coin When she ignorantly
tried to buy things with this bad money she was harshly
treated. Therefore, when she had another gold dollar
given her. hesupposed she had shownit to her neigh
Dor 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 take home some shirts Mr.
BIS furnishing store.
The magistrate perceived that these people were inno
cent, and went at to obtain the womans release
while his wife stayed and busted herself in procuring
comforts for the destitute invalid without consulting
him at all about it. for she that his proud spirit
rebelled against receiving as charity even the means OF
prolonging life.
"0h no! I was almost sure the market woman would
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first chance she had. Yet | said, that is concern
ofmne. TWAS an Indifference to right which has had
the force of intentional wiekedness See what series
of sins | Occasioned. The market gratifed her
revenge first and did dishonest besdes then that
hateful hypocrte put it in the poor fund at church
cheating in the very temple The moment his wife
spoke of his contribution | saw detected guilt in his
face, but he told more asehoods-he pretended he did
by mistake and that he would make it up! Then the
poor minister's wife overtempted by poverty to be dis
honest; Oh, what agony it will always be to her, TO
member it, and to me to know that | occasioned i'll
Aud the starving innocent German lady, who came near
being deprived of her husbands last kiss; and who
dured hours of misery, knowing that he suffering in
| her absence! Oh husband
One i'll deed,
Sows countless seed.
II shall never forget this lesson. Pray God that
every of my sins of omission may not be followed
! by such train Of mischief"
To be remndful of her fault the lady had the dollar
set in plain bracelet and it constantly upon her
arm Every day the base coin left green mark from
cowosion, and she washed it off she thought how
blessed it would be if the consequence of sin could be
so easily ehaced But that she knew by experience,
could be In the three days since she had first been
careless of the right that dollar which she bad suffered
to slip through her fingers had brought sin unhappi-
ness to herself the two hucksters, the hypocrte, the
minister's wife and the prosecuted foreigner. They
OF them, could eyerdurng their whole lives, escape
from the consequences of her cupabe neglect i'll not
stopping the circulation Of that counterfeit dollar.