Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-06-22
EBENSBURG, Pa WEDNESDAY,, JUNE g. 1864


of one hundred thousand dollars, changed
hands.
A month later there was tremendous
run upon the bank of which Stephen Ed
wards was principal owner. 1t was soon
/ broken and closed Then the sheriff was
| set to work by eager creditors, and all the
real estate and personal property of the
/ late millionaire was seized and sold, leav-
ing him beggar, and the just claims un-
satisfied Fashionable friends deserted
the family, and the proud nobleman re-
fused the hand of a ruined bankers
daughter.
In the very midst of this disgrace and
tribulation Stephen Edwards encountered
the man who had turned so pale and be-
come so agitated in his presence a short
! time before.
= | rather think you do not know me,
SIR said the gentleman, with formal
bow.
- \ our face seems somewhat familiar,
but yet cannot place you,' returned Ed
wards.
"Permit me to bring myself to your
recollection, then, rs l wish you to know
me. A little more than six weeks ago,
was talking with you on business, and
you observed that l turned deadly pale,
and became agitated p
/" All, yes, l remember you now"
Let me tell you why | was thus af-
! fectcd. My eye had just Glanced upon a
! curious watch seal which had belonged to
a merchant, named Philip Sydney, who
I was shot in the western part OF the State,
/ some twenty years ago and looking at
/ your features closely, knew you TO be the
villain who had perpctrated the foul deed.
MercifuI God y exclaimed the bank
er, with a blanched face and quaking form.
Yes, | knew you,'' pursued the other;
- ard a week after, ! disguised myself
and had am interview with you in your
own mansion You remember that Of
course =
< But" gasped the trembling wretch
did not pay you my own price to keep
my fatal secret p
- Yes and with ihat very money, and
what other could command, | was cna-
bled to buy up enough of your own bills
to make that run upon your bank which
broke it and forced ruin upon you
- And what would you now that | am
ruined - inquired the other, with the
deadly caImncss of desperation.
New that | have had my revenge, |
want you to know that myself am the
man YOU attempted to murder, and did
rob. an Philip .Sy3ney! Behold the
scar where the ball struck and glanced
and he lifted his hat and showed it.
''God be praised y calculated the
other, q God be praised that you are still
living!' and unable to restrain his emo
ton he burst into tears. ''Oh, sir, he con-
tinued. ssyou have taken a load off my con-
science-a weight from my soul! Though
poverty, begeary, disgrace and death are
staring me in the face, am happy IN the
knowledge that | am not guilty OF murder
happier than | have been for twenty
wears. with all the luxurious surroundings
, i of wealth 1t was my first and last
, crime. and / have never been able to tell
, how | was tempted to 50 outrage my ma
ture as on that fearful occasion. Now, sir:
do with me what you will-only, | pray
you. be merciful to my innocent family .
81 forgive you," returned the other, ex,
, tending his hand .'I forgive you. 1ou
nave bctii Puii'"iiN'
And as God has seen proper to preserve
Z us both and bring us both together, let u
hope it is for our present and future saliva
ton, and let us endeavor so TO live as tt
: deserve the blessings we receive. L vii
restore you enough to place you and you
, family above want /: and for the rest,
G trust we shall both remember we shal
soon have to render an account OF ou
= stewardship in another world. !"
Philip Sidney kept his word; aud witt
;, fresh start in the world, and now al
? easy conscience, the still enterprisin:
- Stepben Edwards accumulated anothe
respectable fortune, much of which h
4 spent in charity.
Philip Sidney died in 194S, AM
Stenhen Edwards IN 1851.
% Is not truth indeed strange-strange
than fiction!
" esr A son of the Emerald Isle, on pass
:, ing a tannerv, saw cows tail stuck I
" an augur hole for a sign. He was strnc
with amazement, and inquired how the
D." drove COW in such a small hole.
d az The New York Day Book says
!. don'ts believe in the water cure, and give
20 as n reason there Is Mr.. Onaming
ID noted political editor) he has been he-in
,e in his damn sheet for twenty years. and he