The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-08-10

i As he entered, poor wonlan'was trying
to prevail upon the store-keeper to settle
demand for making Ills shirts. 4 u
You had best take it out of the store,
Mrs. Conway" he said to her "really, /
have not taken half the amount OF your bill
today, and dou't expect to. have, to-
charge everything and no money comes in"
" can't do without ii, ;" answered the
woman earnestly" my daughter is very i'll,
and in want of every comfort; | am out of
fire wood, aud indeed IFwant many things
which have depended upon this money to
get. | worked night and day to get your
shirts done,"
"Im very sorry, Mrs, Conway" said the
store-keeper, looking into his money draw
er I" I've not five shilliugs here, and your
bill is FIVE dollars ninepence."
The poor woman thought Of her invalid
child and wrung her hands.
" A sailor came in awhile ago. and
selected So worth of goods here on the
counter, and went off to get his wages to
pay for them, but question whether he
GENES back. If he does and pays for them
you shall have your money, madame u Y
At this instant Jack made his appearance
at the door.
"Well, shipmate,' y he said in a tone much
more elevated than wlen he was discov-
cred speaking with the Captain, /" well, my
hearty, hand over my freight. Eve got the
documents, so give us possession!' and
splayinS his five dollar piece, he laid
hol of the purchases. d, r.t nEl.as
The store. keeper examined aud seeing
that the money was good, bade him take
them with him, and then signing as he took
another and last look at the piece, he hand
ed it to the poor widow, who with a joyful
smile received it from him, aud FASTENED
from the store.
In low and very liumbls tenement near
the water, was family of very poor chill
dren, whose appearance exhibited utmost
destituton. On a cot bed lay poor woman
i'll and emaciated. The door opened and
man in coarse, patched garner Is, entered
| with woodsaw and horse and laying
them down by the door-side, approached
the bed.
| "Are you any better, dear 2" he asked in
a rough voice, but in kindest tones. a'.
"No; have you found work? If you
could get me little nourishing food, |
could regain my lost strength" rtf
The man gazed upon her pale face mo.
ment and again taking up his saw and
horse, went oat. lie had not gone far be-
fore a woman met him and said she wished
| him to follow and saw some wood for her.
His heart bounded with hope and gratitude;
and he went after her to her DWELLING
an abode little better than his own for
poverty-yet, wearing an air of comfort.
| He sawed the wood split, piled it, and re-
ceived six shillings, with which he hastened
to the store for necessaries for the sick
wife, and then hurried home to gladden.
her heart with tho delicaces he had pro-
| vided. Till now he had bad no work for
| four days, aud his fsaily had been starving
aud from this day his wife got better, and
was at length restored to her family and
TO her health, from state Of weakness
which another days continuation would
probably have proved fatal.
These six shllings which did so much
good, We're paid him by the woman from
The FIVE dollars she had received from the
store-kaeper, and which the sailor had paid
him. The poor woman's daughter also re-
vived and was ultimately restored TO health
and was lately married to a young man who
had been three years absent and returi ef
true to his troth. But for the five dol!a"s
which had been SO instrumental in her re-
covery, he might have returned to be told
that she whose memory, had been 30 long
the polar star of his heart, had perished
So much good did the 6ve-dollar piece
do, which Peter Chancery, ESQ, so reluct-
anlly paid to Mr.. Lasts apprentices boy,
though little credit is due TO the legal
gentleman for the results that followed IL
is thus that Providence often makes bad
men instruments of good to others. Let
this little story lead those who think a
small bilr' can stand because il is small
| bill. remember how much good hve-dollar
bill has done in one single day, and that in
paying one bill they may bep&ying series
Of twenty bills, and dispensing good to
hundreds around them.