The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-13
TESTED AND FOUND TRUE.

i III tell you, no. Agnes! won't have
The fellow oniy wants my money.
: know him.-I know him. Know ali thcs
? dandihed jimcracks. Taey hang aroun
] a bag ofgold Us crows do around carriol
! won't nave any sucn thing. Now 20
+ KNOW"
"Father, you Judge Walter too harshly
He is good man-honest and lndustr
: Gus, AMP
r industrious, say your 70 like t
know wha: he's got to show for his il
dustry."
"He has a superior education, father.
r "EducatioDi Fiddlesticks! Can h
+ live on his education. Can he max
money Of it?
, 'Yes, he can live on il. He has alread
obtained good situation as clerk"
"And will earn just enough to kee1
him in the fine clothes he wears. knov
these fellows. Nut there's an end ont
II you choose him rather than your poo
old father you can do SO. l can Iiy,
alone--I snan't live long you can"-
"Step-stop, iatber. You have no righ
to talk SO. You know | could not leav,
you." And Agnes Bremen threw he
arms about the old mans neck and kisse(
him and left the room.
"lt's curious how these young fool,
act" the miser mutteIed to himself aftel
he had seen his child depart. "Ihere's
been twenty OF the sharks after that gir
all Of 'em lowering around her like
man. eaters after dead body. Don't
know what they want? Can't l see
Aha! can't !, thought It's my money
But Agnes has never loved one OF zen
till this Adams came along-the Jacka
napes, and now she wants to get mar.
ried ut once. Nonsense'
The old nah bowed his head as he
spoke, and he saw drop upon the back
Of his hand. 1t was bright drop, and
the rays OF the setting sun were playing
on it.
"She cried when she kissed me- he
whispered, wiping the tear from his hard
hand. 81 don't see what makes her SO
tender hearted. She never took it from
me. But she may have taken 1t from--''
The old man stopped, and cloud
came oyer his wripkIed brow, for there
was d pang in his heart. He remem.
bered the gentle, accomplishing being
who had once been his companion-the
mother OF his child. He remembered
how she became his wife, even when the
bloom Of manhood had passed from him,
how she loved him, nursed him, .and
cared for him, and how she taught her
child to love and care for him, too. And
planned, even while suffering, and how
she had died, with smile and a bless
ing upon her lips, though the gold Of her
husband brought her no comforts.
Noah Bremen bowed his frosted head
more low, and in his heart he wished
that he could forget all but the few fleet
ing joys of his vile. But he could not
forget that it had been whispered how
his wife might have lived longer, if she
had proper clothing and proper medical
attention.
"But 1t would have cost SO much! l
saved moneyw
Ah-the reflection would not move the
pang. The other memory was upper
most.
Noah Bremen had passed the allotted
age of man, being over three score and
ten. and all his life had been devoted to
accumulating money. He had denied
himself every comfort, and his heart had
been almost as hard as the gold he had
boarded. But as his hair grew more
white and sparse, and the years grew
more heavily upon HIM, he thought more
reflected more. The sweet smile OF his
dead wife was doing its mission now,
and the pure love Of his gentle child was
a continual remembrance to him tnat
there were better hearts than his OWN
AT length the miser rose and passed
out from the room. He would have left
the hut; but as he reached the little en-
try way he heard voice from the garret.
1t was his child's. He crept up the rick
ETY. stairs and looked through a crack in
the door. He saw Agnes upon her knees.
Tears were rolling down her cheeks. and
her hands were clasped toward heaven.
And she prayed:
"Oh, GodI be good to my father, and
make his heart warm and peacetull
Make me to love him with all tenderness,
and enable me to do we'll and truly the
duty pledged TO my sainted mother! l
promised her would love and care for
him always. Father In heaven, help me
oh, help meW
The old man crept down the stairs and
out of doors, and tor q whole hour walked
alone among the trees. He thought again
Of his wife, again OF his child, and then
OF his gold. And this s.was not the first
time he had walked alone there. He did
not himself know how great was the in
fucnce his child was exerting over him.
Agnes-pure, good, beautiful Agnes
wept long and bitterly in her little gar
ret; and when she had become calm, and
her cheeks were dry, she came down and
got her supper. But she was not the
smiling, happy being that had fitted
about the scanty board heretofore.
A lew days after this, as Noah Bremen
his cot one morning, he heard
voices from within. He peeped through
a rent in the coarse paper curtain and
saw Walter Adams with his child. Her
head was upon Walters shoulder and
his arm about her.
Walter was an. orphan, and had been
Agnes schoolmate and her devoted low
er through all the years of opening
youth. He was an honorable, virtuous
man, and loved the gentle girl because
she was good, and SO gentle, and SO
beautiiul3 And she loved him not only
because he had captured her heart in by
gone time, but because he was, of all her
suitors, the only one whose character
and habits promised JOY and peace for
the future. !
/ can not leave my poor, old father,
Walter" the old man neard his daugh- |
ter say, 81 must live and love and care
for him. 1t is hard. My heart must
break. But the pledge of loyeI gave TO-
my dying mother must be kept"
Sand so the great joy dream Of my
youth must be changed to this sad real
ity," exclaimed Walter, sorrowfully. III
cannot ask you to leave your tather,
sweet Agnes, for the truth in you which |
which worship, would be a lie could