Evening star., 1899-03-16
CONSCIENCE STRICKEN.
Instances of Guilty Ones Making
Amends After Many Years.
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From the indian Planters Gazette.
TIE new vaccination act has brought to
light some really wonderful curiosities in
consciences, but magistrates are not the
only men who have to deal with the con
scientious.''
The manager of a great insurance COM
pany has received a letter in which the
writer states that eight years ago he in
sured his business premises for $500, and
subsequently set them on fire to obtain the
insurance. With this he commenced an
other and more profitable business, at
which he succeeded beyond his dreams;
and for him TO become a happy man only
one thing was necessary. and that was to
clear his conscience of the fraud he had
committed. He therefore returned the f3OO
plus foi0, which was 10 per cent interest
per annum upon the capital With this he
thought the defrauded company should be
more than satisfied
A short time ago strange letter was re-
ceived by a guarantee company of many
years standing from a welI-known city
man. The letter set out the fact that some
years previously the company had guaran-
steed his honesty for flo0. He subsequently
obtained a position of trust, and one day
went off with precisely the amount for
which he had been guaranteed. He changed
his name. eluded the police started a busi-
ness of his own and prospered.
Ever since however. he had been prey
to conscience, which at last he resolved to
appease by forwarding to the company the
amount it had lost by his miSdeed together
with the bonus of f20. which he thought
would cover the cost the company had been
put to in endeavorins TO bring him TO JUS
tice- The company accepted the money
but promptly, and perhaps wisely, refused
to renew the guarantees of three clerks
who were in the employ of this ''conscien-
tious gentleman"
Dear sir" writes a man to a depart
mental manager of a railway company:
Three years ago l was poor clerk earn
ing a miserable salary of tWenty-three shil-
lings, and / made it a habit to cheat your
company out of fifteen pence daily. 1 have
recently come into sum Of money, which
assures me comfort for the rest of my life
and hasten to satisfy the demands of my
conscience by here inclosing you the equiv
alent of the total sum out of which ] have
In the past defrauded you. / also inclose
bank note for e, and shall be glad IL you
will forward it to the most necessitous of
the charities connected with your railway
a small mark of regret for my dishonest
conduct"
A Devonshire clergyman was once visited
by a miserable-looking beggar. who with
tears streaming down his cheeks, confessed
that nine months previously he had robbed
the parsons poultry house of a fat and ten
der fowl, which had, nevertheless, 'laid
heavy on his soul ever since" He could
not replace the hen devoured nor could he
scfape up enough TO pay the price of the
bird
Would the gentleman, then, as a Chris
tian man, allow him to do work to the
value of the robbery, just to satisfy his
conscience and make him feel that he might
hold up his head again? The parson recol-
lected the robbery. and, struck with the
honest fellows appreciation of his sin
agreed to the proposal, and thought the
lesson would be twice as effective If the re-
pentant one were set to clean out the very
poultry house he had previously robbed
The rogue has another hen to work off now