Having forfeited his right to the confidence of this community by trespassing upon it, let him pay the penalty of that trespass.

It will be to him, doubtless, a salutary lesson.

A few years of confinement in a prison will give him time for reflection and repentance; whereas, impunity in an evil course could only have strengthened his evil purposes.

When he has paid the just penalty of his crime, let him go into another part of the country, and among strangers live a virtuous life, the sure reward of which is peace." Mr.May shook his head negatively, at these remarks.
"No one errs on the side of kindness," he said, "while too many, by an opposite course, drive to ruin those whom leniency might have saved." A short time after the occurrence of this little interview, Mr.May, on returning home one evening, found his wife in much apparent trouble.
"Has anything gone wrong, Ella ?" he asked.
"Would you have believed it ?" was Mrs.May's quick and excited answer.

"I caught Jane in my drawer to-day, with a ten dollar bill in her hand which she had just taken out of my pocket book, that was still open." "Why, Ella!" "It is too true! I charged it at once upon her, and she burst into tears, and owned that she was going to take the money and keep it." "That accounts, then, for the frequency with which you have missed small sums of money for several months past." "Yes.