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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1745, 6 August 1874, Page 3

"When at Massachusetts," writes a' correspondent of a contemporary, " I heard a characteristic story of a simple minded deacon, one of 'the Pilgrim' Fathers. The worthy man was in the! habit of drawing his salary in silver every; Saturday afternoon, and dispensing it among the poor people on the way home from the treasury—half a dollar to one, a quarter to another, and so on until he had not much to bring to his wife. She, mindful of the old saying that charity begins at home, and not at all relishing to be mulcted of her dues, instructed the treasurer, when giving her' husband his salary, to tie it, up in a handkerchief with, so many and 'such tight knots that he could notdispensc itin driblets as heretofore. On arriving at the first house, he iumbledfor a long time with the handkerchief, but it resisted, his endeavor. . 'Dear friend,', said he to the occupant, ' it is evident to me that Providence intended the whole of it for thee ;' and so saying, h" gave the handkerchief to her and Treat borne tv his wife empty-handed/