Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1911 — "Conscience-Money'' to Vienna. [ARTICLE]

"Conscience-Money'' to Vienna.

“Conscience money” to the amount of $25 was received by a Vienna bank at Christmas from an Austrian who emigrated to America more than sixty years ago. It was formerly the custom for apprentices to call at Christmas time on the firms with which tbeir masters dealt for trifling presorts. The old emigrant in a letter explained that he cheated the bank In question by calling twice for a Christmas eict. disguising btrr, cp |f on hj s Bec . end call in a shoemaker's apron. He duly received a second present of a florin. The act has so weighed on his conscience ever since that he decided this Christmas to repay the florin to the bank, together with interest for sixty years. The bank manager has given the $25 to charity.