The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-04
talent in that same direction. Al
throurh tha Ghetto the yiStaS are cur


cost of new, and from out almost
every doorway comes. the offensive
smell Of garments that have passed
through innumerable ylclssltudeS OF
fortune before coming to their pres
ent state. closely packed on shelves
waiting another resurrection to the
day. Ole clio, ole clio, ole clio +! Nothing
but ole clio everywhere, except where
over small furnaces cheap vegetables
are sizzling in boiling oil for the
passer-by to eat hot if he will. where
hideouss Hebraic hays. fatter,
greasier, and a thousand-fold uglier
than the witch of Endor was ever i'm
agined. with wrinkled. swarthy skins.
and thick. pendulous lips. sit scream
ing and scolding upon foul doorstones;
where uncleanly. dark-eyed children
play and quarrel in crowds; where
cheap fruit and vegetable shops emit
strange odors. or where gapes dirty
grocery or black receptacle for old
iron. Scarcely single specl men OF
the famous Oriental beauty that made
the queenly Judiths, the state Rach-
els, the glowing Rebeccas, and dark
eyed Salomel green radiant beside the
Syrian fountains, can be found in the
whole Ghetto. There are meek-eyed
Leans, Miriams with swollen Israel
itish noses, squalid Hagars, with
swarthy, oily skins. and younger SIS
tiers racing and hollooing through the
narrow. filthy streets in their weak
eyed. sWollen-nosed, oily-skinned
likeness, but seldom hint of beauty
No. hi,.tl, fhncn chi IdrQn
of the gutter and curb-stone. Centu-
ries of wrong and persecution have
had their natural effect, and these
people have sunken abject and grove
ling beneath weight that is crushing
them. has crushed a naughty race.
which even in all its degradation
clings still to feeble, pale shadow of
its ancient pride, as the chosen people
of God.
A CURIOUS STORY OF THE GHETTO
was told as we walked through it.
About forty five years ago young
woman was driven with curses from
her fathers New Hampshire farm.
and nearly nine months later gave
birth to boy in a hackloft Of farm
house. where she. had hired out as Il
servant. The girls father was a
Methodist class leader. The father
of her child, a curly-haired. black
eyed Young fellow, seemed a very
dashing swell to the country girl, as
he passed the farm every few weeks,
peddling cheap laceS and ribbons
through the country. lie WAS never
seen in this part of the country after
| the girls disgrace became known, and
| the child never knew even so much
| as his fathers name or race. as
neither did the mother. But as the
boy grew up to Il stern and heavy life
of farm drudge to whoever would
| give him food and rags. he grew into
so strong Jewish likeness that one
could scarcely doubt his claim to a
share of the curses and cuffs that to-
day are the heritage of the chosen
people. But his mother tried to
teach him to hate the Jews us she
herself had been taught blindly to
hate them by her very Christian
father. and as she douoly hated them
now that she knew what she had not
suspected before, that her betrayer
was of Israelitish descent. The boy
was very strange child. and. with
many mental pecularities early
evinced Il curious aversion to human
beings of his own sex. He would
never associate with boys If he could
help it: never would work with them
upon the farms except under com
pulsion. and would pass whole winter
nights upon the bare floor rather than
share the bed of one of the other
laborers. His employer said he was
insane. and that he had taken hi:
monomanla from his mother. who
from bitter hatred of her own ant
her child's father. had come TO al
extraordinary aversion and malignitN
toward all men. but above all To al
Jews. After twenty-five harsh ana
bitter years rs farm lahorer. this
Young man went into the army. TN.
can scarcely imagine his wretched
ness. with his peculiar idiosyncrasy
, compelled to mingle SO closely rs he
was in the ranks with beings fo
whom he had SO singular and uncon
.trollable an aversion. He endured i
three months. then deserted. ans
although advertised and hunted n
ISSeftpU WIS never HEAih tlbtEA d. ttk4
; by the New Hamprhire regiment L
: which he belonged. Even his mothe
) received no tidin~s from him to th'
day she died in lonely little hut il
the New Hampshire woods. saying
After all he was part Jew, and wha
better could | expect. and vet com
forting herself that she hal at leas
taught one jew To hate the race {
/. which he partly belonged. Four 0
: 1--WE years ago i fat Jewess died o
, of smallpox in the Roman Ghetto
r She was swarthy and oily. with
: strident voice that reared through tn
{ somber. echoing alleys and passages
: The words New Hampshire wer
, often upon her lips. and "accurse
) Jew" was repeated constantly. Ate
n her death
h THE CORPSE WAS DISCOVERED TO HAY
4 BEEN IN ITS LIFETIME A NAN
n the unhappy monomaniacal son
> a New Hampshire country girl and
renegade Jew, the wretched son upo
e whose life the emhittered mother Ia
e imprinted her own hatred of hi
q fathers and her betrayer 3 sex. but
e which she had never destroyed II
n vital mysterious bond that binds Il