Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-28
LOVE AND SMALLPOX.
An Italians Desperate Attempts to
Leave the Pest House
TO WIN A FORTUNE AND A BRIDE.
One Thousand Lire Keeps Two Loving
Hearts Apart.
A ROMANCE OF TWO HEMISPHEREs

Superintendent Baker, of the Bureau Of
Health, said last night that Antonio Ansue-
limo, the Italian who was taken to the pest
house about ten days ago with the smallpox.
will probably be discharged as cured during
the coming week, as his attack was COM
paratively light one.
Antonio has been in this country but five
weeks. and appears to be one-idead man.
His hobby, however, is popular one-he
wants to make money. He insists that he
is in perfectly good health, and demands
that he be released in order that he may go
to work and earn the wealth that he so
earnestly desires. He has made several
attempts to escape from the pestho use,
and the vigilance of the hospital authorities
is constantly excited to prevent the man
getting away and spreading the disease.
Antonio on one occasion made a desperate
attempt to begin the world anew, as he en-
tered it, penniless and IN rather decollette
costume, but he was foiled in this by the
attendants, and reluctantly returned to L 3
couch.
WHY HE WANTS MONEY.
The persistence OF the man awakened the
admiration and curiosity of the attendants,
and they questioned him about his eager
ness to become capitalist Antonio is not
communicative. He feels that he is in a
strange country, and he does not talk much
of personal matters, but his story was finally
extracted from him.
Antonio Ansuelino comes from the in
terror of Italy; in fact, it is limited that in
the mountains near by his native village,
brigandage is a recognized industry. An
tonic, however, was not seduced by the
prospect of rapid gains at the small outlay
of sum sufficient to buy knife and gun.
He had seen the gendarmes bring knights of
the road into town, and had seen some rather
hasty. although legal, executions take place.
The chances for winning in this game, he
concluded, were largely against the player.
Antonio, nevertheless, wanted money. In
fact, he needed 1000 lire, which would cor
respond to 5000 of American money. He
required this sum to enable him to marry
Giula, the pretty 15-year-old daughter of a
small farmer. In Italy marriages de con-
venances are everyday occurrences, the sys-
tenn pervading all classes of society.
Giula's parents would give their daughter
dowry, but they would not allow her to
marry a man who could not duplicate
Giula's dot.
THE CRUEL PARENTS.
The poor lover would have gladly ac-
cepted Giula without her dowry, but her
parents had position to maintain, and
they were firm in their proposition-Giula
and 200 lires to any man with 1000 lires
who pleased Giula. The lovers discussed
the subject from every possible point of
view, but they saw no way out of their diff
Guilty. Finally Antonio was struck by q
happy thought He would go to America,
where the streets were paved with gold and
money was a burden to the average citizen,
and there obtain the much-needed /, 900 lire.
Antonia started for America and landed
in New York. There he failed to find the
golden streets. but he found a number OF
people who were busily engaged in chasing
the elusive dollar. He wandered through
the country, meeting with but little success
in his search for work, and finally landed
in Pittsburg, having acquired nothing but
a case of smallpox. He is now fearful that
while he is, as he feels, wasting his time in
hospital, some other man with 1000 lire
may be making inroads into the affections
OF Giula.