The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-15

race Is More bcautiiulto Him than
the Facc ofany Other Woman.
NEw IoRE, March l4.-ln front OF n
dinsy row OF tenement houses on Prcsi-
dent street, between Columbia and Van
Drunt streets, Brooklyn, nearly half o
hundred 1talial,s-mcn, women and
dirty little children.stood last night
vocifcrously welcoming and praising q
tall, slender young. man, who stood
laughing and bowling to tho crowd OF
his countrywide, but at tho same time
Keeping careful hold 4 Of the young
woman!at his side.
Tho girl had evidently been in this
country only \ very short time, for her
holiday dress was almost an exact COPY
ofthat OF the NeapoIitan flower girls on
n feast day. The right side Of her faco
was beautiful in outline and charming
III color, but when she turned there
could be seen extending from her
temple to her chin broad scar, whose
edges, drawn together, made n line OF
hideous wrinkles. So near to the eye
ran tho gear that the lower lid was
drawn down, giving an ugly leering
expression in awful contrast to tho
beauty OF the other cheek.
TWAS this scar that all tho men, wo.
men and children arc chattering about,
and which was also a source Of fond
pride to the girl herself. Had it MOI
been for the scar the girl would have
been married TO wcll.to-do farmer
near Naples, aud the young Italian
would be either broken.hcartcd or a
murderer. And this is tho story that
the South Brooklyn italian colony was
chaltcring about.
Gihseppine Pilcchini is the daughter
OF m old fisherman in Naples. who had
saved enough money to build little
better cottage than his fellow fishermen,
and Giuscppine, less than u year ago,
was known as the prctticst OF all the
pretty girls in Naples. Augustine Car.
minelli worked for old mar Pilachini,
and every day that the lateen. rugged
fishing boat came back from work Aug
ustino was moro and more in love with
Gluseppine. Finally tho old fisherman
discovered the young couple making
love, and was furious, rs no intended
Giuscppino for q wealthy grape grower,
who had fallen in love with her, but
whom she hated thoroughly.
Tho father was determined, how
ever. Tho day for the wedding drew
near and the hearts OF the young couple
were filled with desperation. Augusta
no had heart full OF love, but he had
little money. They could not rM
away. Three days before the.wcddiEg
was to have taken place Giuseppine met
her lover behind the big pile OF fishing
boats and handed him knife, saying:
1T is only for my face Francisco loves
me. Make me ugly with this knife and
he will give me up"
Fearful lest tho girl should cut her
self, Augustine seized the knife and
threw it far out into the bay. Unlike
the product OF our civilization he would
not mar the beauty OF the girl he loved,
even il he could not marry her. The
girl repeated her plcadings the next
night, painting in warm words the hap
plness that would be theirs if the per
slstcnt vino grover was out OF the way,
until Augustine, mad with jealous rage,
determined to kill his rival. Somehow
no did not get chance, and tho next
night-hcr wedding e-Giuseppino
pleaded again for her own disfgurc-
ment. She hated her own beauty be-
cause it stood between herself and her
own happiness. At last, in a wild lit OF
desperation, Augustine seized the knife,
and, with one broad sweep OF the blade.
eashed the lovely faco from temple to
chin.
AS they suspected, Francisco refused
to marry girl SO disfgured, but
Augustine was tried, and sentenced to
three years in prison, and his marriage
seemed as far oil as before. All the
time he was i'll prison Giuseppine
worked and saved, and when tho three
years had expired she met hor lover at
the prison gate, and putting her little
savings in his hands bude him 20 to
America and earn enough to send for
her. He refused, unless she married
him before he left Naples, and as they
walked toward the. city they mot d
wandering padre, who made them man
and wife.
After u short twcnty-four hours OF
married life, Augustine left Naples on Il
coastins vessel, and finally made his
way 10 this country, which he reached
about six months ago. His countrymcn
heard his story and found him work,
and meanwhile he saved every cent, un-
til at last he had enough to send for his
young wife. Her father refused to let
her leave, and locked her in their little
cottage, but the girl who would sacri-
flee her beauty for her love, laughed at
the old iailor, and one night stole out
and away TO friends, who helped her to
find the way to this country. ~
Day before yesterday she reached
New York, and yesterday went to the
two little rooms that Augustine had
prepared for her in the President street
tenement. Her story had come before
her, and all the men and women wanted
to see her and talk to her, and is why,
her rooms being small, she held her in
formal receptions on tho sidewalk, and
all the men praised her and thereby,
made the women envious and sorry
they had called her out. But she is
happy, and Augustine swcars that the
side OF her face that bears the scar is
prettier than the other and either love.
licr than the cheeks OF any other wo-
man in tho South Brooklyn Italian
colony.
Fly Wheel Bursts.
CINCINNATI, O., March 14.-Shortly