The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14


I II three days, spending the rent Pietro'
I gave him: but ] heard him come in last
night He was drunk. but ne did not beat
I Maggie This morning he found the dis
/ possess notice. and that made him mad,
I though II was him that spent PietrO's
money that should have gone 10 pay the
I rent, and he beat Maggie till Pietro got him
I TO stop. Toe went out then and got drunk
/ again. When he came back Pietro was
I gone. and Joe done Maggie with the
! knife"
/ "Oh. Gesul Oh. Santa Mariar' moaned
! the Italian woman TO whom the men
were making a running translation Of Liz
zie's story.
Poor TOwmyl Poor Towmyr" murmur-
/ ed PietrO. gently touching the childs
still face resting against his breast
Joe hadn't work for a week." said
Lena.
wei, an honest man can't find work
/ every day" Lizzie exclaimed.
This was a stab at Lena, whose man
was pickpocket, and when il was trans
I lated to the Italian women they shrugged
I their shoulders and turned their backs to
Lena. Their husbands were honest men.
] Some gathered waste paper, some peddled
| fruit from push carts and some swept the
I streets.
We'll he had a right not to ask her 10
make living for him-and women chased
OF the streetsr" Lena retorted angrily.
| going over by the policemans chair and
l looking out of the window: Il wonder the
| wagon wouldn't come"
/ She looked out on the stone-paved court,
/ where, through a network of intervening
] clotheslines, she could see women and
/ children sorting paper from the big bags
/ the men brought in from their carts on the
/ street; writing paper in one pile, newspa-
per in another, glazed paper in a third,
and straw paper and board in a fourth.
They were not working with their usual
I solemn industry and disregard of all else,
by which the whole family, helping the
| husband and father, can sometimes make
s. a week. There was an unusual and
/ powerful outside interest which made
| them frequently cast anxious and expec-
| tant glances at the mouth of a tunnel
! like passageway which led to the street.
1t was through that passageway the wag-
/ on men must come with the box. Now
/ and then one, more impatient than the
others, would send a child out to the street
! to inquire If the wagon was in sight.
Lena overheard one of the children re-
/ turn and report that the wagon could not
yet be seen from either end of the bend,
and then she said to Lizzie: Come into
my room. l have the price"
AS she passed Pietro she stopped, pat
| ted the baby's hands and said: I'm send
out for some milk for Tommy"
Pietro smiled his delight. He had given
Joe all of his money, ten cents, in the
/ morning, as q bride to stop beating Mag
gle, and he sorrowed that he could not
buy milk for the baby.
Poor Towmy! Poor Towmyv he said.
| ''Towmy like-a-milk. good-a-mill5"
The two women went into the back room
on the floor below, and sent out one of the
children in the hall with eight cents and
| two bottles-five cents for the gin and
| three cents for the milk. The bottles were
soon returned filled and a mouthful of
| gin was given to the messenger-he de-
clined the milk-for his services.
Pierto walked up and down the little
/ room with Tommy, up and down up and
down, turning each time so that the baby
might not look into the next room where
| the thing was in the corner But Tommy
| would not have seen, for his eyes were
! closed. Often Pietro went to the hall and
| looked down the gloomy stairs to see if
| the women We're coming with the milk
| He could hear them shouting songs in the
room below, but no one came with the
milk.
Poor Towmyi Poor Towmyr' crooned
the old man. He took off the red hand
kerchief from his throat and laid il over
| Tommys head, for 1T was chill in the
room. Pietro thought hard of some other
way of getting food Tommy could eat
Some of the other women in the house
! might send out for a penny's worth of
milk, he thought, but ne dreaded to ask
them then. He knew they were all ex-
cited and eXpectant over the event of
the coming of the wagon, and would re-
sent any suggestion of a task which
| might cause them to miss a detail of the
ceremony.
After the wagon has come and gone
| then, If the agent don't soon, I'll ask"
thought Pietro, and he held the baby
| closer to his rough coat, for the room
seemed more chill.
Suddenly the court was alive with ex-
| element as a swarm of children poured
into it through the passage from the
| street. They heralded the wagon men.
and the windows of the front and back
tenements were instantly crowded with
| women's heads. There was a frantic rush
| up the stairs of the back tenement ahead
of the wagon men, but this was roughly
checked by the policemen on guard.
The wagon had been delayed, and be-
fore the men had gathered up what they
came for the agent arrived-the great
agent of the society which rescues chill
dren from that life, when those who could
prevent such rescues by the law are in
Jail or in the morgue. Before the face
of that agent the children fed in terror
and their mothers hid them.
Where is the child?" the agent asked
as he entered the room.
The women pointed to Peitro, who
frightened, smiled clining closer to Tom
my.
The agent in kindly manner took the
red handkerchief from off Tommys head
He looked at the baby. felt its pulse
placed his ear to it's heart, and then said
! to the wagon men:
This goes with you. too. It is not
case for me-"
Pietro felt of the baby's face, gasped
and shrieked:
''Oh, Gesu! Oh, Gesu Poor Towmy.
Poor TOMMY" and the women walled,
"Oh, Madonna"
If one desires an explanation for the
great mysteries of bird migration there
being nothing else that will answer. he
will have to accept the theory of heredi-
tary knowledge, a knowledge of the I'M
failing stars, says the Chautauquan. The
Great Bear and Orion appeared at the
same time in our region, even when the
| divisions of land and water were very