The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-05-03

Go :e,t to ], the Only Eichenstein, 1917 Moss
''Whatwhat is that z stammered the
tramp 81 IS
s Rs's sn a dose sSsf osea
have it soy
THE clothes for keeps::''
No. Every day tree good meals and
g aM J, dollar By week."
lie line. You dress yourself. Den | min
on uose placard hack and front; after
you walk in all streets. II we get Gus
TONER'S, You get Il good job. but you
mmd, Keep dose CLOTHES CLEAN, so we sell
uem after at half price, Tt.is 4z
certain supplies, the offer seemed good.
Inc tramp accepted it, and went be-
himself, - - ~, -
He honestly fulfilled his part of the
bargain; so that when he asked for 10
which there had been an increase Of
custom ut Mr. Eichenstein's, ana Mr..
mooney had been observed to look anx-
lously forth from his door, Rebecca ad-
vanced the money. That evening it
sorm to eni vent e out upon nth the rHSf
TORN, gloriiied BY the summer moon
| hight, was like a hanging garden; the old
carpet might have been an Oriental tap
estry, the struggling plants roses of Cash
mere anu kebecca Hebrew princess
! with little imagination and some dis
| lance on the part of an observer. The
Jewish maiden leaned over the railing
ana looked down into an open lot, over
grown with, burdocks and strewn with
TN! TN cans and castaway shoes. A board
posters. On the stubbly grass, amid
these sordid surroundings lay her ad.
| yertlSlng medium asleep, presumably UNI
der, the influence of liquor, and oblivious
OF his good clothes and hat
ke6ecca ron down the outer stairs, ap-
lar and shook him: You get up!' she
warned him in severe tone, "of else is
off dot bargain, and you lose your Job
Or course he lamented and promised
amendment an, a!lp She forgave him and would
Try nm onHe more ne e; And this time he
that he wore those clothes and the often
eer that he heard the populace remark
that it was a good suit for the money
the more he felt awakel within him the
aisnlty OF manhood. lie washed himself,
lrst occasionally, then daily. He had his
hair cut, cheaply but not badly: this took
| the price of a drink, SO that for three
days he abstained. Then for three more
days he satisfied his thirst with Rebec.
cas- tea, in order to have little money
''nS'!' WaHlhS through the city, pam
| oplled with the absurd placarls, he felt
! that he was rising in the world-or rather
| in that inward world where the intliyit]-
l,al most truly lives.
kcbccca began to see that he was Il
| handsome man. She was perhaps a
| what her sentiments might in time have
! become.
| But one day Mrs Robbins bringing the
usual bundle Of cotton-and-wool shirts,
said: Il guess | shan't be able to work
FOR you no more, ma'am. My husband
has been doing. He was poor drunken
creature. and I don't say but what |
turned him out of doors with the broom.
stick last winter. I haven't seen MOI
| heard OF him until day before yesterday,
When ne comes IN, easy as Puss, picks up
down III the rocking chair. l thought
myself twas considerable cool; but he
says says he: Lucinda, I have sworc
oft and been working, and here is a dol,
lar and half, and l wouldn't have come
back, only have just got a good place
as Janltor' with rooms most ways up to
heaven in the eleventh story of the build,
ing: and we will make it our home l
amt ashamed to say, ma'am, sat down
and cried. Then he told me how Il sheeny
| Woman,oh, excuse me, ma am, l mean
Jew lady-,had been real good to him and
| S1aiteu MIN so that ne would go straight.
lie is going to see her today about his
new job. to get her to let him off from the
one with her. Well, he may not be
| much of a man-but he is my man. And
l am going where he goes So I'll bid
you good day, ma'am, and-bless mel!
| , For to those women suddenly appeared
| the rx-tramp, clean and evidently on the
way to respectability-side per,
hitting.
! Mhy, Lucinda, you here?' said he. -
! When the husband and wife had gone
their way down the street and along it's
perspective toward their future, Rebecca
stood looking after them. In her heart
was curious mixture of pleasure and
pain. She did not, however, define her
| feelings, for her father came behind her.
| "Repecca! Repeccav' he said, in an ex,
cited undertone. Coon once to dot
| window and see Mr.. Mooney, who is
| shutting up his shop