Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-06-21

by all the holy .prophets," she speered,
Us have setI Is or H heard aBSo 5Tn; sInee h Raeh Si
died. Too hne a lady, was Rachel. and her
T Sa2y z isf nSw. he Tt!s i hsr b faiSsF doR Sret on
he seventh street pavement. burned out
taiSe 'I tGaft 's AMI Fl u.s. qs:;orlnise =" it, me own ghi flss;;h en-
She don't even know his ~gawn6SokinE shop
his money,boN by empty.ns the pockets OF
\ movement in the surging human mass
that stretched across the street bore the
old. woman with Il, her hooking laugh
st F!y son minatss O from n%nf H.: time he left them
on the pavement, the old Jew was stag
Eserins ggt aFaiR from he mids, Of bl n5i
bleeding, tho. wooden box clasped safely In
his arms, H made his way TO where
Adams feet. Then, worn and exhausted
though he was, he reached gu, his arms for
She stretched forth her hends-,he H,tle,
white hands which, through, her fathers
love had been folded allher iLfe in luYuryi11
them against his breast, and pushed him
from her with AL her feeble s'remgth'
over! i hate YOU, ! hate ami desplse you'
An my NJ, you have Ned to me You hay
have die, back there in the IRE Than know
what / know to-day. ,Ann aHhin she
breast was light. The thrust OF her words
| upon his heart was ~avyIhea ne
| where. with a fearful crash. there fell az
the same Instant the doorposts and Intel
and ihoaraed for The sake OF his little lass.
".
It was many weeks later, when; ont Of
came back once more to life and reason;
He was lying. on a snowy cot IN q ward
REr GAlGAFh aFf4ruAnn Tho long room
Mas s5oiYI and dim and quiet. Outside, in
the corridor, some young girls from a DOWN N;G
they came up to the hospital TO sing in
am sTe aching HEAD was s66othed, and many a
young voices noated in with the sweet old
The jew lay still and listened. They wero
singing, somsthing with the refrain;
As. he listened IT al came back TO him;
all tho memory OF his lifetime. lie could
he hed toiled for Rachel's child. He re.
he MoaGSre d a RSisfig Who %fSaW Vas 81 ke naHRiHf tha
wooden box where ths price OF the happi,,
his Adah out on Seventh street. And. then,
he felt again the thrust Of Two light bands
words against his heart,
The doctors, making their afternoon
rational. They spoke CHEEKY words Of en-
couragernent and left him for the nurses.
He lay quite sim and patient, He asked
hose i've White hands, Me did not know
broking shop had nearly crushed out his
life, he did no, know; he had lain many
RRiisa' w Mo III Sish, siffs was p - ana
hssaire the to- fhhlm "a hps 's would Ff never Z walk Mss ss ANY
He did not know that while he. had been
n ,bs sEitISHi o or TdSiHf he n haT Y' area SsliT'q s6r
that tended BY her faithful Jewish nurse.
pltal, his Adah was fast learning TO walk.
iPgs worth know!ng, about could follow the
The singing in the corridor had ceased,
He lay quite still and watched the glints
Of September, sunltght as they glanced
Something brighter than the sun-glints
was coming INTO the room. Something
his bedside. a low wheeled chair, rolled
by a Jewish woman, a fair, young girl
VII! 4he Sui Sns iSfs bs arms rs and In vP PIsaS linn face ace,
she fell, upon his neck and wept there a
long while, Then she raised her tear
stained face only to lay 1t close beside
"My fathsrl my ,fathsr," she sobbed.
used TO know you in those other days.
I know you now. and I love you. See,
fatherl | can really walk. ! am growing
stronger every day. and 1t is my turn now
to TAX care OF you all your life."
The white hands that had thrust him
away from her were reached out to him
pleadingly. HI took them In his own and
kissed them. then laid them. as balm. on
his sore heart.
Many more weeks followed before the
doctors pronounced old Levi as well as