Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-11

it moment deliberate mounting.
THE old lady's got beautiful jag on"
said one OF the men.
Come" said the other, SAY what you
want or get out"
These gentlemen had a professional
gravity at command, but In the leisure
intervals OF n firmly established business
which was above petty bustings they
were cheerfully engaged In tracing a
recent bicycle run on the backs of some
old orders, and they resented Interrupt
ton
I'm afther a tomb" said Ann.
"Well. ! guess you're in the wrop shop
old woman"
Sure, they tould me this was the
foinest place in all New Yark."
what kind of sarcophagus do you
want aunty?'
Have done wild yer foolin'; it's an
ixpinsive wan oil want"
shes crazy-poor old coot."
yes? and how much DO you want to
lay out on it-mother-ehY'
ITS $1,000 OF want TO ixpind on II, DO
yees mind?-an' not wan clint less
The men laughed. Ann advanced INTO
the room and struck the desk with her
fist
"Ofve the peppers to prove IT, she
roared. and she began TO burrow in her
bosom for documents.
About two weeks later Giuseppe Benoni.
the Italian sculptor. received an order
from a New York house for TOMB
There Was certain stipulation as 10 the
price-the design was LETT TO the youhb
sculptor's own fancy. Giuseppe wandered
nv his beloved Arno and sought inspira-
ton from her yineclad hills. IT was MS
first good order from New York, although
his reputation was beginning 70 spread
He meant 10 send them something worth
the Journey. In the spring, when 10
shirped his work. he had grown 10 love
il. and he parted from it with a sense
Of loss in his triumph. 1t was very lovely.
The monument was placed abOye-let
us not say the ashes-the remains OF
Dennis Moynihan. i'm one OF the Gene
terles Of Greater New York. y sensa-
ticnal daily "scooped" the whole story
and did il I'D exhaustively with illustra-
lions. Ann was interviewed and became
a celebrity 1t was all put down in print
ing. how the apparently poverty stricken
sauatter had been "A miser for his son
sake-bow, in spite Of death. she had
heaped her all upon the beloved child. and
had returned to her shanty and her co.'s.
There was very good picture OF the COW.
Ann went down TO a newsstand on q
neighbor>g corner and bought supply
of this ford article. Of which she was
the heroine Then she borrowed a postal
card Of Mrs Mandelbaum and sent for
Kitty Mccarthy to come 10 see her
1t happened that the McCarthys, not be
ing much given TO literature had seen
nothing Of the famous article.
Hold yer hand. Kitty Mccarthy SAID
Ann. I've fixed up Dinnis's tomb an Oil
he xffhn a
10 go an see 1t. It's tin cints there an
tin cints back; for we get wan thransfer'
do We mind" She laid two dimes on KIT
ties palm "That'lI take yer mother.
She paid out two more. That's fer Nike
yer father 1.-TWO more) There's Ter
Dan. there's fer Terrence; there's Ter
yeself. Kitty Mccarthy, there's fer Nora,
there's fer Merry Ann. It's no use paylh
fer the twins. Sure yees can take them
on yer laps on account aV the small size
av thin: but, there's the fare FER Bridget
Docherty-seein We trait her ike wan aN
the family An here's the peppers. rake
thin wild We. an doan't be losln thim-
THEY'LL be tellin' ye all about 1t.
The tomb was quite an object or Pill
grimage. being jauntily accessible by
trolley. and Benoni's work was noticed
even by the graver journals as worthy
of visitation. The sculptor had hewn
from a pure block of Carara marble
very beautiful angel of the resurrection.
The strong young figure springing from
n vague design of clouds seemed TO give
itself with a free upward leap OF every
line to infinity. and to spend its life IN
the one utterance that was carved as
nearly as sound can be carved from the
long trump pressed upon its lifted lips.
The message was the fuller to the heart
from its silence on the human ear; one
felt that it was a harmony too great ana
rounded for the narrow sense oil man.
like the supermortal music OF the spheres
But to the intelligence of the McCarthys
when they saw ii it blew a familiar pipe
in very human key:
aha! and did wees get left or didn't
wees. me darlins?' it seemed TO them TO
be footing "And amt this an Elegant
tnnh intoirelY-an Dennis in IT,