The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

a select ''tonsorial parlor' on the upper
Bowery. He was neither pleasant to
gaze upon nor agreeable to converse
with, but he was well-to-do. Because
many shrewd mother in Little Italy
had marked him for her own as Il SON
in-law. Henrico. ON the other hand, be-
ing equally shrewd, would erase the
mark, and at the age of IS still re-
manned unattached. But Henrico es-
capped the, nets Of the mothers only to
parent. Diego and Henrico became
quite friendly and the barber in time
came to pay MS respects to Lucia. But
she, disliking him from the first day re-
fused those attentions which for a time
she had willingly received from her other
avoid meeting him. Hns AN And ' when Diego 20
would t:y. to sound her about marrying
Henrico she either skillfully sidetracked
him Of else openly protested that she
would never marry Henrico, even to
save her father from the streets. Final
ly she was driven to burt out that she
was; engaged to Luigi and that She
would never listen to a proposal from
had little effect on the determined Diego
lhe man DepBevered, and on the same
day that Luigi had secretly arrived he
exacted from Henrco Capello a written
promise to marry Lucia and to lay aside
IN her name an ample dover.
10 achieve success where the craftiest
OF mothers had failed was indeed q
thing to boast of. but to gain in addition
dover from So elusive bridegroom
horderetl OH the miraculous. Diego was
, WHO with happy excitement At half.
past ne closed NJ, business. went
tied Capello off to come home to supper
with him. Ordinarily the walk to Di-
ego's tenement could not have taken
more than a dozen minutes, but today
its duration was limited only by the
failure Of every building on the way TO
once in each block. and by the time th"
health Of the bride. of all relatives on
both sides, and of the Tammany chief
tain of that ward had been drunk. BRIDE
groom and father-in-law had become
convinced that the earth was round and
not fat.
Then they started to stumble up the
long flights of dark tenement stairs. The
effort seemed irritatingly superhuman.
but was eventually successful. At the
same time, it partly aroused Diego from
his stupcr. He paused before entering
the rooms and tried to put together few
pleasant words with which to greet and
Prop 9repit at, , Lueia H. threw open .t the
torrent of curses. he staggered toward
him, lunging at him with a knife II.
his fury and abandon he tripped on the
rag carpet and fell PROSTATE. In an
instant all was confusion. Luigi, leaping
to his feet, sprang on the drunken man.
The barber, believing that discretion was
the better part of valor, rushed out upon
the fire escape and yelled for the police.
The BARRIERS cries quickly sobered up
everyone connected with the fray. Their
only thoughts now were to escape, the
police. They were too late.
Diego and Luigi spent sleepless night
in adjoining cells. The next morning
they were released with fine that Lucia
succeeded in paying. The barber had de-
serted Diego at this crisis, but the cir
cEmStance was not necessary to make
the old man see the error Of his WAYS.
He had plenty of time the night before
to think. Luigi then was in a position to
state his side of the case fearlessly and
,forcibly. and when he told Diego that
he had saved IN several hundred dollars
he made, perhaps, his strongest point.
For what Diego wanted had not been the
barber so much as his money.
And concerning the fact that Luigi was
a Pa!ermO-well. man who was perse-
vering enough to wait FIVE years for his
bride and cross the seas for her GER
| tainly deserved to win her. This feeling
it was that possessed the old man as, ac-
compan:ed by the two young lovers. he
left the gloomy courtroom for the sun
shine of the street.-Clinton Plat in New
York Commercial Advertiser.