The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-02

Wkis Is the Time When the Organ GFinder and His Comrade Gnribaidi Should Be on Their Way South Husiness in the City Made Poor by
 Compstition.
 | Lugi is in town later than usual. Or ||N N7inarily October finds him in the sun \ ny South, but this year he is shvering S& Through New York November. It's on accounta da monk" he eX- X piained to a friend who met him on X Mulberry street and was surprised to < 6ee him.
 The monkey is ill, grievously ill. \ Luigi'S eyes filled with tears as he told X about it and reproduced in pantomime x %1&le friends cough and chills and gener- ~ %nIimisery.
 .R luesto povero Garibaldi." he sighed { noErowfully.
 The New York climate is to blame 880rx the trouble. The words in which xSEutgi expresses his opinion of New M X0Ek weather would do for a glossary E40 DAnte's "Inferno."
 S1s There was a cold snap early, much too z M. Garibaldi escaped to the roof, 'ay 3&$re he had acquaintance with four N TT S4Qns belonging to the little boy of < &[24 apple woman. The cold affected his E RSl56ks What matter that, later, it was
 9EYn, and that the days have been 2E3&&r? The mischief was done. An &C., AGS7rned climate where the cold comes in Sflle night, without warning, much too v Over drink, over several drinks, %T11igi went on with his lament. He likes Y Afll6 wine, yes, but in this climate of the 46eVi, 1t is the whiskey that warns. &fA&y # Garibaldi could but be induced like whiskey!
 X s The monkey has had tender care He as his own, but he does not get well. HI he were in the South, it would re- Slieve this misery of the chest, but in go- HIT South he would die.
 s IT one could take him on the train, |&4 TT. that would do; but it is not so that 2Ea0ief and his friend go South. They Igkf3lveI slowly, on foot, and 1t is Gari- ebxfdf who pays the travelling expenses. $S He Is popular, that monkey. Luigi xx xSYSao, with pride. Everywhere are his t&r1efids. He is remembered from year \ year.
 |$ Other hand-organ men and monkeys 2}tt HDuthward in the autumn. The geoS1 1therly road is dotted with the stroll sj5fs and the New York music hall melo- lxs echo in every sleepy Southern
 E6wn and along every green-fringed
 86d of summerland. But no surfeit of 1l0Gkey and melody can affect Gari- < s65tdiss welcome.
 Where is another monkey with such !&n &ir, with such an intelligence,
 a0nkeY who can smoke a pipe so en- Sfastically, who can dance a jig so fSiy, who can open pocketbook, take 596 Sf t1ie monkey, close the purse and Iarid 1t back to the owner, who can kiss M l4dy,B hand, shake hands with a man
 3f chuck baby under the chin with
 0Q6l good will?
 @ HE would woo cents out of cigar S1tore Indian, would Garibaldi. At least, Sfli8t is the reputation his friend gives ' There are sentimental people who 8hIik the hand organ monkeys are s&bu6ed, are afraid of their masters, are beaten, starved. It may be T '{k Luigi admits with shrug that zl&rs are hand-organ men who "hava
 g1a mad" and who are not fit to asso- |E3kke with monkeys, but as for Garibal v that's a different matter.
 They are comrades, monkey and man, |62lloW vagabonds, sharing alike. If sthey have a meal, bene, they enjoy it. HI they have 8 bed, bene, they sleep in 4ts but if they dine on south wind and |l0&fke at the Inn of the Beautiful Star, NR4ll, Tomorrow is another day. There is room for Garibaldi under his masters 'G0at, and there will be children and E0tlts somewhere. ]& There was time when the comrades Tried to make a living in New York but they don't like to talk about it. The very smell of Gotham depresses Gari- 6a1drs spirits, and Luigi comes here 6nly to get fresh start and drop a little. money in the savings bank.
 They do not start out with money never. It goes to the bank. That is for the illness, for the old age. Perhaps it IS for old age in Italy; who knows? s The strollers start out empty handed. The trip must pay for itself from day to day. Whatever surplus there may be | fs0es into the money belt around Luigis | 7W6lSL.s IL ne CGIllS are lldEu lO carry, UuL III the towns one can change them to | notes and gold.
 |S Even in the country towns returns areF hot what they used to be. The busi- | ness IS overcrowded. Two dollars day | 1s a fair income. It is only through a Henius like Garibaldi that each such yeceipts are possible now. Of course there are days when the heavens rains cents. There are, God be thanked, village fairs and festivals. The Scbool children still have holidays. The | Lord still sends the occasional munif- cent stranger who throws away silver with princely prodigality. But, on the whole, business is poor.
 If Garibald ldi should not recover, Luigi | will withdraw his allegiance from whichever muse has particular charge of hand organ music and will buy a fruit stand. Without Garibaldi he would be lost.
 The old hand-organ that goes with him on his travels plays only nine tunes It Is old fashioned, elementary. It could never compete with the gorgeous orchestras on wheels that are the up- to-date street organs.
 It was however a most excellent hand organ in it's time-none better. Luigi paid $5 for it and never regretted
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