The sea coast echo., 1906-06-23
THE OLD ALAMO.

utmost efforts and careful economy. he
grew rich but slowly. Twice year he
wrote to Nina, bidding her wait. He
had at length secured a bootblack
stand of his own, and was free man.
But Nina, in far-away Genoa, had
no desire to wait. She had already
waited too long, by her own calcula-
ton, and wanted to come to America
and we'd her Angelina. She wrote to
Philadelphia, as the name is spelled in
Genoa, and told Angelina that life was
short, and that it was wise to make
the most of it while it lasted. There
is no real way to lengthen 1t out,
though Nina didn't say so in those
words; probably that is how she left.
At all events, Nina, who had become a
lady's maid in Genoa, eventually had
the opportunity to come to America
with her patroness; and so she came.
Angelina hadn't expected her, and
when she arrived he had $40 in the
savings bank, where the vaults are
Just bursting with money. OFTEN
when he went to deposit his dollar or
two, Angelina looked long1ngl. at the
vaults, and wondered why he. too,
could not be an American mllhonalre
and earn 81 or So a week, every week,
and live in a large house and have
just what he wanted to eat. Then he
thought of Nina, and became patient
and went back to work. And so when
Nina arrived he had $40; and more
over, he had learned that in America
that is not much money.
However, he was oVerJoyed to see
Nina again, and she was radiant when
she saw him. She remained in her
place of employment, while Angelina
was to save up his earnings. When
the latter should have grown to SloO
it was determined they should n arr
not before. She, too, saved her
wages. and Angelina blacked boots and
dreamt of the S100 still far away. One
day a big, red-faced American, who
boarded in the hotel at the corner, sat
down in Angelino's chair to have his
boots BACKED, and read the paper
while Angelir worked. All at once
the big, fat American began to laugh
and then roar Angelina looked up in
surprise and gazed at him.
THAT beats ALL" said the American
aloud "Binnick going to mary. Ha,
| ha. He's old enough to eat hay"
Angelina being interested in anything
| that related to marriage, asked ia his
| broken way what was the cause of
| the merriment. The customer pointed
| to the list of marriage licenses in the
| paper and said:
| "See that-that's Binnick-old Bin
nick, that keeps the paint store. Ard
he's going to get married. You know
| old Binnick?"
Angelina knew old Binnick. He got
a hundred dollars?" he aske1.
| "a hundred dollars. Why, he's got
a barrel of money! barrel"
"How you know he get married
ah?" asked Angelina.
| And then the man whose boots were
| blacked explained that old Binnick's
name was on the list of marriage
| licenses issued at the City Hall.
"Then he get married" said Angel
| ino.
| Angelina asked no more. Here was
a fresh complication. What if his
| name were to appear in the paper be-
| fore he had 500? The thought caused
| him anxiety. Nevertheless he knew
| the Government was omnipotent. and
| that if it ordered him to marry, marry
| he must, money or no money.
| So Angelina worked on and worried
not a little over the possibility of his
name appearing in the list OF those
doomed to marry whether they had
| money or not. On Sunday he visited
Nina. who noticed his abstraction and
asked the reason. Angelina would