The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-13


tine" whenever Bertha, rosy waitress
I'm the little German restaurant, showed
her face at the door, For month IL
had been a,eourtship; and the merchant
sang ofteni
"Ahaha du libra Ogostine,
Ogostine, Ogostinel
Ahaha, du libra OgOstine,
Nees coma ross"
The acquaintance. begun by the song
and PietrO's wonderful laugh. had
grown tender. The chestnut vender had
n way with him; he looked like the
"Neopolitan Fisher Lad" of the chro-
mos, and you could have fancied him
OF two centuries ago, putting a rose
In his hai>S even as it was. he had the
earrings. But the smile of him it was
that won Bertha. when she came to
work in the little restaurant. 1t was
a smile that puG the world at its ease:
It proclaimed the coming Of morning
lover the, meadows. and taking every
ibystander flito an Ap-iI friendship, ran
on suddenly into laugh that was like
isilVer and like strange puppy's claim
ling you for the lost master
So 1t befell that Bertha was fascinat-
ed; that, biushinEs she laughed back ITO
him, and was nothing offended when
at his first sight Of her. he rfppled out
lat once into "Ahaha, du libra Ogostine."
Within two weeks he was closing his
business ono intricate matteT) every
evening to walk home with her. through
the September moonlight. Then ex-
traordinary things happened to the En-
glish language.
she often joked back 70 a question OF
his. Meier, nefer! You think I'm ia
Toby"
whereupon he would carol out the
tender taunt, "Ahaha. du libra Ogos-
ltine!"
''Yoost a hant-orkan mani"
NO! NO! No organ! 1 am greata-
igreata merchant Vote a Republican!
Polititshiani TobigiI Chititzen Re
publican. Naturalasize, March in a
parader" So
Never lived native American prouder
of his citizenship than this adopted one.
Had he not voted at the election Was
he not member of the great Repub-
1iCan party2 He had eagerly Joined it,
for the reason that he had been a Re
publican in Italy, and he had drawn
with him to the polls his second cousin.
Leo Vesschi and the five other Italians
with whom he lived. For this ne had
been rewarded by PiXley, his precinct
committeeman, who allowed him to car
~ pink torches I'm three night process
sions.
You keeb oud POLITICS" said Bertha,
earnestly. one evening. MY uncle,
Louie Gratz. he iss got a neighbOr-lady:
her man gone in POLITICS. Aftervorts he
git il! he ISIS I'm der bennidenshierry
Two years. You know why2"
Democrat" shouted the chestnut
Nender triumphant1y.
NO, sir, Yoost POLITICS" replied the
bipartisan Bertha "Yo6 keeb oud pol
itigs.'
LIBRA Ogostine. she afraid I go peni-
tensh?" he inquired.
Me-" she jeered with uneasy laugh
ter. I ain'd care; but yOu-yOu don
look oud, YOU git in dod volkhoUse"
He turned upon her, suddenly. Il face
like mothers. and touched her hand
with a light careSS.
/ II stay in a workhOuse seyena- hun
SSer year. he said gently, you come
Eeeta by window Spne-a- time"
\ At this Bertha turned away WAS ST
lent for a space leaning on the gate
post in front of her uncle's r house,
-whithC they were now come. Finally
she answered brokenly: Il ain'd sit by
no N5n6cr for yoost a jessnut maan."
Th,~ - her way of stimulating his
ambition.
-'AhInat' he or ed--.You don't know ?
m goin' buy beeg stanl Candy Pea
nut! Banan', Make sone-a-tfme four
dollars day. IT'S a greata countra,
Bimaby git a store, Ride buggy,
Smoke a cigar, You play plano! Vote
a Republican,"
Toby"
you voik hart. und safe your money -
You help2" he Whispered
I help-YOU-" she cried loudly.
e. she
flung open the gate and ran at the top
of her speed into the house
HalcyOn the days for Pietfo Tobigli.
eXtravagant the POPULARITY Of this be-
frothed one. And, as his happiness, so
did his PROSPERITY increa Sc. the little
chestnut furnace sbecBme the smallest
adjunct Of his affairs; for he leaped (al-
most at one bouffd) to the proprietor
ship of a woodencstand. shaped like the
crate of an upright piano and backed
a fr1cf hn hr-r OIL
taurant-a mercantile house which was
closed at night by putting the lid on.
All day long TOby's smile arrested
pedestrians, and compelled them to buy
of him, making his wares SWeeter in the
mouth. Bertha dwelt in perpetual
serenade; on warm days when the res
taurant doors were open. she could hear
him singing. not always "DgOstine,'
but festal Tits Of Italy, liquid and
strangely sweet to her; and at such
times, when the actual voice was not
in her cars, still she blushed with de
light TO hear in her heart the thrilling
echoes Of his barcarOlles. ana found
them humming cheerily upon her own
lips.
Toby was to save $500 before they
married. a great sum, but thew were
patient, and both worked very hard.
She saved her own money with Ger
man persistence. and on Christmas day
her present to her betrothed, i'm return
for a coral pin. was a pair of rubber
boots filed with little cakes.
Elysium was the dwelling place of
Pietro Tobigli. though, apparently, he
abode IN a horrible slum cellar with
Leo Vesschi and the FIVE Latti brothers.
in this place our purVeyor of sweet
meats was the only light. Thither ne
had carried his songs and his laugh ana
his furnace when he came from Italy
TO join Nesschi; and there he remained,
partly out of loyalty to his unprosper-
Gus comrades and partly because his
share of the expenses was only % cents
n week, and every saving was a saw
ing for Rerfha Every eNening on the