The Newtown bee., 1907-04-26

little fellow threw himself into utter de )ectlon, and cried as though his heart was broken. Mir Lawrence tried to comfort him. He took hfm into tn nlS arms, ana through his interpreter Goio hlm ne would be as an uncle un- to him. He carried him to his home near by and Mrs Lawrence prepared a qalnGy dinner and set 1t before him. lie then was bathed and put to bed, when after time he forgot his grief. me next morning it all seemed as a came to see bow he spent the night, ne called him uncle in his own Ian guage.
 The strangeness of foreign talk rap- 1dly passed away, for his uncle be- came a pupil of his Italian interpre- ter GnaI ne might converse with lit- tle Antonio And such fun as they two had together, as his uncle stum- Dled over the simplest words, and they misunderstood each other Antonio was sent to school and soon learned to speak English. He and his uncle be- came the closest friends, bound by two languages And when they had little secrets they wished to keep from others, they conversed in Italian.
 The years sped by and little Antonio grew up as the loved child of MT and Mrs Lawrence Never did boy have A love more his own father and mother than Antonio Lawrence, as he came tc be known, loved them Yet he never forgot that first day in Lime, and the utter desolatton that came upon him when he realized that he was abso- lutely alone in the world, He often said that that time was like the black. ness of eternal night that was falling over him, and MT Lawrence was the bright star shining as way for him ir this lonely land. Paul Kloeffer lived in a poor tene ment house oE the east side in New York City. There were forty families m the tenement, though it was 8 | building of only five stories; and his little room was on the top floor. He had come to the city only a few days before, and was rOOming with his ole | friend, Nicholas Momson. They both secured work at the factory of Joseph Doelger & Sons on East Fifty fifth street Occupying rooms adjoining theirs in the tenement was family by the name of Rodner. The flimsy par. | t1t1on Separating the rooms afforded | no barrier to confne conversation within family limits, for whatever was said in one room above an ordin- ary tone those living in the adjoining room could not help hearing. Thus it was that Kloeffer and his companion l knew of the misfortune among. the | Rodners, though they had never seer | them. MT Rodner's brother, George work and it cast gloom over the whole family. For several weeks he had tramped from morning till nigh, into all kinds of factories and places of employment, and in every place haC been told that they wanted no help He would return home at night with g heavy heart, not merely because l of ho h had no money to buy for little John the Christmas present he had prom ised, but he had a sweetheart, ano they had planned to be married a, Christmas if he should secure steady employment. On Wednesday, night there was jubilee in the Rodner's apartments, and Kloeffer could no, help hearing it and inwardly sharing in their joy.
 "Now we'll have merry Christina. for sure, cried George, as he returned at night after getting employment a the Doelger factory, land I'll get lit tie John that Teddy bear I promised him."
 It was with light heart, therefore that Rodner wentftO his work for tn, first time on Thursday. He wa strong young fellow and very willing in the labor he was called to perform In the morning the chief engineer, Al bert Jaecks, set Rodner, Paul Kloeffe | and Nicholas MOmSon cleaning ou one of the immense ammonia condens ing tanks on the ground floor of tn, establishment. It was found neces sarY to remove the large coils of pipe each one of which weighed 1900 pounds l Rodner and Kloefer were at the bot tom of the tank, which is eighteen feet high. Momson was standing on platform built over the top. The rop l with which they were hoisting one ot the coils slipped. Rodner saw tn, danger and shouted to his companion Kloeffer failed to move out of the wa, of the swayfng mass, which was threat en1ng to crush him. Rodner cOult easily have saved himself, but, withou
 thought of his own life, he rushed t, KlOefer's aid. As the coils started t, fall he grabbed his fellow-werkman b, the arm and pushed him out of thu way. It was complete sacrifice. Tn,
 heavy weight fell upon Rodner ant crushed him lifeless to the bottom O l the tank. KlOeffer escaped with a fev
 bruises, and was able to walk home. I
 took eight men to lift the coils iron the unfortunate mans body.
 Kloeffer did not know that his fel low-wOrkman, who sacrificed his lift for him, was George Rodner, who livet In the room next to his. So when h, went home that night he was Rreatl, surprised at the grief he heard iron his nearest neighbors. Sturdy five year old John cried that he would giv, all the Teddy bears in the world if i would only bring his uncle back t,