The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-02-04

lock is guest OF honor: Tho fa:,or.
He heAtates:
But wherefore sheald i GO? an
not bid for love-"
Twitted ana urged By his cld servant
cides to 60. but not without strong
misEisinEx:
am ioath TO go
There 10 some Ill A-orewins 80 ny
rest"
I have often tried to picture 10 ",
mind the expression Of "sweet An.
tonio's lace and divine the WORKING
OF his immaculate mind As that night,
he faced the man he was SO grieyous
~ wrongtng!
The hour of revealing and f~esstin,
pass. The guests take merry leave.
Flushed with wine, intoxicated with
sanguine hopes RaESanio enters. with
Eratiano, his richly caparssoned Son-
s3ola and crosses the lagoon TO sue
for h Belmont estate through eth.
lady richly left"
DID Shylock shalnbles forth to hi.
home and his JAssica. No. not to
his Jess!ca- Fled Is she with Lorenzo
Gone with them the diamonds and
the meats. And all this mischief and
distress brought upon him through
the careful planning OF the gentle
Antonio. the Christian" merchant.
lin whom
The ancient Rcinan honor nl"r.
appears
Than any that draws breath IN
! Italy"
| How long must Shylock submit L.
: such indignit!es? How oft shall An
tonic sir against him, cover him with
c~ontunielJ and shame. how often sting
hirn with r~eproaches sharper than
there no limit to the Orbearan"e 81
q Jew? With him can there never
come q time when patience ceases &c
be q virtue?
Driver TO desperation ny The con
innai proGdinS and FaSpinR OF An.
tonic. is it strange hat he s~ears
vengeance upon him? When he dis
time enemy in the wrecking and
rifins Of his home. and that the han
? quiet was but another of the many
schemes OF Antonio to eonpaxs his
ruin, and when he saw the best .an-
ditioned" Antonio laughing at his
tears and rejoicing at his dis:resseo
is it such All unnatural thing that he
should afterwards insist on the letter
OF the bond? It WAS not magnani-
nous? BY whom, pray, had he been
taught the nobility OF ~lnaxnahin,ity !?
It was not humane. Who, pray. had
been his teacher in the school of hu-
manics? I forbear to discuss the
spectacle OF this old Eaan, broken in
spirit, dash1ng wildly through the
streets in the early morning hours
EaiNng out his grief amid fast -fallins:
tears; OF the army OF street urchins
I 90 owl RI Aor 49,, -.
words:
80. my daughter. Oh, ~sucats:'
Let no wrong be dome the sweet
Antonio, for he Is an honorable
~heiming that the rude and shame
less boys were melted and embollen.
ed iii their unnatural conduct by
him
in whom
The ancient l;eTran honor ,1rrs
appears
Than amy hat draws breath j.
Italy"
words:
Yet Antonio look he keen his .t-v
Or be Will pay for this"
Thrilling scenes have been enacted
within the past two months in Quick
and rapid succession. We have
watched Jezsica elope with her lover
and gilded with duczts and iewe
glide out OF sight in q gondela. The
Prince Of Morocco has coHe All.
gone. n Prince Of Arason ha,
strutted forth and back. But for day.
the noble" face OF Antonio has neI
been seen apo the street, nor hi.
voice heard upon the floor OF the FIX.
stirred as never before. Every hear
sweils with sympathy for tho "swee,
a gentle Antonio. shylo..k ha.
sounded q warning note: Let hin
: look to his bond" Friends of tn
emoarrassed merchant get busy. shy.
lock is interviewed again and again
But he only Let him Iool
|. |. 20 his bond" To S~a}artno's ones
= u1on- Why he should ins5s. on tn.
y pound OF flesh? What good co,,,t
u do him? he answers in words q,
dignihed and illuminating as ther AZ.