Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-18

not wait for dinner. but haiIina le did
set out on another journey 70 cab.
alley. 70 Rose
He stumbled hastily IN tbo
staircase to Romans door ana eloony
lightly. II vas opened bv a., raped
foreign woman, doubtless a na aAeinDt
and he entered. Save for b ar
kitchen was empty. But bv M Tie
OF smoky lamp that stood - AsG
table near an inner door he ne
group dimly outlined. On 90"
bed lay huge dropsical f,g7,.. a4ToW
ing to Mark already dead. The M Eesn-
more faded than ever, sat AZ th loa
Ing mans side, motionless as ~ w
gaze fixed rigidly upon him AeF
Thank you for coming" Kazi, 49,,
I'm glad you sent for me. Il th.N u
anything l can do?" 'Hefs
Yes, get Piotr. He went awav e,,,
this morning and doesn't know
was very sudden. You'll probablv a.,
him at" She named a corner a rai,4
or more distant. HE makes sneoo rs.0
there every evening"
The cab came to a halt A.
where many people passed. A smau
changing crowd had gathered aroma
man who from his soap box no
rangued them. He preached a gosnol
that, beginning with germ Of 1--we
had grown in him into a creed of hoto
1t was rambling incoherent b.
rangue, full of bitter denunciation ana
vague generalities that never cana 70
a point-the grotesque but pitifuI ont.
pouring of feeble mind obsessed NV
a sense of injury real or fancIed and
cracking under the effort to inocuIato
others with its venom. Mark nstene5
a moment.
The man must be mad" he thought
pitifulIy.
Plotr in his ramblings came to the
late strike. He began a roll call ~
the masters of the Quinby Germany.
Quinby himself, Henley, Higsbes
Hare
And TruittI" The hoarse voice hA
came, il that were possible, even mora
bitter. He fairly writhed as he shrieked
out his charges. "Truitt the wife
beaterl The rounder! With bia
women" For several minutes bs
raved on. RECALLING his audience with
an array of disgusting but apocryphaI
details of Truths life that to his dis.
eased fancy must have become proved
facts.
go tell him to come here" Marx
ordered the cabman. Tell him his
father is dying"
"Aw, hell" growled a big Irishman
In the crowd, audible even to the cab.
shut upl Truths tn only wan av tn
lot wild BOWLS t. him."
"Fool-fooli" Piotr shook clenched
fists at the Irishman. Are you taken
in because he tried to stop the strike!
Who was he working for then, you or
Quinby? Where was he when Hen.
ley's strike breakers came to steal
your jobs and shoot down your women9
Where was his money when your
children were starving for bread'
Where"
But the cabman had reached him
with Marks message. For a moment
Piotr stared stupidity, trying to tss
in its meaning. Then he uttereds
wild piercing cry.
"Dyingi" He leaned toward tho
crowd. hands and face twitching in bis
frenzy My fathers dying, but be
can wait while / tell you about this
Truitt. When he was starting out
he came to our house, because my
father took pity on him. My father
loved him, better than he did his own
so2- He watched over him, cared for
him. taught him all he knew Of bis
trade. Then the old man broke. He
wouldn't have been old anywhere else,
but he had burned himself up trying
to make Quinby's furnace hells pay.
They threw him out, of course-and
Truitt took his job. Earthquakes
of Quinbyl The old mans heart broke.
Then his mind gave way. And now
he's dying-do you know where? In
Rose alley!"
The crowd had become very still
To them, too, the tragedy that tor
tured the mailman was clear; infinite
repetition could not take away its Dit
terness.
And that isn't ALL" The emotional
delirium reached its climax. In tha'
house was a girl-just an ignorant
Hunky girl but the kind men love. Anu
Truitt made love to her. But when ne
left us, he left her, too-anotner
broken heart! To forget him she mar
ried a worthless rummy she had 10
leave. Then she went out into the
city to make her own liying-you
know the fight and the price women
must pay or go down. And she-ln0
girl he wouldn't take up with him
she paid"
BewiI6erment choked back inc
stream of words. For a man-whoSe
paIlor was not due to the garlsn ai0
lamp-had leaped from the CAP anu
was elbowing way swiftly to"aiu
r,l,. o--,r-I eon hocl tn let lno