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with a sickly cry which ended in a
suffocating cough. The grizzled
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old
man bestirred himself, and with
Mrs. Jaffa of Trinidad, Colo.,
hasty
steps he tiptoed to the place
who has been the guest of her
where
the boy lay. For a time he
daughter, \lax Nlay, has re-
stood gazing on the pinched fea-
turned home.
tures, the undersized body of the
Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Cleve- lad ; then he raised one hand, passed
land spent a few hours in the city it lightly over the boy's hair, strok-
on Sunday, en route to Ann Arbor ing his cheeks and chin. The boy
opened his eyes, looked for a mo-
where he went to address the Jew-
ment at the shriveled form bending
ish Student Congregation of the U.
over
him, then he petulantly closed
of NI. While in Detroit he was
the guest of Rabbi and NI rs. them again.
You hate to look at grandpa, he
Franklin.
is your enemy, eh?" The aged
Rabbi Leo A1. Franklin ad- man's voice shook, and sounding
dressed the Business \1 en's Club like that of the child awaking in
of the First Congregational church the night. The boy made no an-
on Sunday last, his topic being swer ; but the old man noticed how
"Prejudice : Its Causes and Its the frail body shook, how the tears
rolled, washing the sunken cheeks.
Cure."
For some moments he stood
Mr Harry I. Garson, chairman mute, then his form literally shrank
of the committee arranging the (le- to that of a child's as he bent over
tails for a dance to be given under the ear of the boy and whispered
the auspices of the Detroit Screen hoarsely : "You are weeping, eh?
Club at Arcadia, Nlay 15, has just (;randpa is your enemy, you stupid!
returned from New York where
Tomorrow I will give you the
he obtained the promise of the fol- money for the college. You hate
lowing stars ty attend the dance: to look at grandpa ; he is your en-
Clara Kimball Young, Valli Valli,
enemy, eh?"
Carlyle Blackwell, and others
equally notable.
"l'otash and Perlmutter" has
been produced with success in
ZELIG
Paris. The leading characters are
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made Alsatians.
111C111 with Wild eyes. "\luch you
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need it, you stupid," he thundered
at the youngster in unrestrained
fury. "You will continue your
studies in Russia, durak, stupid."
His timid wife, however, seemed
suddenly to gather courage and she
exploded : "Yes, you should give
your savings for the child's educa-
tion here. Woe is me, in the Rus-
sian universities no Jewish children
are taken."
Old Zelig's face grew purple.
He rose, and abruptly seated him-
self again. Then lie rushed madly,
with a raised, menacing arm, at the
boy in whom he saw the formidable
foe—the foe Ile had so long been
dreading.
But the old woman was quick to
interpose with a piercing shriek :
"You madman, look at the sick
child ; you forget from what our
son died, going out like a flicking
candle."
That night Zelig tossed feverish-
ly on his bed. For the first time, it
dawned upon him what his wife
Meant by pointing to the sickly ap-
pearance of the child. When the
boy's father died, the physician de-
cleared that the cause was tubercu-
losis.
He rose to his feet. Beads of
cold sweat glistened on his fore-
head, trickled down his cheeks, his
beard. lie stood pale and panting.
Like a startling sound, the thought
entered his mind — the boy, what
should be done with the boy?
The dim, blue night gleamed in
through the windows. All was
shrouded in the city silence, which
yet has a peculiar, monotonous ring
in it. Somewhere an infant awoke
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District Attorney Swann of N. Y.
city issued the following notice:
"Tuesday and Wednesday, April 18
and 19, is the Jewish Passover.
The assistant District Attorneys
are requested to try no Jewish , de-
fendants on those days, or any
cases in which there are Jewish wit-
nesses."
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