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"What, in our village?" echoed
Yankel, disdainfully. 'What is the
good of them? They are all deaf or
By SAMUEL GORDON.
blind, and besides, they each have
at least fifty grandchildren already.
."Dead?" What's that?"
,lrandmother stood at the window,
give ! We must go to a big town, where
"It means that she can not
there are plenty to choose from." :
"ding a boy's coat. The coat
:
Yenta looked thoughtful. "Isn't It
be called a thing of us any more dinners or go begging.
cad hardy
be ally; there was so much patch- for bread and money," replied 1 an- funny that we were born without a
k in . hat you could not dm- kel
lfaastther and mother?" she asked at
r
noguish the original material, though
And then he sat down and fell into
"Oh, that's nothing," replied Yan-
pa looked with two pairs of spec. a reverie. Ile had never much loved
, The room in which grana- this grandmother of his. She had kel, with a great show of world-wis-
os
ts
given
him
too
little
food,
and
had
dom.
"There are plenty of children
anther stood will of a piece with the
nnent; it was also made of rags, made him say too many prayers. All like that; but they had no grand-
p
either. We did, you see, and
rags for the. walls and flooring, day long it went. "Yankel, have you mother.
loam
straw
and shingle rags for the roof s aid grace after your meal, have you therefore we can go to the people
Gradmother's arms felt very tired; said the afternoon service? Yes? I and say: 'Give us a new grand-
Reductions
she hadbeen holding them tin for don't believe you—say it at once— mother.' "
"If we want , - . might as well look
an hour before she had succeed- a little louder, I can not hear you—
an
0 it is the beginning of the month to- for something better than a grand-
Yankel
nor Yenta
e I in threading
her needl
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day b e, careful to insert, 'May our mother," said Yenta, taken with a
iurse, at home to perform that office
Or, again, it new - ea.
ere
remem b ranee rise.' "
"What's that?" inquired Yankel.
, r her; they never were when she would be, "Today is Mondays and
"A father!" replied Yenta triumph-
anted them, and always when she Thursda ys,". --though, of course, it
(mite sure of produc-
one or the other, "don't antly; she Was
did not- especially when they came could or ly
stomachs, and found forget t o say in full, "And Ile, being ing an effect on her audience. "Don't
back with ...aPtY
Sometimes he' had come you know, Yankel, that all the fath-
mptiness had become ex- mereifu I.' " ong,
healthy
that the e
village are strong,
ended to the larder. Then Yenta home f rom the Talmud-school faint- ens in our
h-
can work very hard, witd-
the had men, who
would cry, and Yankel would slink ing an, famishing, and there
thing to eat, and all the an- out wheezing and groaning as gran
into the nearest field and steal for been n
. had received to his threats mother did When she had to do a
!himself a turnip. That was the man- swer he
breaking the furniture and little washing? And therefore they
nee of life they led, the three of about the house down was usually: earn a lot of money, and their chil-
not
a
pleasant
one.
pulling
Was
go about with their crop
they, and it
quietly and rend a few dean always
Grandmother thought so just now; "Sit do wn
that will mean another slice full. Don't you think it would be
he thought so at least three times psalms athan for you when you come better to ask for a father?"
the day, at the hours which prop- of Levi
"To be sure," cried Yankel, heart-
,
in
rly constituted households set aside to Gar den
now Eden."
he was safe against these ily, almost forgetting the deceit he
or meals. And so it had been ever
was practicing on her in the sincerity
And now
ince her daughter and her daughter's admoni tions; the old woman over of his approval. "Come, let on start
iusband hail been carried off by the there would never speak another at once; it is only two thousand miles
tread plague, which had made that word. A sense of ease and liberty or so to the next town, and we can
art of the land a great charnel- came o ver him—he felt so free and walk that in a few hours. We should
louse five years ago; and Yanked and in de pe ndent. Now he need not say get there just in time for supper.
erty were the any pr ayers unless he wanted to and
"D o you know the way, Yankel?"
Venn i and their had
Of course I do—straight along the
povleft.
that w as quite a different thing to
icily legacy they
It was Yankel's coat she was at saying them under compulsion. Now forest," replied Yankel, with great
work on. She was calculating; in he wo old sleep as long as he liked, assurance, "and now let us see what
four years he would be a Son of the and w ould not be aroused by the we can take with us on the road."
Commandments, and would be able hatefu I cry: "Yankel, Yanked, do Ile rummaged in the cupboard and
to earn a few kopecks by helping you w ish to say the 'Hear, 0 Israel' found a chunk of black bread, and
Mordecai, the peddler, carry his after t he permitted time?" Ile could a piece of curd cheese that felt like
packages through the neighboring not ha ve desired anything better, and a chip of white brick. Then they
I felt inclined to jump three stepped into the open. When they
v illages; and Yenta would be 12, and Yanke Ito the air with delight—and had gone a few paces, Yenta stopped
could go into service, if only to black feet i
hoots and polish the knives. That jump he did with a sudden thought and said: "Wait a minute; I have for-
would be glorious—money coming in w hich had pricked him that instant. gotten something."
She ran back into the house, kissed
from all sides, at least 90 kopecks
Now t hat his grandmother was dead
week, and then Granny herself could he wo old have to say the Kaddish, the white face on the pallet, and put
live at home in luxury, instead of the M i.urner's Sanctification, for her the large prayer-book into the stiff
a whole year less a month. hands. She had been afraid to do so
having to scavenge the little tow
donne,
was terrible—it meant getting while Yankel was there; he would
for odds and ends of victuals, i
That
n
scorching heat and drenching rain. up SOO after daybreak, going to the have laughed at her. And then, with-
out another look, she hurried out to
b
to
It would p be aradise
rest er hrit-
Synag ogue twice, and sometimes
catch up with her brother, who had
trudging d own
tle limbs, ins tead of
three times a day, and sitting through
hole weariness of the services. been walking on sturdily. The sun-
d ing out-
tan
s
and
u
e
og
to the Synag
the. w
new
how
it
would
be.
In
the
shine
cast a golden haze over copse
tled
and
hus
side to wa fo r her do le ,
ile k
rough-shouldered by the other beg- morni ng, just as he was turning over and hedge.; the birds were chattering
other
side,
the
Belfer,
the
con-
and
talking
scandal on the trees; and
gars. She would be able to hold her on the
tional factotum, would come people remarked how beautifully they
bead high, on a level with other
gne'ga all through the window: "Yan- were singing; the butterflies were
grandmothers whom God had given and c
sons and daughters to keep from kel, i U is time; come to prayer if turning somersaults in the air for
want your grandmother tee lie sheer delight. Everywhere there was
them the shame of charity bread. y
t in her grave." And perhaps gladness and life—everywhere save
Patience, patience; she had waited
ou re, now might be piled outside as in the little loam but which the two
for a little happiness so long---hun- at
dreds of years, perhaps—and now the' s as the lattice. And in the af- children had just left behind, and
on again, just as he was in the that contained something holier and
she had only four more to walk—a high
term, heat of his games with the godlier, for it was full of the angel
mere flea-bite of time, as one would v ery
boys, some officious house-mss- of peace, who heals long-aching
say, and she was quite young yet,
going along to the Synagogue to wounds and makes a truce between
only 80, and down in the village she other
the
quorum of Ten, would seize the angels of life and suffering.
knew three women who had been ter,
ake
grandmothers when she was yet a mun
by the nape o f his neck and drag Yankel and Yenta had been walk-
h
along, exactly as had been the ing a whole hour, and the fatigue of
gi r .
Once more she took up Yankel's him with Lemmel Twitehka when he the journey lay upon them heavily,
coat and looked to find a proper join- case his father. And Lemmel had and just then they reached the out-
Mg for the new patch. 11m! she must lost ded to Yankel that his sufferings skirts of the forest, where the sun-
tht year had been terrible, glinppled
over the leaves, and
ri
hold it a little higher to the light— confi
a
nothing short of a miracle matee ach one of them a smile of
it suddenly had got very dark— duriiig
t WRS
higher still—why, this was a curious and i he had not followed his father welcoe.
.w cool it is here," said Yankel,
thing; the higher she lifted it the less that e course of it.
she could see—great shadows were in th whether his grandmother was at flinging himself down on the fresh
or
not?
On
the
contrary,
to
!moo,:
"We may as well rest a little
floating down from the ceiling across care
her eyes, across the sun, across every- rest for her would be doing her an and have our dinner."
Yenta readily fell in with the pro-
thing—surely it was not night? It pray tice. She had done enough pray-
could hardly be more than two hours injus and sanctifying during her life- posal, and seated herself beside him;
past noon, for Yankel and Yenta had ing e, and one ought to give her a and when they had made away with
not yet come home for their meal— tin ace of seeing whether she got into all the provisions and a little bit of
ah, something went snap, snap in her cha edise on her own merits or their appetite, they stretched them-
d l
selve ou
t lazily anuxurosl
head, tearing her brain to tatters. Para ugh adventitious help.
There was just time for her to get thro ut something must be done to Theys had to to lain on so soft d aubed
sseyh—
B
id the tribulation hanging over for a long time.
to the straw pallet by the chimn
"Yenta, if I fall asleep, be sure to
and there she lay; her happinead avoi
Ile thought for a little while,
come to her, sooner than she had him. then rubbed his hands with glee. wake me at once," murmured Yankel.
thought. and as so very s imple—all he would "I shall," replied Yenta, drowsily,
Ten minutes after Yankel and It a e to do was to go to another vii- and she had just time to see Yankel's
Yenta came bounding into the room. hay where nobody knew that he had eyes close before her own followed
"Give us our dinner," shouted Yan. lage hail a grandmother, and nobody suit.
The chill of the evening dew shook
tell at the top of his voice. ever Id care whether he prayed for
"Bush!" said Yenta, with her fin- wou or not. The only thing was to • Yankel out of his slumber.
ied, "look,
"Yeta,
Yenta," he
n
ger on her lip. There was a funny her
h sister Yenta t o come with ,
her behind.' Nee hav e slept the sun to cbed. Quick,
noise in the room—a husky rattle, indu
e would not leave
.
and let us hasten before it gets dark al-
of
her,
will-
or rather a bubbling as of water bin
fond
was so
through a blow pipe. bee ausenot
he kno if sh would b
Yenta leaped up with a start, look-
"It's only the old woman asleep," he d li to
d risk the adventure of making together."
said Yankel indifferently. "Heigh, ing a strange place of abode. Hut ing round her for the daylight, and
only finding a faint streak of pale
there!" he shouted, "leave off snor- for would manage her.
ing and give us our dinner—what do he Yenta," he said, "we must g o red glimmering in the west.
"
She shivered a little. "Don't you
you mean by sleeping in the middle
y from here."
awa 'What,
and leave her?" answered think we had better leave the forest,
of the day?"
.
to the still figure on and strike across the open fields?"
There was no answer, save the
e nta , pointing
continued bubbying. Angrily, Yankel y
straw. She had been gazing at she asked.
"Why, pray."
stepped to the couch and laid his the all the time, trying to recognize
hand on grandmother's shoulder; it it t the grandmother she had kno wn
"Because there might be gypsies
felt stiff and edgy. in i spite Yankel's explanation, she still or ghosts in the wood."
"If you don't get up instantly I De s not clear what it meant to be'
Yankel was just about to draw him-'
"Nothing, I thought—" And then
shall break the window, and then no
but from what she saw it must self up and start blustering about Yankel was silent, and glanced back
you will get toothache in your joints dea something beyond the ordinary
is courage and her cowardice when again.
.
There it was, only it looked
be
Iron the draught," he cried.
his eyes fell on th e lengthening different 110W, and it was it
of life.
THE HAGUE.—Among the reso-
This time there was a different an-
'Leave her? Of course," said Nan- shadows around, and he answered to take shape; it resembled—what
did it resemble? Yankel set his teeth lotions which the directors of the
swer. The bubbling changed to a kel in matter-of-fact tone; "why with a small voice:
,
"I think you are right, Yenta." So firmly to bite his fear dead between Jewish National Fund carried at their
long-drawn-out breath, half gulp
them. Then he turned round once last meetings in The Hague that re-
half sigh, and after that there was no t?"
"Oh, she looks so helpless," said th ey went on a little way in silence..
, and this time he found out ferring to the purchase of large
"lisn't it dark?" whispered Yenta.
no more bubbling, and no gulping or
•bdcline e i
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stretches of land in Lower Galilee is
cola.
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"What e Ise do you expect at night
sighing.
e: her an injury while we are
of special importance. The resolu-
could do nothing to prevent It. time?" asked 1 mike]. "But it won't what it was.
Yankel stepped round to the nth e di
tion assures the Jewish agricultural
"That's just the very reason," ex- last long, the moon will be up ores-
"She is breakinng
coming behind
side of the pallet and bent down.
d whispered,
into a us,"
run. he colonization 60,000 dunams. Of this
y swallowe
e
q
en.3.
n
"Look how white she is—and how
ained Yankel sapiently; s e
"Who—what
is?"
asked
Yenta
land,
which was hitherto non-Jewish
I can not help us. the quaver in his voice before Yenta
her paw droops, and she does not Pi
• • f
p
quBerig.
private property, 27,000 dunams, the
move or twine her fingers in and out no t must go and find another grand- might notice It.
"She with a white face. Come, let so-called district of
o
N a u ,
e
But, despite his prediction, the
hungry
as she always does when she sleeps," W other, or else we shall
than she. the west of Merchaviah, and 33,000
m
moon was very tardy in coming. The us run; we can run faster when
he remarked.
day—nay, all the year!"
c •dunams,
cat never h us h
the
so-called
district
o
sky
had
rolled
itself
up
in
dense,
hazy
She
could
se
A thought had come to Yankel, all
• "
Yenta saw the force of the ergo mist•
and he uttered it with fluttering
ent and wavered. "Could we not
And so they ran on with beating and to the west of Bethshe
to
thick enough to give her consid-
voice.
brea th. And when decision about the employment of
fi n e asked, to compromise the matter. enabletrouble in breaking through' chests and flying
"Yenta, I don't think she's asle
half the world these stretches of land will be made
thent. She could only make a little they had run across
sh
—I think she is dead."
d to them Yankel lookeil h at the general meeting of the
h Jewish
ews
rift through which she peeped shame- as it seeme
_ _ _
facedly, and whet could be seen of again across his shoulder and a so
National Fund, which will probably
her pale face looked very pale and of terror broke from his lips.
be convened in June. It will then
"She is still following," he gasped . be settled whether the Jewish Na-
•
wan, probably with the exertion.
O
The two little travelers journeyed "she is close behind. She wants t • tional Fund is to take complete or
on, holding each over very tightly by catch me and drag time back to sa
partial possession of these newly ac-
the hand. They were keeping along the 'Mourner's Sanctification' for he ✓ quired districts, ro leave them to
a bramble hedge that seemed to every morning and afternoon. Faster other Jewish. societies.
stretch endlessly into the darkness. Yenta, faster!"
Ile gripped her hand harder, an
"Do you really know the road"
whirled her along with him, until sad
asked Yenta] breathlessly.
"Don't ask so many questions— denly there was a squeaking, suckin K
e
come along," answered Yankel, say- noise under their feet, and th
NEW YORK.—On Friday evening,
, ground became soft and spongy.
agely.
"The swamp—the swamp," whi 5- May 20, the first performance in this
Then there was silence again for
country of grand opera in Yiddish
a little while, until Yenta, despite the pared Yenta.
"Is it the swamp?" cried Yanks 1, was given at Mrs. Hammerstein's
risk of incurring her brother's die-
we h II esca e Lexington Theater. Quite appropri-
pleasure, spoke up, just to see if her exultantly.
us ately, the opera chosen was
voice had not been frightened out of her after all; she can not follow
Juive." It will be given regularly
there or she will get drowned."
sev-
her entirely.
He looked around; the white face three nights a week for at least
"l'erhaps we shall not find a father,
the
was still following; he gave a loud eral weeks. Mr. Semion Tomars,
after all, tonight."
founder of the Jewish - American
"You with your father," broke out shriek, and grasping Yenta's hand as
Opera Company, first experimented
Yankel; "if we had gone only to find in a vice, dragged her stumbling in
with opera in Yiddish in London. His
a grandmother we might have come the soft morass and oozy slime. lie
ide success there prompted him to COME
w just beyo nd it there was a lh ake,
are knein
fater
one anlreadyo ; geth
to America, where the field is much
the w aters they could
i ns these and
' across
much more difficult t
till the white face had got tired of larger.
hard times."
Max Bloch, a tenor of the Metro-
And Yankel walked on faster, till looking for them. They must be ap politan Opera Company, features as
suddenly he took it into his head to proaching near it; the ground was the star performer, singing Eiiezer,
gaze back and see if the world looked getting softer and softer, and
ueaked; already the the Caruso role.
t . s uelched and
f
so dark behind as it looked in eon
No, it did not—a few yards behind waters were Playing about their
a patch of light ankles; they would be safe soon. And
KOTKOV'S MURDERER GUILTY
him there Was
against the hedge. What might it suddenly a great watery abyss seem-
be? Anybody could have told that ed to open before them; somebody
NEW YORK.—Joseph Alpano, one
gripping them by the feet, drag-
it was a little streak of moonshine that WaS
of the four men who assaulted and
had struggled down throw RR h the fie- King them down, down, down—and
killed
Dr.
Kotkov on the evening of
cloned up
sure in the wrack over hea . A min- then the
ute after Yankel looked round a sin. again, and looked innocent as if tooth- Feb. 3, was found guilty of first de
gree manslaughter by a jury which
ind, ing had happened.
' It NU still there, just as close be h
deliberated nine hours till it made
or a little closer! the rift was shift- And so Yankel and Yenta found a
father that night—the same who had, its decision. Another of the men has
. lag.
"What makes you look around like bidden the moon paint the white face already been convicted, while two are
on the bramble-hedge. still awaiting trial.
that? " asked Yenta.

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