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t hey thought it wasn't like the Mins-
He knew that hey
the notion of hiring al a bit nervy to boot.
countenance
maid servant. "Katrinka," she would i because her husband had evaded mill- Ier of old to be so deeply affected
BAD EYES
O'
Stationery Sale
snarl out in reply to Minsker's lug- tart' service in the Czarist army she by exterior circumstances. More
gentian that a certain Katrinka be I would not be able to procure a goy- deeply affected than anyone else in
hres1 to Mt the housework. "A smart ernment passport. So she must be the community.
But the real crisis went on in Mins-
you are; she'll rob you blind in smuggled over the border. Ile would:
By JAKE JACOBSON
a lmost
Mall
er
for Pole. she gets the , then appeal to her to hire him us her ker's own soul. Ile suffed
f gnawing
a week, and 11,1
mustache milky and meaty dishes mixed; she's agent, Rive him his first chance as constantly from a kind o
Alive
"Leh Motel Minsker kept his domes- mass of his black beard and
flirtations with all an independent emigrant smuggler. pain. h was as if a demon were
tic troubles to himself. The little - -was quite discernable. Ile walked got her mind MI
within him. Filially he promised
with a slight stoop and yet there was the street urchins in the township." Ile would promise to see her not only himself that he would lay open the
n ina,
So life went on for Minsker. tie over the border, but through the Ger-
elusive intangible dignity in his
c ommunity of Mir, p
secret of his soul and mind to Mrs.
knew nothing of the ill feeling that bearing. Ile looked a miniature Sir would hire a servant, and in a month man examining station clear to the Peshkin and ask forgiveness if that
existed between Minsker and his dour Richard Burton or a Polish Disraeli. or so Sarah would catch her !dealing embarkation
port the
at Antwerp.
And, despite
fact that Mrs. were possible. At least he would take
wife, Sarah. Ordinarily, however, If you saw him in the synagogue or mixing the dishes or behaving un-
WW1 warned against doing it the stone off his own heart, unburden
Reb Motel was by no means reticent. leaning On his cane you were reminded
her with part
an ten-
Peshkin
himself.
seemly and would fire strange
of she
turned her fate- so to speak-- -
In the synagogue, in commune aG of Disraeli in the famous painting of womanly oath.
But, much as he wanted to, hard a •
;
fairs, in dealings with the govern- the Berlin conference. . lean•, it all was that in the presence of over to young Litinuff. That, as the
up. he tried, he couldn't get himself to
meal, stubborn and self-willed old'somewhat above middle height, was company, Sarah was as fine as silk,' saying goes, burned Minsker
1 taught every- take the step. Weeks passed and
Minsker was a figure to be reckoned • Minsker, and though dressed in the and as soft as satin, and as gentle its "This scoundrel whom
months. lie found excuses for delay.
with His business was that of local canventional gabardine and broad a white lamb, the very incarnation thing he knows turns against me in
l even felt somewhat relieved, all-
my old age. "I'll fix him!" stormed
be brimmed hat, he conveyed the impres- of wifely devotion to her husband.
agent, for what in America might
the act. It would all be
Nlinsker to himself.
' lie
called the under-ground railway. 11e sino of immaculate care.
March, 1914, Sarah was afflicted
And he didn't lose much time in over soon. The secret would not eat
ID
smuggled emigrants whom the czarist
It must have been a peculiar kind
strange
eye
disease.
It
war"
. his heart any longer. They would
with
a
rind her
because the doctors didn't setting his trap. Ile made a trip into at
government
refused passports,
across
Austrin,lot
pride which causes' Rob Motel to
govern
all know or perhaps she wouldn't tell. I
bear the mad behavior of his spouse know just what it was. Altogether Germany, direct to the emigrant ex- No, he wanted everybody to know.
the border into Germany or
wh•nece they might continue their with a Job-like patience. She never it strengthened her belief in the not amining station at Brest Litovsk. The
enjoying the morbid
journey on to America. Ile enjoyed Said a great deal, spoke little indeed, thin that she hall been singled slut doctors and tttlicials greeted him per- Ile was already
that would be his, when
an easy access to the German and except to complain that she had been a of everything ev il i n , functoffly; it was not uncommon for . satisfaction
s the victim
This you will understand1Minsker to call on them. But he left the whole community heaped hot lava
Austrian officials and examiners and cursed with all the ill-luck that the
the world.
had inspired in them a respect and diabolical imagination of the devil didn't exactly add pleasure to Mins., off formalities sooner than usual and of scorn upon him.
slug right into the business of the Still he put off the act. Ile had
even a sort of fear because of his could invent. Truth to tell, it was
key's nights and days. But he left
indefatigable will and inexhaustible Sarah's own hectic imagination that nothing undone to get his wife the particular emergency. He stopped in thought ab.)ut it so much and the
that in a sort of de-
resourcefulm•ss. In a word, Minsker was the source and fountain-head of most skillful medical attention ob- , front of Dr. Braun's desk--one tot aftermath.
was not a fellow to be pushed aside most of her troubles. But that was tainable, and anything else that might the older men at the station—stopped lirium, he often imagined he had al-
with a wave of the hand. Indeed in neither here nor there and didn't help assuage her suffering. Sarah, on her in his tracks as he paced the floor. Ile ready made the confession. But in
•
he had
another land and under other circum- Minsker a bit.
part, worried herself into bed, her raised his hand and in his own vigor- cooler moments he knew that
not. Finally he compromised with
fur him eyes gut worse and her nerves broke aua way vociferated: "I'm here for a
stances one •could imagine him play-
•
on
His linen was never out
ing a not inconsiderable role in pall- on time and he considered it a boon down under the strain. Indigestion reason. Litinoff, the scoundrel, has' his conscience. Ile vvould confess
and other minor ailments overtook left me. He is—is trying to put me I the eve of New Year's (Jewish New ,
tics.
time
The Jewish smuggler carried a kind from heaven when a warm men was
of business. He has opened shop, Year in September. That is the
days before . Oat
of fire in his dark, retrospective eyes I set before him. Sarah would for days her. And a couple a
for himself. Fancy him by himself. when a man makes peace with God.1
lordly together refuse to to anything her- Passover she died.
I
street
. t urchin, made a man' And a prerequisite of peace with God
a st
,f took
and on his rather heavy lips n
,.
scorn, which—because of the sparse- self and at the same time wouldn't
fellow man. Now he
It is strange what thoughts and
him. .111 show him. and you ve , , is peace with
ai
w to help.
ve stood by
images will come to a man at such , 1 got
oumaii r . felt somewhat eased. He even began
m.
I've
to
sta
times. Minsker saw before him again ! no
edge in on groups of gossipers and
uon to going
i nyu
la' rudely Y pretended to take an interest in the
am l night when
bea
utifu
the ravi shingly
aa a ea
'
'
who
e
aware
of
Sr.-
he really first bec
milli looked up w.
in amazement. Ile war naves.
rah's existence as a factor in his o wn was ' used to Mnisker's ifflosyncrucit•s,'
Then of a sudden he was surprised
was
life. The moon was full, A tender
as••Y
New Year's day was
lii
how speedily
breeze played among the branches of but such talk and behavior
the great oak trees. On a heavy , strange for even so odd a fellow as coming on. It was Monday. Thurs- I
weatherdwaten wooden bench in the . Minsker. The younger doctors and I daY evening was Ns'ew Year's eve.1
clerks were amused more than any- , Something vvithin im, something
I
long and rather narrow yard along. • thing else.
"Yes, he has a client," resumed , which can't be described in words, I
side their old fashioned one-story ,
whisper
that
he 1
house sat Minsker's father and moth- lilinsker, "a cousin of his, a young began to
to do to
it, him
wasn't
going
going
er and two sisters. David, the tea-
eve. Sleep-
25, Ilea
with name
two children,:
woman about girl.
is Anna to confess on New Year's
binical student from Slutsk,
was
,
wa'n't
a boy and a
playing
a lively in
tune—lively
yet of
pe-
culiarly Jewish
its undertone
l'eshkin, remember that. They're go- less nights he wrestled with himself,:
sadness--on his home-made violin. )ing to America, to Omaha or some his will. Ile became a shadow of his
such place. You've got to stop them. former self. Ile walked about with-
lowed David with a kind of half out seeing anyone. He ate hardly
Sonia, the Russian housemaid, fol.- I can't do anything on the border - anything. He trembled when anyone
Glllnl
smug Called out his name. lie avoided all
melancholy harvest song which the without endangering the whole
n o n glint; traffic. It's up to you. You've
peasant
women
often
sang
fields at
sunset.
got
to i stop them. You hear. You've places place
where
Mrs. Peshkin
aught
Ile suffered
what he thought
to stop them. I won't have any I I WaS beyond man's power to endure.
i saw
Sarah's mother and father, being ,got
tht r answ r ' "
New Year's eve callus. le
'
' a ' —
m•ighbors, came over and joined the'! a 1
"But," broke in Dr. Braun, ' i'n.gat'os
h
Mrs. Peshkin enter the synagogue and
thout
!
party ill small-toven
fashion,
as she passed he hid his face in his
be invited.
They wi
brght !this all about? How are we g.:,t
ou
waiting ti,
I stop them? And why be so enraged.
and , hands. The night passed and the
with them Sarah. How glowingly at -
your day
had
ou've
wa Y 1 Y
tractive
Sarah
looked that braids.
night I . anY
with her little
long
lustrous-black
after all Litinoff can't do you much1next day. Ile prayed more fervently
harm. W hat if he does get
a always
client than
ever
throughout
long seemed
syna-
are
gogue
services.
But his the
prayer
Minsker must have been 12 or 13
t ess.,,moL•kp hiim, , always there came the
now, and then? You .1 OA'S
at the time and the sex urge in him starting trouble and then come run-
eves, is you,
you
cease
condemned
for you."
was just awakening. He looked upon Meg to us to get you out of it. Cool till°.
her. mi
There
no sur
he
salved
his
Sarah and was electrified. The mu- off, Minsker. I'll talk to Litino lf and
After New Ys•ar's
..
sic, the moonlight, the breeze, the show him how much wiser it will he
.n. l'oar old Minsker i
conscience again.
long and wide vistas of open field-- for hint to return to your employ:,
•
DOW said to l'imself: "On the day of
illuminated and shadowedclothed I'll persuade him."
Atoneme , :i I Yam Kippur) an as
the night in magical robes for Mills-
"Oh, the devil; I won't listen to count with God and our fate for the
the and cast about it a mystical
glamour. A glamour of something such talk," burst out Minsker, as he, coming year is sealed. I will ask her
and near, something that given resumed his pacing of the floor. "I've 1 forgiveness; then, I have ten days
endanizered my ; more. Oh, I'll do it on Yom Kippur."'
one the sense of eternity in a mss- stood by you and
But again that something within'
ment, something poignantly sad yet freedom and my very life to do it.
ral with a joy almost too keen Now you're going to stand by toe, and I him, that can's be described in words,
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"But what can we do?" asked ' i 1
' . re afraid, you can't do it. Why
But that was long, long ago, oh so
cur of the season:
long ago and yet, now that the breath Broun, regaining his calmness. "How ' ' delude yourself?" And this time that
still en 4e within him spoke with even
D i sc
of life had passed out of Sarah's can we stop the woman?"
Four wheel brake.; Straight nide toll sire Balloon tire.;
ica•
"Now you're talking reason," re' - greater confidence than before.
body, how near it seemed. "How
wheels; Seven Bearing Crankohisft; Alemite chassis luhr
mused Mins- joined Minsker, visibly satisfied. "I've
Somehow the 10 slays between New;
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try and then, it can't be denied, felt bad eyes—eyes that need treatment.
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Somehow
they
passed, :
was passed.
a miracle
indeed. He
swallowed
lonely and in a vulty barren the Mir. And her failure to reach Ant. but how Minsker lived through then,
remaining years, but he would be warp--beingIsitinoff's first client _, hardly
any not
food
and of
if he
slept
he was
aware
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gnawed no longer by a trouble that would cast a reflection upon his caps.
his pride compelled him to keep se- bilities. The reasons don't matter. time he
had
become
accustomed
'to ;
semi-death.
this drawn-out
Atone-
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Came the eve of the day of Atone-
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rust him again. He'll
husband and child took over Mins- it. No one will trust
ing w as this year, the first year of
ker's home. The slaughter saw to it come begging to me to take him back meet.
This more
day of sorrowful
fasting and
weep-
the. war,
than
ever. •
No one, however, felt the sharp yet
that all of are father's little needs agam,"
Broun
excused
himself,
stepped
numbing pain so keenly as 51insker.
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in turn, did not interfere in any way into a private office fur a cons lta- The se
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cantor
joined in, ill the grand
porton it he had been looking for-
ward to. Litinoff, who wore pincnez nlannt•sl them. It was about the mid- led, the choir followed and the whole
gda(t
'
i'n
g.
'
reen
glasses and American cut clothes, haul die of May when Mrs. Peshkin left1"-T'a
And still Minsker had not made his
long ago decided this; he was capable Mir. And the t hind of June she was '
of doing a thing or two for himself. hack again. Litinolf had piloted her
Now he felt his chance hail come. across the border alright. But when . confession. "Tomorrow," he said to
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was one of
Mrs. l'ei:likin was
West Grand Boulevard at Hamilton
Brest Litovsk, the trap that Minsker' ! the first to arrive at the synagogue.
had set closed in upon her.
that the 01)1- Ile was more downcast than ever.
The doctors 114'6(1.1
damwere in sound health and cont.' The demon within hint had all but
d
elate control of all their organs, but ' doWned him completely. Now he felt
Mrs. Peshkin would have to take he couldn't talk to Mr.. Peshkin. But
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eyes. Nothing remained for Mrs. yell out his secret to the whole con-
himself.
p
, promised
lbssAin to do but return home. Not gzegation, so he
having a government passport, t hat And yet he thought, "Will I?" ('an
involved a difficulty, of course. Bow- 11" The slay was passing. A long
she arranged to return hom• slay indeed fur all who fast. but an
ever,
with the left-over members of a , eternity of eternities to Minsker. ale
group, part of which had continued hash failed miserably. The Day of
Cm journey to their destination, Lon- Atonement was on its last legs. The
sun had all but completed its any
don, but the remainder of which was
S o on the stars wou ld b e out,
compelled to return to Russia because course.
0
Il the
over, FV,ln
the money they haul awaited failed soon the fast would be
to show up. All Mrs. Peshkin had to shofar would udher in the new hope
do was to contribute a few rubles once more.
And the shofar was blown. Again
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The compassion that Mrs. Peshkin's was pronounced. Sorrow and travail
misfortune had aroused in the hearts wire forgotten fur the moment. The
of her townsfolk was soon lost in the congregation was just beginning to
h home where food
avalanche of sorrow that covered leave. to hurry
everybody with the precipitation of would be tasted, where the fast would
be broken; when Nlinsker sank back •
the World War. Really. only one
and commenced blubber-
person continued to think about it on his seat
very much besides Mrs. Peshkin her- ing and murmurnig. Ile was taken
Minsker. The home and put under a physician's
self. That person was
war had ruined his business. Traffic • care.
"Is is a mental ■ Fsorder, " the doe-
to America via Germany and Austria
was stopped indefinitely. That made tstr pronounced. and the next day
more acute the pangs of conscience Minsker was sent ssff to the sani-
t• at old Minsker suffered because of tarium at Slutsk. . •
his part in the squashing of Mrs.
It must have been tvvo or three
Peshkin's journey to America. And
was helpless to do anything to weeks later. A group of old men
make amends. "Who knows," he , were gossiping in the nvnagogue
thought, "how long the war will last? , courtyard. They were talking war
b
Perhaps Mrs. rissAin and the chil- news, when one fellow roke
in with,
husband "Have you heard the latest about
siren will never again see
and ant-n.41 ,
gaped
And I am to blame Minsker?" (They
an d father
t
of it. Ant all for a paltry bit their eyes wisit•r.1 "He is alright.
for all
of bus'ness. No. for spite. And what , the report from Slutsk says. That is.
good has it done me' The flood of he bothers no one, behaves quite
the war has drowned as all alike." ! sanely. Only he is always brooding.
Old Minsker became a different pacing the floor and now and then hn'
quiet now as he used lifts Ws arm energetically and yells
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1
to be garrulous. His normal aspect out. 'Bad eyes, bast eyes '
The group of old tossipers looked ,
and habits of action had been utterly
eyes,
metamorphosed. Despite their pre- at each other quizzically. "Bad
•son
°rennet . on with the war and all in- bad eyes." they repeated in unbeen ,
notations that were born in its wake, • "Oh, yes," said one who had
"I re-
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zraebeards talked about it while they mess began. Poor fellow. he has never
sailed for darkness and the evening zot over her death. Poor Minsker.
ors• there wnrn &•nte His wife's death nut him bas de him-
Of ' ,
what the renort fro , -
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ker's sudden submergence. But, then, Slutsk says, 'Bad eyes, bad eyes.'"
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