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TUESDAY, SniTHMIU-nt 2, 1013.
THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES.
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"Darkest
ates
Continent
, Tcld by Miss
ii Our Own
O'Reilly
Did Ycu
Know That, Within an Hour of the New World's Biggest City, Divorces Sell for a Quarter;
That Men Swap Wives, with a Pint of Rum to Boot; That Stepbrothers Marry Mcpsisters; I hat
Nine-tenths of Grow People Are But Little Children; That in a Clan of 200 Only 13 Are
Normal ?
MARY BOYLE O'REILLY VISITS PINEY DISTRICT AND REPORTS AMAZING CONDITIONS.
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notice. Then comes more bambini.
After a time I yeo how Luigl forget
himself for those small ones, working
iso hard, saving money, thinking out
1 for tomorrow.
i "Tht n we come here to New York
, looking for riches. Luigi has put
in lh banka one thousand lir?
(200). We two, we talk together
how that is ver mocch money.
Pretty soon our childrt-n can have
cvtTythinjr, everything.
"o I open a store. You see it. No:
ver big, no. Just marcaronl, cakes,
oil an' like that cheap, all for caj-h.
Tho neighbors say always I have one
ver' good store. I laugh, but it pays
the rent. So the children they go to
school, every one, all four. Never
will they talk dago. They are Amer
icans. And Luigi, he have steady
work cleaning the bricks. All day he
can sit down in the sun and the pay
is one lira the hour how 'you say
20 cents? When it is niht he come
home, wash up, eat his supper. Me,
I tell him about that ver small store.
Sometimes he sing to me. Then we
talk talk of the children. Ah, Sig
norina, but we are happy more hap-
py even than in ' Italia. Sometimes
my heart tell me it cannot last. Wo
men are like that.
"Then then my Luigi goes to work
by the new opera house. From the
first he is different restless. The
theater makes him remember how he
wantod to be a singer. So he is sorry
that he work for us all the years.
'See, my life, it is wasted.' he tell me
j just like that. It is the next day
I that Impresario heard Luigi singing.
(Jasparlni, the signor say, 'stop work.
Think for yourself. Be a artist.
Pretty soon you will be rich famous
your life will be worth living all
the world wil know Luii Gasparini
le belle donne (the line ladies) will
call 'IJravissimo when you sing.
"And Luigi?
all those happy years. Me, the chil
dren, he no think for us the same as
before. It is himself alone that
counts. lie no wanta work, he no
care for that little shop. My heart
tells me how, pretty soon, he no re
member our homo at all. What rood
for Luigi to sing in that new opera
house if he is willing to leave me and
the children if he forgets to love us
any more?"
ry. : 'r'-&X!
A TYPICAL PINL'Y FAMILY. THF FATIIKU CANNOT READ Oil "WRITE. THE CHILDREN ARE
ALL FEEBLE-MINDED. THE MOT HER HAD GONE TO TOWN TO BEG WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPH
WAS MADE.
Y 31 All Y IIOYLE O'H KILL Y.
TRENTON. N. J.. Kept. 2. "Why
do the good, civilized folk of America
ignore a countryside peopled with
nduUs who are mentally children,
Ftrcng, .self-willed men and women of
native stock who are without reason,
Judgment or self control?"
Miss Elizabeth Kite, state aont
for tho New Jersey school for feeble
mlndf.d. put the question with a final
ity that accused. "You doubt the
possibility? Then come with me to
the Pines. You will find the-district
n plague spot of moral contagion a
feeder for our jails, almhouses and
hospitals."
Next morning Xound us motorimr
through a lonely tract of '2, 00-0 square
miles between the barren roast of
t,.- ti,,. fvrtiio Delaware
valley. This area of scrub, cran
berry bogs and salt marsh is peo
pled with families of degenerates.
The present-day inhabitants are en
tirely native stock. Two of the Piney
families go back to Quaker davs and
boast William
typical
Penn's name on
still
imbeciles "husband" and
uireet descendants of
the first governor of New Jersey.
Of churches there are none, nor
nny organized moral influence. Schools
are few and far between. The dis
pensers of law are local squires con
fessedly Jcnorant of law. but main
taining more or less successfully,' ac
cording to the ir own rectitude, a "sem
blance, of order.
"The people of the Pines have
way of their cwn," says 'Squire Joyce,
a jutiee of tho peace for HO years.
"They are human beings, but not do
mesticated." "Not domesticated" is
good.
About the?" shacks forgather typ
ical Piney women, perfectly healthy
but startllngly repellant. low-browed,
iharefooted women with hoarse voices,
rolling teeth, tousled hair and tatter
ed clorhlntr. v. omen lazy, childish,
, unique in manners, and morals.
Ignorance and neglect have made
thet,o women moral outlaws. Few
umori'j them eer heard of the com
mandments, n:no in ten are so feeble
in mind that they live disorderly lives,
with no intention of wrong doing.
"No, I ain't never had no learning,"
says Lil, the imbecile mother of ten
children. "I can count if you give
me time. Rut I ain't never had no
body to keer fur me, an' I had to
keer fur myself as best I could."
"I ain't so stupid as you'd think,"
pleads Bertha, a normal-lookinp: wo
man who cannot draw the outline of
n square from a copy on the table.
"No, I never went to no school,"
says Ford, who at 30 has the mind of
a child of nine and knows neither
the date, the season nor the names
of the months.
May, his childish "wife," tosses her
head, "dear me, that's nothing; half
the world can't read and write," she
protests.
Ford, vigorous and boyish looking,
"married" May "by the 'squire," hav
ing secured from that worthy for 25
cents a writin' of separation from two,
previous wives. Such wrltin's are
considered handy to show in case of
trouble. The magistrate knew, none
better, that getting a divorce proves
a perplexing formality when both
parties to the contract have other
husbands and wives. For instance:
Ford's brother Jim a graduate of
three states prisons, deserted his idiot
wife to "marry" the imbecile Clarissa
who had three husbands. Later Jim
traded Clarissa, to Lem Oldman for
$1.50 and a quart of crude rum.
Later still Jim secured another "wife,"
Louisa, by a similar trade with her
"husband." "I tell you I wasn't mad,
I wasn't." says poor simple Louisa,
whose mind is but eight years old,
although she has four living hus
bands. "You see, Pete worked right
agin me, an his folks done dirt on me
carting every news, so I hnint got no
more patience. Then, too, Jim is
marm's sister's son."
TOOK COIM'KIl I 'OK K015HKK
I I.Ki; ON MOTORCYCLES.
SACRAMENTO, Cai.. Sept. i.
Motorcycle Policeman Brown of this
city chased a couple on another mo
torcycle for ten miles. When Brown
overhauled the lleeing men the man
puled out a pad and wrote:
We are deaf and thought you were
a robber.
SHOES OF IRISH LACK
TO GO WITH X-KAY SKIRTS.
LONDON, Sept. 1'. X-ray skirts are
to be accompanied by X-ray shoes ac
cording to the latest glimpse of com
ing feminine fashions. The uppers of
the new wear are made of Irish lace.
Let It be remembered that this
communal condit'en spreads a conta
gion of evil abo'i'. unnumbered New
Jersey towns. The nomads who drift
to the woods, the women running the
roads, are solid against every one not
of their lawless tribe.
Their children, strong in bodv but
feeble In mind, survive by chance,
not care. "No, my kids ain't bap
tised," confesses Stumpy Sa!, the well
meaning, mentally eight-year-old
mother of six. "but I had them insur
ed. You can't never tell what'll come
on children. I lost two in eight
months. They cost me a harry' of a
lot of money. Goin' some, wasn't it?
Lucky I know how yo cure 'em of
croup and asthma. How do I do it?
I ain't telling you nothing. First you
stand the child up by a door and
measure off the top of its head. Then
dig a hole in the Jam, put In some
hair from the child's crown, an' plug
tip the hole with bread dough. When
that child grows taller than the hole
it won't have no more asthma."
"Aunt Lil" was a little girl of 12
when her first baby was born. So
was imbecile Louise. So, think of the
awful pity of it, were a score of wo
men in the sand holes.
Consider the intermarried Dixon
Osborn clan, 199 individuals, of whom
13 are normal, 124 degenerate, 20
illigitlmate and 22 criminal, living on
the outskirts of a country town.
Imbecile Betsie married defective
Zacher and became - the mother of
nine feeble-minded children, 12
feeble-minded grandchildren. 2 3
feeble-minded great-grandchildren. '
Of these, one died In infancy, eight
lived in public Institutions, no one
knows how many went to jail. One
granddaughter, Mag, bore eight
illegitimate children. In three genera
tions 28 illegitimates, 29 in public in
stitutions, 55 noticeably defective'
males, 50 noticeably defective females
and two normal individuals out of
105' descendants.
No one seems to care.
KILLS TUUKRCULOSIS GERMS.
PITTSBURG, Pa., ept. 2. This
city's low death rate from consump
tion is due to the preventive effects of
sulphur in the heavy smoke from the
mills here, according to Dr. John A.
Hawkins, tuberculosis expert.
Adventures of Johnny Mouse.
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Luigu the Brick Cleaner is Heralded as a Second
Caruso But His Vife is Sorry She Fears,
''"Those Fine Ladies."
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BY 3IAKY P.OYLK O'REILLY.
taff Correspondence. j
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 2. Luigi'
Gasparmi. a inTddle-aged Italian brick
cleaner, is believed to be an embryo
Caruso. Speaking English with diili
culty, ignorant of the art of music, his
imprornpt u rendering of "II Trova
tore" caused Oscar Hammerstein to
summon the unconscious tenor from
his brick pile.
"Report to my c-horusmastcr."
commanded the impresario. "He Willi
Jlx you all right." j
"Si-si, signor. but what about my
TO cents an hour for clean, i tlaj
lricks?" demanded the thrifty singer.'
'Those too quick change
they arc
Signora
looks in-
not good. no, ' explained
Iuis:i Gasparinl :is one u hi.
to the face of fear.
Anxiety and the pallor of a home
Tound woman had retried her intelli
gent face. The crowded room in
which we sat was serupuluously clean.
A basket of home-made cake and a j
Ftraw-covered Uask of chiantl on thej
table proved the house mother's spirit
of hospitality. !
"Signorina. those too quick changes. '
they are dangerous, yes. v. Me. I feel it
here." One work-worn hand clench
ed against her breast. "We are not
FO poor as some. We have our health.
our lour cnioiren, our nome and
.inu I fear. Why? Ah. it is hard to
ay. With a woman to t-ei is to
3;now. My husband and me, we are
of Parma in Italia. You know tli.it
3arma, perhaps? Always from a boy
tny husband sing sing "itustic.ir.a.
II Trovatore,' 'Lucia.' Everybody
know it is his joy to Mng on the
Jdazza In the eantina at the wed
ding. When he was but a young man.
Justa himself, alone, It is not so bad,
T.o. But a-fter he is married, ah. then
k different. To ing is t waste
one'n time to loose mooch money. 1
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L. H. O RVIS
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Lady Avslstant
121 North 3Iichigan St.
Home S207. Boll 297
GO Indestructo Discontinued
Numbers, on Sale at Half Price
Our final purchase of the famous Indestructo dis
continued numbers.
There are 200 in the lot, and when these are sold
only regular numbers at regular prices can be had.
You'll need a trunk-for traveling, or if son or daughter
enters college this fall-now is the time-This week one
half price.
Indestructo Tourists
Reg Price Sale Price
3 2-inch Tourist Steamer 12.00
32 inch Tourist Men's 12.00
32 inch Tourir.t Ladies 13.00
36 inch Tourist Men's 15.00
40 inch Tourist Steamer 17.00
5.00
6.00
6.50
7.00
8.00
Indestructo Specials
40 inch Steamer
40 inch Men's
40 inch Ladies'
36 inch Mei.'s
36 inch Ladies'
Reg Price Sale Price
20.00
29.00
32.00
25.00
23.00
10.00
14.50
16.50
12.50
14.00
Leather Bags
Leather lined, black and tan, cowhide, 16 to 1 8 inches in size, 7.00 to
10.00 values, this sale 5.75
Leather lined, black and tan, 15 to 18 inches, regular 12.00 values, this
sale 7.45
Come and See Usm
Geo. Wyman & Co.
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La
Af. Considerable
Expense. -
Frequently result in real
estate transactions where
abstracts have not been
carefully examined.
You can avoid this ex
pense and feel perfectly at
ease knowing that your
Title is Absolutely Right if
you have us to examine
your Titles.
INDIANA TITLE & LOAN
COMPANY.
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ARRIVED
The Dutchess Satin Hat
a black satin crown of soft effect, trimmed
with Grograine ribbon. One of the early Fall
styles and a hat which will shape it
self to your head. A smart little Q
shape, now to be seen in our window. .
Two other accepted Eastern shapes The
Black Velvet Sailor and Black Velvet Crown may
also be seen now. Any one of these shapes are
for Early Fall and have a decided snap to them.
.COME AND SKi: I'S
Geo. Wyman & Co.
f HOMEOF GOOD CLOTHES
CB. STEED, MGR.
EYES EXAMINED FREE
lila&scs Fitted at Moderate 11 ecu
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Ut 1900
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DR. J. BURKE &C0
Ix"adluj; Opticians of No rt hern Iul
oaa 25l fi. .Mlchlgau tu Sunday
9 to lo by Appointment.
NOTICE: Wq duplicate any lem
tne catne day. No matter who fitted,
them, lirliiif plocea.
wh?n they ask him and after a
little he s.nq: he MnK but he no
work.
'"Then I think. Tatienzi, what must
I do to save my husband?' Hut I hold
my peare. Pretty soon his voice Is
not so krood. So I tell him. quiet and
kind. Lul;i It Is too much vino maka,
CLKANA LA It KICKS.'
that roughness. So he knows I say
truth and he goes no more by the
eantina, but comes home home to
me an' our ver small bambino. When
that little one bepin to walk and bo
yaucy how his father loves him. Men
play
Rubber Novelties of All
Kinds at
THE RUBBER STORE, )
205 S. Michigan St
are like that. Never do they
with tho littlest baby- until it
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If So, You Will
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It And The Particular
Reason For Doing It.
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AMERICAN TRUST GO
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IF YOU LOVE
YOUR WfF
Your mother or sister you won't let her do the shirts o.
pressing at home these scorching hot days.
Even if the maid does, then she might be doing some
thing else about the house if you send your shirts or Dry
Cleaning and Pressing to us. . .r. ...
Slick's Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co,
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HIRAM C. KRIEGHBAUM
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
303 8. Main fct.
Phon Home G005; Crtl -0Gw
bicts for Men and Women
$15, $18 &nd $20.
Easy Payments. i
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