AN AWFUL EXAMPLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 67, 12 December 1907, Page 4

AN AWFUL EXAMPLE.

'An awful example of tho harmony likely to.finsuo..from. the. Socialist division of property is instanced by a New York communist feud, writes tho New York correspondentrbf' 1 the- "Esprbss;" ' '' i John .fond his; iyife: jownedy a his slon vrad not made ,more distinct ,bccauso;one hen wasj larger than'the other;" ■"I %; Petrbcholli and i-theV/Vkiloqes lived in happy "conimunislff , at'.2349 'Arthur Avenue, for some time.' '.'They had a'.cotnmunistie garden, whoro 1 - they ratecd /Italian vegetables and: somo of 'the American brand. The two hons some 1 days and some days tbey laid none, but - that was the fortune of'wrir; 'and':.the eggs".were equitably divided ovon-when there iyas only one. . Wheiv'the chill camo and blighted the communistic garden Vigilono thought, it a good idea to let the two chickens' scratch in the garden. Not so Petrochelli... He had an idea that tho anglo worms that inhabited tho garden would be, good for'the garden, and. eggs'or-lKr' oggs,' ho—beiioi'cd ■ the chickens should be kept to thoir-TUii. y

Tho two chickens, were a soro : point between tho two families. _ .When Potrocholli was not at pair of chickens w.ere allowed : ':to run and scratch to thoir' hearts' (sontent.'.' When he was at home tliby were oarofuJly boxed in thoir coop. v" .'■ Petrochelli camo .hoino unexpectedly ono afternoon. He fo'uiid tho chickens scratching, and announced that he would kill his half so that tho other -half' could not ' "

Tho Vigilones objected.- .. There was'-' a fierce quarrel, and it' ended by pdlicenieu rushing.'in, in response to screams, and the arrest of Petrochelli..Yigilone, and his wife wore found lying in the garden,, dan-foroiislyl-lwounded;...,. :They : we're - taken ' ' to 'ordham Hospital.