A DESERVING CASE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 22 November 1899, Page 2

A DESERVING CASE.

. The public of Wanganui wil have'ob-< [ served during the last few days a ban • and • one-armed man, accompanied by t- little, ! boy, playing .a barrel-organ. A 'contem - iporary says: — "We have 'been por.. in j)ds-'' j «ssion of a. few fttcts regarding the -person \ which %ye think '.the public should be ,ac- - quainted with. Mr Lousich is known to ' be a respectable man, and was a hard- : working miner irf the Kumara district. ;, One day an explosion of, dynamite in the "Austrian party's claim, where Le was work J ing, left him the wreck he now appears. ' Although blind and bereft of his ryht arm, r with that manly pluck and independence j which is a characteristic of : » minim- - class, Mr Lousich set, to work to heip his '" wife, and five little children to g-:t their " .daily, bread. His wife opened p small ' 'istorei and Lousich used to help all he ' could. Tho poor fellow's trouble.!, heavy ' as they had been, were increased hy death 5 lobbing him of his partner, Mrs Lousich. j Crushed in spirit, and bowed down, still J the thought of his five mo'.hci^ess bairns 6 nerved him" to set out on a iresdi veoture to earn something towards th-nr ke'-p, nnd '- the barrel organ was procured,!'- . address ' care' of Bennett's. Boardlnghb'usei