RIESAGE

He came to America in the fall of 1881, by way of Budapest and Bremen. He left behind him in a Hungarian village a young wife, a sister and a widowed mother; it may be that he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthrights of a Slovak peasant in Franz Josef's empire. He was bound for the hard-coal country of northern Pennsylvania, where his brother-in-law had a job on a rail road section gang.-with this we spend our days in the present, future, and most importantly the past.