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'THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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TCFPPAT. .TT’f.T S, 1WC
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WAGE EARNERS OF PACKINGTOWN OPPRESSED;
FRIGHTFUL DISTRESS REVEALED IN “THE JUNGLE”
Runs on the Bank, Election Bribery and Perils
of Storm Endured by Those Losing
Places by Illness Graphically
Described.
(CcDvrlffht, ISOS, by Upton Sinclair. All
' Rights Reserved.)
CHAPTER XI.
During the summer the packing
houses were In full activity again, and
Jurgls made more money. He did not
make so much, however, as ho had the
previous summer, for the packers took
on more hands. There were new men
every week. It seemed—It was a regu
lar system—and this number they
would keep over to the next slack sea
son, so that every one would have less
than ever. 8ewar dF.-flMV Iv tiw
plan, they would have all the floating
labor of Chicago trained to do their
work. And how very cunning a trick
that was! The men were to teach new
hands, who would come some day and
break their strike, and meantime they
were kept so poor that they could not
prepare for the trial I
But let no one suppose that this
superfluity of employees meant easier
work for any one! On the contrary,
the speeding-up seemed to be growing
more savage all the time: they were
continually Inventing new devices to
crowd the work on—It was for all the
world like the thumb screw of the
mediaeval torture chamber. They would
get new pacemakers, and pay them
more: they would drive the men on
with new machinery—It was said that
In the hog-kllllng rooms the speed at
which the hogs moved was determined
by clockwork, and that It was In
creased a little every day. In piece
work they would reduce the time, re
quiring the same work In a shorter
time, and paying the same wages; and
then, after the workers had accustomed
themselves to this new speed, they
would reduce the rate of payment to
correspond with the reduction In time!
They had dona this so often In the
canning establishments that the girls
were fairly desperate; their wages had
gone down by a full third In the past
two years, and a storm of discontent
was brewing that was likely to break
out any day. Only a month after
Marlja had become a beef-trimmer the
canning factory that she had left post
ed a cut that would divide the girls*
earnings almost squarely In half, and
so great .was the Indignation at this
that they marched out without even a
parley and organised In the street out
side. One of the girls had read some
where that a red flag was the proper
symbol for oppressed workers, and so
they mounted one, and paraded all
about the yards, yelling with rage. A
new union was the result of this out
burst, but the Impromptu strike went
to in three (lave, owing to the
rush of new labor. At the end of It the
girl who had carried the red flag went
downtown and got a position In a great
department store at a salary of two
dollars and a half a week.
Jurgls and Ona heard these stories
with dismay, for there win no telling
when their own time might come. Once
or twice there had been rumors that
one of tho big houses was going to cut
Its unskilled men to fifteen cents an
hour, and Jurgls knew that If this was
done his turn would come soon. lie
had learned by this time thnt Pack-
Ingtown was really not a number of
firms at all. but one great firm, tho
beef trust. And every week the man
agers of It got togdthcr and compared
notes, and there was one scnlo for all
the workers In the yards and one
standard of efllclency. Jurgls was told
that they also fixed tho price they
would pay for beef on the hoof and the
price of all dressed meat In the coun
try: but that was something he did not
understand or care about.
The only one who was not afraid of a
cut was Marlja, who congratulated her
self, somewhat nalvoly, thnt there had
been one In her place only a short time
before she came. Marlja was getting
to be a skilled beef-trimmer, and was
mounting to the heights again. During
the summer and rail JurgiH and nnn
managed to pay hor back the last pen
ny they owed her, and so she began to
have a bank account. Tamoszlus had
a bank account also, and they ran a
race and began to figure upon hotise-
hold expenses once more.
The I ri of vn-d wealth entail,
cares and responsibilities, however, as
poor Marlja found out. She had taken
the advice of a friend and Invested her
savings In a bank on Ashland avenue.
Of course she knew nothing about It,
except that It was big and Imposing—
what possible chance had a poor for
eign working girl to understand the
banking business as It Is conducted In
this land of frenzied finance? Bo
Marlja lived in continual dread lest
proud of his superior knowledge, telling
her that the bank had fire-proof vaults,
und nil its millions of dollars bidden
safely away In them,
However, ono morning Marlja took
her detour, and, to her horror and
dlsmny, saw a crowd of people In front
of the bank, filling the avenue solid
for half n block. All the blood went
out Of her face for terror. She broke
Into a l'nn, sh,ailing t" 111" people I"
a.k what was the mattery but not stop
ping to hear what they answered till
she had come to where the throng was
so dense that she could no longer ad
vance. There was a “run on the
bank," they told her then, but she did
not know what that was, and turned
from one person to another, trying In
nn agony of fear to nrnko out what
they meant. Had something gone wrong
with the bnnk? Nobody was sure, but
they thought so. Couldn't she get her
money? Thera nos no telling; the peo
ple wero afraid not, and they were all
trying to get It. It was too early yet
to tell anything—the. bank would not
open for nearly three hours. Bo In a
and would go out of her way mornings
t" make* mir>* that It was still there.
Her principal thought was of Are. for
she had deposited her money In bills,
and was afraid that If they wer&
burned up tho bank would not give
her any others Jurgls mado fun of
her for this, for he was a man and was
her way toward the doors
Ing, through a throng of men, women
and children all exrlted as herself.
It was a scene of wild confusion, wo
men shrieking nnd wringing their hands
and fainting, and men fighting and
trampling down everything In their
way. In the midst of the melee Marlja
recollected that she did not have her
hank hook and could not'get her money
nnyway. so she fought her way out
and started on a run for home. This
was fortunate for her, for a few min
utes later the police reserves arrived.
In half an hour Marlja was back.
Tela Elzblela with her, both of them
'breathless with running and with fear.
The crowd was now formed In n line
extending for several blocks, with halt
a hundred policemen keeping guard,
and so there was nothing for them to
do but to take their places at the end
of It. At 9 o’clock the bank opened
nnd began to pay (ha waiting throng;
but then, what good did It do Marlja,
who **w 3,000 poople before her—
enough to take out tho last penny of
a dozen banks?
To mako matters worse, a drizzling
rain come up and soaked them to the
skin: yet all the morning they stood
there, creeping slowly toward .the
goal; all the afternoon they stood
there, heart sick, seeing that the hour
of closing was coming and that they
were going to be left out. Marlja made
she would stay there and keep
place; but as nearly all did the aame,
got very little closer to tho t>ank
■ Toward evening Jurgls ce
that. Toward evening Jurgi* came;
he hnd heard the story from the chil
dren, and hb brought some food and
dry wraps, which made It a little
ler.
The next morning, before drybreak,
camo a bigger crowd than ever, and
more policemen from down-town:
Marlja held on like grim death, and
toward afternoon she got Jnto the
EVERETT ESTATE
IS
Robert Hugh Wblte was apoplnted
administer for ths estate of the late
Edward Quincy Everett Monday morn
ing by Ordinary John R. Wilkinson. Mr.
Everett left an estate estimated at
tso,ooo.
Mr. Everett bras a member of the
Everett-Rldley Company, wbolei
dry goods dealers. He died suddenly
on May 30 end left Ho will. Mr. Wblte
has qualified as administrator of tho
mate.
A number of wills were admitted to
probate by Ordinary Wilkinson .M.nil.n
morning, and administrators were ap
pointed for several small estates.
FIREWORKS. -
Fourth of July Fireworks
—will open stock at junction
Pe;ichtree and Ivy streets,
and comer Spring and Alex
ander streets July 3. A .W.
Farlinger.
three members retired
TE0M ACADEMY FACULTY.
*l*Hnl to The Georgian.
Fharlmton, H. C., July a.—Three mem*
Military academy were not elected to'their
* h “'~ * K '— yew at the g
rhalra tliiiHPMMim
{f** •'oord of vlsltora. of which Governor
tEe South Carolina
lot elected to their
annual meetlug of
li »i»»wMMe ui v* uit:u utiTrruwr
iirywanl la an ex-offlcio member. Colonel
J. < olton Lvnee. Major P. P. Masyck and
M«Jor J. t. Coleman will not taach the
let* next year.
i oloael Lyses Is well known I
1*11» prnmlnent as a t.'onfedera
MO"ring been the bred of t_.
” ni1 Agricultural collrse at one
Mi was a llfalensnt colonel on 'll"
far JOskntgl John 11. Gordon nnd
in lleorsla,
to Veteran,
Georgia
JMrt.rmjim'^'erapoiT
PJ.A- J- West. He came to the Citadel
Jj**** !'• P. Masyck has been at the acid-
—- — — Coleman began
JOHN D. BUYS FOSSILS
FOR CHICAGO COLLEGE
*? Private Leased Wire.
Chicago, July 1.—John D. Rockefeller
Purchased for the University of
Chicago tho most extensive collection
E™’* 11 * *nd minerals probably In ex-
ktrace In the country.
.J.,? collection, Which was gathered
lejether by the late James Hell, who
b>?ra than fifty yearn was state
ICE TRUST LAWYERS
HELD FOR CONTEMPT
By Private Leased Wirt
Toledo, Ohio, July I,—Judge IL R.
Klnkalde of the common pleas court
sentenced Thomas T. Tracey and
Clarence Brown, the Ice truet lawyers,
to ten days In the county Jail on
Monday for contempt of court.
On Saturday In a motion to euepend
sentence In the case of R. A. Beard
and C. Lemmon, convicted and sen
tenced Ice men, they Intimated that
the court woe In collusion with them
In a promise to extend leniency pro
vided their clients pleaded guilty.
Judgo Klnkalde struck the motions
from the record and declared them
as “false as ML*
Alexander Smith filed a motion aim-
liar to those of Brown and Tracey nnd
the court fined him )3S0. All sen
tences were suspended, giving the
lawyers a chance to take their troubles
to the circuit court
FOURTH OF JULY
RATES.
On account of the above ocoaalon
the Southern Railway will sell round
trip tickets to and from all points
south of the Ohio and Potomac and
east of Mississippi at one and one-
third fares for round trip, Including
St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati,
Washington, stc. Tickets will be sold
July 2d, 3d and 4th, limited to July
8th. \
Call on agents Southern Railway.
J. C. BEAM, Jr*
District Passenger Agent.
MINISTERSWILLMEET
AT WESLEY MEMORIAL
After a brief session In the T. M.
A. hall on Monday morning at llilt
o'clock, at which time resolutions on
the death of the wife of Rev. T. P.
Cleveland were drawn up and Phased,
the Evangelical Ministers' Association
of Atlanta adjourned to meet again
on the first Monday In October at the
Wesley Memorial church.
The meeting woe called to order by
President Charles O. Jones, of St.
Marks Methodist church, and In the
absence of Secretary T. P. Cleveland,
Rev. J. E. Briggs was appointed act
ing secretary. E. O. Smith, paator of
the East Point Baptllst' church, and
Rev. Samuel Wiles Du Bose, paator of
•the Jonesboro Presbyterian church,
wero admitted to membership In the
aseorlatlon.
The report of the auditing commit
tee woe read by Dr. White, who also
asked for a new vote on the meeting
place for next year. At the last meet
ing It Was voted to meet In the Wesley
Memorial church, but It was Che senti
ment of many that the association
should select a more central location.
The motion for the Wesley Memorial
church prevailed.
A committee of three waa appointed
to draft resolutions op the death of
the wife of the secretary, and this
NURSES RAVE DENIED
THREAT TO RESIGN
*»eloglet of New* Tofk. was valued by
Profeseor Hall at tlM.DOO.
SILVER BASKETS.
Tl e are showing some very
attractive patterns in these
touch-sought pieces. The
snaths who have wrought
.* n have so admirably ear
ned out the Artistic ideals of
the designers that the result:
ts entirely pleasing.
. tfraee, elegance and supe-
nor workmanship are char
acteristic of all our silver
ware.
hlAIER & BERKELE.
In regard to the report that the nurses
of the Grady Hospital had threatened
reign In a body, official* of tba hoapltal
declare the report Is entirely erroneous.
Dr. Willis hr Perrin Mcolson, a teadlag
member of the medical board, atated Mob
day that be baa been Informed by tbe
nurses that they hava never made any
such threat. After tbe report became car-
rent, Dr. Klcolaoa and others made aa la*
vestlgatloo. As the reeelt of this laveetlga*
tlon. Dr. Xlrolsoa declares that “than la
nnthlag In the report,whatever.
“The uurace have Barer complained to
me,” said Dr. NIcolsos, "aed 1 hava not
heard of them making a threat to any oee
else. They Inform me they hava sever
made the reported threat"
lire. TheodoM Waardell, superintendent
of Bines, asserts tbe nurses hare sever
made a threat to resign to eer.
II la understood there la some d.saatls
faction among tbe Burses over the ort-uldl
tty that they may^be naked .to serve aaz
moatha sure to the hospital, aa the re
sult ef the conditions Imposed on them at
the time ef the trouble some months sen,
. - wort ander kites
iteodeat of nurses.
let Ires rty.Uhe* sspertateodent of tire*.
The awdirel board, at Ita nett monthly
Meeting, wtU determine the question of
whether the extra six months' service shall
lbs Imposed. The aarare dislike the Idea
of tbe extra service and thtv gave rise to
the repert they had threatened to teiign Is
ft body.
Mix Wise, oee of the graduating nsrsea
who left the hospital a few days ago, arked
fee her diploma, hat It was not granted
pending tOeartUu of the medical boerd.
It l. pretaMe tbe heart trUI relieve the
nnnee of the extra duty.
IRC WI»f HI* "MM *»»•»
commute© later presented the follow-
Ich was unanimously
him being chairman
Ing resolution, which was unanimously
ii.loptod. Dr. Land:'
bank and got her money—all In big
llhnr dollars, h handkerchief full.
When hhe had once grot her hands on
them her fear vanished and she want
ed to put them back again; but tho
man at the window was savage and
«a!d that the bnnk would receive no
more deposits front those who had la
ken part In the run. So Marlja waa
forced to take her dollars home with
her, watching to right and left, ex
pecting every instant thnt some on©
would try to rob her; and when she
got home she was not much bettei
off. Until she could find another bank
thero was nothing to do but sew them
up In her clothes, nnd so Marlja went
about for a week or more, loaded down
■ It li 1 »u 111-*u. and afraid to itdmi the
-iiffi in front of the* house, Immune
Jurgls told her she would sink out of
sight In tho mud.
Weighted this way she mod© her
way to the yards, again In fear, this
time to see If she had lost her place;
but fortunately about 10 per cent of
the working people of Packlngtown
had been depositors In that bank nnd
not convenient to discharge
that many at once. The cause of the
was a song, for he had met the enemy
and conquered, and felt himself tho
master of his fate. So It might bo
with some monarch of the forest that
has vanquished his foes In fair fight,
and then falls Into some cowardly trap
In the night time.
A time of peril on the killing beds
was when a steer broke loose. Some
times*, lu the haste «»f Npcfdlng up. they
would dump one of the animals out on
the floor beforo It waa fully stunned,
and It would get upon Its feet and run
amuck. Then there would be a yell of
warning—the men would drop every
thing Qnd dash for the nearest pillar,
slipping here and there on tba floor,
and tumbling over each other. This
was bad enough in the summer, when a
man could sea; In winter time it was
enough to make your hair stand up,
for tho room would bo so full of steam
that you could not make anything out
5 feet In front of you. To ba sura, tho
steor was generally blind and frantic,
and not especially bent on hurting any
ono, but think of tho chances of run
ning upon ji knife, while ne.ulv «vny
man had one In his hand! Anil then
to cap the climax, tho floor boss would
panic had been the attempt of a po- coma rushing up with a rifle and be
Uccm&n to arrest a drunken man In a Kin biasing awayl
saloon next door, which had drawn a
crowd at the hour tho people wero
on their way to work, and so started
tho “run."
••• ' Ills time Jni-gl" nnd < >na n 1
M • Imnk Mi l-mint H. sM. m lm\ -
Ing paid Jonas and Marljn, they had
almost paid for their furniture, nnd
could have that little sum to count on.
u.- ;ts #-.n h .'f tietm - "Mill In ing
home nlno or ten dollars a week, they
wore able to get along finely. Also
election day came round again, and
Jurgls mnde half a week's wages out
of that, all net profit. It was a very
close election that year, and the echoes
of the battle reached even to Packing-
town. The two rival sets of grafters
hired halla and set ofT fireworks and
made speeches, to try to get the peo
ple Interested In the matter. Although
Jurgls did not understand It all, he
knew* enough by this time to realize
that It waa not aappoaed to be light
to sell your vote. However, ns every
one did It, and his refusal to Join
ference In tho results, the Idea of re
fusing would hnve seemed absurd, had
it * ever coma tat® hla bead.
Now chill winds and shortening days
began to warn them that the winter
■ lug again. It n.nl If
• h.'i'l ln'»*n h’-rf th.'V
had not had time enough to get ready
for it; but still It came, Inexorably,
nnd the hunted look came back Into
the eyes of little Stanislavas. The
irospect struck fear to the heart of
Jurgls also, for he knew that Ona was
not fit to face the cold and the snow
drifts this year. And suppose that
some day when a blizzard struck them
and the cars were not running, Ona
should have to give It up, and should
come the next day to find that her
flace had been given to some one who
lved nearer and could be depended
upon?
It was the week before Christmas
that the first great storm came, and
then the soul of Jurgls rose up within
him like a sleeping lion. There were
four days that tho Ashland avenue
cars wero stalled, nnd In those days,
for the first time In Tils life, Jurgls
knew what It wOT to* he really op
posed. He had faced difficulties be-
j’ore, but they had been child’s play;
now there was a death struggle, and
all the furies were unchained within
him. The first morning they set out
two hours before dawn, Ona wrapped
all In blankets and tossed upon his
shoulder like a sack of meal, and tho
little boy. bundled nearly out of sight,
hanging by his coat-tails. There was
a raging blast beating In his faco, and
the thermometer stood below aero;
the snow was never short of his knoes,
and In some of the drifts It was nearly
up to his armpits. It would catch his
feet and try to trip him; it would
build itself Into a wall beforo him to
beat him back: and he would fling
himself Into It, plunging like a wound
ed buffalo, puffing and snorting In
raffs.
Bo foot by foot ha flrovs his way,
and whan at lost he camo to Dur
ham's he was staggering and almost
blind, and leaned against a pillar,
gasping and thanking find thnt the cat-
tls came late to ths killing bods that
day. In the evening the snme thing had
to bs dona ngnln; and because Jurgls
could not tell what hour of tho night
h« would get off, he gqt a saloon-keep
er to 1st Ona sit and wait for him In
a corner. Once It was 11 o'clock at
night, and black as ths pit, but still
hay got home. N
That blluard knocked many a man
out, for ths crowd outside begging for
work waa never greater, and the pack
ers would not wait long for any ons.
ben It was over, the soul of Jurgls
It wns In ono of these melees that
Jurgls fell Into his trap. That Is the
only word to descrlbo It; It was *o
cruel, and so utterly not to be foreseen.
At first he hardly noticed It, It was
such a slight accident—alinply that In
leaping out of ths way he turned his
anklo. There was a twinge of pain, but
Jurgls was uSed to pain, and did not
‘•"'Idle I'""'** I;' \\ I I'll ]|" 1 u 1II.- 1*1 « llli.
11 * nil*', linn ever, III* lt-llllzed thnt It un*i
hurting him a great deni; and In ths
morning hie ankle was swollen to near
ly double Its else, and he could not get
his foot Into his shoe.' SHU, even then,
I*** *ii*i n**tiiiiiK in "re limn swear a lit
tls, and wrapped his foot In old rags,
and hobbled out to tone ths car. It
chanced to bs a rush day at Durham’s,
and all tbs morning Its limped about
with Ills aching foot; by noontime ths
alnt, and after a couple of hours In
the afternoon ho wns fairly bralrn,
nnd had to tail ths boss. They sent
for ths company doctor, and lie exam
ined ths foot nnd told Jurgls to go
home to bed. adding that he had prob
ably laid himself up for months by
lilt fully. The injury was not one thnt
Durlinni A Co. could bs held responsi
ble for, and so that was all there waa
to IL so far as the doctor was con
cerned.
Jurgls got home somehow, scarcely
off ula own Wilt tee:
"Whereas. It hath pleased our Heav
enly Father to remove from this earth
to her heavenly home the wife of our
venerable end beloved secretary, Rsvj
Venera ui" s nn doiutwi fciiuni/, *»•*•
T. P. Clveland, D. D., whose Godly Ilfs
and conversation adorned the doctrine
of God, her Savior, In all things.
"Resolved. That ws hereby tender to
our brother our most affectionate and
sincere sympathy In this, his greatest
bereavement, and commend him ths
comfort and sustaining grace of that
8avlor In whom both he and his wife
have so long trusted.
"Resolved further. -That a copy of
this resolution bs Inscribed on our
minutes, a copy sent to the family of
sqi o\ »uss Xdoo » pus pssasjsp sqt
dally papers for publication.
SAYS PRESIDENT WABBLED
ON RATE QUESTION
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn* July I.—Senator
J. n. Frasier and Congressman John
A. Moon have returned from congress.
In an Interview Senator Frasier said
that members .of President Roose
velt's own party defeated him In many
of his pet measures. "The Democrats
supported his original railroad rats
bill," said he, "and that bill would have
gone through Just like ths president
wanted It If he had stuck to the minor
ity. but Its want over to ths majority
and ths result Is that ths bill will bs a
disappointment to the people In Its ap
plication.
REDUCED R. R. RATES
FOR FOURTH OF JULY.
The W. A A. R. R. and H. C. A St.
L. Railway will tell cheap rourd trip
tickets to all points south of ths Oh'o
and Potomac and eaat of the Mies',,
aippi river, including St. Lout,.
Evansville and Cincinnati, at one and
ont-thlrd farea; tickata to bs sold
July 2d, 3d and 4th, good to return
until July 8th, 1906.
For further Information and tick
ets apply to any agent of the W. A
CHA8. E. HARMAN,
‘General Pass. Agent.
wuiMire KUI IIUIIIC BUIIICIIUW, BtlllLCI y
able to see for the pain, nnd with nn
awful terror In his soul. Elablsta
helped him Into bed and bandaged hla
Injured foot with cold water, and tried
hard not to let him see her dismay;
when tho rest rams home at night ana
met them outside and told them, and
they, too, put on a cheerful face, say
ing It would only be for a week or
two, nnd that they would pull him
through.
When they had gotten him to sleep,
however, they eat l.y Die kitchen lire
nnd talked It over In frightened whis
pers. They were In for a siege, thnt
was plainly to bo seen. Jurgls hnd
only about ICO In the . bank, and tho
slnck season was upon them. Roth
Jonas nnd Marlja might noon be earn
ing no rnoro than enough to pay tlielr
board, nnd beslden that thero were only
tho wages of Ona nnd tha plttnnro of
tho little boy. There wan tho rent to
pny, nnd still some on tha furniture;
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A time </t peril on tho killing
beds won when a steer broke
loose. Sometimes, In ths haato
of speeding up; they would
dump ons of the animals out
on the floor before It waa fully
stunned, and It would get upon
Its feet and run amuck. Then
ths men would drop everything
and dash for ths nearest pillar,
slipping hors and there on tha
floor, and tumbling over each
other. The room would bs so
full of steam that you could not
mako anything out five fast In
front of you. Ths steer waa gen
erally blind and frantle, and not
especially bent on hurting any
one, but think of ths chances of
ftMkg upon a knife, while
nearly every ntan had one In his
hand!—From Upton Sinclair's
story, "The Jungle."
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
T il
l
118 story of **Tlio Jangle,** Upton Sinclair's novel, which cam****! th<* govern
meat lurrstlgntlon Into the methods employed by the Beef Trust, has Iti
origin Id an nctual Packlngtown romance.
A simple-minded coterie of Lithuanians nrrlro In dftrago. pecking employ
ment, and are conducted to Packlngtown by a friend. Jurgls. a giant In
strength, is betrothed to Onn, nnd tbe first chapter tells of the welding In nil It*
grotesquenes*. After much tribulation* the entire family obtain* work In the
stockyards—«II but Ona. w-bom Jurgls said should never work.
Toe terrible tale of the olsughit*r houses Is told with nlnmst rnvoltlng de
toll—tho filth, the overworking «>f hands, the struggle to Jtf-p up with the pace-
makers. Is all rlrldl/ depicted. The little family buy n Icmiro on tin* Inatalment
plan, only to find they hare been swindled, ami Ona la forced to week work
to meet the art no I living expenses, and the interest on the purchase contract, of
which they learn too late.
Monday’s insfnlinent of the story tells how Marljn finds the forewoman of
her department giving her short pay, nnd has the temerity to eomnlnlti, finally
taking her troubles to the superintendent. A few day* later she Is
for Insisting on her rights, discovering too late thnt the forewnmnt
more than the labor of the hands from tlmae under her. For six week
a new place, and at last Is put to work doing n man’s work at h ill
pay.
^ Ooo labors up to the dnv ’’or baby Is born, nnd then takes bat n ^
from her labors. In deadly rear that she will lose her pod Mon. From tl
return" ♦«» hei I'cik Ii. uii:i l« Hf\. r ;i wr',1 ;..ts -1■ I .V- . li ipfi-r . ..m 1 nf-
“It seemed sueh a slight offense and tbe punishment so great thnt nelthe
charged
day she
nor any one elso ever connected tbe two. -
there was the Insurance just due, and
©very month there was sack after sock
of coal. Jt was January, midwinter,
an awful time to have to fare pi Na
tion. Deep snows would come again,
and who would carry Ona to her work
now? She might lose her place—she
was almost certain to lose IL And
then little Btnntslovaa began to whim-
per—who would take core of him?
■It was dreadful that an accident of
this sort, that no man can help, should
have meant such sufferings Tht Ml*
ternoss of It was tho daily food and
drink of Jurgls. It was of no use for
them to try to deceive him; he knew
nnifli about the dtimtl m :i" tli- \
did, and ho know that the family might
It fairly ste him up—he began
n truth. It waa almost maddening
for a strong man In nL 4
to havo to 11a thero helpless on hla
back.
It was for all the world the old story
of Prometheus hound. As Jurgls lay
on his bed. hour after hour, there came
to him emotions that he hnd nsver
known before. Beforo this he had met
life with a welcome—It had Its trials,
but none that a man could not face.
3ut now. In tba tkMdMi win In
ay tonsing about, thero would come
stalking Into his chamber a grisly
phantom, the sight of which mad© his
flesh to curl ana his hair to bristle up.
It was like seeing the world fall away
from underneath his feet; like plung
ing down Into a bottomless abyss, Into
f awning caverns of despair. It might
e true. then, after all, what others
had tola him about life—that the bent
powan of a Ms aright not be equal
to- If! If might he true that, m!rive an
he would, toll on ho would, he might
fall, and go down and bo destroyed!
The thought of this was like an Icy
hand at his heart; tho thought thnt
here, In this ghastly home of all horror.
this huge city, with Its stores of henped
up wealth, human creatures might be
hunted down and destroved by the wild
beast powers of nature Just nn truly a*
ever tney were In the days of tho rave
men.
Ons was now making about thirty
dollars a month, and Btanlslovnn about
thirteen. To add to thla there wim
the board of Jonas nnd Marljn, about
forty-flvo dollars. Deducting from
this tho rent, Interest and Installments
he and all those who wore dear to him
might He and perish of starvation and
cold, and there would bo no ear to
hear their cry, no hand to help them!
It was true, It was true—that here In
MH" HID ICIIl, IIHCK'gl Miu tiiOKMI
on ths rurnlture, they had left
dollars; und deducting thn coal, they
had left fifty. They did without every
thing that human belnK-< rmihl *i*>
without; they went In old and rn«K**!
clothing, that left them nt tho mercy
of the cold, and when the children s
shoe, wore out, they tied them up with
strings.
Half Invalid aa she was, Onn would
do herself harm by walking In tha rain
and cold when she ought to havo rid
den: they bought literally nothing hut
food—and still they could not krep
alive on fifty dollar, a month. They
might have done It If only they could
have gotten purs food, nnd nt fair
prices; or If only they had known whut
to get—If they hnd not neen so pitiful
ly Ignorant. But they had come to a
new country, where everything wns
different. Including ths food.
They had always bean acru,-
totned to sat a great deal of smoked
sauiltffe, and how eould they knew
thnt what they bought In America uii.h
not ths same—that Ita color wan made
by chemicals, and lu smoky flavor hv
mors chemicals, and that It waa full
of “potato-flour" boldest
Potato-flour Is the waats of poinlo
lift.'!- I h<* Mt I n*h *m*l .11* *>ll*.I have been
' .11." led. It hl'H 1,.. I I. Kl Vllluo
than so much wood, and J* Ita use a. a
f I ndtil 1 *■ l *i nt I t II |,| nnl *.rr,*ntte 111
Europe, thousands of tons of It III"
shipped to America every year. It wm
lionizing ulmt <j in, lit 111,** **f food wurh
as this were needed every day by elnv-
t-ll lliingi > p.*i'i"'.n.v A di'lltir nlvty.flvu
n'dny was simply not enough to feed
them.
(Continued In Tomorrow's Georgian.)
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