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'THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. m TCFPPAT. .TT’f.T S, 1WC — 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; 00004000 00000000000 o o O MEN ARMED FOR O 0 SLAUGHTER IMPER- 0 O ILLED BY 8TEER8. O 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. 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