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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN". Cffl By STUDY HE WAVED KNIFE y 0U ng Russian Issued Chal lenge to Passers on Fraser Street. Standing In his front yard at 27 frtter street Thursday morning, with , knife In hla hand, 8am Iranovltch, a man* Russian, challenged nil coiners to enter th# yard. He accompanied y, threats with wild ravings on relig ion »nd terrorised the neighborhood nntll officer Borochoff. who Is also a Bueslan. slipped up and arrested him. Iranovltch, who la hardly more than twentv yeara old, was taken to the notice' station and locked up until his unltv could be determined. At the Solon he raved of his religion, de daring that he had been saved and could save others. He was In a frensy c ; excitement until the door of the cell closed behind him. Officer Borochoff, who has known the roung man for some time, states that Iranovltch has been rendered Insane through overstudy. The young Russian la a graduate of a medlcnl collego In hla native country and wna preparing to take a course In a medical college to Atlanta. He has a brother In Co- limbus, Ga, who has been notified of the young man’s troubles. SYNOD IN SESSION AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN. f^lul to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., July 19.—Tho Bast Tennessee conference of tho MIs- aourl synod of the Lutheran church la l„ session In this city. .Paper* were presented yesterday by ReV. P. O. Keckel, of this city, nnd Professor Wil liam Kammrath. of Knoxville. Last night a German service was conducted by Rev. Ed Koehler, of Knoxville. The members visited Lookout moun tain today. TAKEN FOR A HACK fiRIVER, SEN. DOLLIVER IS LECTURED By Private Lasted Wire. Fort Dodge, Iowa, July It.—Because Ke wore a big slouch hat, Uqjted States Senator J. P. Dolllrer waa taken for a hack driver today and given a severe reprimand for permitting hie team to stand In a spot forbidden by the city ordinances. Station Master Forsyth administered the tongue-lashing, and warned the supposed hack driver that If ne did not> know more than to let his horses stand In a flower bed lie ought to.have a guardian appol Dolllver replied, without vlo- the pi dnted. Senator Dolllver r Ibt# agitation, that the point seemed I to be v.ell taken nnd that he would be more careful In the future. By this time A crowd had gathered and Forayth was given a chorus of hoarse hcots, which was his first Inti mation that he had made a blunder. Forsyth is a new man and did not know Dolllver. Senator Dolllver took the matter a* a joke and aald that the rebuke served him right for wearing his borther's old hat. WILLIAM TRA VERS JEROME ADDRESSES GEORGIA BAR RETURNTO FATHER Two Bovs Who Told Pitiful | Story Sent Bnck to Mississippi. Continued from Opposite Page.' for decisions which they could not avoid making If they obeyed the law. A Shot at Roosevelt. The recent spectacle of the nation's chief executive, himself not a lawyer, criticising'In a public document a fed eral judge for his decision on a point of law has not, I believe, commended Itself to our profession. The laws are our laws. Public opin ion made them and can change them. Every cltlsen has a right to criticise them and aeek their amendment or re peal, but while they are our laws we want our Judges to obey them and not substitute for them something they deem In accord with a thing so unsta ble and so difficult to ascertain os pub lic opinion. The soundness of a judge's legal Judgment and the wisdom of a partic ular law may well be called In question, but an honest decision should not ex pose the Judge himself to criticism. The thousand and one complex forces which go to create and modify public opinion; the press, the magaslnee, tho lecture platform, the stump, the clubs, labor unions, conversations, gossip and so on, form a fascinating and Inex haustible Held for discussion and re flection. Like most potent social forces It la simple and complex at the same time. The difficulty In Its discussion I* not so much In making a qualitative anal ysis of the forces entering Into It. nnd of which It Is the resultant, ns In de termining the relative quantitative value of each. The quantatlve value of each force going to form public opinion will be es timated differently In accordance with the education, ability. Interests and prejudices of Individuals. But It Is be cause so many nnd such different forces co-operate In Its formation, that everyone can have an Influence upon It and when once we recognise Its prac tical omnipotence, every right-minded man should feel a sense of obligation nnd duty toward It. There are few ways In which the av erage man can so well serve. In his time, his country, as by the Influence he can exert on public opinion. The Lawyer’s Part. If the power of public opinion be so great, and if each of us has a not In considerable capacity to Influence It, It seems almost needless, because so ob vious. to point out how of all classes of men the lawyer especially can Influence it and la under duty to do so. Public opinion ao far as It deals with nubile questions seeks ever to smbody ts will In statutes. We regret their multiplication, but with our life already so complex, anil Its growing complexity, there Is little reason to anticipate any thing other than an Increase In their number. Our duty and Influence In this direc tion because of our technical knowledge Is plain. W# know, ns few outside the profes sion do, the weaknesses nnd limitations of statute law In dealing with mnny of the Important questions of the day with which publlo opinion Is concerned. To the public nt large. It often seems necessary only to get a law enacted to efTect the reform desired. And when the lew has been passed and th* results aro little or nothing, nnd not Infre quently the Incidental evils are greater than the g l -■ • i,k111 to be accomplish ed. the public Is educated Into a con tempt and distrust of lows and courts that Is not wholesome, nnd which makes for the growth of on extreme without self- control through constitutions nnd laws —not conducive to our progress, pros perity and hnpplness. Our profession Is responsible, or will be held so, to tho community nt large, "to Gatherings such as this develop a professional aplrit and feeling of unity which more nnd more enables us to hold our professional brethren respon- Thotub young Vnlsk Hoses can repeat the lord's Prayer In Syrian, this doe# not prove that he Is careful to stick to the troth. II* told Probation Officer Ulocr sev eral days ago that he had com* from Ksiv York an.) was in orphan. Ilia father wrote Wednesday that Halek and hla brother Si mon had run away from Uattlralmrs. Mini, and he wnnted them to eome borne. Then the two boy a eoufeaafd. The young Syrlnua were taken In tksrge by officer tlloer a abort time ago, when they told a story of la-tug left alone la ,\ew York. Mike George, the head of the «u colour la Atlanta, was Interested lu bora anil after one of them repealed I-ord'a prayer without a slip. George ed to give them a home, l advertisement Intoned In a Syrian pa per published In New York brought a re ■pone* Wedoeaday. It waa frooi the 1-o>i* father, who tire* la llattleabarg- ille* . aaylng that the two yoaogetera hnd run away from thnt ptneo. The little fellowa, nbo are IS and ft rears old, reepeetlrely, eOBfeaeed, and «nld they wanted to go home. They left Wednesday nliht with a big baflket of lunch prepared by the kind ly Syrians who had adapted them. COMING! Saturday, July 21st, THE MANUFACTURER’S SURPLUS STOCK SALE - See Friday Afternoon's Papers. BASS’ WANTED'-uSorers $1.25 PER DAY GEORGIA. CAR COMPANY, RIDGE AVENUE •Ible to ua. And this, I too, la of the highest Importance. The feeling of professional pride, and of responsibility to the profession, can do much to check cell practices In th# law nnd much also to Increase our pub lic usefulness. Knowledkc that ha must at laat reck on with hla brother lawyers will do much to prevent the lawyer In publlo life from becoming a demagogue and force him toward real leadership. Our Influence on public opinion at tributable to our technical knowledge Is small, however, compared to that which as a class we sgsrt because ws are so actively engaged In public affairs —politic*, If you will. • Th* Lawyer and th* 8tat*. Causes, not necessary here to ex amine, have mode us largely the Himkrsntcn of parties and the netlre advocates or opponents of measures In teresting the public. Our legislative bodies are largely composed of lawyers and many of our chief executive and administrative officers are lawyers. For weal or for woa, In proportion to our numbers wa are, or can be, the moat Influential body or men In th* country. This power brings responsibilities which cannot honorably be avoided. With the almost unlimited and ex tending power of publlo opinion, our duty grows greater and more clearly defined. Easy aa It Is to bow to public opinion and go with It, It la our duty not to ex* cept where It Is clearly right. If right-minded men do not form and direct It other* will. All publlo welfare depends upon Its revolutionary. To make It such wn must often Incur Its wrath, hard oa It Is to bear, but when w* are breve, right ami honest w* may count confidently on Its com ing to us. If sometimes It should r...t nr should delay too long to concern tbs Individual, wn have but another ease of an action In which w* rravo the sympathy of our fellows, but chief merit It elves Is that It outruns pathy, and we can console nut with another saying of Emerson: "Hour* of sanity nnd consideration are always arriving to communities, ua to Individuals, when ths truth Is seen, and ths martyrs are Justified." TRY A WANT AD IN THE GEORGIAN JURGIS AGAIN A PACKER—VICTIM RETURNS AS POLITICAL GRAFTERS’ SPY He Wearies of Risks and Quits Criminal Life to Become Election Agent in His Old Haunts. CHAPTER XXV—(CONTINUED) Then he went again and gave the name of "Johann Schmidt,” and a third time, and gave the name of "Serge Remlnltaky.” Halloran had quite a list of Imaginary workingmen, and Jurgls got an envelope for each one. For this work he received five dollars, and was told that he might have It every week. to long aa he kept quiet As Jurgls excellent at keeping quiet he soon son the trust of "Buck" Halloran, and was Introduced to others os a man who could be depended upon. This acquaintance was useful to him In another way, also; before long Jur ats mode hie discovery of the meaning of "pull,” and Just why his boas, Con nor, and also th* pugilist bartender, had been able to send him to JalL ~ night there was gtven-a ball, the ‘1 eflt" of "One-eyed Larry,” a lame man who played the violin and wa* a wag md a popular character on the Levee.” This ball was held In a big dance hall, and was one of the occa sions when th* city’s powera of de bauchery gave themselves up to mad ness. Jurgls attended and got half Insane with drink, and began .quarrelling over * girl—his arm was pretty strong by then—and he set to work to clean out the place, and ended In a cell In the Police station. The police station being crowded to the doors, stinking with "bums.” Jur gls did not relish staying there to sleep off his liquor, and sent for Halloran Who colled up the district leader ant- had Jurgls balled out by telephone at 4 o'clock in the morning. When he was arraigned that same morning tho dis trict leader had already seen the clerk of tho court and explained that Jurgls Rudkus was a decent fellow, who had been Indiscreet, and so Jurgls waa fined »M nnd the fin* wn* "suspended"— which meant that he did not have to pay It, and never would have to pay It, unless somebody chose to bring It up against him In. the future. Among the people Jurgls lived with now money was .valued according to an entirely different standard from that of ■he people of Packlngtown; yet strange »» It may seem, he did a great deal less drinking than he had os a workingman. "" bad not the same provocation* of exhaustion and hopelessness; he had now something to work for, to etrucgle f"r. He noon found that If he kept ms wits about him he would come upon new opportunity*; and being naturally »n active man, he not only kept sober friend^ but help * d *° stMd T hl * °ne thing led to another. In s —- ■oon where Jurgti met "Buck” Hallo- fan he was sitting late one night with •mane when a “country customer" (a uuyer for an out-of-town merchant) in, a little more than half "pip 'd There was no one else In the Place but the bartender, and as the man went out again Jurgls and Duane followed him. He went around the corner, nnd In a dark place made by a combination of the elevated railroad ant an unrented building Jurgls leaped forward and shoved a revolver undOr ? * no »e, while Duane, with hla hat Pulled over hla eye*, went through the raans pockets with lightning fingers. I"'!’ got hla watch and hla and were around the corner again and Into Diamonds. We .ire talking Diamonds nearly every day now, be cause we have something un gual in Btock and in values for you. . A new and magnificent nnportation, bought abroad at first hand, is the basis of o»ir Di am ond talk. Lome in and see these stones. Maier & Berkele. the saloon before he could shout more than once. The bartender, to whom they had tipped the wink had the cellar door open way by a secret entrance to a resort next door. From tho roof of this there was access to three similar places beyond. By means of these pas sages the customers of any one place could be gotten out of the way In case a falling out with the police chanced to lead to a raid. For hla help In this little Job the bar-* tender received twenty out of the one hundred and thirty-odd dollars that the pair secured; and. naturally, this put them on friendly terms with him, and a few days later'he Introduced them to a little "sheeny” named Goldberger, one of the "runnere" of tho "sporting house” where they had been hidden. After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how ho had had a quarrel with a professional "card sharp” who hod* hit him In tho Jaw. The fellow was a stronger In Chicago, and If he was found some night with his head cracked there would be no one to cere very much. Jurgls, who by this time, would cheerfully have cracked the Heads of all the gamblers In Chicago, Inquired what would be coming to him, at which the Jew became still more confidential, and said that he had some tips on the New Orleans races, which he got direct from the police captain of the district, hod got out of a bed scrape, and who "stood In” with a big syndi cate of horso owners. Duane took all this In at once, but Jurgla had to have the whole race track situation explain ed to him before he realised the Im portance of such an opportunity. . There was the gigantic racing trust. It owned the legislatures In every state in which It did business; It even owned some of the big newspapers, and made public opinion—there was no power In the land that could oppose It unless, perhaps. It were the poolroom trust. It built magnlflcent racing parka all over the country, and by mean* of enormous parses It lured the people to come, and then It organised a gigantic shell game, whereby It plundered them of hundred* of millions of dollars ev ery year. Horse racing had once been a sport, but nowadays It ws* a busi ness; a horse could be “doped and doctored, undertrained or overtrained; It could be made to fell at any moment Its gait could be broken by lash ing It with th# whip, which all the spectators would take to be a <lesP* r * ate effort to keep It In the lead. There were scores of such tricks, and some times It was th* owner* who played them nnd made fortunes, sometimes- It was outsiders, who bribed them—but most of the time It was the chiefs of the trust. Now, for Instance, they were having winter racing In New Orleans, and a syndicate wa* laying out each day’s program In advance, and Its a**!) 1 * ® all the Northern cltlea were "milking’ the pool rooms. The word com* by long distance telephone In * cipher code. Just * little while before each race, nnd any man who could get the secret had aa good a* a fortune. If Jurgls did not believe It, he could try It. said the little Jew—let them meet at a cer tain hous# on the morrow and make a test. Jurgls was willing, nnd » **» Duane, and so they went to on* of the high doss pool room* where brokers and merchants gambled (with society women In a private room), and they put up 110 each upon a horse called "Black Beldame,” a six to on* shot, aid won. For a secret like that they would have done a good many ■1ugtf ,1 *»—but the next day Ooldberger Informed them that the offending gambler hod got wind of what was coming to him, and had skipped the town. There were ups and downs at the business'but there was always a liv ing. Insld* of a Jail If not out of It. Early In April the city elections were due. and that meant prosperity for *11 th* power* of graft. Jurgls. hanging round in dive* and gambling Hon***, met with the heelers of both partles. and from their conversation he cam* to understand all the Id* and outa of the ratoe, and to hear of a number of w.Vta Which he could moke hlmjelf useful about election time. "Buck” Halloran wan a "Democrat, and Jurgls became a Democrat *1so, but be was not a bitter one—th* Republicans have a pile of money In this next cam paign. At the last election the Repub lican* had paid 24 a vote to the Demo crats’ 20; and "Buck" Halloran sat one night playing cards with Jurgls and an other man, who told how Halloran had been charged with the job of voting a "bunch” of thirty-seven newly landed Italians, and how he, the narrator, had met the Republlcon^worker who wo* after the very same gang, and how the three had effected a bar the Italians were to vote for a glass of beer apiece, while the Ifected a bargain, whereby vote half and hfilf, apiece, while the balance of the fund went to the con spirators! Not low, . of the risks and vicissitudes of mlscel laneous crime, was moved to give up the career for that of a politician. Just at his time there was a tremendous uproar being raised concerning the al llance between the criminals and the police. For the criminal graft was one In which the business men had no di rect port—It was what Is called a "side-line” carried by the police. "Wide-open” gambling and debauch ery made the city pleasing to ’’trade,’ but burglaries and hold-ups did not. One night It chanced that while J* ’ Duane was drilling a safe In a clot! Ing store he was caught red-handed by the night watchman, and turned over to a policemen who chanced to know him well, and who took th* re sponsibility of letting him make bl» escape. Such a howl from the news papers followed thla that Duane woa slated for a sacrifice, and barely got out of town In time. J And Just at this juncture It happened that Jurgls was Introduced to a man named Harper, whom he recognised ss the night watchman at Brown's, who had been Instrumental In making him an American cltlsen tbs first year of his arrival at th* yards. The other was Interested In the coincidence, but did not remember Jurgls—he hod handled too many "green one*" In his time, he sold. He sat In a dance hall with Jurgls and Halloran until on* or two In th* morning, exchanging expe riences. He had a long story to tell of his quarrel with the superintendent of his department, and how he,was now * plain workingman, and a good union man as well. It was not until some months afterwards that Jurgls under stood that the quarrel with the super intendent had been prearranged, end that Harper was In reality drawing a salary of 210 a w*#k from the packers for an Inside report of his union's se cret proceedings. The yards were seething with agitation Just then, said the man, speaking as a unionist. The people of Packlngtown had borne about all that they would bear, and It looked as If a strike might begin any week. After this talk the man made In qulrles concerning Jurgla, dnd a couple of days later he came to him with an Interesting proposition. He was not absolutely certain, he said,' but he thought that he could get him a regu lar salary If he would com* to Pack lngtown and do aa he was told, and keep his mouth shut. Harper—"Bush” >r, he woa called—was a right man of Mike Scully, the Demo cratic boss of the stockyards, and In the coming election there wo* a pecu liar situation. There hod come to Scully a proposition to nominate a cer tain rich brewer who lived upon * swell boulevard that skirted the dis trict, and who coveted the big badge and the "honorable” of an alderman. The brewer wa* a Jew, and Tiad not brains, but he was harmless, and would put up a rare campaign fund. Scully tad accepted the offer and then gone to the Republican* with a proposition. He was not sure that he could manage the "sheeny,” and he did not mean to take any chance* with his district; let the Republicans . nominate a certain obscure but amiable friend of Scully's, who was now setting up ten-pins In the cellar of an Ashland avenue sa loon, and he (Scully) would elect him with th* "aheeny’s” money, and the Republicans might' have the glory, which waa more than they would get otherwise. In return for this the Republican* would agree to put up no candidate the following year, when Scully hlms*|f came up for re-election aa the other alderman from the ward. To this the Republicans hqd assented at once, but the trouble of it waa—eo Harper ex plained—that the Republicans wet* all of them fools—a men had to be a fool to be a Republican In the stock yards, where Scully waa king. And they' didn’t know how to work, and of course It would not do for the Democratic workers, the noble redskins of th* War Whoop League, to support the Repub licans openly. Th* difficulty would not have been so great except for another were good fellow*, too, anl were to fact—there bad been a curious devel opment In stock yards politics In the last year or two, e, new party having leuped Into being. They were the So clallsts, and It waa a devil of said "Bush’’ Harper. The one Image which the word “So cialist” brought to Jurgla was of poor Uttle Tamosslus Kuszlelke, who had called himself one, nnd would go out with a couple of other men and a soap box, and shout himself hoarse on < street corner Saturday nights. Tamos xlua had tried to explain to Jurgls what It was all about, but Jurgls, who was not of an Imaginative turn, had never quite got It straight; at present he was content with hla companion's explanation that the Socialists were the enemies of American Institutions— could not be boughL and would not combine or make nny sort of a "dicker." Mike Scully wn* very much worried over the opportunity which hla lost deni gave to them—the atock yards Demo crats were furious at the Idea of a rich capitalist for their candidate, nnd while they were changing they might possi bly conclude that a Socialist firebrand were preferable to a Republican bum. And so right here was a chance for Jural* ta make himself a place In th* world, explained "Buah” Harper; he had been, a union man, and he was known In the yards as a workingman he must have hundred* of acquaint ances, and oa ha had never talked poli tic* with them he might came out aa a Republican now without exciting the least suspicion. There were barrels of money : .us* of those who could deliver the S oods; and Jurgls might count upon like Scully, who had never yet gone bock on a friend. Just what could lie do? Jurats asked. In some peri and th* other explained In deta begin with, he would hare to go to th* yards and work, and he mightn't relish that; but he would have what he earned, as well as the rest that came to him. He would get active In the union agala and perhaps try to get an office, aa he, Harper, had; he would tell all hi* friends the good points of Doyle, the Republleen nominee, and the bad ones of the "sheeny;" and then Soully would furnish a meeting place, and he would start ths “Toung Men's Republican As*oclatlon.”*or eomethlnt of that sort, and have tne rich brewer 1 ! beet beer by the hogshead, and fire works and speeches, just Ilk* th* War- Whoop League, Surely Jurgls must know hundreds of men who would Ilk* that eort of fun; and there would be the regular Republican leaders and wofkera to help him out, and they would deliver a big enough majority ' tlon day. t he hod heard all this explana tion to the end Jurats demanded; "But how can I get a Job In Packlngtown? I’m blacklisted." At which "Bush” Harper laughed. Til attend to that -all right," he said. And the other replied, "It’s then; I’m your, man.” So Jurgls went out to th* stock- yard* again, and was Introduced to the political lord of th# district, the boes of Chicago’* mayor. It was Scully who owned the brickyards and th* did not know It It Scully i to Marne for the unpaved street In which Jurgls* child had been drowned; It was Scully who hod put Into office •he magistrate who had first sent Jur gls to Jail; It was Scully who waa principal stockholder In the company which had sold him the ramshackle tenement and then robbed him of It But Jurgl* knew non* of thee* things —any more than he kffew that Scully was but a tool and puppet of th* peck ers. To him Scully was a mighty power, the "blggeet" man he had ever met. / He was a tittle, dried-up Irishman, whose hands shook. He had a brief talk with his visitor, watching him with rat-llke -eyes, and making up .find about him: and then he gave him a note to Mr. Harmon, <me of th* bead managers of Durham*: "The bearer, Jurgla Rudkus, Is a particular friend of mine, and 1 would Ike you to And him a good place, for Important reason*. He waa once Indis creet. but you will perhaps be so good —i to overlook that. Mr. Harmon looked up Inquiringly when he reed this, "what does he mean by indiscreet?*” he naked. "I was blacklisted, sir,” said Jurgls. At which the other frowned. "Black- listed?" he said. "How do yon mean?” And Jurgls turned red with ember- .jament. He had forgotten that a blacklist did not exist. ”1—that Is—I had difficulty In getting a piece,” he stammered. ’What waa the matter?” i got Into a quarrel with a fore man—not my own boss, sir—and struck him.” ”1 see,” said the other, and medi tated for a few moments. "What do you wish to do?" he asked. "Anything, sir,” said Jurgls—"only I had a broken arm this winter, and so I have to be careful." "How would It suit you to be a night watchman?” “That wouldn't do, air. I have to be among the men at night.” "I see—polities. Well, would It suit you to trim hogs?" "Tea, sir," said Jurgla And Mr. Harmon called a time keeper and said: "Take this man to Pat Murphy and tell him to find room for him eomehow.” And so Jurgls marched Into the hog. killing room, a pine* where. In tho days gone by, he hnd come begging for a Job. Now he walked Jauntily, nnd smiled to himself, seeing tho frown that came to the boss' fAce a* the time keeper said; "Mr. Harmon says to put this man on." It would overcrowd his department and epoll the record he was trying to make—but he said not a word except "All right.” And so Jurgls became a workingman one* more; and straightway he sought out his old fritnda, nnd Joined th* union, and began to "root" for "Bco Doyle. Doyle had don# him a good turn once, he explained, nnd wo* realty a bully ebap; Doyle was a workingman himself, and would represent the work ingmen—why did they want to vote for a millionaire "sheeny,” and what had they should back his candidates all th* time? And meantime Scully had given Jurat* a not* to the Republican leader of the ward, and he had gone there nnd met the crowd he waa to work with. Already they had hired a big hall, with some of th* brewer’s money, and every night Jurale brought In a dozen new members of the "Doyle Republican As sociation." Pretty soon thsy had a grand open ing night, and there wa* a brass band, which marched through th* street*, and firework* and bombs and red light! In front of the hall; and there was an enormous crowd, with two overflow meetings—eo that the pale and trem bling candidate had to recite three times over the little speech which on# of Scully’s henchmen had written, and which he had been a month learning by hsari. Best ot all, the famous and eloquent Senator Spareshanks, presi dential candidate, rode out In an auto mobile to discuss th* sacred privilege*, of American citizenship, and protection and prosperity for th* American work ingman. Ills Inspiriting address was quoted to th* extrnt of half a column In all the morning newspapers, which also said that It could he stated upon excellent authority that the unexpected larlty developed by Doyle, tho Re can candidate for alderman, was giving great anxiety to Mr. Scully, the chairman of the Democratic city com mittee. The chairman was still,more worried when th* monster torchlight procession come off, with the members of the Doyle Republican Association, all In red rape* and hats, and fre* beer for every voter In the ward—the best beer ever given away In a political ram- islgn, as the whole electorate teetlfled. hiring this parade, and at Innumerable seringa as well, Jurats Isbor- Wf' , speeches—there were lawyers and other experts for that—but ha helped to man ege things; dlatrlbuting notices and posting placards and bringing out th* crowds; and when the show was on he attended to the fireworks and th* beer. Thus. In the course of th* campaign, he handled many hundreds of dollar* of the Hebrew brewer’s money, adminis tering It with naive and touching fidel ity. Toward the end, however, he wee regarded with hatred by the rest of th* "boys,” because he compelled them either to make a poorer showing than he or to do without their share of the pie. After that Jurgls did his best to please them, and to make up for the time he had lost before he discov ered the eztre bunghole* of the cam paign barrel. He pleased Mike Scully also. On election morning he wa* out at 4 o’clock, “getting out th* vote;" he had a two-horse carriage to ride In. and he went from house to hous* for hla friends and escorted them In triumph to th* polls. He voted half a dozen time* himself, and voted soma of hi* friends ss often; he brought bunch af ter bunch of th* neweet foreigners— Lithuanians. Poles, Bohemians, Slovaks —and when he Had put them through the mill he turned them over to an other man to take to the next polling plict. When Jurgl* first set out the captain of the precinct gave him a hundred dol lars, nnd three times In the course of the day be came for another hundred, and not more than twenty-flv* out ot each lot got stuck In his own pocket. The balance all went for actual votes, and on a day of Democratic landslides they elected "Scotty” Doyle, the ex- tenpln setter, by nearly a thousand plu rality—and beginning nt 4 o’clock In the afternoon and ending at I the next morning Jurats treated hlmeelf to a most holy and horrible "Jag." Nearly every one else In Packlngtown did ths same, however. ■ CHAPTER XXVI. After th* election* Jurgls stayed on In Pnrklngtown end kept hla Job. Th* agitation to break up the police pro tection of 1 criminals was continuing, and It seemed to him best to "lay low’* for th* present, lie had nearly three hundred dollars In the bunk, and might have considered himself entitled to a vacation; but he had an easy job, and fore* of habit kept him at Jl. Resides, Mlks Scully, whom h* consulted, ad vised him that something might "turn up" before long. Jurgla got himself a place In a board Ing house with some congenial friend*. He learned that Elsbleta and her fam ily had gone downtown, and so hs gar* no further thought to them. He went with a new set, now, young unmarried fellows, who were "sporty." Jurgls hnd long ago cast off hi* fertiliser clothing, and sines going Into politic* he had donned a linen collar nnd i greasy rtd necktie. lie hod some res son for thinking of his dross, for he was making about eleven dollars a week and two-thirds of It he might spend upon hi* pleasures without ever touohlng Ills savings, Sometimes'he would rid* downtown with a party of friends to ths cheap theaters and tha music halls and othtr haunts with which they were familiar. Many of th* saloons In Packlngtown had pool tables, and some of them bowling alleys, by means fit which he could spend his evening* In petty gambling. Aleo, there were card* and dice. On* time Jurgls got Into a game on a Saturday night and won prodigi ously, and because he was a man of spirit he stayed with the rest and the gam* continued until late Sunday af ternoon, and by that time he was "out” over twenty dollar*. On Saturday nights, also, a number at bolts warn generally given In Packlngtown; each tnan paying half a dollar for a ticket und\ several dollars additional for drinks In th* courts of th* festivities, which continued until 2 or 4 o'clock In the morning unlees broken up by lighting. Before long Jurgla discovered what Scully had meant by something "turn ing up.” In May the agreement between the packer* and the unions expired, and a new agreement hod to be signed. Ne gotiations were going on, and th* yard* were full of talk of a strike. The old scale had dealt with ths wages of the skilled men only; and of the members ’ the Meat Workers’ Hhlon about two- Irds were unskilled men. In Chicago es* latter were receiving, for the most part, 121-2 cents an hour, and the unions wished to make this th* general wage for the next year. It was not nearly so large a wag* ss |t seem ed—In th* course of the negotiations the union officers examined time checks to the amount of 210,000, and they found that the highest wages paid had been 214 a week, th* lowest 22.00, and the average of th* whole 2«42. And 20*0 woe hardly too much for a man to keep a family on Considering the fact that th* price of drased- meat had Increased nearly M per cent In the lest live years, while the price of "beef on the hoof bed decreased as much, It would have b^H were un pay It—they rejected the union demand, and, to show what their purpose ws*, a week or two after th* agreement expired they put down th* wages of about a thousand men to 141-2 cents, and It was said that old man Jones bad rowed he would put a reconsideration were made; but tbs packers were obdurate; and all the while they were reducing wages, mi l heading off ehlpmenta of nettle, and rushing wagon loads of mattresses and cot*. So tha men boiled over, and night telegrams went out from ths union headquarters to all th* big pack ing canters, to St. Paul, South Omaha, Hloux City, Ht. Joseph, Kansas City, East St. Louis end New York—and tlii next day at noon between fifty and six ty thousand men drew off their work ing clothes and marched out of the fno- torte% and the great beef strike waa on. Jurgls went to his dinner and after ward lie walked over to ace Mike Scul ly, who lived in a line house, upon a street which hnd been decently paved nnd lighted for his esperlal benefit. Hrully had gone Into seml-retlrement, and looked nervoux and worried. "What do you want?” he demanded, when he saw Jurgls. ”1 came to see If maybe you could get me a piece during the strike,” tha other replied. And Scully knit Ms brows nnd eyed him narrowly. In thnt mornlng*a pa pers Jurats had read a fierce denuncia tion of the peckers by Scully, who bad deolsred thnt If they did not treat their people better th* elty authorities would end the matter by tearing down their plant*. Now. tberetnrn, Jurgls was not a little token aback when th* other de manded suddenly. "See, here, Rudkus. why don’t you stick by your Job?” Jurgls started. "Work as a scab!’* he cried. "Why not?" demanded Scully. "What's that to you?” (Continued In Tomorrow** Georgia to pay It; but th* pack willing to pajf lt-;-4hey_ them to 10 before he There were a million through, and a half of men In the country locking for work, a hundred thousand of them right In Chicago; and were th* packers to let the union stewards march Into their place* aad Mod them to a con tract that would lose them several thousand dollar* a day for a year? Not much! All thl* waa In June; and before long the question was submitted to a refer endum In th* unions, and the decision was for a strike. It woe tha same In all th* packinghouse cities; end sud denly th* newspapers and puMic wok* up tor face th* grewsom* spectacle of a meat famine. AU sorts of pleas tor